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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
June 1, 2026To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson
May 31, 2026...essentially, the book remains a story of British upper classes and the author has seemingly trawled...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Union: England, Scotland And the Treaty of 1707 – by Michael Fry
May 20, 2026The story of modern Britain – at least one of the stories – begins some three...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet
April 25, 2026But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
After the Victorians by A.N. Wilson
December 6, 2025Like its predecessor, The Victorians, this book is a portrait of an age, rather than a...
Fiction Reviews
Beyond the Balkans – Eric Ambler and the British Espionage Novel, 1936-1940
November 27, 2025Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was one of the foremost architects of espionage fiction as it exists today....
Biography
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
March 20, 2025Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
Non-Fiction Reviews
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
March 6, 2025Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
France
The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
February 20, 2025In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
February 12, 2025As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were...
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