About thirty years after the events of Caraline Brown’s The Candlelit Menagerie, the London Zoo […]
The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne, by Elsa Hart
In the history of modern science, the decades that bridge the medieval era, the Renaissance, […]
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians, by H.G. Parry
The Enlightenment, but make it magicians. That little phrase made frequent appearances in my brain […]
The Anarchy, by William Dalrymple
As I read The Anarchy, a history of how the East India Company came to […]
The Anatomist’s Tale, by Tauno Biltsted
All the narrator of The Anatomist’s Tale, by Tauno Biltsted, wants is have a career […]
The Imperial Wife, by Irina Reyn
I supposed that most women will come off the worse when compared to Catherine the […]
The Romanovs, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
What better book to accompany me on the twenty-hour round trip from my home to […]
The Taste of Empire, by Lizzie Collingham
It’s not unusual for me to have mixed emotions while reading a book. Some books […]
The Wolf and the Watchman, by Niklas Natt och Dag
Trigger warning for extreme violence and sexual sadism. About two years ago, I heard someone say that they didn’t like a book […]
Confessions of the Fox, by Jordy Rosenberg
Confessions of the Fox, by Jordy Rosenberg, is a very sneaky book. It begins as […]