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The books that made me who I am

12 March 2022 9:00 am

Gstaad This is my last week in the Alps and I’m trying to get it all in – skiing, cross-country,…

History is the art of making things up. Why pretend otherwise?

31 January 2015 9:00 am

In a recent interview, the celebrity historian and Tudor expert David Starkey described Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall as a ‘deliberate…

The Long Shadow, by Mark Mills - a review

20 July 2013 9:00 am

Mark Mills is known for his historical and literary crime novels, including The Savage Garden, The Information Officer and House…