Jane Jakeman:
Literary, film and radio reviews

• "Hate Mayle". In: The Modern Review February-March 1993.
• "The real thing". Review of M. Pendergrast, For God, Country and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the World's Most Popular Soft Drink (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). In: The Modern Review August-September 1993.
• "To carve the jelly with". Review of H. Petroski, The Evolution of Useful Things (Pavilion Books). In: Oxford Magazine Eighth Week, Michaelmas Term, 1993.
• "Angela Carter's womb". In: The Modern Review October-November 1993.
• "Susan Hill's tear ducts". In: The Modern Review December-January 1993-4.
• "John Updike's clitoris". In: The Modern Review January-February 1994.
• "It's a royal knockabout". In: The Modern Review February-March 1994.
• Review of The Joy Luck Club (dir. Wayne Wang). In: The Modern Review April-May 1994.
• Review of A. Pirinçci, Felidae on the Road (Fourth Estate). In: The Modern Review June-July 1994.
• "Tat's magic!" In: The Modern Review August-September 1994.
• "A spyhole for leering at life". In: The Independent November 8, 1994.
• "Lost spirit of Christmas past". In: The Independent December 24, 1994.
• "One in the eye for connoisseurs". In: The Independent February 1, 1995.
• "Fairy stories". In: The Modern Review February-March 1995.
• "USA today". Review of M. Bradbury, Dangerous Pilgrimages (Secker and Warburg). In: The Modern Review April-May 1995.
• "Mutton dressed as ram". In: The Guardian October 2, 1995.
• "Tragic death on the Nile". In: The Guardian December 22, 1995.
• "Whodunnits". In: The Modern Review c.1995.
• "Rushdie the Twat and the Fatwa". In: Spiked, c.1995.
• "Film visions". Exhibition The Director's Eye, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. In: Oxford Magazine Eighth Week, Hilary Term, 1996.
• [On erotica literature] In: The Independent February 7, 1998.
• "Traumatised on Tyneside". Review of C. Cookson, The Solace of Sin (Bantam). In: The Independent March 21, 1998.
• "Carrying on further up the farthingdale". Review of R. Nye, The Late Mr. Shakespeare (Chatto & Windus). In: The Independent April 18, 1998.
• "Which of these titles is porn?" In: The Times Higher Education Supplement May 22, 1998.
• "An escape from the slums". [On the novels by Catherine Cookson] In: New Statesman October 9, 1998.
• Review of P. Lively, Spiderweb (Viking). In: New Statesman October 23, 1998.
• "Casanova, your playing days are over". Review of S. Zweig, Casanova: A Study in Self-portraiture (Pushkin Press), A. Schnitzler, Casanova's Return to Venice (Pushkin Press), A. Miller, Casanova (Sceptre) and L. Flem, Casanova or the Art of Happiness (Allen Lane). In: New Statesman November 13, 1998.
• "Hearts and flowers". Review of J. Dixon, The Romance Fiction of Mills & Boon, 1909-90 (UCL Press) and J. Cade, Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days (Peter Owen). In: New Statesman 5 March, 1999.
• "Born to roam". Review of Moris Farhi, Children of the Rainbow (Saqi Books). In: New Statesman, 5 July 1999.
• "Distant voices, other lives". In: New Statesman October 4, 1999.
• "Raymond Chandler and Oxford". In: Oxford Today 12 [1], 1999.
• "Bloomsbury won the peace". In: New Statesman November 15, 1999.
• [Best books of 1999] In The Independent November 20, 1999.
• "A secret garden of turnips and killer castanets". Review of R. Irwin, Night and Horses and the Desert: an Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature (Allen Lane). In: The Independent November 22, 1999.
• [A note on] M. Farhi, Children of the Rainbow (Saqi Books). In: New Statesman November 29, 1999.
• "Don't boil the coffee". Review of W. Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion (Prospect). In: TLS July 21, 2000.
• [A note on books published in 2000] In: The Independent November 25, 2000.
• "Fight the good fight". Review of F. Colonna, Hyperotomachia Poliphili. The Strife of Love in a Dream (Thames & Hudson). In: Oxford Magazine Second Week, Hilary Term, 2000.
• "Fantasy, religion and the Renaissance". Review of L. Jardine and J. Brotton, Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West (Reaktion Books). In: The Independent January 9, 2001.
• "Lone star of the desert". Review of S. Zuhur, Asmahan's Secrets: women, war and song (Saqi Books). In: The Independent April 14, 2001.
• "Amelia Edwards: Versatile Victorian who brought the past to life". In: Solander. The Magazine of the Historical Novel Society 5 [1] (May 2001).
• "A kiss of life for the historical novel". Review of Tracy Chevalier, Falling Angels (HarperCollins). In: The Independent August 29, 2001.
• "The decoding of a fascinating human story". Review of A. Robinson, The Man Who Deciphered Linear B (Thames & Hudson). In: The Independent April 24, 2002.
• "The sex lives of the artists". Review of J. Alison, The Love Artist (Allison & Busby) and C. Peachment, Caravaggio (Picador). In: The Independent March 16, 2002.
• "Wall of silence". Review of E. Speller, Following Hadrian (Review). In: The Independent June 8, 2002.
• "Architect meets match among village people". Review of J. Poster, Courting Shadows (Sceptre). In: The Independent September 2, 2002.
• [Best books of 2002] in The Independent November 23, 2002.
• "Streams of consciousness". Review of M. Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White (Canongate). In: The Independent c. 2002.
• "Tip the soup into the horse trough!" Review of L. Doughty, Fires in the Dark (Simon & Schuster). In: The Independent Magazine c.2002+.
• Review of M. Scott, Boudica, Dreaming the Eagle (Bantam). In: Scotland on Sunday c.2002.
• "A novel perspective on history when fact blends into fiction". In: The Independent December 3, 2003.
• Review of P. Sussman, The Lost Army of Cambyses (Bantam), G. Pelecanos, Hell to Pay (Orion), D. Leon, Wilful Behaviour (Heinemann) and K. Page, The Story of My Face (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). In: Scotland on Sunday c.2003.
• "The talented, and scary, Ms Highsmith". Review of A. Wilson, Beautiful Shadow: a life of Patricia Highsmith (Bloomsbury). In: The Independent c.2003.
• "Orgies of spin at a monster's ball". Review of A. Massie, Caligula (Sceptre) and E. Champlin, Nero (Harvard University Press). In: The Independent January 9, 2004.
• "Oaths of blood in a land of gun law". Review of T. Franklin, Hell at the Breech (Flamingo). In: The Independent March 17, 2004.
• Review of A Thousand and One. A journey through Arabian Nights (BBC Radio 4). In: TLS June 4, 2004.
• "The case of Agatha in Babylon". Review of A. Eames, The 8.55 to Baghdad (Bantam). In: The Independent July 9, 2004.
• "The recreated world of a warrior queen". Review of M. Scott, Boudica: Dreaming the Hound (Bantam). In: The Independent February 11, 2005.
• Review of Ziauddin Sardar, Desperately Seeking Paradise. Journeys of a sceptical Muslim (Granta), and Sohail Inayatullah and G. Boxwell (eds.), Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures (Pluto). In: TLS March 4, 2005.
• "Sketched symbols". Okasha El-Daly, Egyptology. The missing millennium: Ancient Egypt in medieval Arabic writings (UCL Press). In: TLS Nov. 4, 2005.
• "Floundering in Flanders fields". Review of B. Elton, The First Casualty (Bantam). In: The Independent November 11, 2005.
• "A silver cigarette case". Review of S. Shimon, An Iraqi in Paris. An autobiographical novel (Banipal Books). In: TLS Jan. 27, 2006.
• "British myth and magic from the mists of time". Review of M. Scott, Boudica: Dreaming the serpent spear (Bantam). In: The Independent February 17, 2006.
• "The arquebusier's tale". Review of T. Willocks, The Religion (Cape). In: TLS August 11, 2006.
• Review of M. Pryce, The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth (Bloomsbury). c.2006.
• "Young Turks, old secrets and quiet Americans". Review of M. Freely, Enlightenment (Marion Boyars). In: The Independent April 13, 2007.
• "Mysterious affairs re-styled". Review of L. Thompson, Agatha Christie: an English mystery. In: The Independent October 5, 2007.
• "A Cretan to the end". Review of I. Grundon, The Rash Adventurer. A Life of John Pendlebury. In: TLS October 18, 2007.
• "Ancient Egyptians". Review of N. Mahfouz, Three Novels of Ancient Egypt. Khufu's Wisdom. Rhadopis of Nubia. Thebes at War (Everyman's Library). In: TLS October 26, 2007.
• Review of P. Matyszak, Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day (Thames and Hudson). In: TLS November 2, 2007.
• "From the battlements". Review of I. Kadare, The Siege (Canongate). In: TLS May 30, 2008.
• Review of A. Verghese, Cutting for Stone (Chatto and Windus). In: TLS May 1, 2009.
• "A stone in the river". Review of A. Michaels, The Winter Vault (Bloomsbury). In: TLS May 29, 2009.
• Review of P. Sussman, The Hidden Oasis (Bantam). In: TLS December 18, 2009.
• "Burning beliefs in Nero's combustible city". Review of M. C. Scott, Rome: the Emperor's Spy (Bantam). In: The Independent January 1, 2010.
• "A brief, disturbing history of evil". Review of J. Chessex, A Jew Must Die (Bitter Lemon). In: The Independent February 5, 2010.
• "Daring diva from a stormy port". Review of J. L. Williams, Miss Shirley Bassey (Quercus). In: The Independent October 8, 2010.
• "A seriously good wild goose chase". Review of S. Duffy, Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore (Virago). In: The Independent August 11, 2010.
• "Lost digger". Review of S. Quirke, Hidden Hands. Egyptian workforces in Petrie excavation archives, 1880-1924 (Duckworth). In: TLS February 18, 2011.
• "A truly riveting return". Review of M. C. Scott, Rome: the Coming of the King (Bantam). In: The Independent May 11, 2011.
• "Surreal tale is absurdly entertaining". Review of A. Kurkov, The Milkman in the Night (Harvill Secker). In: The Independent September 27, 2011.