Non-fiction
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The Woman They Could Not Silence
1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and…
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Monday Bookishness – Book juggling!
Sometimes in book-related Facebook groups I’ve seen posts with many comments about whether people read one…
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If walls had words… a brief history of the Blackwell’s Island Lunatic Asylum
Blackwell’s Island Lunatic Asylum – a pivotal location in The Girl Puzzle – was designed in…
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Dec 19th: The Women who flew for Hitler by Clare Mulley
“Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous, and strikingly attractive women who fought convention…
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Dec 18th: Fly Girls by Keith O’Brien
“Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands…
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Dec 16th: Behind the Throne – a domestic history of the British Royal Household by Adrian Tinniswood
Monarchs: they’re just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry…
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Dec 15th: Daughters of the Winter Queen by Nancy Goldstone
“From the great courts, glittering palaces, and war-ravaged battlefields of the seventeenth century comes the story…
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All I want for Christmas is… books!
Here’s the first 14 days of my Christmas advent book calendar wish list. I’m having a…
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Dec 14th: The Anatomy Murders by Lisa Rosner
“On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known…
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Dec 12th: The Butchering Art by Lindsay Fitzharris
“In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and…
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