Sarah Bower
Acts of Allegiance
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This is the story of Marty Ransom, Irish landowner and diplomat, on the one hand Establishment to his well-polished boots, on the other, ...Read Review
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492-1900
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This is the second book in Schama’s magisterial history of the Jews, following the Jewish people from the expulsion from Spain in 1492 ...Read Review
The Last Hours
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June 1348: When Lady Anne of Develish loses her husband to the Black Death, she takes charge of his demesne and does everything in ...Read Review
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism
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I have to confess I had never heard of the Rosselli family before reading this biography. My ignorance may be partly symptomatic of ...Read Review
The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote her Masterpiece
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Pfordresher goes to great—and often contrived—lengths to show how Brontë’s life influenced her writing, yet, by making frequent reference to ...Read Review
Zoffany’s Daughter
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This unusual book tells with considerable verve and charm the little-known story of Cecilia Horne, daughter of the painter Zoffany, and the custody ...Read Review
The Alphabet of Heart’s Desire
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In his Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincy tells of a streetwalker called Anne who once offered him succour when ...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
The Pictures
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Los Angeles, 1939, and The Wizard of Oz is just about to premier. MGM Studios is at the height of its power, but this ...Read Review
The Other Hoffman Sister
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In 1902, Ingrid Hoffmann’s family moves to German South West Africa, where her father makes his fortune, but the seeds of disaster are ...Read Review
