Recommendations from our site
“The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is about all the queens called Cleopatra: the one most of us know about being, in fact, Cleopatra VII. You learn a lot about Ptolemaic Egypt as well as what was happening further East (the first Cleopatra was from Syria). Very striking is the marriage of brothers to their sisters within the royal family, and why that was seen as a good thing.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction Books of Mid-2024
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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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
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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
