Reviews

The main character in WHS McIntyre’s book is Robbie Munro, a criminal lawyer in a one man band on ...

Published 7 October 2016

The fourth in Dr Fiona Westwood's series has just been published and is a must for any solicitor tak ...

Published 5 October 2016

Churchill and Ireland Churchill’s close links to Ireland and his involvement in Irish politics ...

Published 30 September 2016

Ross Harper remembers Ross Harper, as author of this biography, certainly needs no introduction to ...

Published 30 September 2016

Our ideas of Paris during the war may well have been shaped from the film Casablanca. "Well, Rick, ...

Published 16 September 2016

Advocate Stephen O'Rourke is impressed with a new biography of the great barrister Marshall Hall. ...

Published 2 September 2016

Trials: On Death Row in Pakistan by Isabel Buchanan In her excellent book Indian Summer, Alex vo ...

Published 12 August 2016

John Sturrock QC enjoys a Poacher's Pilgrimage to the Western Isles and finds this mystical journey ...

Published 5 August 2016

Long ago I was introduced to the philosophy of David Hume (1711-76) by the late Neil MacCormick lect ...

Published 22 July 2016

In Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances James Hunter masterly weaves together a fa ...

Published 22 July 2016

It may surprise some readers that the last Communard of this title is not Jimmy Somerville, the shri ...

Published 15 July 2016

The gavel, a device never used in the English courts, features on the cover of Confessions of a B ...

Published 15 July 2016

Blair's broken vows Tom Bower is a barrister turned investigative journalist, a species that is all ...

Published 8 July 2016

Artists as historians What Paintings Say is a wonderful study of 100 masterpieces, lavishly illustr ...

Published 8 July 2016

Gillian Mawdsley is impressed by Cal Flynn's first novel – inspired by the discovery that one h ...

Published 1 July 2016