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From the November 2019 Issue He Had a Light Touch Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the Shadow of Vermeer By Anita Jansen (ed)
From the March 2019 Issue Ivy Killer & Consort The Quest for Queen Mary By James Pope-Hennessy (Edited by Hugo Vickers) Queen Mary: The Official Biography By James Pope-Hennessy
From the September 2018 Issue Slaves to History Brazil: A Biography By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz & Heloisa Maria Murgel Starling LR
From the March 2018 Issue Exhibition of Power Charles I: King and Collector By Desmond Shawe-Taylor & Per Rumberg (edd)
From the December 2017 Issue Filling in the Blanks Black Tudors: The Untold Story By Miranda Kaufmann LR
From the July 2017 Issue Island Getaway The Other Exile: The Remarkable Story of Fernão Lopes, the Island of Saint Helena, and a Paradise Lost By A R Azzam LR
From the March 2017 Issue The Woman Who Would Be King Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen By Linda M Heywood LR
From the August 2016 Issue A Girdle Round about the Earth The First Circumnavigators: Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery By Harry Kelsey LR
From the June 2016 Issue Making a Killing Brazillionaires: The Godfathers of Modern Brazil By Alex Cuadros Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City By Luiz Eduardo Soares (Translated by Anthony Doyle) LR
From the September 2015 Issue When Lisbon Ruled the Waves Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire By Roger Crowley LR
From the November 2012 Issue Belvoir Noir The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery By Catherine Bailey LR
From the February 2013 Issue Behind Closed Doors Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day By Deborah Cohen LR
From the August 2013 Issue Triggering Kristallnacht The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris By Jonathan Kirsch LR
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