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• After the Bombing by Clare Morrall
  |title=After the Bombing ...who struggles to come to terms with her loss by clinging onto the remnants of her past.
  3 KB (439 words) - 14:59, 20 March 2018
• Sealing Their Fate: 22 Days That Decided the Second World War by David Downing
  |title= Sealing Their Fate: 22 Days That Decided the Second World War ...the Allies. Not for a newcomer to this period, but packed with detail for the aficionado.
  4 KB (584 words) - 10:28, 13 April 2018
• John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman
  |title=John Lennon: The Life ...mpartial life of the former Beatle, from his childhood in Liverpool to his last years in New York.
  6 KB (1,117 words) - 12:31, 26 February 2018
• Shadows Of War (Traitors) by Michael Ridpath
  |title=Shadows Of War (Traitors) ...e does go through it this time! A great excuse for a night in from one of the UK's foremost thriller writers.
  4 KB (683 words) - 12:13, 3 April 2018
• Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder
  |title=Thinking the Twentieth Century ...orian Tony Judt in his last days, producing a fascinating investigation of the 20th century.
  5 KB (870 words) - 11:03, 13 April 2018
• The Satanic Diaries by Krister Jones
  |title=The Satanic Diaries |sort=Satanic Diaries, The
  4 KB (703 words) - 19:47, 29 August 2020
• Lazy Days by Erlend Loe, Don Bartlett (translator) and Don Shaw (translator)
  |title=Lazy Days |summary=A cleverly different account of a family holiday that's definitely not for family reading but will keep adu
  4 KB (654 words) - 16:06, 5 September 2020
• Whisperers: The Secret History of the Spirit World by JH Brennan
  |title=Whisperers: The Secret History of the Spirit World ...ly appears, but this is nevertheless a decent read for those interested in the subject matter.
  4 KB (630 words) - 09:50, 16 April 2018
• Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson by Richard Davenport-Hines (Editor)
  |summary=The edited letters of Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson are beautifully written, deeply inter ...hat continued until Berenson's death in 1959. Despite a difference in ages of nearly half a century this was a profound and moving friendship by two peop
  4 KB (621 words) - 14:24, 10 May 2018
• Top Ten Biographies 2014
  ...t have heard about but there are quite a few gems which have slipped under the media radar. Here they are, in alphabetial order by author: |title=The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin
  7 KB (1,228 words) - 11:09, 2 February 2024
• The Last Debutante by Lesley Lokko
  |title=The Last Debutante |sort=Last Debutante
  4 KB (623 words) - 15:18, 27 September 2020
• Tower by Nigel Jones
  ...m its Norman beginnings as a prestigious fortress and palace, to its years of service as prison and torture chamber, and eventually premier tourist attra ...cution site, an armoury, and is now the most visited tourist attraction in the nation.
  5 KB (901 words) - 10:19, 24 September 2020
• Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith
  |title=Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East |summary=A solidly-researched history of Russia, concentrating largely on the 20th century, by a former BBC correspondent in Moscow, published to accompa
  5 KB (861 words) - 12:39, 27 February 2018
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Matthew Tree
  |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Matthew Tree ...n Matthew Tree popped ino Bookbag Towers she had quite a few questions for the author.
  6 KB (1,141 words) - 08:50, 14 October 2014
• Young Bond: Shoot to Kill by Steve Cole
  |summary=The name's Bond, Young Bond. Before James became Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, he wa ...write about him since Ian Fleming’s death, so there is no reason to think the quality would suddenly drop after a new author comes on board. In fact, Co
  4 KB (764 words) - 09:59, 24 April 2018
• Fritz and Kurt by Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene
  ...lengthy junior read could well give much more than countless textbooks on the Nazi camp system. ...of ''The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz'' in full ignorance of the original, adult version.
  6 KB (1,090 words) - 00:52, 2 April 2024
• Top Ten Self-Published Books 2023
  ...really good self-published books this year: they're up there with the best of traditional publishing. Here's our top ten, in alphabetical order, by auth |title=Children of the Sun
  7 KB (1,180 words) - 12:00, 29 December 2023
• Taking the Medicine by Druin Burch
  |title= Taking the Medicine ...ry= A fascinating history of pharmacology and medicine and the development of evidence based research.
  6 KB (1,009 words) - 08:38, 29 September 2022
• Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop by Peter Doggett
  |title= Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop ...ugh the history of popular music from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day, from wax cylinders to streaming services, from Edison and Berl
  6 KB (1,044 words) - 11:28, 27 February 2018
• It Takes A Library... by Michael Brooks
  ...the research process, including Michael's love of libraries and admiration of JBS Haldane. ...the research process, including Michael's love of libraries and admiration of JBS Haldane.
  5 KB (749 words) - 09:12, 8 July 2011

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