A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne Jones, Agnes Poynter, and Louisa Baldwin
9 best books like A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne Jones, Agnes Poynter, and Louisa Baldwin (Judith Flanders): The Daughter of Time, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, The October Man, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, Betrayal in Time, The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good, The Peacock Summer, Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister (Movie Tie-In)
| Author | Josephine Tey |
| ISBN | 0684803860 |
In 1951, Josephine Tey wrote her 5th novel in the Inspector Grant series. In 1990, this mystery novel was named the greatest mystery novel of all time by the British Crime Writers' Association. After reading it, I can definitely see why.
For one thing, during the entire novel, Inspector Alan...
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to 'one true faith'.
Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and...
| Author | Ben Aaronovitch |
| ISBN | 1473224314 |
Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany’s oldest city. So when a man is found dead with his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth.
Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.
Enter...
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
| Author | Kate Raworth |
| ISBN | 1847941389 |
Economics is broken. It has failed to predict, let alone prevent, financial crises that have shaken the foundations of our societies. Its outdated theories have permitted a world in which extreme poverty persists while the wealth of the super-rich grows year on year. And its blind spots have led to...
| Author | Julie McElwain |
| ISBN | 1643130749 |
February 1816: A race through the icy, twisting cobblestone streets of London ends inside an abandoned church—and a horrific discovery. Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly is called to investigate the grisly murder of Sir Giles Holbrooke, who was left naked and garroted, with his tongue cut out. Yet as perplexing...
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
| Author | Elizabeth L. Cline |
| ISBN | 1524744301 |
The Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earth--fashion--into a force for good. Readers will learn where our clothes are made and how they're made, before connecting to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion...
| Author | Hannah Richell |
| ISBN | 1409152219 |
EXCERPT: All those versions of herself she has lived. So many different Lillians, all in this one body. If she could reach back through the years and warn the person she once was, what would she say? What would she tell that sorrowful girl standing in a London graveyard scattering earth onto the lid of her...
Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor.
Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. Dudley Moore propositioned her....
Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister (Movie Tie-In)
| Author | Anne Choma |
| ISBN | 0143134566 |
The official companion book to the HBO series Gentleman Jack created by Sally Wainwright and starring Suranne Jones
In 1834, Anne Lister made history by celebrating and recording the first ever known marriage to another woman. This is her remarkable, true story.
Anne Lister was...
