Bookish Brummies
Finally, Birmingham has the library it deserves, and its predecessor will be thankfully turned to rubble
Stand Up For Surrey
All flashy shops and gaudy mansions? Think again. Surrey is still Pepys's 'old place of delight'.
Darwinian Disbelief
Kristina Carlson's Mr Darwin's Gardener proves that the God debate still generates copy and sells books
Washington Reds
The characters are duplicitous, torturing sexual predators selling Western secrets to the KGB: the baddies, right? Not in The Americans
Deutschland the Dull
‘This is a German election and a Brit may argue you wouldn’t expect a flamboyant spectacle. But the current lethargy is a peculiar one’
Who Can Stop Hilary in 2016?
Three years away from the Presidential election, the Democrat and Republican candidates are already having a tilt at the Oval Office
Laureate of the Trenches
David Jones’s service at the front inspired an epic poem about World War I, “In Parenthesis”. Long neglected, it is ripe for rediscovery
The Zombie Argument that Refuses to Die
While it gives more credence to the naysayers than it should, Shakespeare Beyond Doubt excellently marshalls the evidence over the authorship of the bard's