The Tudors in 100 Objects
By: John Matusiak
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The Tudors in 100 Objects sets out to examine the material remains of a seminal period in English h…
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1. Labyrinth (Languedoc, #1)
By: Kate Mosse
3.62
Format: 515 pages, Paperback
In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles i… read more
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- historical
2. Necropolis: London and Its Dead
By: Catharine Arnold
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Layer upon layer of London soil reveals burials from pre-historic and medieval times. The city is o… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones."-Catharine Arnold, Necropolis: London and Its Dead
"Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten …"-Catharine Arnold, Necropolis: London and Its Dead
"In a policy shift which the historian Guy de la Bedoyere has compared with Western Imperialism, the Romans converted militant Britons to their way of life with consumer entincements, introducing them…"-Catharine Arnold, Necropolis: London and Its Dead
"Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians and torchbearers came next, with the …"-Catharine Arnold, Necropolis: London and Its Dead
3. Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
By: Miklós Nyiszli , Bruno Bettelheim , Tibère Kremer , Richard Seaver
4.31
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwi… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"We had learned that nothing lasts and that no value is absolute. The only exception to that rule: freedom."-Miklós Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
"Los médicos entienden perfectamente el destino cruel que les ha tocado y son conscientes de la imposibilidad de escapar, pero a pesar de ello se dedican a ayudar, con absoluta abnegación, a los que e…"-Miklós Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
"The bodies were not lying here and there throughout the room, but piled in a mass to the ceiling. The reason for this was that the gas first inundated the lower layers of air and rose slowly towards …"-Miklós Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
4. The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
By: Ian Mortimer
3.87
Format: 172 pages,
The past is a foreign country - this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-160… read more
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- tudor period
- 16th century
5. The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more
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6. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)
By: S.J. Parris
3.55
Format: 288 pages,
Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more
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7. Secrets of the Tudor Court (Tudor Court #1)
By: D.L. Bogdan , Darcey Bonnette
4.19
Format: 45 pages,
When young Mary Howard receives the news that she will be leaving her home for the grand court of K… read more
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8. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
9. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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10. The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2)
By: Alison Weir
4.03
Format: 593 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the private side of t… read more
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- historical
- tudor period
11. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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- historical
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
12. The Coast Road
By: Alan Murrin
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more
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- historical
13. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- historical
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
14. Hey, Zoey
By: Sarah Crossan
3.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Dolores O'Shea’s marriage collapses when she discovers her husband’s AI sex doll in the garage. Whe… read more
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"But I wished I wasn’t strong. Because when you are, no one thinks to take care of you."-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey
"We were too alike. We loved one another in the wrong way, but that doesn't mean it wasn't love."-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey
"How could we possibly tell another person everything about ourselves? It would take a lifetime. It would be incredibly boring."-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey
"As a young teacher I would raise my voice to get a group’s attention. Now I know better. To make yourself heard, you get very quiet. It instils fear."-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey
15. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
16. Girl, Goddess, Queen
By: Bea Fitzgerald
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
To hell with love, this goddess has other plans... Thousands of years ago, the gods told a lie: … read more
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"Gone is little girl. Kore. I am chaos bringer. Persephone."-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen
"You once asked for the world, Persephone. Congratulations, you just created one."-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen
"I was pretty, always pretty. It’s what they told me again and again until the very word came to mean pain. And still I went on, tearing and pulling and hurting until I was prettier still."-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen
"An artist raised to slaughter. I want to hurt everyone involved in that decision. I would too, I think, if I could. Maybe I am too vengeful. But then I look at him laughing and I don't care. I'd do i…"-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen
17. Ladies-in-Waiting: Women Who Served Anne Boleyn
By: Sylvia Barbara Soberton
4.01
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
“An expertly researched and compelling story. Sylvia Barbara Soberton brings to life the court of A… read more
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- 16th century
- nonfiction
- history
- tudor period
18. The Serial Killer’s Sister (The Serial Killer's Family, #3)
By: Alice Hunter
4.04
Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition
She thought she’d left her past behind. She was wrong… Despite a childhood in the care system, … read more
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19. The Tudors by Numbers: The Stories and Statistics Behind England’s Most Infamous Royal Dynasty
By: Carol Ann Lloyd
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The Tudors by the Numbers provides a statistical approach to looking at the dynasty we think we kno… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
20. Men to Avoid in Art and Life
By: Nicole Tersigni
3.95
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Started as a Twitter thread and quickly gained widespread popularity, this book perfectly captures … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. The Story Collector
By: Evie Gaughan
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
In a quiet village in Ireland, a mysterious local myth is about to change everything… One hundre… read more
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- historical
22. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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- historical
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
23. A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
By: Natasha Tidd
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Taking readers on a global journey through human history, historian Natasha Tidd examines how lies … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
24. The Boleyns of Hever Castle
By: Owen Emmerson
4.35
Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition
Hever Castle is a picture-postcard fortified manor house nestled in the Kent countryside. It is fam… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- tudor period
25. In the Shadow of Queens: Tales from the Tudor Court
By: Alison Weir
4.02
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Behind every great king stands a queen. And behind every queen, the whole court watches on... Ov… read more
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- historical
- 16th century
- tudor period
26. Let's Eat Grandma's Pills
By: David Thorne
4.37
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
Do you love to travel? Have you ever wanted to stay in a transparent bubble pod or stood by helples… read more
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- nonfiction
27. The Tudors in 100 Objects
By: John Matusiak
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The Tudors in 100 Objects sets out to examine the material remains of a seminal period in English h… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- tudor period
- 16th century
28. Sex and Sexuality in Tudor England
By: Carol McGrath
3.73
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
The Tudor period has long gripped our imaginations. Because we have consumed so many costume dramas… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- tudor period
