Prose and Passion: book reviews

All book reviews published or referenced on the blog (270 and counting) are listed chronologically under the tag #bookreview, but here I'll try to present them in some meaningful order. I'm going backwards chronologically and by this update (4.10.) I've worked my way back to January 2024.

Some of the books I read/reviewed in 2025-2026. Own photo.

1) books I reviewed in blog entries
(books in all languages, there are language-specific tags for French, Galician, German, Latin, Spanish ):

Isabel Allende Violeta Plaza & Janes 2022

Uwe Anhäuser Schinderhannes und seine Bande Rhein-Mosel-Verlag 2003

Anna Beer Sounds and sweet airs: the forgotten women of classical music One World 2017

George Buchanan The making of stringed instruments A workshop guide Batsford 1989

Tracy Chevalier The glassmaker The Borough Press 2025

Peter Frankopan Silk roads: A new history of the World Bloomsbury 2015

Esther Freud I couldn't love you more Bloomsbury 2021

Nora Hespers Mein Opa, sein Widerstand gegen die Nazis und ich (My Grandfather, His Resistance Against the Nazis and I) Suhrkamp 2021

Louise Jacobs Café Heimat Ullstein Taschenbuch 2007

Kate Kennedy Cello: A journey through silence to sound Head of Zeus 2024

Astrid Lindgren A world gone mad The wartime diaries of Astrid Lindgren

Hildegard Möller Malerinnen und Musen des »Blauen Reiters« Piper Verlag 2007

D. L. Murray Folly Bridge: A romantic tale Hodder and Stoughton 1945

Sten Nadolny Ullsteinroman Ullstein 2004

Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas, Kate Welham. Stonehenge: Making Sense of a Prehistoric Mystery Council for British Archaeology's Archaeology for All 2015

Owen Rees The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past Bloomsbury 2025

Sophy Roberts The lost pianos of Siberia Transworld / Penguin 2020

Beaty Rubens Listen in: How radio changed the home Bodleian Library Publishing 2025

Rubricastellanus (translator) Asterix in Latin

Ernst Schütz Trarbach in alter Zeit Traben-Trarbach 1909

Josef Škvorecký Dvorak in Love: A light-hearted dream Original title of the Czech edition: Scherzo capriccioso 1984

Mark Small and Jack Shoulder Museum bums: A cheeky looks at butts in art Chronicle Books 2023

Emma Southon A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women Oneworld 2023

Nick Thorpe The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest Yale University Press 2014

Polly Toynbee An uneasy inheritance - My family and other radicals Atlantic Books 2023

Margaret Ward The female line: Researching your female ancestors Countryside Books 2003

Laurence Waters Railways of Oxford A transport hub that links Britain Pen & Sword 2020