Amanda Craig

It is surely no coincidence that the two best entertainments this summer are both set in the turbulent 18th century

Laura Shepherd-Robinson has taken a moral microscope to her chosen period

Midnight in Vienna channels the ominous parallels between the present-day rise of fascism in Europe and America with what happened in 1938

Francis Spufford’s latest is a gorgeously rich and multilayered story, packed with gunfire, music and superstition

Daisy Goodwin’s Diva is unequivocal in presenting Callas as a heroine struggling to choose between art and love