Nonfiction
Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin
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In 1607, three English ships, and about a hundred settlers and crew landed in Chesapeake Bay in what will later become Virginia. They are ...Read Review
The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Breakout of WWI
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Most of us have heard of the Great Escape of WW2, when 76 POWs tunnelled their way out of Stalag Luft 111 in 1943. WW1 also ...Read Review
The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch
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The Ocean Monarch was a large, well-found American emigrant ship which had carried hundreds of migrants from Liverpool to Boston. She sank on 24 ...Read Review
The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist
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In the mid-17th century, Francis Willughby and John Ray set out to redefine how we understand the natural world. They embarked on ...Read Review
Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny
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The title says it all! Between 1534 and 1594, Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy changed the face and internal fabric of England. The rejection ...Read Review
They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
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Fans of Simon Mawer’s Tightrope and Trapeze, or Susan Elia MacNeal’s Maggie Hope series, will be drawn in by this nonfiction ...Read Review
The Order of the Day
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This slim volume is an icy history written with the deadly incisiveness of fiction – The Order of the Day is an amazing, disturbing, ...Read Review
Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France
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In June 1940, Prime Minister Churchill authorised the setting-up of the Special Operations Executive to sabotage the Nazis in occupied Europe. Recruiter Selwyn Jepson ...Read Review
Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
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Does the world need another history of England? The fifth in Ackroyd’s series takes on a big challenge: England revels in the ...Read Review
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
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Scholar Andrew Delbanco argues convincingly that slavery is the basis of America being divided since its founding. (“Slavery was in the understanding that ...Read Review