Archive
Evening Standard, 5 May 2011: 'A Famous Father's Life', review of The Children of Lovers by Judy Golding
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Times Literary Supplement, 6 August 2010: 'Futurity Man', review of H.G.Wells: Another Kind of Life by Michael Sherborne
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Literary Review, February 2010: 'The Belle of Amherst?', review of Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndall Gordon
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Sunday Telegraph, 25 October 2009: review of Charles Dickens by Michael Slater
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Times Literary Supplement, 19 June 2009: 'Virginia Woolf's neat brown paper parcels', review of The Essays of Virginia Woolf, vol 5.
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Evening Standard, 21 May 2009: review of The Blue Hour: a portrait of Jean Rhys by Lilian Pizzichini
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Prospect, April 2009: 'Picking Jane's Brains': zombies home in on Meryton
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Evening Standard, 4 August 2008, 'Genius among the Green Shield Stamps', review of Penelope Fitzgerald's letters, So I Have Thought of You
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Sunday Telegraph, 15 March 2008, 'George Gissing's Grubby Life', review of George Gissing: A Life by Paul Delany
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Guardian Review, 29 March 2008: 'Lightning from Skies' – Sylvia Townsend Warner's chequered poetic career.
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- TLS, 1 February 2008, 'Partiality and Prejudice': the young Jane Austen's surprising marginalia.
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- Sunday Telegraph, 8 November 2007, 'Enid Blyton, wavy-haired text machine', review of Looking for Enid by Duncan McLaran
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- Sunday Telegraph, 30 September 2007, 'The words that time forgot', review of Fopdoodle and Salmagundi: Words and Meanings from Dr Johnson's Dictionary by Edward Allhusen and Foyle's Philavery by Christopher Foyle
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Sunday Telegraph, 21 February 2007, 'Space Beavers and excommunicated slugs', review of The Cat Orchestra & the Elephant Butler: The Strange History of Amazing Animals by Jan Bondeson
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- Sunday Telegraph, 17 April 2007, 'Who stopped the British from being lively?' review of Decency and Disorder: The Age of Cant 1739-1837 by Ben Wilson
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- Sunday Telegraph, 23 August 2006, 'Shortcuts to becoming well-read' review of How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide by John Sutherland
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- Sunday Telegraph, 5 July 2006, 'As provocative and lively as her journalism', review of The Letters of Martha Gellhorn edited by Caroline Moorehead
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- Sunday Telegraph, 29 June 2006, 'In the footsteps of a melancholy traveller', review of Empire of the Mind: A Journey Through Great Britain by Iqbal Ahmed
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- Sunday Telegraph, 19 April 2006, 'Jolly good for us', review of 12 Books that Changed the World by Melvyn Bragg
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- Sunday Telegraph, 14 March 2006, 'Libertine and Libertarian', review of John Wilkes by Arthur H. Cash
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- Sunday Telegraph, 9 February 2006, 'Enough to drive anyone mad', review of A Royal Affair by Stella Tillyard
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- Sunday Telegraph, 23 October 2005, 'Survival of the foppiest', review of Beau Brummell by Ian Kelly
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- Sunday Telegraph 1 June 2005, 'The queen of Bath', review of The Imaginary Autocrat by John Eglin
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Guardian Review, 12 March 2007 – the auction in New York of the ‘Rice Portrait’, a disputed portrait of Jane Austen.
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Sunday Times, 6 June 2010: 'Why Mart hearts Jane', review of A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Reasons why we can't stop reading Jane Austen, edited by Susanna Carson
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London Review of Books, 3 October 2002, 'O Wyoming Whippowill', review of The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker by Robert Fraser
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London Review of Books, 4 October 2001, 'One word says to its mate', review of The Nightfisherman: Selected Letters of W.S. Graham edited by Michael Snow and Margaret Snow
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