Malcolm Gaskill

*A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*'The best and most enjoyable kind of history writing' Hilary Mantel'A bona fide h

One of the last criminal trials using the 1735 Witchcraft Act was, improbably, in London in 1944. The accused was Helen Duncan, a middle-aged Scotswom

For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice

‘Juist omdat je als het ware door kinderogen ziet waarom Auschwitz ‘de dodelijkste plek op aarde’ was, is dit een verhaal dat je raakt.’  **** ½ Visie

In 1645, Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne exploited the anxiety and lawlessness of the time and initiated a brutal campaign to drive out the presumed

In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Wheth

ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURYIn the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in

‘De Bommenwerpermaffia is een historisch what if-verhaal.’ – de Volkskrant In 1945 dwongen massale en allesverwoestende bombardementen met brandbom

'How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?' The author asks at the beginning of this work of literary biography and investigativ

This book explores the cultural contexts of law-breaking and criminal prosecution, and recovers their hidden social meanings. It also examines the cri

The transatlantic story of how the English settlers of seventeenth century North America became Americans - from the near-calamitous first settlement

Intuition is often presented as the opposite of structured achievement. There are people who intuit the answer to a problem, and there are those who w

Janet Malcolm's revelatory biography of the tumultuous union of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and the critical battle that overshadows their legacies.

Het boek Intuïtie betekende de doorbraak voor Malcolm Gladwell in Nederland. Het is een boek dat werkt op verschillende niveaus. Het legt uit hoe besl

AN ADDICT REDEEMED... My life has been an amazing roller coaster ride consisting of many wonderful mountain top experiences surrounded by many tr