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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Ovid: A Very Short Introduction
by Llewelyn Morgan -
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
by Alex von Tunzelmann -
Napoleon: a Life in Gardens and Shadows
by Ruth Scurr -
Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese’s Feast
by Cynthia Saltzman -
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
by Marie Favereau -
London's 'Golden Mile': The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–1650
by Manolo Guerci
