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Monday, July 27, 2020

Review: A Talent To Deceive by William Morris

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Synopsis:  For almost 90 years, the Lindbergh Kidnapping has been a major topic of controversy and fascination in history. After a six-we...

To Walk in the Dark by John Ellis

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During the bloody years of the First English Civil War, as the battles of Edgehill, Newbury and Naseby raged, another war was being fought. ...

The Tudor Occupation of Boulogne by Neil Murphy

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In 1544, Henry VIII led the largest army then ever raised by an English monarch to invade France. This book investigates the consequences of...

Tree of Pearls by D. Fairchild Ruggles

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Shajar al-Durr--known as "Tree of Pearls"--began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to the Ayyubid Sultan S...

Selling the Tudor Monarchy by Kevin Sharpe

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The management of image in the service of power is a familiar tool of twenty-first- century politics. Yet as long ago as the sixteenth centu...

Beaufort by Molly McClain

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The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort survived the tumultuous and uncertain decades that followed the English civil war by creating a remarkable ...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Mystery Women by Colleen Barnett

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Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of wo...
Monday, July 20, 2020

More Wisdom From Dr Seuss

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Review: Starving Men by Siobhan Finkielman

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Synopsis: Dublin, 2019: Michael Gleeson is a well-respected psychiatrist – a quiet man, a good friend, and a useless cook. He also spends ...