A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–45 by Michael Haag; The Durrells: The Story of a Family by Richard Bradford ...

The Remigia cave, about eighty miles north of Valencia, features paintings dating from around 6500 BC. Some depict bands of archers hunting ibex; others appear to show executions. These are the ones ...

Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand ...

My Sister and Other Lovers by Esther Freud ...

Book Reviews by subject: Britain & Literature and Literary Criticism & 21st Century September 2018 Issue John Sutherland Brexit Lit March 2017 Issue D J Taylor ‘He Wrote This Specially For Me’ LR ...

Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...

John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse; John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits by Richard Ormond ...

According to the American academic William Kelleher Storey, Rhodes was able to go a long way towards realising his vision ...

Family histories tend to follow an established format. The story of the author’s ancestors gets interwoven with that of the author’s own journey as they explore the past, discovering something about ...

It’s not often that a biography really gets going after the author has reached the subject’s death. Gertrude Stein herself predicted that she would only be understood in the future: ‘For a very long ...

There was a time when commodity histories were everywhere. They tended to focus on consumption and trade over very long distances. Ulbe Bosma’s The World of Sugar is much more than this sort of book.