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
How Top Boys topple down crime’s ladder
Too many prisoners rejoin society with no education, stable housing or job prospects. No surprise that more than half reoffend within a year
In the bleak midwinter
Christmas can be a bleak time of year. While some feel isolated, others are overwhelmed by the need for a perfect family Yuletide when their reality is different
My warnings to our spy watchdogs
Britain is under attack from Russia. And the government is blocking a Parliamentary report that details it