Nonfiction
What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous “Doll Test” and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World
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In the 1940s a pair of psychologists began to test the effects of segregation on Black children using what has become famous as ...Read Review
Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
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In a quiet corner of the Stanford campus, a weeping angel and a pair of sphinxes stand guard over the Stanford family mausoleum. ...Read Review
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
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This is a reprint of a book published in 1998, so there is no mention of the recent discovery of the wreck of the ...Read Review
Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
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Can pirates be boring? Probably never, but certainly not when Keith Thomson describes them. His rollicking new book seems too good to be ...Read Review
Sex, Love and Marriage in the Elizabethan Age
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(reviewed together with Sex and Sexuality in Tudor England by Carol McGrath) I have reviewed these two books together as their contents clearly ...Read Review
The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie / Murder Isn’t Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie
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The subtitle of this book about says it all: it’s a compendium of different aspects of forensic science, viewed through Agatha Christie’...Read Review
The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789–1830
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If you love the Regency era like I do, then this is the book for you! Within the pages of The Time Traveler’...Read Review
Hemingway’s Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway
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Canadian biographer and former law professor Christian’s meticulous archival research, interviews with people who knew Mary Hemingway, and quotes from her memoir, ...Read Review
The Double Life of Katharine Clark: The Untold Story of the Fearless Journalist Who Risked Her Life for Truth and Justice (Suspenseful and Propulsive Historical Narrative Nonfiction)
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Katharine Clark was a foreign correspondent reporting for American news services from Yugoslavia in the mid-1950s after Marshal Josip Broz Tito broke ...Read Review
Novel Approaches to Lesbian History (Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing)
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This book is a valuable resource for anyone writing historical fiction with lesbian characters or specifically for a lesbian audience, while also offering ...Read Review
