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David Womersley

Adieu to Claret
The spiralling cost of Bordeaux means the wine will soon be the preserve of millionaires and wine journalists alone
David Womersley

Connoisseur of Fraud
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman
David Womersley

Carol Ann Duffy
The Poet Laureate's verses aren't bad, but have more in common with tabloid headlines than the works of her great predecessors
David Womersley

Trevor-Roper and Gibbon: A Tale of Two Historians
Hugh Trevor Roper was the greatest historical stylist of the 20th century. Yet he never produced a masterpiece to rival that of his great hero and predecessor, Edward Gibbon
David Womersley

We’ve Been Here Before
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
David Womersley

Tale of Two Meals

Encouraging a chef's creativity is fine, until you're served a triangular wafer in a cocktail glass

David Womersley

Terry Eagleton

This dull idealogue's quest - to debauch the intellectual currency of literary study - has had a lamentable influence

David Womersley

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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