Philip Hensher

It’s an odd thing, a man’s relationship with his barber. I tried three or four — hipsterish but hopeless

Edwin Frank’s Stranger than Fiction aims to cover the twentieth-century novel

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