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Allan Massie
The man who paved the way for modern royalty
prince albert by an wilson atlantic, 430pp, £30/$35 publishers love subtitles as a means of catching prospective buyers. so an wilson’s deli...
The odd couple who kept up Britain's spirits
attlee and churchill by leo mckinstry atlantic, 737pp, £25/$28 talk about the descent from the sublime to the ridiculous. from attlee and ch...
Love and cowardice in France's 'Dark Years'
madeleine by euan cameron maclehose, 330pp, £17/$22 euan cameron was my first publisher and editor more than 40 years ago and has been one o...
Could Catholicism have made Hemingway a great novelist?
ernest hemingway was reared by church-going parents as a congregationalist. his first son was christened in the church of england. then soon...
Graham Greene is unfashionable, but there will surely be a revival
in 1960 evelyn waugh declined a request to review graham greene’s new novel a burnt-out case. they were friends but the book saddened him. i...
The Scottish missionary who was transported to Auschwitz
jane haining: a life of love and courage by mary miller birlinn, 240pp, £14.99/$20 we know, hear, think and speak a lot about the horrors of...
A humanising tale of a king's five daughters
daughters of chivalry: the forgotten children of edward i by kelsey wilson-lee, picador, 346pp, £20/$25 to forget something you have to know...
A theological thriller that has stood the test of time
orwell thought that the novel was a protestant art form. this may seem silly, especially when you consider the number of catholic novelists,...
Why Kaiser Wilhelm was never put on trial
the trial of the kaiser by william schabas oup, 412pp, £25/$35 "we’re going to hang jeff davis from a sour-apple tree,” sang yankee soldiers...
Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers: an attempted masterpiece that didn't quite work
anthony burgess’s earthly powers was a great baggy monster of a novel which should perhaps have won the booker prize in 1980, but was beaten...
2018 was a good year to be a book reviewer. Here's why
not all book reviewers are as despondent and sore oppressed as the one depicted by orwell in a bleak essay. some of us, after years in the g...
Nietzsche: the world’s most misunderstood philosopher?
i am dynamite: a life of nietzsche by sue prideaux, faber, 444pp, £25/$30 nietzsche is alive as most philosophers aren’t. this is partly bec...
Why 'A Dance to the Music of Time' features little Catholicism but a lot of mumbo-jumbo
for many, myself among them, evelyn waugh, graham greene and anthony powell were the outstanding english novelists of the middle decades of ...
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