Nonfiction

Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors’ Prison

By Jerry White - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

This thoroughly engaging book manages to present the factual and dark history of the notorious London debtors’ prison, Marshalsea, in an accessible and ...Read Review

The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty

By Tracy Borman - Published 2016Published 2017

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Nonfiction

In Borman’s latest, the focus is not only the personal relationships of the Tudor monarchs and their intimates, but also the trappings ...Read Review

Northmen: The Viking Saga, 793-1241

By John Haywood - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

If you’re like me watching The Vikings on the History Channel, then you usually find yourself searching the internet to see if ...Read Review

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

By Lauren Elkin - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

It’s quite difficult to classify this book. Part memoir of Lauren Elkin’s love affair with the city as a locus of ...Read Review

Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

By Sarah Gristwood - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

Chess players know that the queen can outmanoeuvre the king in every respect, except in the final checkmate. Gristwood’s book reveals how “...Read Review

Three Men and a Bradshaw: An Original Victorian Travel Journal

By John George Freeman - By Ronnie Scott (ed.) - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

From 1873 to 1877, the author enjoyed various holiday jaunts with his two brothers and other family members within the United Kingdom. John Freeman wrote ...Read Review

We Also Served: The Forgotten Women of the First World War

By Vivien Newman - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

The title of this book does not do justice to its scope. In the preface, Vivien Newman observes that our remembrance of the ...Read Review

The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret

By Catherine Hewitt - Published 2015Published 2017

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Nonfiction

In 1848, Emilie-Louise Delabigne was born to a single mother who had turned to prostitution to provide for her seven children. As a teenager, ...Read Review

Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs

By Douglas Smith - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

By any standards, Grigory Rasputin led an extraordinary life. He was born in 1869 in a remote Siberian village; during his twenties, he began ...Read Review

Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa

By Lawrence James - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

Starting with the shelling of Algiers by a French battle fleet in 1830, Lawrence James paints a deep and nuanced picture of the relationship ...Read Review