In this “entertainingly forthright history”, Bryan Appleyard sets out to document a way of life that he believes is vanishing, said Andrew Anthony in The Observer. “Within a few years,” he writes, ...

Bryan Appleyard’s historical odyssey charts the human love affair with motor vehicles. By Jonathan Kellerman THE CAR: The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World, by Bryan Appleyard.

In The Car, Bryan Appleyard sets out to celebrate the freedom these vehicles granted. But what if they were a dangerous technology from the start? A police officer stands beside an automobile involved ...

Celebrations of the utopia that will emerge with the demise of the combustion-engine automobile may be a bit premature. That’s one of Bryan Appleyard’s conclusions in “The Car: The Rise and Fall of ...

THE CAR: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World. By Brian Appleyard. Pegasus Books. 320 pages. $28.95. It is our favorite machine, by far. For some it is integral to their ...

It's all California's fault. At least that's how London Times columnist Bryan Appleyard sees it, in a heartily vicious attack on Web culture and everything it has wrought along its socially ...

There’s no shortage of books pontificating on why we “need to swap the sausage sarnies for tofu tempura”, said Christina Patterson in The Sunday Times. What this one does is “much more interesting”.

Douglas Stuart’s debut, Shuggie Bain – the winner of the 2020 Booker Prize – was a “bleak autobiographical novel about a young boy caring for his alcoholic mother in 1980s Glasgow”, said Johanna ...