Book News

Book News Week 43

*contains affiliate links* Book News Week 43 – 19 October – 25 October 2026 The Pillow Book: Revelations of a Japanese Lady-in-Waiting Hardcover – 20 October 2026 (US & UK) Mary Boleyn: The Queen’s Slandered Sister Hardcover  – 20 October 2026 (US) Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England Paperback – 22 October 2026 (US & UK) The Future [read more]
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Book Reviews

June 2017 Book News

The King Who Had To Go: Edward Vlll, Mrs Simpson and the Hidden Politics of the Abdication Crisis Hardcover – 13 June 2017 (US) & 13 October 2016 (UK) In 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her [read more]