The Revolutions in Europe by Robert Evans and Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann is a collection of essays about the 1848 revolutions in Europe. As it happens with this kind of books, some chapters are more intriguing that others, both due to the subject and to…
His Convenient Highland Wedding by Janice Preston is the first book in the The Lochmore Legacy series, a book written by another author. I loved the idea behind this and so, I wanted to read all four. By the time I’m publishing this review I…
I don’t write reviews for books I did not read. But I need to make an exception with Surely you’re joking, Mr Feynman! By Richard Feynman – Adventures of a curious character. My husband read it and I pestered him to read passages from the…
I was asked if I want to review The Tudors by Linda Collins, Siobhan Clarke – The Crown, the Dynasty, the Golden Age*. Of course I said yes, especially as I’m studying the period. I like to mix up serious books (as in those kinds…
Josephine by Kate Williams – desire, ambition, Napoleon is a good book, very easy and pleasant to read, just like a novel. The only thing that annoyed me, so much that I took a star out of the rating was the amount of assumptions she…
Our final century by Martin Rees – A scientist’s warning how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind’s future in this century – on earth and beyond. I reserved this book from the library just before hearing about it in a talk at Davos in…
Sacred treason by James Forrester is the first book in the Clarenceux trilogy, a mystery series. I wanted to read this book for two reasons. First of all, I finished Sansom’s Shardlake series and this one seemed similar. Secondly, James Forrester is the pen name…
This book, The Napoleonic Empire by Geoffrey James Ellis is part of the Studies in the European History collection. It is a really good book, very well written, making it easy to read. I’ve enjoyed it. He talks about Napoleon’s legacy and that part was…
Uncovering The Merchant’s Secret by Elisabeth Hobbes was published last month, a few days before I was able to borrow it from the library. I’m really impressed how fast the library service got the book. I knew they will have it, as they listed the…
The French Revolution by William Doyle is quite a biased book, not to the standard I expected it to be. I will talk about two things from the book which stand out. ‘All power, all authority, all institutions were now provisional, valid only so long…
The French Revolution by Stephen Clarke has the very appropriate subtitle: and What Went Wrong. This is the 3rd book I read by Clarke and I will start reading the 4th one in a couple of months or so. All his books are hilarious and…
Tombland by C. J. Sansom is the seventh book in the Matthew Shardlake series and so far the last one. The story takes place in 1549 and Shardlake is in Norfolk, at the time of Kett’s rebellion. So far I’ve enjoyed all his books and…
Tudor Economic Problems by Peter Ramsey was such a great book. I had no intention of reading it cover-to-cover, but I did. I was doing an essay on Tudor economics and this book was so good, I didn’t want to put it down. It was…
30-Second Physics by Brian Clegg is another book from this series that I got from a museum gift shop. I liked the first book in the series that I read, 30-Second Elements, so I was very curious about this one. It is a very good…
Next week I’m starting a new subject, European History 1815-1914, so I will share the reading list I was given. This is the minimum reading list. I will receive a complete one by the end of this week. I will share reviews on my blog…
Lamentation by C. J. Sansom is the sixth book in the Matthew Shardlake series. Henry VIII is vacillating between Protestantism and Catholicism, while England is torn between these two factions at the court and their power struggle. Catherine Parr had a Protestant leaning and she…