Recommendations from our site
“I love history and I find medical history in particular very gripping (especially the discovery of vaccines), so I really enjoyed The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus. The author, Lucy Ward, is a journalist so it’s good bedtime reading, bringing home nicely the story of the fight against the horrors of smallpox as well as focusing on Catherine the Great” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Spring 2022
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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Vagabonds
by Oskar Jensen -
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
by James Belich -
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945
by Halik Kochanski -
Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
by Emma Smith -
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
by Henrietta Harrison -
African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History
by Hakim Adi
