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January 5, 2021

Review: Providence Lost, Paul Lay

Rating: 4 out of 5 I kind of stumbled into this post-Civil War military & political history, or, at least, it wasn’t my intention…

November 27, 2020

Review: Viking Britain, Tom Williams

Rating: 2 out of 5 I was disappointed in this. Norse influence in Britain is a wonderfully intricate subject, so to begin a book…

October 13, 2020

Review: Icons of England, Bill Bryson

Rating: 2 out of 5 I was tricked. That can’t be right, can it? Well… It’s my fault obviously, but I still feel as…

June 12, 2020

Review: Elizabeth of York, Alison Weir

Rating: 1 out of 5 I don’t know why I even tried reading this, having so recently tried another book by Ms Weir. Perhaps…

May 13, 2020

Review: Mary Boleyn, Alison Weir

Rating: 2 out of 5 Well, I stepped into this myself. I know how Ms Weir writes and what she writes about. What I…

March 14, 2020

Review: Kings and Castles, Marc Morris

Rating: 2 out of 5 This was underwhelming. I like Marc Morris’ writings, but this book didn’t read as one. Combining essays into a…

March 13, 2020

Review: The Perfect King, Ian Mortimer

Rating: 3 out of 5 I read two histories that could have been one. One of these was Isabella’s biography; the second was Edward…

March 13, 2020

Review: Queen Isabella, Alison Weir

Rating: 3 out of 5 In a surprising twist, I accidentally planned books on Isabella and Edward III to be read one after the…

December 31, 2019

Review: Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen, Margaret C. Jones

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 Aethelflaed’s character has been an interesting one to read about for a long while. It is clear that the…

November 8, 2019

Review: The Adventure of English, Melvyn Bragg

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 It would not be fair to say that I utterly disliked this book. What made me dislike this was…

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