Scotland’s Bravest and Britain’s Best
Two books, by Sarah Fraser and Victoria Schofield, provide an invaluable and accessible insight into Scottish military history
Mao to Deng and Back Again
China in Ten Words is a clarion call to the West. Yu Hua reminds us that the country is still struggling to escape an unresolved history
K Street Crusaders
Christopher Buckley's new political satire sends up DC's politicos, but ultimately doesn't satarise them enough
Where the End of History Began
Francis Fukuyama is famous for something he did not say. The book which made him a household name in the early 1990s was entitled, a little too grandiosely, The End of History
Ode to Joyce
Book review of James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker
In the Steps of the Spanish
Book reviews of Love: A Secret History by Simon May and All About Love by Lisa Appignanesi
A Life Less Ordinary
Book review of G.K. Chesterton: A Biography by Ian Ker
Life In The Left Behind Party
How UKIP metamorphosed from ex-Tory Eurobores to a political force appealing to all manner of malcontents
Erotic Tonic For A Mad World
Catullus's life — and snapshots of metropolitan Rome — are revealed through his poems in Daisy Dunn's quick-witted biography
Why The World Still Loves Shakespeare
The great endurance of the Bard