The Soldier's Art
7 best books like The Soldier's Art (Anthony Powell): Agent Running in the Field, Offshore, Staying On, Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
Agent Running in the Field
| Author | John le Carré |
| ISBN | 1984878875 |
A new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le Carré
Set in London in 2018, Agent Running in the Field follows a twenty-six year old solitary figure who, in a desperate attempt to resist the political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down...
| Author | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0006542565 |
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river’s tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley yet kindly society. There is...
| Author | Paul Scott |
| ISBN | 0099443198 |
Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny...
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
| Author | Charles King |
| ISBN | 0385542194 |
A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s--a sweeping chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures...
The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation
"A remarkable work of slowed-down journalism...They are doing their jobs as journalists and writing the first draft of history." --Jill Filipovic, The Washington Post
"...Generous but also damning." --Hanna Rosin, The New York Times
From two New York Times reporters, a deeper...
Reflections in a Golden Eye
| Author | Carson McCullers |
| ISBN | 0618084754 |
"… in a moment when a great but unknown shock is expected, the mind instinctively prepares itself by abandoning momentarily the faculty of surprise. In that vulnerable instant a kaleidoscope of half-guessed possibilities project themselves, and when the disaster has defined itself there is the...
The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
| Author | Anna Fifield |
| ISBN | 1541742486 |
The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea.
Since his birth in 1984, Kim Jong Un has been swaddled in myth and propaganda,...
