If you've come here hoping for your next read of the summer then I'm afraid I have to disappoint you (unless this sounds up your street for some reason). The Royal Rabbits of London by Santa Montefiore & Simon Sebag Montefiore caught my eye because of the fantastic cover illustration of rabbits in v...
Montefiore's history of Jerusalem happened to be the first book I reviewed on Booklikes and I was happy to revisit the author with another one of his works. It seems that every time I pick up a history book in a book shop it is endorsed by Montefiore, he's clearly very passionate in his pursuit of h...
I picked up the audio of this for two reasons. The first is that after reading Romanovs: Ruling Russia 1613-1917 I wanted to know more. For some reason, I didn't know that Catherine the Great was a Romanov, so I figured I should know more. Second, Beale does the audio, and he is great.So dense, and ...
The Romanovs inhabit a world of family rivalry, imperial ambition, lurid glamour, sexual excess and depraved sadism; this is a world where obscure strangers suddenly claim to be dead monarchs reborn, brides are poisoned, fathers torture their sons to death, sons kill fathers, wives murder husbands, ...
Simon Sebag Montefiore. Hmm... No to naprawdę jest gość. Napisać coś takiego o Stalinie. A potem jeszcze o jego młodości. I o Potiomkinie i Katarzynie Wielkiej, i Jerozolimie. I jeszcze w międzyczasie "Saszeńkę" opisującą czasy od cara Mikołaja II aż do lat dziewięćdziesiątych XX wieku i jej kontynu...
I picked this up on a whim, sometimes the best way to find a book. I started it almost in a stand offish way. I was wary that it would have a heavy religious bias, but found myself pleasantly surprised to find it quite impartial. Not knowing anything about the period or the setting; I was drawn into...
If not for part three of this novel, this would have been a 1.5 star read. I don't want to give too much away (even using spoilers). Part three involves a young girl named Katinka who is hired by a woman to track down her biological parents who gave up their children in the days before Russia would ...
I am setting this one aside 30-odd pages in for two main reasons: 1) Pacing within scenes seems off and characters not quite believable. 2) Holy male gaze, Batman! Literally the first thing we learn about the (16-year-old) protagonist is her breast size. They are, in case you wanted to know (I d...
On the same day as the Victory Parade, with Stalin and the rest of the Central Committee only yards away, two children are shot and killed. The children were the sheltered children of the Soviet elite so, rather than having the matter rushed to a conclusion, the NKVD get involved. Once the character...
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Edward Read from October 02 to 15, 2013 I had attached the following review to the wrong book, namely 'Young Stalin' by this same author, DOH!::It took a lot to match Alan Bullock's expansive and magisterial doorstopper yet this threw some light onto the personal side ...
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