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Vienna Triangle
Vienna Triangle is not a mathematical puzzle but a complex human one. The novel opens in 1968 with Helene…
Backtracked
In Backtracked the author makes use of the popularity of time travel in fiction to drive home lessons for everyone…
Searching for Tamsen Donner
In 1846 Tamsen Donner and her family left Springfield, Illinois, in search of a new life in California. In 1977…
The Gaol: The Story of Newgate, London’s Most Notorious Prison
Forget Alcatraz, the Bastille, or the Black Hole of Calcutta: the most notorious prison in history was surely Newgate. For…
A Voyage Long and Strange
This is a travelogue rather than a history book, written by a journalist, not an historian. The Voyage Long and…
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
This is not a history of the English language, despite the subtitle. There is little about grammar and syntax and…
Tightrope: Six Centuries of a Jewish Dynasty
Twenty years ago, journalist Michael Karpin began to write the life story of a successful Brazilian businessman who was a…
Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England
Queens and Power is a collection of academic essays dealing with a variety of queens consort and queens regnant, mostly…
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Editors' choice
This is a story that’s easy to lose yourself in. It alternates between the early 1990s, when Connie Goodwin is…
Out of the Shadows
As Catholics in the time of Protestant Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Dyer and her family are shunned and suffer for…
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