Ian Thomson

I returned recently with my wife on a hiking holiday through the Accursed Mountains that border on to Kosovo and Montenegro

Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean’s Forgotten Kingdom by Paul Clammer reviewed

The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu by Jo Willett reviewed

Paradise: Dante’s Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray reviewed

It seems odd that a medieval Italian poet could cause such unease among modern totalitarians