Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
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Historian Adrian Goldsworthy chronicles the rise of Rome, revealing how the Romans came to control so much of the world. He goes into ...Read Review
Belgravia
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When Anne Trenchard, wife of a successful businessman, reveals a long-guarded secret to haughty and scornful Lady Brockenhurst, a chain of events ensues ...Read Review
Heyday: Britain and the Birth of the Modern World
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This is a highly readable account of the technical advances in the 1850s which opened up communications, beginning with the telegraph cable that ...Read Review
Good Hope Road
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Good Hope Road centres on Jim, a young man in a New England apple orchard during the Great Depression, who falls in love ...Read Review
The Kindness of Enemies
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Aboulela’s book moves between 2010 Scotland and mid-19th-century Russia and Dagostan. Imam Shamil, the Muslim leader in Dagostan, is determined to end ...Read Review
The Girl from Rawblood
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This is a novel dominated by the figure of She – who She is and whether She really exists or is part of the ...Read Review
The Witches: Salem, 1692
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This is a very detailed and erudite account of the infamous witchcraft frenzy which afflicted the small village of Salem, Massachusetts and then ...Read Review
The Rival Queens: Catherine de’ Medici, her daughter Marguerite de Valois and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
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Goldstone paints an enjoyable account of the lives of two queens of her title: Catherine de Medici of France and her daughter Marguerite, ...Read Review
The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood
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This is the truly astonishing story of one man and his many adventures. The 17th-century soldier and spy Colonel Thomas Blood is perhaps ...Read Review
My History
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The theme of this memoir is purportedly the young Antonia Pakenham’s burgeoning love affair with History, capitalised as if it were a ...Read Review
