This well-researched biography of Muriel Spark offers fresh insights into her life and work, writes Allan Massie ...

In the summer of 1953, Muriel Spark – not yet the famous novelist behind The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie – was en route from ...

Cod-liver oil (1947-51), mercifully, passed away swiftly. Liver (1947-98) lasted a little longer. Avocados didn’t arrive ...

Harriet Cullen has produced a candid portrait of a sharp-tongued socialite and newspaper proprietor’s wife – her mother, Lady ...

Cockburn was perhaps best known for founding The Week, a small but influential London newsletter, a few months after Adolf ...

The Tapestry Drawing Room at the stately home, which was featured in the Netflix series ‘Bridgerton’, was destroyed in a ...

Adapt an indifferent book, and you’d almost inevitably end up with an indifferent show. Derek Granger’s adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, then, is lucky to be extracted from a ...

The most gratifying thing about studying golden ages, like ancient Athens, Rome, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance ...

The creator of James Bond cut his literary teeth as a journalist in search of a colorful story. His favorite subjects: fast ...

The enduring fascination that has evolved around Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited has been extraordinary since it ...