The Case of the Married Woman by Antonia Fraser was a book I borrowed randomly from my library. I wanted to listen to an audiobook while I was doing something boring. Little did I know before starting the book. I only gave it 2 stars…
The elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel – how the glow of radium lit a path for women in science is the biography of an amazing woman with an amazing career and a wonderful family life. Dava Sobel’s depiction of Marie Curie seems a…
Catherine, the Princess of Wales by Robert Jobson is a wonderful biography. I enjoyed this book so much. I liked how the author dealt with the negative things and his commitment to be as unbiased as possible, when it is obvious that he has a…
Fighting Evil by Macer Gifford – The Ordinary Man who went to War Against ISIS – is such a wonderful book. I’ve been following Macer on Twitter for a while. He is a Brit fighting alongside the Ukrainians, in the army. This book was written…
Catherine of Aragon by Giles Tremlett – The Spanish Queen of Henry VIII – a book I decided to review on 29 January, to mark the anniversary of her burial. I planned to go to Peterborough, but the commemorations were on Friday, thus it did…
Gareth Jones by Ray Gamache – Eyewitness to the Holodomor is a great biography of a great man. Gareth Jones was the Welsh journalist who raised awareness about Holodomor, the man-made famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933, where about 4 million people died. This is a…
Stalin’s Apologist by S. J. Taylor – Walter Duranty: The New York Times’s Man in Moscow – is, in itself an apology to Duranty, which was rather unpleasant to read. It’s a dry book, the author talks about other people, and has the imperialistic views…
We Need to Talk About Putin by Mark Galeotti – Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right – is a good book. Very short, at under 150 pages, I think it is really worth reading. I decided to publish the…
Memoir of Kitty Wilkinson was published in 1927. Its name is: Memoir of Kitty Wilkinson of Liverpool, 1786-1860. With a short account of Thomas Wilkinson, her husband, edited by Herbert R. Rathbone. I talked about Kitty in another book I read recently, The Life And…
Charles and Ada by James Essinger – The Computer’s Most Passionate Partnership – was a book I wanted to read for a while and it was so disappointing when I finally got the chance to read it. Firstly, despite its name is mostly about Charles.…
I bought Queen of Our Times by Robert Hardman – The Life of Queen Elizabeth II – when I saw that Boris Johnson gave a copy of it as a gift to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a trip to Kyiv. Zelenskyy was so interested in the…
A Lady of Cotton by David Sekers – Hannah Greg, Mistress of Quarry Bank Mill – is such a wonderful biography. Sekers was a director of Quarry Bank Museum, which is a must-see in north of England, near Manchester. The mill still stands and still…
The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu by Jo Willett* – Scientist and Feminist – is a must read. Most of us know about Jenner, especially after all the talk and the publicity the Jenner Institute had in the last year, with its development of…
Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre – Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy sounded like a very interesting book. The blurb mentions: “In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her…
I received this book, Michael Schumacher by Pino Allievi – Immagini di una vita/A life in pictures, as a Christmas gift. I was delighted and I wanted to read the book in March, just before the new F1 season started. The season starts today and…
Dirty Bertie by Stephen Clarke – an English king made in France is the latest book by Stephen Clarke I read. You can see at the end of the post links to other reviews of his books. This one wasn’t as good as the others,…