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The writer's bookshelf: Sarah Gristwood
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
 • Mathew Lyons
Merry Christmas from the Broken Compass
A round-up of everything I've written over the last twelve months
 • Mathew Lyons
Review: Holbein by Elizabeth Goldring
The definitive scholarly biography of a Renaissance master
 • Mathew Lyons
The writer's bookshelf: Gerry Cambridge
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
 • Mathew Lyons
Beyond The Jungle Book: Kipling, Orwell, Rushdie and me
What Kipling's critics get wrong about his writing
 • Mathew Lyons
Review: Mexico: A 500-Year History by Paul Gillingham
A masterful account of one of the world's most complex and storied nations
 • Mathew Lyons
The writer's bookshelf: Francesca Peacock
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
 • Mathew Lyons
Going, going, gone #6
Ten of my favourite works at this week's auctions at Christie's, Bonham's and Sotheby's in London
 • Mathew Lyons
The writer's bookshelf: Nicola Chester
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
 • Mathew Lyons

November 2025

Sixteen books to look out for in November (part two)
Upcoming history and non-fiction titles that have caught my eye
 • Mathew Lyons
Sixteen books to look out for in November (part one)
Upcoming history and non-fiction titles that have caught my eye
 • Mathew Lyons
The writer's bookshelf: Derek Turner
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
 • Mathew Lyons
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