From The Forsyte Saga and Buddenbrooks to The Swiss Family Robinson writers of fiction have been obsessed by certain families, but their novels pale beside such an authentic record as The House of ...

Ten years after his death, when my biography of Barker appeared, some facts had sorted themselves out. ‘Rugby for England’ had been schoolboy seven-a-side. The player sons were Christopher (1943– ), ...

This fine book offers so much that it asks to be reread almost at once. Its purpose sounds simple: to portray a place, and thus to help its author to understand her difficult father, whose life was ...

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Anne Boleyn is an ‘enigma’ whom writers ‘can’t resist the desire to solve’, writes Susan Bordo. ‘I have my own theories,’ she forewarns us, ‘and I won’t hide them.’ The result is a survey of Anne ...