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Sutton Hoo and The Dig
Last year, I got to fulfil one of my longest-held, quite esoteric, dreams. I got to visit Sutton Hoo. I have been fascinated by this place for longer than I can remember. It’s the site of a ship...
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The Nile: A New History of the World’s Greatest River
I received this book courtesy of NetGalley. I should start by saying that this book is not quite the book I expected. Given it’s the Nile, and given the blurb, I expected the book to be much more...
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Persians: the Age of the Great Kings
I read this courtesy of NetGalley. It’s out in April 2022. I really, really wanted to love this book. (That, children, is called ‘foreshadowing’. You can almost see the BUT looming behind those...
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Queens of the Wild
I received this book via NetGalley. It’s out at the end of May, 2022. As an Arts student of the late 90s, who did do some mythology-type subjects, I have vaguely come across some of the ideas that...
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Cleopatra’s Daughter, by Jane Draycott
I read this courtesy of NetGalley; it’s out in November 2022. Ever since I read a biography of Beregaria – the only English queen who never even visited England – I have been very keen on biographies...
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Sewer, by Jessica Leigh Hester
I read this via NetGalley. It’s out in November 2022. OK, first thing to note is that you probably want a relatively strong stomach to read all of this… and you definitely don’t want to read it while...
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Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood
I read this via the publisher and NetGalley. It’s out in April 2023. This is an angry book. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, or that the anger is unjustified. Just that Mendelson doesn’t make much...
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Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander, and Adultery
I read this courtesy of NetGalley and the publisher. It’s out in May 2023. It’s incredibly hard to write modern biographies of ancient women. Not least because most ancient historians didn’t care that...
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The Tigris Expedition, Thor Heyerdahl
All of the things I said about The Ra Expeditions also apply here. Although this is happening in the late 1970s, so the racism is both a bit less, but also even less comfortable, if that’s possible....
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
I received this book to review at no cost, from the publisher Hachette. It’s out now (trade paperback, $34.99). As someone who has been keen on ancient history since forever, of course I was intrigued...
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