A Review Category / A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsespionage / non-fiction / Russia4 Comments
The celebrated author of A Spy Among Friends and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Cold War-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the collapse of the Soviet Union. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsAmerica / inventors / non-fiction2 Comments
A fascinating celebration of America’s greatest innovators and inventions. Three cheers for the ingenious, inventive, United States of America! From the kitchen to the office to outer space, America has been at the forefront of the advances of the human race for the last two centuries. It’s given birth to ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsautobiography / Doctor / medicine / non-fiction / travelNo Comments
Who do you call if it all goes wrong on holiday? Meet Doctor Ben MacFarlane – a very modern flying doctor. His job is get on a plane and bring patients home after holiday disasters, gap year crises, embarrassing incidents on business trips and all the other things that can ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews16th-century / Biography / England / Henry-VIII / Historical / Historical Biography / non-fiction / Royalty / Tudor-England / Tudors2 Comments
Anne of Cleves left her homeland in 1539 to marry the king of England. She was not brought up to be a queen, yet out of many possible choices she was the bride Henry VIII chose as his fourth wife. But, from their first meeting the king decided he liked ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsanimals / non-fiction / scienceNo Comments
From the scientist duo behind the New York Times bestselling sensation Does It Fart? comes a new illustrated compendium of animal facts and falsehoods, from the head-scratching to the repulsive! After Does It Fart? comes Number Two…a fully illustrated compendium of animal facts and falsehoods–the more repulsive the better. Do ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsBooks / crime / librarians / Libraries / Los Angeles / non-fiction2 Comments
Susan Orlean, hailed as a “national treasure” by The Washington Post and the acclaimed bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief, reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution—our libraries. On the ... more >
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