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@litreview.bsky.socialWilliam Paget, born a sergeant’s son, rose to become Henry VIII’s indispensable secretary.
Peter Marshall asks how far a career built on faithfully smoothing a tyrant’s path can really be called admirable.
@jfb1066.bsky.socialReposted by @litreview.bsky.socialIncluding also my review of ‘Napoleon and his Marshals’ by Andrew Roberts
@princetonupress.bsky.socialReposted by @litreview.bsky.social“In the Scholar’s Workshop is an essential contribution to the history of knowledge, to be read and used for decades to come," says @litreview.bsky.social. See what else they have to say of Ann Blair's latest book here (£): buff.ly/NRdUCj4
@profilebooks.bsky.socialReposted by @litreview.bsky.social'A splendid work of history, doing a huge amount within its modest 320 pages’
A brilliant @litreview.bsky.social review for @apettegree.bsky.social's new book #TheBookshop, perfect for history buffs and bibliophiles alike! 📚
@zoeguttenplan.bsky.socialReposted by @litreview.bsky.socialI spent my holiday this summer rereading @emilymandel.bsky.social and had a great time doing it. Here’s me on her latest for @litreview.bsky.social
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@litreview.bsky.socialOut now! Literary Review's October 2026 issue, featuring
Nicholas Dames on the novel
@jfb1066.bsky.social on Napoleon’s marshals
John Adamson on the Glorious Revolution
@eriklinstrum.bsky.social on confiscation
@janetanderson.bsky.social on small dogs
and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk
@litreview.bsky.socialJames Marriott believes that we are living through the ‘Disenlightenment’, where reading has been swapped out for reel-watching.
Is it really that bleak? @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social weighs in.
@sarahpyke.bsky.socialReposted by @litreview.bsky.socialI love this card catalogue so much. Here's a short piece I wrote for @litreview.bsky.social about it (and my great-grandmother's wartime reading diary) earlier this year
@litreview.bsky.socialWith over seven hundred novels to her name, Barbara Cartland could count Princess Diana and Colonel Gaddafi among her fans.
Wendy Holden makes a case for reconsidering a woman too easily written off as absurd.
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.socialReposted by @litreview.bsky.social"She was Venus come down from Mount Olympus." Virginia Verasis, Countess of Castiglione, the Victorian beauty who seduced Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte to get France on the side of Italian independence, is the subject of a brilliant new biography by Benedetta Craveri. @litreview.bsky.social.
@litreview.bsky.socialOut now! Literary Review's September 2026 issue, featuring
Kathryn Hughes on Anita Brookner
Richard Vinen on Eric Hobsbawm
Andrew Preston on Francis Fukuyama
Howard Davies on government debt
Wendy Holden on Barbara Cartland
and much, much more:
literaryreview.co.uk
