Tag Archives: Europe/Great Britain
Prince of Pleasure
by Saul David‘morton”has written a scholarly but highly readable bio, filled with rich analysis and insight. He says more in his limited space than many others…
The Private Lives of the Tudors
by Tracy BormanThe internationally bestselling author of Thomas Cromwell and Elizabeth’s Women takes readers behind the closed doors and into the intimate lives of the Tudor…
The Perfect Summer
by Juliet Nicolson“Sharp and rangy. . . . Nicolson sets a lively, theatrical pace and makes good use of recurring characters. . . . [There are]…
Old World, New World
by Kathleen Burk“This stunning and important work is destined to become the benchmark study of this topic for many years to come.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)…
Hamlet Globe to Globe
by Dominic DromgooleFrom the artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, an account of the theater’s extraordinary two-year tour bringing Hamlet to every country on…
The Great Silence
by Juliet Nicolson“Wonderfully vivid . . .When we study history we . . . tend to overlook the transitional periods. Juliet Nicolson has, in a short…
The Dress Lodger
by Sheri Holman“Holman seduces you. Her prose, tart, racy and somber, will sing in your soul a long while.” —Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes
Death at the Priory
by James Ruddick“An impressively researched retelling of a mysterious murder in Victorian England . . . Death at the Priory reads as a historical intervention, crime…
Birders
by Mark Cocker“Cocker offers a combined celebration of and apologia for the national passion for birding, which in Britain provides both the thrill of high competition…
