Johnsey Cunliffe is a young Tipperary man with a disability that has rendered him somewhat lumbering and, in everyone’s estimation (including his own), simple. Despite this, the third-person narrative ...

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

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

Tech watchers tell us that the earliest adopter of any innovation is invariably the porn industry. But the steadicam auteurs and their upholstered stars have failed to get much purchase on emojis.

My Sister and Other Lovers by Esther Freud ...

Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy opens with an absence – the sort of absence that might have proved fatal to a book written by a less determined author. In his preface, Charles Darwent lists his fruitless ...

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

Few leaders in history have aspired to territorial aggrandisement on the scale of Cecil Rhodes. The Anglo-Saxons were the finest race in the world, he declared, and ‘the more of the world we inhabit ...