I read this book while I was in the Loire valley and, even though the region in this book is slightly farther south, I felt like I was right there. The life of the woman named Celestine provides a starting point for a pretty amazing exercise in historical research. I'm realizing now that I was ...
A history of Kentish Town, a district whose ship has never quite come in, but which turns out to have done quite well simply by surviving - a 1944 planning document labelled it "an area in need of removal". This is a good book throughout, but possibly at its finest in the last chapter, when it en...