Sense & Sensibility - Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The Entwined Lives of Two Great Eighteenth-Century Women Artists by ...

The central theme of Republic and Empire is the imperial character of the American Revolution. The Navigation Acts Britain ...

As Kimber points out, however, Mansfield was a champion dissembler. And her life was the stuff of stories. Born into a prosperous New Zealand family, she was a self-styled bohemian who sought ...

Degrees of Disgrace - The History and Pre-History of Hertford College, Oxford: Survival and Renewals by Christopher Tyerman ...

The Pen & the Spade - The Poems of Seamus Heaney by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis (edd.) ...

Concern about where the rubbish of the rich ends up is not new. In 1960 Vance Packard wrote The Waste Makers, and two years later Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring drew attention to the exploding use of ...

A Life Lost and Found by Andrew Graham-Dixon ...

It is almost half a century since the last full-length English-language biography of Jean Cocteau was published, and it has taken thirteen years for Claude Arnaud’s work finally to be translated from ...

War reporters come in many types and guises (and degrees of honesty). John Hersey was at the peak of the profession during the Second World War, rivalled among Americans only by the GIs’ own ...

Unexpectedly, yet perhaps inevitably, Evelyn Waugh is becoming more likeable as the years go by. Fifty years dead now, the vile, rude, snobbish, cigar-chomping, ear trumpet-brandishing, ...

In the Penguin translation of Catullus two words are left untranslated. ‘Pedicabo et irrumabo vos’, writes the poet of his foes Furius and Aurelius and ‘pedicabo et irrumabo vos’ is how it stays in ...