Churchill and Empire: Portrait of an Imperialist by Laurence James
July 24th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: One of our finest narrative historians, and journalist for the SUNDAY TIMES and
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Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young
July 24th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Benjamin Disraeli was the most gifted parliamentarian of the nineteenth century. A superb orator,
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain by Charlotte Higgins
July 22nd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: This is a book about the encounter with Roman Britain: about what the idea
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life by Jonathan Sperber
July 5th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: For nearly a century, Karl Marx has been imprisoned by “isms”, misinterpreted through the
Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59 by David Kynaston
June 20th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The late 1950s was an action-packed, often dramatic time in which the contours of
One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
June 13th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: In summer 1927, America had a booming stock
Flappers: Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell
June 12th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Glamorized, mythologized and demonized — the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in
Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
April 23rd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
Diarmaid MacCulloch unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. He considers the surprisingly mixed attitudes
1913: The World before the Great War by Charles Emmerson
February 19th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Forever in the shadow of the war
The Last Days of Detroit by Mark Binelli
February 3rd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: By the end of the nineteenth century, Detroit,
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
February 1st, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led
The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
January 1st, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: In September 1919 Gabriele D’Annunzio, successful poet and
War Memorial by Clive Aslet
November 18th, 2012 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Clive Aslet’s War Memorial: The Story of One Village’s
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 by Anne Applebaum
November 18th, 2012 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Once the Nazis were defeated in 1945, the
The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, and Why it Still Matters by Philip Hensher
November 18th, 2012 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The simple pleasure of picking up a pen
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London by Judith Flanders
October 28th, 2012 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more
Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge
September 10th, 2012 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: A social history of the last century through the eyes of those who served.
The Day Parliament Burned Down by Caroline Shenton
September 7th, 2012 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: In the early evening of 16 October
Bertie: A Life of Edward VII by Jane Ridley
August 9th, 2012 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Edward VII was fifty-nine when he finally came
The Fishing Fleet by Anne de Courcy
July 21st, 2012 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: From the late 19th century, when the Raj
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