Biography & autobiography / Historical

The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family

by Kathryn Warner – Pen and Sword History (January 18, 2021)

The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king’s chamberlain, favorite, and perhaps, lover. He...

Ida B. the Queen

by Michelle Duster – Simon & Schuster Audio (January 26, 2021)

Journalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize.

Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who...

Ida B. the Queen

by Michelle Duster – Atria/One Signal Publishers (January 26, 2021)

Journalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize.

Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who...

Happy Jack

by Martin R Oliver – Austin Macauley Publishers (January 08, 2021)

Happy Jack: Reflections of Growing Up During the Sixties ? A Decade of Rebellion, Change and Defining Moments are the memories of a young man from a working-class family coming of age during the sixties decade,...

The Bravest Voices

by Ida Cook & Heather Wilds – Harlequin Audio (January 19, 2021)

This timeless memoir documents two sisters? bravery leading up to WWII?a singular historical account that shines a light on one of humanity?s darkest hours.

Ida and Louise Cook are two ordinary Englishwomen,...

A War Time Childhood And This is the Way I Saw It

by Avril Easton – Austin Macauley Publishers (January 08, 2021)

I am in my eighties and have enjoyed reading books all of my life. I believe that those of us who enjoy reading books should write one and this is mine. As a child growing up during the Second World War, family...

The Awakening of Malcolm X

by Ilyasah Shabazz & Tiffany D. Jackson – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr) (January 04, 2021)

The Awakening of Malcolm X is a powerful narrative account of the activist's adolescent years in jail, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz along with 2019 Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe award-winning author,...