Recommendations from our site
“Messalina, the wife of the Roman emperor Claudius, was not so lucky, going down in the history books as a debauched adulteress. In Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery, PhD student Honor Cargill-Martin makes a valiant attempt to restore her reputation, though it’s hard going as little is known about her, beyond that she was a young (perhaps very young) bride.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Early Summer 2023
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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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 -
Vagabonds
by Oskar Jensen
