Vintage
Day
Editors' choice
Alfie Day has been an RAF tail gunner and a starved, beaten POW. Five years have passed, and Alfred…
Digging up the Dead
This is a life of Sir Astley Cooper, whose accomplishments straddled the 18th and 19th centuries. He was Britain’s…
Commonwealth of Thieves : The Improbable Birth of Australia
Novelist and historian Keneally (Schindler’s List) takes on the inauspicious early years of white settlers in his homeland in…
Kept: A Victorian Mystery
A young landowner is thrown from his horse and killed. His widow, already unbalanced from the loss of their child,…
Islands
The first Dutch settlement of the area around the Cape makes up a large part of South Africa’s founding myth.…
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