Bike City Amsterdam: How Amsterdam Became the Cycling Capital of the World dannyreviews.com/h/Bike_City… (my review) - "the interaction of the city's geography, planning and politics with its cycling culture, people, and infrastructure"
ALT Red book cover. Top half, all in capitals, white "BIKE CITY", black "AMSTERDAM", small white "HOW AMSTERDAM BECAME THE CYCLING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD". Bottom half, black and white photo of a woman cycling, sticking her tongue out towards the photographer, above black "FRED FEDDES" and white "in collaboration with Marjolein de Lange - UITGEVERIJ BAS LUBBERHUIZEN".
The History of Wales in Twelve Poems - short historical essays accompanied by poems dannyreviews.com/h/History_W… (my review)
ALT Book cover with red stripe along spine, rest yellow with title "The History of Wales in Twelve Poems" and author "M. WYNN THOMAS" above a black (with one flower in blue and a yellow circle) illustration and "illustrations by Ruth Jên Evans".
Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War dannyreviews.com/h/Europes_T… (my review) - "a long and involved, but rewarding, account of one of the most traumatic periods in European history"
ALT light cream book cover: "PETER H. WILSON" in black at the top with "Europe's TRAGEDY" in red below, then a black and white drawing of a tree with a score of people hung on it and soldiers with pikes standing around underneath, then "A NEW HISTORY OF THE THIRTY YEARS WAR" in black at the bottom.
Oral history integrated into a compelling narrative - my review of David Van Reybrouck's _Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World_ dannyreviews.com/h/Revolusi.…
ALT Book cover. Black and white top half is a photograph of maybe a dozen people at a rally, with arms and flags raised, with some short blurbs. "Astounding" (Yuva
l Noah Harari. "Utterly compelling" (Financial Times). "Superb" (Guardian). "
A masterpiece" (Sebastian Mallaby). Bottom is red with large white title "REVOLUSI", smaller black subtitle "Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World" and white author "DAVID VAN REYBROUCK".
_The Year of the Hare_ - a journalist takes a hare on a light-hearted romp through rural Finland dannyreviews.com/h/Year_Hare… (my review)
ALT Green book cover with stylised hare (blue and green with yellow flowers/plants on it) on a yellow-orange circle. Author "ARTO PAASILINAA" top-right, with blurb "A change-your-life novel" (New York Magazine) beneath it, and title "THE YEAR OF THE HARE" bottom-right.
Edemariam's _The Wife's Tale_ a biography of the author's grandmother, who was born around 1916 in Gondar, Ethiopia, was married at age eight to a high-ranking clergyman, and lived for nearly a century, through huge political upheavals and social change. dannyreviews.com/h/Wifes_Tal…
a metafictional circling around an imagined meeting in 1926 between two pioneering Armenian feminist writers, Shushank Kurghinian and Zabel Yesayan, inside a frame involving the author and a friend researching their lives dannyreviews.com/h/Book_Unti… (my review)
Korea: A New History of South and North - from political divergence to possible futures dannyreviews.com/h/Korea_New… (my review)
ALT A bright-pink book cover. Has title and authors' names, and a blurb - "An excellent mixture of outstanding history and visions for the future ... A must-read" Ban Ki-moon
my review of _Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It_ dannyreviews.com/h/Trafficat… "ecologist Paul Donald looks at noise, air and light pollution among other harms, and at the effects on populations and species and ecosystems, not just on individual animals"
"centres Copenhagen's experience but offers fairly general advice on urban cycling, drawing on examples from around the world" dannyreviews.com/h/Copenhage…
"With some 130 short essays treating quite narrow topics, _France in the World_ offers a 'pointillist' rendering of French history, with a focus on global connections." dannyreviews.com/h/France_Wo…
"A post-apocalypse novel told from the point of view of one of the zombies, _It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over_ begins with the heroine losing one of her arms and stuffing a zombie crow into
her chest." @FitzcarraldoEdsdannyreviews.com/h/Lasts_For…
Wendy Doniger's _The Hindus: An Alternative History_ and Fred W. Clothey's _Religion in India: A Historical Introduction_ - a review dannyreviews.com/h/Hindus_Re…
"a character study, but one with an involving geographical and social setting and with good pacing and effective integration of its sub-stories" dannyreviews.com/h/Pastor.ht…
ALT Dark grey book cover: "Hanne Ørstavik, _The Pastor, Translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken, archipelago books". Black and white photograph of triangular fish-drying racks under bright clouds.
"a fairly comprehensive survey of church-going in medieval England -- who was involved, what
they did and when, and the broader context, social, institutional, architectural and liturgical" dannyreviews.com/h/Going_Chu…