Caroline Moore
Outsider’s Insight
Book review of The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
In Love with His Public
Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing by Michael Slater
Swallowing the Party Line
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers
Tudor Fixer
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Postcards From the Damned
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Heartbreak and Privilege
Ettie by Richard Davenport-Hines
Love in a Snowy Climate
Human Love by Andreï Makine
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal