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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

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

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

March 19, 2021

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

How could I resist a book with such an unusual title set on an island about which I know nothing (cows, right?) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a charming novel of 1946 London and Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. London based writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction Tagged With: British history, German occupation, historical fiction, World War II

Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown

February 27, 2021

If you are a fan of The Crown and enjoy Royal gossip, I recommend Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, which for lack of a better description, is an unconventional biography. Brown has assembled in no particular order ninety-nine vignettes of the controversial princess taken from ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Non Fiction Tagged With: Antony Armstrong-Jones, British history, British Royal Family, Group Captain Peter Townsend, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II

The Crown in Crisis, Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman

February 25, 2021

The Crown in Crisis

I was disappointed in The Crown in Crisis, Countdown to the Abdication, a day-by-day account of the last month of King Edward VIII’s reign. The author claims to have unearthed unseen archival material and interviews about the crisis in which the king renounces the throne for the woman he loves, the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Non Fiction Tagged With: British history, British Royal Family, Duchess of Windsor, Duke of Windsor, King Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson, Winston Churchill, World War II

Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner

August 25, 2020

Lady In Waiting

For Fans of The Crown   Anne Glenconner had an idyllic childhood. In her memoir, Lady in Waiting, she describes growing up at Holkham, the 27,000-acre estate of her father, the 5th Earl of Leicester. Her boon companions were the Princess Elizabeth and the Princess Margaret. There were Christmases ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Non Fiction Tagged With: British history, British Royal Family, Colin Tennant, memoir, Mustique, Princess Margaret

The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

August 4, 2020

The Jane Austen Society

Post-war England In 1945, the tiny village of Chawton is coping with the after effects of WWII. Its most famous resident, Jane Austen, who lived in an estate cottage belonging to her brother Edward Knight, is a faint and increasingly diminishing presence. Recognizing the important of the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction Tagged With: British history, British novels, Chawton House, Jane Auten, World War II

The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel

June 26, 2020

The Mirror & the Light

A novel of the final four years in the life of Thomas Cromwell and the court of Henry VIII, The Mirror & the Light is historical fiction,  but like Mantel’s earlier books in the trilogy, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, it bears no resemblance to traditional historical fiction. There are no ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction Tagged With: Anne of Cleves, British history, Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, Man Booker Prize, Queen Elizabeth I, Thomas Cromwell, Tudors

The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson 

March 22, 2020

The Splendid and the Vile

Given the enormous number of Churchill biographies, especially of the war years, one might wonder about the necessity of yet another. Eric Larson, author of narrative nonfiction bestsellers, The Devil in the White City and In the Garden of the Beasts, takes the vast mountain of Churchill material ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Non Fiction Tagged With: British history, erik larson, The Splendid and the VIle, Winston Churchill, World War II

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