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Downton Friday: Cookbooks, Calendars, & Giveaways
FTC Disclaimer: the cookbook and the calendar were given to me for review purposes. First up for Downton Friday, we have Larry Edwards’s Edwardian Cooking: 80 Recipes Inspired by Downton Abbey’s...
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BOOK REVIEW: The Passing Bells by Phillip Rock
The guns of August are rumbling throughout Europe in the summer of 1914, but war has not yet touched Abingdon Pryory. Here, at the grand home of the Greville family, the parties, dances, and romances...
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Review: The Blue Beast: Power and Passion in the Great War
Blurb: This is the epic true story of three beautiful Edwardian mistresses and confidantes. Using extensive new research, “The Blue Beast” exposes the scandalous private lives of those at the pinnacle...
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Review: The Flower of Empire by Tatiana Holway
Due for release on April 9th 2013 Blurb In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding “vegetable wonder”–a...
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Review: Behind the Scenes at Downton Abbey by Emma Rowley
Needless to say, this is a pretty magnificent book. For those fearing overlap from The World of Downton Abbey and The Chonicles of Downton Abbey by Jessica Fellowes, there is a little, but where the...
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REVIEW: Country House Society: The Private Lives of England’s Upper Class...
FTC Disclosure: this book was sent by the publisher The late social historian Pamela Horn is in top form with her final release, Country House Society: The Private Lives of England’s Upper Class After...
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REVIEW: The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince by Jane...
There are countless biographies of King Edward VII available–some published during his lifetime–and I’ve read many of them, as well as biographies and memoirs written about and by, respectively,...
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Interview with Myra MacPherson, author of The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage...
Book Review The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage and Scandal In the Gilded Age is a very approachable book about the lives of Victoria and Tennessee Claflin, two sisters who shocked and scandalized 19th...
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REVIEW: World War I: The Definitive Visual History by R.G. Grant
R. G. Grant World War I: The Definitive Visual History DK Adult / April 21, 2014 / $40.00 $30.32 print 2014 marks the centennial of the start of World War I — DK will mark the occasion with the...
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REVIEW: The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport
Helen Rappaport pierces the romantic veiling swaddled around the daughters of Nicholas II to present a pleasing, if sobering look at the four lives brutally ended one night in the summer of 1918. I’m...
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REVIEW: The Wit and Wisdom of Downton Abbey
As we say our farewell to Downton Abbey, we can still grasp onto a few treasures to allow the program to linger forever more in our memories. The Wit and Wisdom of Downton Abbey is the best quotes...
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REVIEW: The World of Mr. Selfridge by Alison Maloney
The official, full-color, illustrated, behind-the-scenes companion to the lavish hit ITV and PBS television series Mr. Selfridge that vividly brings into focus the remarkable man and his time Set at...
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