Multi-Period
Lives of Notorious Cooks
Editors' choice
On first look, this little book doesn’t give much away. I had read the blurb which told me, in part,…
Where Tigers Are at Home
Each chapter of this novel begins with a selection from a biography of the 17th-century Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher, purportedly…
Washed in the Blood
I’d only vaguely heard of the Melungeons before reading Washed in the Blood. Lisa Alther has brought this mysterious Appalachian…
Black Dynasty
Black Dynasty tells the story of African-American life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Ruthless shopkeeper Willard Stone…
The Confidant
Editors' choice
A beautiful, intricate book, The Confidant is held together with delicate threads and secrets. I scarcely know how to review…
A Possible Life
Editors' choice
How do the choices we make radically change our lives, in terms of our overall trajectory, our relationships, our beliefs?…
Darwin’s Ghosts
Darwin was famously troubled by his discovery of evolution by survival of the fittest, which set him at odds with…
All the King’s Men
This is a history of the British Army, beginning with the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685 and ending with the…
Fairfield Folk
The history of travelling families has been handed down through the traditional method of a ‘Say.’ Every important, amusing or…
The Time Keeper
“Long ago, at the dawn of man’s history”, somewhere in ancient Mesopotamia, Dor is the first man on earth to…
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