Review

Parallel Lives by Iain Pears

For the Sunday Times (27 April 2025)

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin

For the LRB (6 February 2025)

All His Spies by Stephen Alford

All His Spies by Stephen Alford

For the Times (6 July 2024)

Spectator World

Spectator World

Jessie gives her Books of the Year 2023 in the December issue of Spectator World

All His Spies by Stephen Alford

Witchcraft by Marion Gibson

For the Times (17 June 2023)

Armada by Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker

Armada by Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker

For the LRB (4 May 2023)

All His Spies by Stephen Alford

The Blazing World by Jonathan Healey

For The Times (21 January 2023)

A History of Water by Edward Wilson-Lee

For the Sunday Times (31 July 2022)

All His Spies by Stephen Alford

Homecoming by Rosemary Goring

For the Times (26 July 2022)

The House of Dudley by Joanne Paul

For the Sunday Times (20 March 2022)

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin

Devil-Land: England under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson

For the LRB (6 Jan. 2022)

The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton

The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton

For the Telegraph (7 Aug. 2021)

Providence Lost: The Rise & Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay

Providence Lost: The Rise & Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay

For the Guardian (1 Jan 2020).

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin

Battle-scarred: Mortality, Medical Care and Military Welfare in the British Civil Wars edited by David Appleby and Andrew Hopper

For London Review of Books (3 Jan. 2019)

Providence Lost: The Rise & Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay

Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch

For the Guardian (22 Sept. 2018)

The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton

Invisible Agents by Nadine Akkerman

For the Telegraph (7 July 2018)