2020
Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain
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Combining written texts and unwritten archeological and anthropological signs of civilization, this deep history focuses on the confrontation between Spanish explorers and indigenous ...Read Review
The Grove of the Caesars: Flavia Albia 8
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This is the eighth book in Lindsey Davis’s mystery series featuring Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, an investigator in ancient ...Read Review
Villa of Delirium
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Villa of Delirium is a literary novel, originally published in French, that brings to life the hypnotic story of one family—the Reinachs—...Read Review
The Straits of Treachery
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There is a style of military historical fiction which emphasises the minutiae of warfare – details of uniforms, the weapons carried, the precise way ...Read Review
The Bermondsey Bookshop
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The Bermondsey Bookshop was founded in 1921 by Ethel Gutman. Its inspiration was similar to that of the better-known Workers’ Educational Association founded eighteen ...Read Review
The Summer We Found the Baby
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A baby in a basket, a first lady, and three precocious children are the ingredients of Amy Hest’s novel seton Long Island ...Read Review
A Thousand Moons
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Set around Paris, Tennessee, in the aftermath of the Civil War, this stand-alone sequel to Barry’s Days without End (2016), is compellingly and ...Read Review
The Queen’s Colonial
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Set in England and on the Crimean Peninsula in the 1850s, The Queen’s Colonial introduces blacksmith Ian Steele, who takes the place ...Read Review
The Return
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You might suppose that a man who has earned the garlands of a Corona Civica for saving the life of a fellow Roman ...Read Review
Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
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Executions, strangulations, poisonings, disease, beheadings, snakebites, stabbings. These are just a few of the MOs employed by William Shakespeare to dispatch more than 250 ...Read Review
