Selection of new history books
Herod the Great Martin Goodman
An African History of Africa Zeinab Badawi
Beyond the Wall (East Germany) (now in pbk) Katya Hoyer
Killers of The Flower Moon (US, fights over oil drilling) David Gann
Storm's Edge (history & Folklore of Orkney) Peter Marshall
Winters in the World (The Anglo Saxon Year) Eleanor Parker
Normal Women (short biographies) Philippa Gregory
The Carnation Revolution (Portugal 1974) Alex Fernandes
Remembering Peasants (a lost European society) Patrick Joyce
Africa: The definitive visual history pub by Dorling & Kindersley
Adventure and Crime Novelists
Peter James British author of police investigations (now on tv)
Scott Mariani Rip roaring adventures of former SAS Major
Roy Clements History based novels
David Baldacci American author of serious crime cases
Richard Osman British author of group of retirees acting as amateur detectives
Old Friends Re-Visited
Diaries of Victor Klemperer (Germany succumbs to Nazism through eyes of a Jew)
Diaries of Samuel Pepys (one of the world's greatest diarists)
The Man on a donkey (Dissolution of the Monasteries) by HFM Prescott. Considered tyo be a great historical novel
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
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