Oneworld Publications
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty
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How did fine amour, that social code of romantic behaviour born in 11th-century France, come to define the lives and fate of iconic ...Read Review
Beasts of a Little Land
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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