Category: Memoir/Biography

March 7, 2017

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman **** (of 4)

Ove awakens at the same hour every morning and sees no reason to change any part of his routine that begins with close inspection of...

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February 27, 2017

Hero of the Empire by Candace Millard *** (of 4)

Almost from the day he was born into privilege, Winston Churchill was ambitious. Searching for an opportunity to demonstrate his talents and value to the...

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January 12, 2017

A Spy Among Friends *** (of 4) By Ben MacIntyre

Kim Philby joined the British spy services and the Russian KGB as a young man fresh from university. The Second World War had not yet...

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December 18, 2016

Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard *** (of 4)

The United States was on rocky footing in the immediate decades following the civil war with the North wanting revenge and the south not yet...

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December 1, 2016

American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin *** (of 4)

Patty Hearst was the daughter of one of the wealthiest and most influential media men in American history (think Fox News) when she was kidnapped...

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October 31, 2016

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald **** (of 4)

Three parallel stories expertly told. In the first, the author trains a goshawk to fly from her glove to hunt pheasants and rabbits on the British...

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May 29, 2016

The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan **** (of 5)

The immortal Irishman is Robert Meagher, surely the most famous and interesting person I’ve never heard of. Meagher (pronounced Mar) was an incomparably gifted nineteenth...

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February 19, 2016