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 ...

Book Reviews by subject: 18th Century & Magic & Witchcraft April 2020 Issue Dmitri Levitin The Mage of Reason The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment By Michael Hunter ...

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Book Reviews by subject: 16th Century & Art & Italy April 2003 Issue Sarah Bradford Renaissance Woman Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons In Sixteenth-Century Bologna By Caroline P Murphy LR ...

‘My whole life has been a search for the miraculous,’ Bruce Chatwin says. Each of these essays, fragments and sketches written between 1972 and the author’s recent death are way-stations in the search ...

When Empire, Incorporated comes out in paperback, it will be able to boast about providing the historical background to what we have recently come to know as one of the world’s most inept as well as ...

Once upon a time, an ambitious ruler concerned about a rising power on the other side of the globe decided to place a puppet king on a nearby throne in a country that was beautiful, rich in natural ...

Book Reviews by subject: True Crime & Myths & Folklore March 2004 Issue Tim Heald Pub Idol Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman By James Sharpe LR ...

Reviews of books by Peter van de Kamp From the February 1988 Issue Life of O’Brien Flann O'Brien: An Illustrated Biography By Peter Costello and Peter van de Kamp LR ...

The days when LSD made headlines as ‘The Most Dangerous Thing Since the Atom Bomb’ are long gone; now we’re in a ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’, with Prince Harry drinking ayahuasca tea and Mike Tyson ...

Book Reviews by subject: Literary biography & Ernest Hemingway October 2015 Issue Naomi Wood Falling for Pfife Hemingway in Love: His Own Story By A E Hotchner The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume ...

A divorcee in her sixties named Rose travels to Almería to see a specialist, who may or may not be a quack, about a mystery ailment that may or may not be imagined. She is accompanied by her daughter, ...