Review of Books

Issue 53 Autumn 2020

Not forgetting…important titles recently reviewed in The Oldie

Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Royal Family by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand

Shots in the Dark: A Diary of Saturday Dreams and Strange Times by David Kynaston

The Making of Lewis Carroll’s Alice by Peter Hunt

Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara Mcanulty

Mistresses: Sex and Scandal in the Court of Charles II by Linda Porter

Saturday Lunch with the Brownings by Penelope Mortimer

Ernest Bevin: Labour’s Churchill by Andrew Adonis

The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman

Talking Until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica 1941-44 by Isaac Matarasso

Wagner’s Parsifal: The Music of Redemption by Roger Scruton

The Sandpit by Nicholas Shakespeare

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