Nonfiction
Muv: The Story of the Mitford Girls’ Mother
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
