Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
10 best books like Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage (Stephen Budiansky): Leaving Las Vegas, Ellen Foster, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, Queens of England, After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England, Lives of the Later Caesars, Kings and Queens of England, Tudor Women: Queens & Commoners, Richard the Third, Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall
| Author | John O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0802134459 |
Leaving Las Vegas, the first novel by John O’Brien, is a disturbing and emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it. Sera, a prostitute, and Ben, an alcoholic, stumble together and discover in each other a respite from their unforgiving lives. A testimony to the...
| Author | Kaye Gibbons |
| ISBN | 0375703055 |
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kay Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Institute...
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
| Author | Koren Zailckas |
| ISBN | 0143036475 |
Garnering a vast amount of attention from young people and parents, and from book buyers across the country, Smashed became a media sensation and a New York Times bestseller. Eye-opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas’s story is that of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholics yet...
| Author | Norah Lofts |
| ISBN | 0385127804 |
Norah Lofts' superb new book is an unusual evocation of English history, a chronicle told through the lives of the women who have over the centuries ruled as sovereigns in their own right, or as royal consorts. From Boadicea, who defied the Romans, to Elizabeth II, now celebrating 25 years on the throne,...
After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England
| Author | Leanda de Lisle |
| ISBN | 0345450469 |
# Runner Up, Saltire First Book of the Year Award
A brilliant history of the succession of James I of England, and the shifting power and lethal politics that brought him to the throne.In the dawn of the 17th-century when Mary Queen of Scots was dead and Elizabeth I grown old, the eyes of the English...
| Author | Scriptores Historiae Augustae |
| ISBN | 0140443088 |
One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour. This volume...
Kings and Queens of England
| Author | Antonia Fraser |
| ISBN | 0304357235 |
Amusingly, and hardly surprisingly, this became much more conservative as it got closer to the current day. One author even goes so far as to look back longingly at the golden age of the past when people didn’t get divorced and newspapers didn’t print stories about the love lives of the royals. I guess...
Tudor Women: Queens & Commoners
| Author | Alison Plowden |
| ISBN | 0750928808 |
This volume gives an account of the women both behind the scenes and at the forefront of 16th-century English history, including Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, and Henry VIII's six wives. The women of the royal family are the central characters; what they ate, how they dressed, the books...
| Author | Paul Murray Kendall |
| ISBN | 0393007855 |
I took a long time to read this, more so as I got through it, because I was delaying reaching the end, even though I know what happens. I didn't want Richard to die. I'm a die-hard Ricardian, always have been, always will be. I don't believe Richard was evil, I don't believe he murdered the Princes in the Tower,...
Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall
| Author | Andrew Meier |
| ISBN | 0393326411 |
"A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old," writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs) about Andrew Meier's enthralling new work. Journeying across a resurgent and reputedly free land, Meier has produced a virtuosic mix of nuanced history, lyric travelogue, and...
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
| Author | Jonathan M. Metzl |
| ISBN | 1541644980 |
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe
In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans...
