Bloomsbury (UK)
The Archivist’s Story
Moscow 1939. Pavel Dubrov, a young archivist is given the final works by the author Isaac Babel to destroy. The…
Chains
Teenaged Isabel and her five-year-old sister Ruth had understood they would be freed upon the death of their owner. But…
The Night of the Burning
This novel tells the true story of Devorah and Nechama Lehrman, the only survivors of a massacre of the Jews…
The Women
The visionary, egocentric subject of this book, architect/designer Frank Lloyd Wright, changed the course of history. Whatever his faults, foibles,…
The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe & the Birth of Modern Warfare
World War I was not, according to David Bell, the first total war. During the age of Napoleon wars devastated…
Zugzwang
Zugzwang: a position in chess in which a player is obliged to move, though every move makes his position worse,…
Restless
Editors' choice
Ruth is a young single mother in mid-1970s Oxford, teaching English to foreign students and executives while avoiding working on…
The House of Windjammer
Amsterdam 1636, at the height of tulipmania. The merchant-shipping family of Windjammer is facing ruin. Four galleons have been ship-wrecked…
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