My Friends by Hisham Matar
Let’s start with the cover of this 2024 National Book Award finalist which was longlisted for both the Booker Prize and The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, named Best...
Category: Historical
The Vaster Wilds: A Novel by Lauren Groff
Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff is a stunningly shocking fever dream, a narrative that “follows a girl’s escape from a nameless colonial settlement into the unforgiving terrain of America.” [NY Times]...
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...
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...
Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
Set on a fictional Welsh island in 1938, Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor introduces its reader to eighteen-year-old Manod Llan, a lifelong islander, who feels a deep attachment to her small...
Clear by Carys Davies
“The Welsh writer Carys Davies has, over the course of three impeccably elegant novels to date, revealed herself as a model of restraint. Each book has been short and concise, with...
The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron
This novel is a swashbuckling success! Here are just a few reasons why I highly recommend it. Now, from what she could glean from the idle chatter of those passing through,...
The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
“Ada! Get back from that window!” Mam’s voice, shouting. Mam’s arm, grabbing mine, yanking me so I toppled off my chair and fell hard to the floor. “I was only saying...
The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer
The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer “Let the world read and know” I am in awe of how much information Kelly Rimmer poured through to write this book and the incredible...
