Philip Hensher

A Voyage Around the Queen is an extraordinarily original, enlightening and fresh look at Elizabeth II

Michael Nott’s new biography tells the poet’s story in borderline-grueling detail

Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s Bloody Panico! is an amusing, though somewhat rancorous book

Write, Cut, Rewrite is an agreeable glimpse of highlights from a brilliant collection of literary manuscripts

The writer was right. Until August isn’t worthy of him and should probably have been left in the archives