The go-between

Richard Johnstone reviews Michael Jenkins’s A House in Flanders

09 May 13 | Comments (0)

How Merlin and Bayliss worked their magic

Richard Johnstone views a breathtaking trove of photographs from the 1870s

24 Apr 13 | Comments (0)

Tears before bedtime

Richard Johnstone reviews Richard Hughes’s The Fox in the Attic

03 Apr 13 | Comments (0)

Captured by the Thuilliers

A mixture of the professional and the amateur brings a distinctive character to a remarkable collection of wartime photos, writes Richard Johnstone

13 Mar 13 | Comments (0)

The youngish one

Richard Johnstone reviews Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist

06 Mar 13 | Comments (0)

Cerebral desire

Richard Johnstone reviews a new translation of André Maurois’s Climates

07 Feb 13 | Comments (0)

What’s in a name?

Richard Johnstone reviews Shiva Naipaul’s The Chip-Chip Gatherers

12 Jan 13 | Comments (0)

In Hollywood with Christopher Isherwood

Richard Johnstone reviews the newly reissued Prater Violet

11 Dec 12 | Comments (0)

Twin virtues

A new “designer classic” argues for pressing on and letting go, writes Richard Johnstone

04 Nov 12 | Comments (0)

A kind of biography

Three books recover forgotten lives in very different ways, writes Richard Johnstone

25 Oct 12 | Comments (0)

Scandinavian noir

Richard Johnstone on Scandinavia’s most influential crime writers

02 Oct 12 | Comments (0)

Up-to-date with a vengeance

Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, Bram Stoker’s thoroughly modern Dracula

05 Sep 12 | Comments (0)

Reading, writing, cooking, eating

Richard Johnstone on two very different explorations of food

09 Aug 12 | Comments (0)

Another universe

Richard Johnstone reviews Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure

03 Aug 12 | Comments (0)

Landscape with figures

Richard Johnstone reviews William Maxwell’s The Château

04 Jul 12 | Comments (0)

An outsider at war

Richard Johnstone reviews Frederic Manning’s extraordinary account of the foot soldiers of the first world war

04 Jun 12 | Comments (0)

Simenon’s cool humanity

Richard Johnstone reviews a new edition of a classic novel

03 May 12 | Comments (0)

Memories for the future

If we are the sum of our memories, then how should we go about creating them, asks Richard Johnstone

27 Apr 12 | Comments (0)

Cover stories

Richard Johnstone on Picador’s reissue of White Noise, and its fortieth anniversary cover design

04 Apr 12 | Comments (0)

Friending

Richard Johnstone reviews Kirsten Tranter’s A Common Loss

07 Mar 12 | Comments (1)