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Christopowers rated The Gardener From Ochakov: 5 stars
Christopowers rated Diddly Squat 2: 5 stars
Christopowers rated The sun gods: 5 stars

The sun gods by Jay Rubin
In 1939, a widowed minister with a young son falls in love with and marries a woman who is a …
Christopowers rated The Radetzky March: 5 stars

The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
Set against the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta family, …
Christopowers rated Lessons: 5 stars

Lessons by Ian McEwan
An ordinary man lives in interesting times.
Christopowers rated Unfolding: 5 stars
Christopowers rated Editor's Burial: 5 stars
Christopowers rated The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: 5 stars

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Perennial classics)
The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and …
Christopowers rated The Restless Republic: 5 stars

The Restless Republic by Anna Keay
On a raw January afternoon, the Stuart king, Charles I, was executed for treason. Within weeks the English monarchy had …
Christopowers rated A Concise History of Malta: 5 stars
Christopowers rated Killer in the Kremlin: 5 stars

Killer in the Kremlin by John Sweeney
A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that …