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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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 -
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
by Martyn Rady -
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
by Marc David Baer -
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
by Malcolm Gaskill -
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688
by Clare Jackson
