Unbelievable but sadly very believable.
Convicts in the Colonies: Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia by Lucy Williams
Useful book telling stories of transportation to Australia.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Brilliant, of course, but you should skip most of the last half.
Mad Blood Stirring by Simon Mayo
Fictional treatment of the little-known fate of US prisoners of war in Dartmoor Prison at the end of the War of 1812-14.
Father of the Modern Circus: ‘Billy Buttons’: The Life & Times of Philip Astley by Steve Ward
An interesting and efficient biography of a noted impresario.
Queens of Georgian Britain by Catherine Curzon
In Queens of Georgian Britain, Catherine Curzon’s third book for Pen and Sword, she offers readers mini biographies of the female consorts of the Hanover kings – Caroline of Ansbach (George II), Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (George III) and Caroline of Brunswick (George IV), but she kicks off with the unfortunate Sophia Dorothea of Celle, the repudiated […]
