D.J. Taylor

One of The Haunted Wood’s great strengths is Sam Leith’s awareness of just how important children’s literature is

Daniel de Visé’s entertaining — if that is the right word — canter through Belushi and Aykroyd’s lives and times covers a fair number of bases

As a piece of imaginary biography, Burma Sahib is atmospherically and decorously done

The writer was one of the great underrated chroniclers of ’the valley of the shadow of books’

While I expected the le Carré who emerges from it to be a womanizer, a fantasist and a self-server, I didn’t anticipate that he would be such a terrible bore