Multi-Period
Hidden Doorways
In Ms Thorley’s novel, Catherine is sent hurling from one time period to the other, all of this starting on…
Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait
When I first saw this door-stopper of a biography I reached for my diary to search out a good stretch…
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker: The Story of Britain through its Census, since 1801
This is a readable and entertaining account of why and how the UK started its decennial censuses starting in 1801.…
A History of London in 50 Lives
The author has written fifty short vignettes of Londoners or those who lived and made their mark on the United…
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, The History of an Idea
Ghetto is an analysis of the work of four prominent black intellectuals: Horace Cayton, Kenneth Clark, William Julius Wilson, and…
The Aztec Empire
If you want to know the basics about the Aztec Empire, this book is an excellent place to start. It…
The Lost Book of the Holy Grail
Dan Brown meets Anthony Trollope! Once again a middle-aged academic searches for the Holy Grail, helped by a younger female…
Holy Blood
Eden Grey, Kim Fleet’s fictional private detective, continues with her mission to litter Cheltenham with as many literary corpses as…
The Body in the Clouds
In Ashley Hay’s debut novel, The Body in the Clouds (published in the US following The Railwayman’s Wife), she attempts…
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
This book’s subject, Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul, has been called the world’s greatest city. Appropriately, the author has chosen a multi-faceted viewpoint including…
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