Biography

August 22, 2022

BOOK REVIEW: Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit

The Blurb (from Goodreads): Sparked by her unexpected encounter with…

September 29, 2021

BOOK REVIEW:Fury by Kathryn Heyman

No matter how far she travels as she hitchhikes across…

June 18, 2021

VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes by Mary M Talbot & Bryan Talbot

Part personal history, part biography, Dotter of Her Father''s Eyes…

March 17, 2021

VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson

The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the…

June 17, 2020

BOOK REVIEW: Vita & Virginia by Sarah Gristwood

Virginia Woolf is one of the world’s most famous writers,…

January 14, 2020

BOOK REVIEW: Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley

On the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death, historian Lucy…

September 23, 2019

BOOK REVIEW: Searching For Sappho: The Lost Songs & World Of The First Woman Poet by Philip Freeman

For more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew…

June 26, 2019

BOOK REVIEW: J.M. Barrie & The Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan by Andrew Birkin

	
J. M. Barrie, Victorian novelist, playwright, and author of Peter Pan or The…

June 24, 2019

BOOK REVIEW: Tolkien & C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship by Colin Duriez

Both Tolkien and C.S. Lewis are literary superstars, known around…

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