Oneworld Publications

Beasts of a Little Land

By Juhea Kim - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

This beautiful book follows the lives of a girl named Jade, who is sold at the age of ten as an apprentice to ...Read Review

Surviving Katyn: Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth

By Jane Rogoyska - Published 2021

Genres:

Nonfiction

This is a comprehensive account of the events leading up to, and the aftermath of the notorious massacre of Polish military officers in 1940, ...Read Review

War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France

By Patrick Marnham - Published 2020

Genres:

Nonfiction

In 2000, Patrick Marnham published a biography of Jean Moulin, General de Gaulle’s delegated leader of the French Resistance in World War Two. ...Read Review

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

By Emma Southon - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

This is a witty and erudite summary of murder and death as a part of Roman daily life. Emma Southon’s work spans ...Read Review

Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947

By Norman Lebrecht - Published 2019

Genres:

Nonfiction

This is a galloping tour of some of humanity’s brightest minds and the impact they had on society. In almost every aspect ...Read Review

How We Disappeared

By Jing-Jing Lee - Published 2019

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Straddling two timelines and told from the perspective of two narrators, How We Disappeared is an evocative glimpse into Japanese-occupied Singapore during World ...Read Review

Solovyov and Larionov

By Eugene Vodolazkin - Published 2019

Genres:

Literary

Russian novels are hefty and generally involve a sweeping panorama of people and events. Solovyov and Larionov is cast in that same mode, ...Read Review

In the Shadow of Wolves

By Alvydas Šlepikas - Published 2019

Genres:

Literary

Eastern Prussia in the bitter winter of 1946. The Soviet Army is in occupation, keen to take their revenge upon the German people. Eva, ...Read Review

Zuleikha

By Guzel Yakhina - Published 2019

Genres:

Literary

Soviet Russia in 1930. The gradual accession of Stalin to power in the 1920s eventually ended the liberalization of society and the economy, leading ...Read Review

A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising

By The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie - Published 2018

Genres:

Nonfiction

This is a brief but utterly delightful and funny series of mini-biographies of English clergymen who exhibited a bewildering range of eccentric behaviour ...Read Review