By Dan Jones. Powers and thrones is a thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD410, to the first contacts between the old and the new worlds in the late fifteenth century. During these eleven centuries […]
By David Grann. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His […]
By Mark Urban. The book traces the story of a unit of the British Army, formed in 1803 as the 95th Regiment of Foot, who were known as The Rifles. Up to that point, most infantry soldiers would wear the classic ‘redcoat’ […]
By John Fante. One of the great novels of L.A., a semi-autobiographical story of a struggling writer One day Arturo Bandini is going to make big as a writer. A great writer. But until then, Los Angeles is as good a place […]