Bodley Head
Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy
The book’s title contains the clue to its unique approach. Duggan has drawn on the reams of correspondence received by…
The First Crusade
Pope Urban’s 1095 clarion call to Western Christendom to re-take Jerusalem from the Turks is the background for many historical…
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
There was something serendipitous about reading this book in a week that modern scientists took a step closer to the…
1415: Henry V’s Year of Glory
Although this is not a novel, it certainly reads like one. Written in diary form, it covers the events of…
Newes from the Dead
1650. This is based on the true story of Anne Green, a young, naïve maidservant who is taken in by…
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