I was initially rather sceptical about a free month's Netflix trial, yet when it arrived on my computer courtesy of my family - I was d...

The Russian writer Danil Granin used the word 'tosca' to describe the villages outside Novgorod, writes Rachel Polonsky. Russian...

In "White Mughals", William Dalrymple once more delves into the history of India, his adopted home, and place he clearly loves ...

Tom Wright's biography of Paul (also known as Saul of Tarsus, Saint Paul or Paul the Apostle) is a brilliant read. I took it on holid...

Mostar is a place with a unique atmosphere. The predominantly Muslim eastern city is studded with the minarets of mosques while Catholic...

Like many people I first came across Krzysztof Kieślowski through his later work such as The Three Colours Trilogy, made after his move t...

I have to confess to being a bit of a history nerd. Having spent several years studying it, accumulated countless books and an insatiable...

Son of Saul , is without any doubt, the most horrific film I have ever seen. It left me numb,and in shock, while my wife felt physically ...

Sometimes when films are billed as "classics", or "unmissable" they fail to live up to the hype. My Mum is likewise...

In this fast-paced, lively and hugely enjoyable book, Mark Garnett (a politics lecturer somewhere or other), takes the reader on a rollic...

As readers of this blog will be aware, over the years, I have read about and reflected often on the Shoah , the Holocaust of the European...

I picked up this DVD for a quid, in a sale of old LoveFilm stock. In the days before Netflix and downloading was a thing, postal DVD serv...