Bloomsbury
The Photographer’s Wife
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“Each betrayal was a closer step to death and he understood that she was all the days of freedom before the war…” Taken ...Read Review
The Summer Before the War
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The highly capable and well-educated Beatrice Nash arrives in the coastal village of Rye in Sussex, England, to take up her new post ...Read Review
Eliza Rose
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1535. Henry VIII is on the throne. Twelve-year-old Eliza Camperdowne, only child of a noble but impoverished family, knows that she must marry well. ...Read Review
Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of Temptation: The Grantchester Mysteries
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Fans of the Grantchester Mysteries will love the fifth installment, which is set again in the little Cambridgeshire village. In the six stories ...Read Review
Stealing Games: How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants
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In 1911, the New York Giants of the National League stole 347 bases, a record that still stands today. The early baseball seasons were known ...Read Review
Passwords to Paradise: How Languages Have Reinvented World Religions
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In Ostler’s book, he attempts to show whether and/or how a religion changes when its message is translated from its original ...Read Review
Up Against the Night
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In 1838, over 500 South African Boers were killed by Dingane, King of the Zulus, and his warriors; the Boer leader, Piet Retief, had thought ...Read Review
Richard III: A Ruler and His Reputation
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Though he only reigned for two years, Richard III has always been one of England’s most notorious monarchs. Villainized by Shakespeare as ...Read Review
Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
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Late in the night on March 12, 1928, the newly built St. Francis Dam, fifty miles north of the burgeoning town of Los Angeles, broke, ...Read Review
River of Ink
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This debut novel, set in 13th-century Sri Lanka, is the story of court poet Asanka. When his king is usurped by a tyrant ...Read Review