Atlantic Books
The Cameraman
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It is 1934, and Julius is newly discharged from a mental hospital in Wales. He is joining his family on a motoring trip across ...Read Review
The Lost Queen: The Surprising Life of Catherine of Braganza, Britain’s Forgotten Monarch
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Many people have heard of Charles II’s mistress, Nell Gwynn, and perhaps even of others of his mistresses, but who knows anything ...Read Review
Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War
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Vera (Jack) Holme and Evalina (Eve) Haverfield were a lesbian couple who were prominent in the Suffragette movement before WW1 and during the ...Read Review
Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera
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The One-Upon-A-Time-World is the French Riviera, that tiny strip of land which has had such a disproportionate impact on the cultural history of ...Read Review
Pilgrims
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In 1289, the century before Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales takes place, a band of pilgrims leaves England not for Canterbury but to Rome, picking ...Read Review
Cathedrals of Steam: How London’s Great Stations Were Built – And How They Transformed the City
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Those who have lived or worked on London will love this book. It traces the history of buildings which they have visited thousands ...Read Review
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
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You probably know Peter Cozzens as the author of The Earth is Weeping, his monumental study of the Indian Wars in the western ...Read Review
The Narrow Land
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This literary novel takes place on Cape Cod in 1950. While the setting is idyllic, Mr. and Mrs. Aitch’s marriage is far from ...Read Review
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
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Rome has been sacked more than seven times in its long history. The seven ‘sackings’ chosen by Matthew Kneale for this book include ...Read Review
The Divine Husband
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Akin to Ernesto Sabato’s On Heroes and Tombs, this novel is enormous in scope. But if Sabato paints the portrait of a ...Read Review
