Bodley Head
Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
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To those who might imagine the medieval period to be defined as ‘before the Tudors and after the Romans’ and also as a ‘...Read Review
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain
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This amazingly detailed book introduces the reader to Regency Britain in an accessible and intriguing way; they can glimpse life through the eyes ...Read Review
The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West
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The Beauty and the Terror captures, in increments of topical chapters, a place and time whose global influence—economic, religious, political, and artistic—...Read Review
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
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Catherine Fletcher opens up the ‘Pandora’s Box’ of 16th-century Italy. This era is known most obviously for the flowering of individual artistic ...Read Review
Ghost Hawk
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1600s, Massachusetts. Winter is coming. Eleven-year-old Little Hawk must undergo a three-month test of survival alone in the forest with only a tomahawk, ...Read Review
The Seeing
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Set in the 1950s, this story is narrated mainly by 13-year-old Lizzie, who lives in a small coastal town, in a comfortable home ...Read Review
1913: The World Before the Great War
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In his introduction, Emmerson explains that he wants ‘to look at the world in 1913 through contemporary eyes, in its full colour and complexity, ...Read Review
Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy
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The book’s title contains the clue to its unique approach. Duggan has drawn on the reams of correspondence received by the Duce’...Read Review
The First Crusade
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Pope Urban’s 1095 clarion call to Western Christendom to re-take Jerusalem from the Turks is the background for many historical novels. In this ...Read Review
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
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There was something serendipitous about reading this book in a week that modern scientists took a step closer to the elusive Higgs boson. ...Read Review
