Tag Archives: Historical
Saint Joan of Arc
by Vita Sackville-West“[A] book in which the most dramatic, significant, moving and inexplicable life story in secular history is told quietly and authoritatively, not merely in…
The Rising Sun
by Douglas Galbraith“Completely convincing . . . succeeds absolutely. Galbraith’s powers of description are immense . . . vivid enough to make the reader’s body ache…
Wanting
by Richard Flanagan“Flanagan sets his novel in the wilds of nineteenth-century Tasmania and evokes its inhabitants with exquisite precision. . . . An entirely unified meditation…
Valiant Gentlemen
by Sabina Murray…bore witness to so much of the history we live with now, brought to vivid, thrilling life here. This novel is made out of history but is every bit a…
The Undertaking
by Audrey Magee“A powerful creation . . . profoundly moving. Ms. Magee’s willingness to examine the darkest elements of the conflict in a novel that still…
The Train to Warsaw
by Gwen Edelman“With remarkable economy and finesse . . . unsentimentally and vividly, Edelman re-creates the chaos, the din, and the brutality as everything was stolen…
Thomas Cromwell
by Tracy BormanA fascinating biography of Henry VIII’s most trusted aide, Thomas Cromwell, a commoner who became second only to the king.
Tell
by Frances ItaniThe mesmerizing follow-up to Itani’s award-winning Deafening, Tell charts the year 1919, when “the boys” came home from the Great War.
Talleyrand
by Duff Cooper“If biography is to be defined as “the history of an individual conceived as a work of art,” then Mr. Duff Cooper’s book would…
Tamburlaine Must Die
by Louise Welsh“Welsh’s novel is as quick and dark as a child’s nightmare. . . . Fictionalizes Marlowe’s last days with novelistic wit and interpretive imagination….
