Antonia Fraser Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people, she is still 'la reine méchante', whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French...

Norman Davies January 1, 1997 by Pimlico

Peter Ackroyd Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself.This first volume of six takes us from the...

Penelope Fitzgerald Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.On Battersea Reach,...

Bernard Clayton, Jr An instant classic upon publication in 1978, THE BREADS OF FRANCE introduced American bakers to the pleasures of French artisanal breads. Author Bernard Clayton spent years visiting...

Neil Belton 1941. Murder is in the air. Ireland is a country not truly at peace, either with Germany or with its neighbor across the Irish Sea. Erwin Schrödinger, cosmopolitan...

Ivan Klima The great Czech writer pens a new novel set in Prague and centered around Kristyna, a divorced mother trying to raise her rebellious teenage daughter Jana. October 7,...

Hella S Haasse Although he bears one of the most notorious names in all of Italy, Giovanni Borgia doesn't know his parentage. Hella Haasse uses the Italian Wars as a...

Antonia Fraser Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was...

Paolo Giordano When Mrs. A. first enters the narrator’s home, his wife, Nora, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy. First as their maid and nanny, then their confidante, this older woman...

Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil The marvelous saga of the English language--from its origins as a dialect of a small European tribe to its present status as the...

Robert Green A biography of the nineteenth-century queen who ruled Britain longer than any other monarch. January 1, 1998 by Franklin Watts