Grand unified books thread

[mongers]

Finished Bring Up the Bodies and started back over again with Wolf Hall.  Much, much less confusing.

I passed the place last summer.

https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=3d506c2a-92ff-4f1d-9aba-723939655532&cp=51.355852~-1.654357&lvl=19&style=h&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027

[Maladict]

Finished Bring Up the Bodies and started back over again with Wolf Hall.  Much, much less confusing.

I passed the place last summer.

https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=3d506c2a-92ff-4f1d-9aba-723939655532&cp=51.355852~-1.654357&lvl=19&style=h&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027

Oh wow, that's the original building? On the list, for the next trip to Wiltshire

[Syt]

Is anyone familiar with Prit Buttar's books about the Eastern Front of WW1 and WW2? Any good?

[jimmy olsen]

Read "A Mortal Bane" a murder mystery set in an upscale 12th century London brothel.

This author did her research, last year I read a history on prostitution in medieval England "Common Women" and the attitudes, behaviors, cultural beliefs, etc all seemed realistic.

[Eddie Teach]

Did upscale mean they made the whores bathe at least once a week?

[grumbler]

Did upscale mean they made the whores bathe at least once a week?

Upscale in the 12th C meant that every whore had at least one tooth.

[Malthus]

Did upscale mean they made the whores bathe at least once a week?

Upscale in the 12th C meant that every whore had at least one tooth.

So, like Alabama then.

[jimmy olsen]

Did upscale mean they made the whores bathe at least once a week?

5 pence a night.

The madam is an educated fallen noblewoman. Too beautiful for her own good, several men killed each other over her. She's the one who solves the mystery.

Also, though her three girls are all beautiful, one of them is blind, one is mute and the other is mentally five.

Customers pay for discretion after all.

[The Minsky Moment]

So the author went for ultra-realism.

[Sheilbh]

Another history prize long-list - haven't read any but super-excited for Fifth Sun, Lakota America and Providence Lost on my wishlist. Some other very interesting looking books here too:

The 2020 Cundill History Prize Longlist

Roderick Beaton
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
The University of Chicago Press

Vincent Brown
Tacky's Revolt: the Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Zachary Carter
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Random House

William Dalrymple
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Bloomsbury Publishing

Bathsheba Demuth
Floating Coast: an Environmental History of the Bering Strait
W. W. Norton & Company

Richard M. Eaton
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765
University of California Press

Eric Foner
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
W. W. Norton & Company

Jóhanna Friðriksdóttir
Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World
Bloomsbury Academic

Kim Ghattas
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry that Unravelled the Middle East
Headline/Henry Holt & Co

Kerri Greenidge
Black Radical: the Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
Liveright Publishing

Pekka Hämäläinen
Lakota America: a New History of Indigenous Power
Yale University Press

John Henderson
Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City
Yale University Press

Rashid Khalidi
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: a History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company

Paul Lay
Providence Lost: the Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate
Head of Zeus

Claudio Saunt
Unworthy Republic: the Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
W. W. Norton & Company

Camilla Townsend
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Oxford University Press USA

[The Brain]

I like my Anarchy medieval, thank you very much.

[Oexmelin]

I got to know Susanna Clarke from the forum - yes, almost twenty years ago. I took about as much time for her to finish her second novel. I am looking forward to reading it.

https://www.vulture.com/article/susanna-clarke-piranesi.html?fbclid=IwAR2d59LRneufpDJ5X_4SjFVW2wAHtktxPwvjbTUCstj0FYz-ZvFGwmsicDM

[Oexmelin]

Another history prize long-list - haven't read any but super-excited for Fifth Sun, Lakota America and Providence Lost on my wishlist.

I think it's the first year I don't know anyone on the jury.

I heard good things about Fifth Sun and Tacky's Rebellion. Have you read Hämäläinen's previous book, Comanche Empire? 

[Malthus]

I got to know Susanna Clarke from the forum - yes, almost twenty years ago. I took about as much time for her to finish her second novel. I am looking forward to reading it.

https://www.vulture.com/article/susanna-clarke-piranesi.html?fbclid=IwAR2d59LRneufpDJ5X_4SjFVW2wAHtktxPwvjbTUCstj0FYz-ZvFGwmsicDM

I've been waiting for this!

[The Minsky Moment]

Did not realize Eric Foner was still writing...

Lakota America definitely intriguing.  How is Carter distinguishing his book from the Skidelsky bio?