Books by Simon Winder and Complete Book Reviews
Simon Winder, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (287p) ISBN 978-0-374-29938-5
In this glittering gem, Winder (publishing director at Penguin UK) combines cultural history, memoir and a terrifyingly formidable knowledge of James Bond plot lines to produce a hilarious and thoughtful narrative of the fall and rise of Britain...
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Simon Winder. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (560p) ISBN 978-0-374-17529-0
The Habsburgs, Europe’s most durable, powerful dynastic family, held sway from the late Middle Ages till the end of WWI, ruling lands that now comprise 19 modern countries. Penguin UK editor Winder offers a meandering combination of history,...
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Simon Winder. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (528p) ISBN 978-0-374192-18-1
In this combination travelogue and history, third in a trilogy, Winder (Danubia) leads an informative, often funny, but overly long tour of part of Charlemagne’s ninth-century empire, making a good case for its importance as “a key motor for so much
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