TONY RENNELL reviews the year s most compelling history books, including Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn And The Marriage that Shook Europe and Rory Carroll s Killing Thatcher.
Andrew Motion Something old made new: The Iliad in Emily Wilson’s muscular and moving new translation, the first by a woman, is truly what it claims to be – a version for our time (Norton, £30). And something new made immediate: Hannah Sullivan’s second collection of poems, Was It For This (Faber, £12.99), ambitiously extends
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Ysenda Maxtone Graham says as a child she dreaded long car journeys, but after enjoying an idyllic self-drive adventure through Europe, she s now a convert.