Is it because Pierce Brosnan stars in the Netflix adaptation of The Thursday Book Club that he’s cited as the best James Bond. Perfectly reasonable, but no need to dis the Dalton.
That aside, THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE – which could …
In August 1871 the great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev went to Pitlochry, in Perthshire, to join a shooting party on some Victorian magnate’s estate. This is one of the multitude of fascinating pieces of information gleaned from Orlando Figes’s majestically …
This book scores a blistering revelation that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492 from Charles C.Mann a remarkably engaging writer. He is exemplary in fusing the union of meaningful facts with good
Barbara W Tuchman is is an amazing historian, twice recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, she enriches history like a terrific storyteller .
In THE MARCH OF FOLLY : FROM TROY TO VIETNAM, she does precisely as the title states, …
A bestseller in Japan, Hika Harada’s DINNER AT THE NIGHT LIBRARY has been translated into English by Philip Gabriel and published by the Simon & Schuster imprint, Scribner.
I mention this matter of fact as DINNER AT THE NIGHT LIBRARY …
“Flies should choose their walls carefully’, was a quip that did the rounds at the time of Watergate. Some wag put it less succinctly, ‘All the President’s stink’.
Author pic : Orlando Figes
The fighting between Russia and Britain took 2 years beginning in 1854 and ended with both countries occupying the same positions and the map of Europe unchanged.
The spark that turned into a flame was …
This is brilliantly written.
Few contemporary novels are in this book’s league. Its never quite clear what is the standard against which HERZOG is to be measured. In one of his finest achievements, Noble Prize winner Saul Bellow presents …
Above photo : Megan Hess
Megan Hess, internationally renowned, Melbourne fashion illustrator and author of sumptuous coffee-table books, has crafted a gemstone in this must-have tome. Louis Vuitton: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon is a masterful compilation, replete …