A Miscellany of Summer Reading
Can it be? Summer’s here? Perhaps it once was, and may yet show its face…
Author Philip Cottam
Insurrection
The American Presidential election campaign of 2024 is well underway. The primary election phase of…
A Ski Season Finale at Gastein
You can get lucky if you try to catch the last of the ski season.…
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Super-Infinite is a startlingly wonderful and quite unputdownable biography of John Donne. Katherine Rundell has…
Hitler, Stalin Mum and Dad – A Memoir of Survival
Daniel Finkelstein, probably best known for his political and football journalism in The Times, has…
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
Since the publication of his first book Mountains of the Mind in 2003, Robert Macfarlane…
Colditz, Prisoners of the Castle
As I started writing this review there was a minor storm in a teacup over…
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann’s latest book The Wager, A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder tells the…
The Fraud, by Zadie Smith
Ever since Zadie Smith burst on to the literary scene with her deservedly award winning…
La Serenissima: The Story of Venice
It is a brave writer who takes on Venice, La Serenissima, given the long list…
A Spy Among Friends
Having just watched the recent TV drama, A Spy Among Friends, based on the book…
A Brief Introduction to the Arab Novel
In a new take on our Books coverage this weekend, Philip Cottam turns his hand to explore…