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HistoryNet, in their review of the book, described it as "lively and entertaining" and "a must for those interested in medieval history". [6] Becca Selby, writing in The Manchester Historian, gave a positive review, praising the book's writing style, which she likened to that of a work of historical fiction. [7]
The book was included in the Best History Books of 2022 by historian R.J.B. Bosworth. [23] It also made the list of BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year 2022. [24] Former British army major latter historian Robert Lyman gave it a negative review, calling it "a piece of ideology masquerading as history". [25]
Book Club is a 2018 American romantic comedy film directed by Bill Holderman (in his directorial debut), who co-wrote the screenplay with Erin Simms.The film stars Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen as four friends who read Fifty Shades of Grey as part of their monthly book club, and subsequently begin to change how they view their personal relationships.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 81%, based on 73 reviews, and an average rating of 6.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Far more traditional and straightforward than its unwieldy title, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society offers delightful comfort food for fans of ...
Originally a magazine publisher, Odhams later expanded into book publishing and then children's comics. The company was acquired by Fleetway Publications in 1961 and then IPC Magazines in 1963. In its final incarnation, Odhams was known for its Power Comics line of titles, notable for publishing reprints of American Marvel Comics superheroes.
His book Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan (Harvard, 1988) was an experimental, multi-voiced piece of history. As a way of encouraging such innovation, Rosenstone helped to found the journal "Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice" in 1997.
The BCA logo. Book Club Associates (BCA) was a mail-order and online book selling company in the United Kingdom.It came to dominate the mail-order book-club business in the U.K. in the 1970s and 1980s through extensive advertising in Sunday newspaper colour supplements and elsewhere, and became the largest mail-order bookseller in the U.K.
Blood and Thunder was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2006 by Time magazine, and was selected as that year's best history title by the History Book Club and the Western Writers of America. Blood and Thunder was the subject of a major documentary on the PBS program American Experience and is currently under development for the screen.