books about: britain     books:     Britain      The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British Sarah Lyall W. W. Norton, 2008 Marmite revealed I've been happily reading Sarah Lyall's NYT pieces about England for the last several years. Where else can one learn about the sorry state of English dentistry and the eccentric personal ads of the literati? And Ms. Lyall also lets us in on aspects of the English ...             The Constant Princess (Boleyn) Philippa Gregory Touchstone, 2006 Great into a character lost in history The Constant Princess explored from childhood Katherine of Aragon's life. Most of us I think just know her as the queen Henry VIII first put aside trying to get a legitimate male heir to his throne. But I had no idea the history she went through from her parents to the ...             The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the ... Simon Winchester Harper, 2008 Fascinating book of captivating man This is a fascinating book about a person I had never heard of. Joseph Needham was a brilliant British scientist who made significant contributions to biochemistry while still in his early twenties. He was also a boisterous character -- a nudist, progressive Christian, ...             World Without End Ken Follett Dutton Adult, 2007 A great step back in time After reading Pillars of The Earth and enjoying it immensely, I had to buy Mr. Follets second offering. I truly liked how the first book laid flat while reading it. The second book, after a couple hundred pages also has this nice feature, even though it is a hard cover ...             The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington Jennet Conant Simon & Schuster, 2008 When Roald Dahl, a dashing young wounded RAF pilot, took up his post at the British Embassy in Washington in 1942, his assignment was to use his good looks, wit, and considerable charm to gain access to the most powerful figures in American political life. A patriot eager to do his part to save his country from a Nazi invasion, he invaded the ...             The Other Queen: A Novel Philippa Gregory Touchstone, 2008 There's something about Mary I love it when historical figures are brought to life. The facts are easy to look up: Mary, Queen of Scots, was born in 1542, became queen of Scotland as a baby, and grew up in the French court. She had a legitimate claim to the English throne, where her cousin Queen ...             The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club) Ken Follett NAL Trade, 2007 Another winner for Ken Follett no one understands the human element better than Ken Follett. What a great story.             Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Modern Library Paperbacks) Amanda Foreman Modern Library, 2001 A Modern Woman In The Eighteenth Century Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, was born in the eighteenth century and died in the early nineteenth century, but her life was very modern in many ways. She was an open activist at a time when women were supposed to stay behind the scenes, a bold ...             The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration and the ... W. W. Norton, 2005 Ahh! Get a cup of tea, find a cozy spot, and settle in... If you're a book lover, how can you not love a book like this? It was my required reading for a literature class, and I was all too happy to have an excuse to buy it. Satisfyingly fat at 3000 pages, it exudes that delicious book smell when you flip through it, and its ...             Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Christopher R. Browning Harper Perennial, 1993 Not for the faint of heart, or the weak of stomach! This book (as described by previous reviewers and the product description) details what the men in the Nazi Reserve Police Battalion 101 went through, specifically during the SS Invasion of Poland. Browning describes in detail the process of dehumanizing the Jews, ...             The Virgin's Lover (Boleyn) Philippa Gregory Touchstone, 2005 amazing author!! I was given The Other Boleyn Girl as a gift and devoured it. Since then I have read every other book in the Tudor series. I am patiently awaiting her new book which is to hit the shelves in September. She is one of those authors who makes you not want the book to end. ...             The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In) (Boleyn) Philippa Gregory Touchstone, 2008 Wonderful piece of historical fiction! I simply couldn't put this book down! Just read one bit at the bookstore and I promise you won't be disappointed! It is well written, creative, and NEVER a dull moment in the life of the court! I loved how the author revived the Boleyn family and created such ...             The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective Kate Summerscale Walker & Company, 2008 True crime lovers and detective fiction fans, unite! A smart new approach on a story told many times over - the author takes the infamous Road Hill murder as a window through which to tell the story of one of England's first real detectives, and then further explores the impact/relationships to public/media views of ...             The Tao of Pooh Benjamin Hoff Penguin (Non-Classics), 1983 Not the Past, Not the Future, but The Tao........... People. It is a beautiful spring day today. The sun is shining, a warm breeze is caressing, the clouds are puffy cotton, the squirrels are scurrying and the birds are chirping. (Which is o.k. as long as they don't fly overhead!). Your Metamorpho decided to take his pen ...             Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002 Beware the Black Death! "Year of Wonders" is a fantastic book by Geraldine Brooks that chronicles a severe outbreak of the Bubonic plague in an isolated English village during the year 1666. The story revolves around Anna Frith, a housemaid who loses her two young children to the plague and ...          products you might be interested in search for books eighteenth, irregulars, literature, paperbacks, restoration, suspicions      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: Forensic Taphonomy: The Postmortem Fate of Human Remains