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George V, Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley

May 25, 2022

George V (1865-1936), grandfather of the current Queen, was not one of England’s liveliest monarchs; he collected stamps.  (Apologies to philatelists everywhere.) Tommy Lascelles, an astute royal advisor (played brilliantly in The Crown by Phillip Torrens), said of George V, “He was dull, beyond ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Non Fiction Tagged With: British history, British Royal Family, House of Windsor, King Edward VIII, Queen Elizabeth II

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

April 12, 2022

I love it when a novel inspires me to conduct extra research, and in The Weight of Ink there was plenty of material which demanded further investigation, like The Great Plague of London, Spinoza, and Shakespeare’s Dark Lady. Now you may prefer to read a book that requires no additional effort on ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction Tagged With: British history, Jewish history, London, Portuguese Jew

Black Maestro, The Epic Life of an American Legend by Joe Drape

March 13, 2022

St Basil's Catherdral

Before the NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB, and NASCAR, the national sport in the United States was horse racing. At the turn of the last century, there were over 300 racetracks in the U.S., and over 500 million dollars was bet on horseracing by 1900. If you were a small, black boy from Bluegrass country, ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Non Fiction Tagged With: American history, Horse Racing, Kentucky Derby, Russian Revolution, World War I, World War II

The Eyes of the Queen and The Queen’s Men by Oliver Clements

March 13, 2022

  The historical thrillers by Oliver Clements are set in the early, shaky years of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign, where the old religion is not completely dead, and Elizabeth’s Catholic cousin Queen Mary makes mischief from her prison in Scotland. The Agents of the Crown series features the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction, Books-Mystery & Suspense Tagged With: British Mystery, Elizabethan history, Queen Elizabeth I

The Maid by Nita Prose

February 19, 2022

Molly is the maid every hotel wishes they had on their payroll. Obsessively tidy, punctual, and methodical, Molly cleans each room at the Regency Grand Hotel as if it is a surgical theater.  “Your room has been returned to a state of perfection,” she cheerfully exclaims as she finishes her ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction, Books-Mystery & Suspense

The Confidence Men by Margalit Fox

February 19, 2022

It all started with a homemade Ouija board. In an isolated WW I prisoner-of-war camp in Yozgad, Central Anatolia, British prisoner Harry Jones, a lawyer by training,  alleviated the tedium of captivity by experimenting with a Ouija board. This exercise in spiritualism ultimately led to a ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Non Fiction Tagged With: British history, POW, Spiritualism, Turkey, World War I

The Churchill Sisters by Rachel Trethewey

January 6, 2022

Without question, Winston Churchill was one of the great statesmen of the 20thC, but as a parent, less great. This is somewhat understandable as his own parents set a lousy example. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a harsh man and often unkind to his son.  Winston’s mother, the lovely Jennie ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Non Fiction Tagged With: British history, Winston Churchill, World War II

Penny & Connelly & Osman

January 6, 2022

Louise Penny the Madness of Crowds As soon as I finished the seventeenth Chief Inspector Gamache novel, I complained to anyone who would listen! For those of you who missed my rants----The Madness of Crowds is terrible. If you haven’t read the Gamache novels, the earlier ones are wonderful and ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction, Books-Mystery & Suspense Tagged With: British Mystery, Canadian Mystery, Gamache, Harry Bosch, Louise Penny, Michael Connelly, Police procedural

Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

January 6, 2022

In this culinary memoir, Stanley Tucci’s life experiences, from his childhood in Westchester County, New York, to film sets around the world, are filtered through what was on the menu. Family members and friends (mostly famous) make cameo appearances, notable locales are described, and tragedies ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Non Fiction Tagged With: Food Writing, foof, hollywood, memoir

A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell

November 19, 2021

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell Reading histories of World War II, one could assume that the resistance movement in France was populated entirely by men. Not so, as two recent biographies of heroic women ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Non Fiction Tagged With: American history, CIA, French Resistance, OSS, SOE, Spies, Vichy France, World War II

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