Recommendations from our site
“This book is in the ‘history as nostalgia’ category, a book that reminds you of the past and of who you were in the past. It’s a genuinely funny book. It will resonate for anybody who was (as I was) a left-of-centre student feeling absolutely righteous conviction at the certainty of the correctness of their own views. Utter bemusement is the prerogative of youth, and it was impossible to understand how anyone could vote for a Conservative government.” Read more...
The best books on Modern British History
Andrew Hindmoor, Historian
Our most recommended books
-
Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov -
Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir
by Erika Morillo -
Question 7
by Richard Flanagan -
Patriot: A Memoir
by Alexei Navalny, translated by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel -
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
by Cristina Rivera Garza -
The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
by Manjula Martin
