James Cameron Stewart

44 books

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton

435 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens by Philip Ball

The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens

Philip Ball

352 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science informative reflective medium-paced
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King

The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance

Ross King

496 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
Charlemagne by Johannes Fried, Peter Lewis

Charlemagne

Johannes Fried, Peter Lewis

688 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder

Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

Simon Winder

576 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction historical history travel funny informative slow-paced
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

The Devil and the Dark Water

Stuart Turton

463 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical mystery thriller adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Empire Made: My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British India by Kief Hillsbery

Empire Made: My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British India

Kief Hillsbery

288 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir adventurous slow-paced
The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer

The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King

Ian Mortimer

352 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History by Simon Winder

Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History

Simon Winder

480 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history travel funny informative slow-paced
God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World by Alan Mikhail

God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World

Alan Mikhail

512 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics challenging informative medium-paced