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The Woman at 1,000 Degrees
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Whilst telephone-canvassing during the 2006 Icelandic municipal elections, the author encountered an opinionated, irascible, mischievous old lady who had been living alone in a ...Read Review
The Aviator
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Innokenty Platonov wakes in a Russian hospital bed with no memory of who he is or why he is there. Dr. Geiger is ...Read Review
Black Tudors
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Were there Africans in Tudor and Jacobean England? How did they fare? What kind of lives did they lead? How were they regarded ...Read Review
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
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“This is the story of Euridice Gusmao, the woman who might have been.” In 1940s Rio de Janeiro, Euridice is a housewife with ...Read Review
Grace
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This is a heartbreaking novel of strength and survival set during the potato harvest of 1845 and the beginning of the Great Famine. Grace, ...Read Review
Little Nothing
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Set in an unnamed country, at an unspecified date whose trappings suggest the early 20th century, it is delightfully debatable whether Little Nothing ...Read Review
A History of London in 50 Lives
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The author has written fifty short vignettes of Londoners or those who lived and made their mark on the United Kingdom’s capital ...Read Review
A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection
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Dame Jenni Murray, writer and doyenne of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, here offers brief but highly illuminating biographies of 21 determined, pioneering ...Read Review
Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
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Chess players know that the queen can outmanoeuvre the king in every respect, except in the final checkmate. Gristwood’s book reveals how “...Read Review
Dr. James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time
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This modern biography reclaims a historical figure by telling a fantastic tale of extraordinary deception and medical innovation. James Barry, the first doctor ...Read Review
