The Anglo-Saxon Age: The Birth of England
By: Martin Wall
3.96
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
By: Peter Murray , Jacob Burckhardt , Peter Burke , Samuel George Chetwynd Middlemore , S.G.C. Middlemore
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less t… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
2. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Similar categories in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Honor (Sharpe, #16) book and Martin Wall's The Anglo-Saxon Age: The Birth of England
- historical
4. The Sunne in Splendour
By: Sharon Kay Penman
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
A glorious novel of the controversial Richard III - a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and be… read more
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- historical
- british literature
5. A Short History of England
By: Simon Jenkins
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
England's history is the most exciting of any nation on Earth. Its triumphs and disasters are insta… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
6. Mansfield Park
By: Jane Austen
3.87
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more
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- historical
- british literature
"I was quiet, but I was not blind."-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
7. Sharpe's Regiment (Sharpe, #17)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.00
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
A corrupt political plot threatens to put an end to the South Essex regiment and the life of Major … read more
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- historical
8. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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9. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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10. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
By: Victor Hugo , Walter J. Cobb
4.02
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of i… read more
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- historical
"Homo homini monstrum"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"Oh! Everything I loved!"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
11. 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
- medieval 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
12. Queens of the Crusades (England's Medieval Queens, #2)
By: Alison Weir
3.97
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history ch… read more
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- history
- british literature
- historical
- medieval history
- nonfiction
13. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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- history
- british literature
- historical
- medieval history
- nonfiction
14. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- medieval history
15. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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- nonfiction
16. Unsettled Ground
By: Claire Fuller
3.78
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it… read more
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- british literature
17. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
19. Theroux the Keyhole
By: Louis Theroux
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Come round to Louis Theroux’s house where the much-loved TV documentary-maker, podcaster and bestse… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- british literature
20. The Foundling
By: Ann Leary
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House , the story of two friends, raised in … read more
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- historical
21. Queens of the Age of Chivalry (England's Medieval Queens Book 3)
By: Alison Weir
4.22
Format: 478 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of Britain's best selling historians, a sweeping and magisterial history of the extraordin… read more
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- history
- british literature
- historical
- medieval history
- nonfiction
22. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
23. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
By: Elinor Cleghorn
4.11
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
24. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
25. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- historical
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
26. Viking Britain
By: Thomas Williams
3.88
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and … read more
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- british literature
- historical
- medieval history
- nonfiction
27. The Anglo-Saxon Age: The Birth of England
By: Martin Wall
3.96
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
The discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard in 2009 has captured the imagination and stimulated renewe… read more
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28. Arthur and the Kings of Britain: The Historical Truth Behind the Myths
By: Miles Russell
2.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Written in 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Bri… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
29. Northanhymbre Saga: The History of the Anglo-Saxon Kings of Northumbria
By: John Marsden
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Between the end of Roman Britain and the earliest onslaught of the Viking age, a warrior dynasty cl… read more
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