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.