Keith Thomas,"The man who would be king," Guardian, 8 March, reviews Michael Braddick's God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars.

Noel Malcolm,"Is America the new Rome?" Telegraph, 9 March, reviews Cullen Murphy's The New Rome: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America.

Adam Kirsch,"Searching for Joseph Conrad," NY Sun, 5 March, reviews John Stape's The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad.

Andrew Anthony,"Revered, reviled, then revered again," Guardian, 9 March, reviews Colin Grant's Negro With a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa.