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Bourbon Empire: America’s Whiskey
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From its likely beginnings in the swamps of Virginia, when Captain George Thorpe looked out over fields of New World corn and decided ...Read Review
Scottish Highlands: A Cultural History
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The Scottish Highlands loom large in public imagination, a popular destination for travel and a familiar setting for fiction and film. Andrew Beattie’...Read Review
Women Who Ruled: History’s 50 Most Remarkable Women
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This broad survey of women and power from Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt in the 15th century BCE to Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani Prime ...Read Review
Up the Hill to Home
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Up the Hill to Home follows the vicissitudes of three families, united by marriage into one, who call Washington, DC home from 1895 to 1939. ...Read Review
Great Military Disasters: From Bannockburn to Stalingrad
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This is a compendium of monographs, each describing a battle from history that did not, shall we say, go too well. The subtitle ...Read Review
Golden Earrings
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In 1970s Paris, a dejected ballet dancer, Paloma, is living with her grandmother, Mamie, in a townhouse-cum-ballet school. One morning she is confronted ...Read Review
Sail Upon the Land
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Love, love, love this book! The book tells the individual stories of four related women and how they are linked to each other. ...Read Review
The Debt of Tamar
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This is a generational story that begins in Portugal in 1544. The wealthy merchant family of Mendez is honored by the Queen, who is ...Read Review
A Set of Lies
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Napoleon has been defeated and packed off to St Helena. Or was he? This Alternative History novel explores the possibility that a British ...Read Review
Into the Fire
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1429: France has been ravaged by long-drawn-out war with England. Tomas Rustbeard is a double agent, his present task to discredit the Maid – France’...Read Review
