Victoria Segal
The Trials Of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami - review
This is a fabulous portrait of the charismatic yet unlikeable Hall, whose bravery in living the life she pleased is not put forward as an excuse for her towering egotism At a time when certain Tory MPs are getting themselves in a fluster about the "aggre
A Delicate Truth, By John le Carre
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, John le Carre was left without a clear subject. The USSR had evaporated, and with it the Cold War antagonisms that informed his spy fiction.
My Animals and Other Family by Clare Balding - review
Balding's autobiography contains irresistible insights into a certain kind of English family Were post-Olympics Britain to vote for a head girl, it would be a fair bet that the honour would fall to Clare Balding. If it's not shocking to learn from the fi
Among the Hoods: Exposing the Truth About Britain's Gangs - review
As the author's relationship deepens with the criminally minded 'lost boys' she meets outside a fried chicken takeaway, so does her rage and empathy Harriet Sergeant isn't the obvious candidate to write a sympathetic book about gangs in south London. A
Mary Shelley by Muriel Spark - review
Muriel Spark's biography of Mary Shelley keeps its focus on the woman herself and refuses to be distracted by the celebrities in her life "I have always disliked the sort of biography which states 'X lay on the bed and watched the candle flickering on th
