Andrea Wulf
German-British historian and author; wrote The Invention of Nature (2015), on Alexander von Humboldt, and Magnificent Rebels (2022), on the early German Romantics.
Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig
What has stuck with me is that Zweig’s Marie Antoinette is a human being, rather than a distant figure in a palace who eventually has her head chopped off.
on fivebooks.com · 18 May 2026 · Report
The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
My two favourite group biographies are Jenny Uglow’s Lunar Men and Richard Holmes’ The Age of Wonder.
on fivebooks.com · 18 May 2026 · Report
Wedlock by Wendy Moore
Wedlock reads like a crime story, an absolute page-turner.
on fivebooks.com · 18 May 2026 · Report
Founding Brothers by Joseph J Ellis
Ellis wrote this quite small book, Founding Brothers, for which he won the Pulitzer, I think.
on fivebooks.com · 14 Dec 2010 · Report
Landscape & Memory by Simon Schama
Books like Landscape & Memory came after I got interested but it was a book which expressed in black and white the hunch I had: it was there, laid out so beautifully, because Simon Schama has this talent for taking little stories and placing them in a broad context.
on fivebooks.com · 14 Dec 2010 · Report
The Arcadian Friends by Tim Richardson
For me The Arcadian Friends is a brilliant book because Richardson does two things.
on fivebooks.com · 14 Dec 2010 · Report
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