Titanic, A Night Remembered  By Stephanie Barczewski,
                             Hambledon Continuum, £12.99

INTEREST in The Titanic never wanes.

The tragedy is still hard to comprehend.

More than 1,500 lives lost after The Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage.

This book features biographies of many who died, including The Titanic's captain Edward Smith, and the bandmaster Wallace Hartley who played as the ship sank.

But more than that. Stephanie Barczewski gets under the skin of the story, by telling us what brought them together that night.

The matter of fact text, which is academic in its precision, shows the depth of research involved.

The result is chilling, and compelling, and a vital part of the whole Titanic story.