Oneworld Publications
A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising
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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
Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
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It’s said that good non-fiction should be as gripping as a tense murder-mystery. With this fascinating biography, Anna Beer has indeed met ...Read Review
The Syndicate
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This is a sequel to the author’s 2017 novel The Pictures, reviewed in HNR issue 80. It is the United States in the summer ...Read Review
The Hidden
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Jersey under German occupation in the Second World War. Dora Simon is a German-Jewish refugee in her mid-20s, working as a midwife ...Read Review
Lala
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Born in 1919 in southern Poland to an accomplished family, Helena “Lala” Bieniecka lived nearly 90 eventful years, and her ancestral lore goes back even ...Read Review
Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
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The man Beer describes as “a true Renaissance man” had a tenuous place in society—birth date unknown—as the fifth son of ...Read Review
A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection
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The follow-up to Jenni Murray’s A History of Britain in 21 Women, this book broadens to cover further notable women across time and ...Read Review