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Hang the Moon by Jeanette Walls

During her Politics and Prose presentation, Jeanette Walls states that she always thought of herself as a journalist and “truth teller,” in other words, a memoirist, biographer, or journalist. As time...

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes, in her new novel A Thousand Ships, explores the Trojan War through the experiences of the goddesses, princesses, Amazons, townswomen, and captives who in some cases drove it forward...

The River We Remember by William Kent Kreuger

The River We Remember is a police procedural set in a fictional small town (Jewel) in a fictional county (Black Earth) in southern Minnesota. It is May 30, 1958—Memorial Day—and though...

Light on Bone by Kathryn Lasky

In Light on Bone, Kathryn Lasky takes us to the New Mexico Ghost Ranch of 1934, gifting us with its beauty as seen through the eyes of artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Although...

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

To retrieve history we need rigour, integrity, unsparing devotion and an impulse to scepticism. To retrieve the past, we require all those virtues, and something more. If we want added value...