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Muv: The Story of the Mitford Girls’ Mother

By Rachel Trethewey - Published 2025

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Nonfiction

Yes, another book about the Mitford family.  This rather unimportant family has loosed a torrent of literature, firstly with the sisters’ own writings, ...Read Review

The Stones of Britain: A History of Britain through its Geology

By Jon Cannon - Published 2026

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Nonfiction

The Stones of Britain is a posthumous publication from Jon Cannon, a journalist who became a world-class expert on medieval architecture, especially Bristol ...Read Review

The Name on the Wall

By Adriana Hunter (trans.) - By Hervé Le Tellier - Published 2025

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Nonfiction

First, despite the publisher’s subtitle, this book is not a novel. Maybe it’s “creative nonfiction.” Hervé Le Tellier says: “True, I ...Read Review

Irish War of Independence (Andy Symington: Tyrone’s Most Wanted Man)

By Tony Ferguson - Published 2025

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Nonfiction

The book concentrates on the North of Ireland, where the asymmetrical guerilla conflict between nationalists and government forces lasted into 1922, longer than in ...Read Review

The Coming of the Saxons: Adventus Saxonum

By Tony Sullivan - Published 2025

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Nonfiction

Sullivan bores down on a brief but fascinating moment in British history—the coming, in the mid-fifth century, of the pagan invaders who ...Read Review

Queens at War

By Alison Weir - Published 2025

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Nonfiction

Kings get a lot of attention and name recognition, but we often don’t remember or even consider the queens who ruled beside (...Read Review

Jane Austen’s Fashion Bible

By Ros Ballaster - Published 2025

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Nonfiction

Jane Austen scholar Ros Ballaster has chosen twenty-one color fashion plates from the Regency-era magazine La Belle Assemblée along with their original ...Read Review

How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy’s Guide to Silencing Women

By Claire Mitchell - Published 2025

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Nonfiction

Calling all ‘quarrelsome dames’! Podcasters Venditozzi and Mitchell take their popular Witches of Scotland work into book format. In an entertaining and accessible ...Read Review

Stone Lands: A Journey of Darkness and Light Through Britain’s Ancient Places

By Fiona Robertson - Published 2025

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Nonfiction

Fiona Robertson’s memoir is a poignant and incredibly well-written reflection on why the standing stones of prehistoric Britain hold such enduring appeal. ...Read Review

Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

By Devoney Looser - Published 2025

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Nonfiction

Who was Jane Austen? A quiet, submissive, Regency spinster who just happened to write some of the most enduring and widely read novels ...Read Review