I Review fiction for the Financial Times and Mslexia and history for History Today and BBC History Magazine.

• Dan Cruickshank, The Secret History of Georgian London (Random House), History Today, December 2009.
• Rebecca Stott, The Coral Thief (Faber), Financial Times, December 2009.
• Dominic Lieven, Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle Against Napoleon, 1807-1814 (Allen Lane), History Today, February 2010
• J.F.M. Clark, Bugs and the Victorians (Yale), History Today, June 2010 - download review
• Stella Duffy, Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore (Virago), Financial Times, June 2010
• Louise Doughty, Whatever You Love (Faber) Financial Times, June 2010
• Jeremy Black, The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon (Continuum), History Today, July 2010
• Tessa Hadley, The London Train (Cape), Lola Shoneyin, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Sceptre), Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley, Mslexia, January 2011
• Lucy Caldwell, The Meeting Point (Faber), Financial Times, January 2011.
• Jan Bondeson, Queen Victoria and the Stalker (Amberley), BBC History Magazine, January 2011.
• Peter Snow, To War with Wellington (John Murray) and Ben Hughes, Conquer or Die: British Volunteers in Bolivar's War of Extermination (Osprey), History Today, June 2011
• Rodney Bolt, As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson (Atlantic), BBC History Magazine, October 2011- download review