Category: History

  • Review: BARRACOON by Zora Neale Hurston

    Review: BARRACOON by Zora Neale Hurston

    Thank you so much to Harper Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Book Description:  A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the…

  • Book Mail: THE LIBRARY: A CATALOGUE OF WONDERS by Stuart Kells

    Book Mail: THE LIBRARY: A CATALOGUE OF WONDERS by Stuart Kells

    This book is packed full of fascinating information about the history of libraries all over the world! Thank you so much to Counterpoint Press for sending this free copy!  SYNOPSIS:  “If you think you know what a library is, this marvellously idiosyncratic book will make you think again.” ―The Sydney Morning Herald  Libraries are much…