Nigel Patterson

32 books

The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World by Tim Marshall

The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World

Politics of Place #3

Tim Marshall

288 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion by Humphrey Hawksley

Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion

Humphrey Hawksley

304 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
The Big Book of Jack the Ripper by Otto Penzler

The Big Book of Jack the Ripper

Otto Penzler

848 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction historical mystery true crime dark informative mysterious medium-paced
The Coronation by Boris Akunin

The Coronation

Erast Fandorin Mysteries #7

Boris Akunin

362 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction crime mystery mysterious medium-paced
1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler by Tobias Straumann

1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler

Tobias Straumann

272 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics informative tense slow-paced
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation

Edward Chancellor

400 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
Emperor: A New Life of Charles V by Geoffrey Parker

Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

Geoffrey Parker

756 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin by Jeffrey Lee

God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin

Jeffrey Lee

320 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
Goethe: A Very Short Introduction by Ritchie Robertson

Goethe: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

Ritchie Robertson

142 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography challenging informative reflective slow-paced
He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland

He Knew He Was Right

Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland

952 pages • first pub 1869 (editions)

fiction classics reflective slow-paced