The Gaucho Who Unified Italy

Garibaldi in South America: An Exploration

By Richard Bourne

From the October 2020 Issue

Economist & Autocrat

Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die

By Tom Gallagher

From the March 2020 Issue

Heroic Work in a Very Important Field

Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times

By Phillipa K Chong

From the December 2019 Issue

Lucky Bastards

The Braganzas: The Rise and Fall of the Ruling Dynasties of Portugal and Brazil, 1640–1910

By Malyn Newitt

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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)

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From the June 2019 Issue

Those Dark, Satanic Shelves

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

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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

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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

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From the March 2017 Issue

The Woman Who Would Be King

Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen

By Linda M Heywood

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From the August 2016 Issue

A Girdle Round about the Earth

The First Circumnavigators: Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery

By Harry Kelsey

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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)

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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

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From the February 2015 Issue

Game of Thrones

From the June 2014 Issue

BRIC Lit

Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power

By Michael Reid

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From the November 2012 Issue

Belvoir Noir

The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery

By Catherine Bailey

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From the February 2013 Issue

Behind Closed Doors

Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day

By Deborah Cohen

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From the February 2014 Issue

What a Beard-Off

The Field of Cloth of Gold

By Glenn Richardson

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