Chatto & Windus
Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World
Genres:
Ranked among ships of historic note—Drake’s Golden Hind, Bligh’s Bounty, Franklin’s Erebus, Titanic—is the Endeavour, in which Lieutenant ...Read Review
Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England
Genres:
Devices and Desires explores the life of Bess of Hardwick and of her great building projects, especially the still-extant Hardwick Hall. It is ...Read Review
The Great Level (UK) / Call Upon the Water (US)
Genres:
England during the interregnum in the 17th century. Jan Brunt, a Dutch engineer, is employed to assist in drawing up plans for the ...Read Review
Monsieur Ka
Genres:
London in the bitterly cold post-war winter of 1947. Albert & Albertine Whitelaw are a recently married couple. Albert was an officer in the ...Read Review
Overland
Genres:
Considering one of Graham Rawle’s previous novels was composed entirely of text cut from vintage women’s magazines, it should come as ...Read Review
The White King
Genres:
Charles I of England, the “White King,” a man with an illustrious heritage, was the head of the Anglican Church, to which he ...Read Review
White Chrysanthemum
Genres:
“Comfort women” is a euphemism for the girls and women forced to serve as prostitutes by Imperial Japanese forces during WWII—perhaps 200,000 in ...Read Review
The Wish Child
Genres:
It has been over ten years since the publication of Catherine Chidgey’s previous novel, also historical fiction. This seems a very long ...Read Review
The Woolgrower’s Companion
Genres:
Kate Dowd and her father, Ralph, wait on the railway platform to collect two Italian prisoners of war who have been assigned to ...Read Review
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
Genres:
It’s quite difficult to classify this book. Part memoir of Lauren Elkin’s love affair with the city as a locus of ...Read Review
