Oneworld Publications

The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster

By Helen Carr - Published 2022

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Nonfiction

For centuries John of Gaunt has remained an enigmatic figure, our ‘take’ on him coloured by Shakespeare or Anya Seton. Helen Carr has ...Read Review

The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty

By Sarah Gristwood - Published 2021

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Nonfiction

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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