Category Archives: Book Reviews
Guns, Girls and Gadgets: Sixties Spy Films Uncovered Review
By Will Barber Taylor The 1960s were a watershed era for the spy movie genre. From James Bond to Matt Helm, U.N.C.L.E. to Bulldog Drummond, Harry Palmer to Derek Flint, […]
Victorious Century Review
By Will Barber Taylor To live in Victorian Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human […]
Sherlock Holmes: City of The Innocent Review
By Will Barber Taylor It is 1891 and a Catholic Priest arrives at 221b Baker Street, only to utter the words “il corpe” before suddenly dropping dead. Though the man’s […]
Here Was Rome Review
By Will Barber Taylor ‘Here was Rome’ guides readers – whether at home in their armchairs or as visitors to Rome – on a tour of the city taking in […]
The Trials of Lady Jane Douglas Review
By Will Barber Taylor Scotland, Paris, London – the search for the answer to one question sent teams of expensive lawyers far and wide – did the beautiful and wayward […]
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa Review
By Will Barber Taylor Almost every adult and child is familiar with Treasure Island, but fewer know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on a similarly remote […]
Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard Review
By Will Barber Taylor Poet and musician, artist and hostess, Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society. High born yet egalitarian, she travelled to France to observe […]
Long Road From Jarrow Book Review
By Will Barber Taylor In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men from the Tyneside town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London in protest against the destruction of their […]
Sherlock Holmes: The Counterfeit Detective Review
By Will Barber Taylor An anonymous letter brings strange news to Baker Street; there is an impostor Sherlock Holmes at work in New York City, solving cases and taking society […]
The Consulting Detective 