Over a few short months after the defeat of Nazism in May 1945, the ‘valiant Russians’ who had fought alongside Britain and ...

As a poet, Ocean Vuong has won every prize going. Now here’s The Emperor of Gladness, his second novel. His first, On Earth ...

Peter Watson begins his survey of the history of ideas in Britain with the assertion that the national mindset (which at that ...

Sarah Moss is a prolific and vital novelist whose books encompass an array of subjects from Victorian social reform and ...

Be under no illusions: this is not a food memoir. Chopping Onions on My Heart is a linguistic exploration of belonging; a ...

I’ve never been much concerned with what happened in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1387. I suspect that may even be true ...

In 50 years’ time,’ Augustus John gloomily reflected following his sister’s death on 18 September 1939, ‘I will be known as ...

Boswell’s and Pepys’s periodic bursts of lechery and panic; Chips Channon’s unrealistic dreams of political greatness ...

Everyone has a mother, but we don’t all smash up our lives for her sake,’ we hear in the first few pages of Lili is Crying. It’s a sensible message, but one which seems suited to an ...