By Holly Tucker
Here is an assignment that would send deep panic through my writerly self: Please write, in 500 pages or less, a history of Popes from the beginning to the present day.
Roger Collins has risen to the task magnificently! Written with clarity and verve, Keeps of the Keys of Heaven: A History [...]
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By Holly Tucker
This week’s Book of the Week is Wendy Moore’s WEDLOCK: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore.
I have to concur with the praise it received in a recent UK review: “This splendid book, well researched and richly detailed, is as [...]
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