George Brown

Scent and smoke and sweat

30 September 2023 9:00 am

The world would never be quite the same again after we first glimpsed the casino of Royale-les-Eaux at three in the morning, says Philip Hensher

A child freedom fighter in Budapest, 1956

Sixty years on

13 February 2016 9:00 am

The book of the year has long been a favoured genre in popular history, and is a commonplace today. While…