Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
Historical Fiction
James Clavell – Shogun
Bernard Cornwell
The Last Kingdom series
The Richard Sharpe series
Stephen Fry
The Greek Myths quartet
Robert Harris
Act of oblivion
An officer and a spy
The Cicero Trilogy
Thomas Keneally – Napoleon’s last island
Hilary Mantell
A place of greater safety
The Wolf Hall Trilogy
Patrick O’Brian – The Aubrey and Maturin series
Simon Scarrow
The Cato and Macro series
The Wellington and Napoleon quartet
Historical Biography
Thomas Asbridge – The Greatest Knight. The remarkable life of William Marshall
Christopher de Bellaigue – The Lion House. The Coming of a King [Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent]
Adrian Goldsworthy
Caesar
Augustus
Robert Graves – I, Claudius – Claudius the God
Walter Isaacson – Leonardo da Vinci
Alex Kershaw – The Liberator [US WW2 soldier General Felix Sparks]
Alexander Lee – Machiavelli, His life and times
Robert K. Massie – Peter the Great, his life and work
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Catherine the Great and Potemkin
Marc Morris
A Great and Terrible King. Edward I and the forging of Britain
King John. Treachery, tyranny and the road to Magna Carta
Ian Mortimer
The Greatest Traitor. The life of Sir Roger Mortimer, ruler of England 1327-1330
The Perfect King. The life of Edward III
The Fears of Henry IV
Andrew Roberts
Churchill. Walking with Destiny
George III
Napoleon The Great
Jonathan Phillips – The life and legend of the Sultan Saladin
John Sugden – Nelson (two vols)
Volker Ullrich – Bismarck
Self – Improvement
Michel de Montaigne – Essays
Jordan Peterson
Maps of Meaning
Twelve Rules for Life. An antidote to chaos.
Beyond Order. Twelve more rules for life
Triumph Over Adversity
Primo Levi – If This Is A Man – The Truce
Nelson Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom
Alice Peterson
Another Alice
The Saturday Place
Ernest Shackleton – South. The Endurance Expedition
History
Noel Barber – Lords of the Golden Horn
Brian A. Catlos – Kingdoms of Faith
Christopher Clark
Iron Kingdom. The rise and downfall of Prussia 1600-1917
The Sleepwalkers. How Europe went to war in 1914
William Dalrymple
The Anarchy. The relentless rise of the East India Company
The Return Of A King
Norman Davies – Vanished Kingdoms
David Grann – The Wager
Tom Holland
Dynasty. The rise and fall of the House of Caesar
In the shadow of the sword
Persian Fire
Peter Hopkirk – The Great Game. On secret service in High Asia
Katya Hoyer
Blood and Iron. The rise and fall of the German Empire 1871-1918
Beyond the Wall, East Gerrmany 1949-1990
Dan Jones
The Plantagenets
The Templars
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Jerusalem, the biography
The Romanovs
Marc Morris
The Anglo-Saxons
The Norman Conquest
John Julius Norwich – The Popes
Nicholas Shakespeare -Six Minutes in May. How Churchill unexpectedly became Prime Minister
Charles Spencer
Killers of the King
The White Ship
Glynn Williams – The Prize of all the oceans
Common Law and sovereignty – the fight to regain your rights
Howard Freeman/National Liberty Alliance – The UCC Connection. How to Free yourself from legal tyranny
International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State – Common Law Training Manual. Establishing the Reign of Natural Liberty
National Liberty Alliance – Meet Your Strawmann and whatever you want to know
David Robinson – Be The One to execute your trust
Peter Stone – The Sovereign Project Handbook. Strength in numbers, power of the One
– The System, delving deeper into the abyss
Covid Era Events
Laura Dodsworth
-A State of Fear. How the UK government weaponised fear during the covid-19 pandemic
-(with Patrick Fagan) Free your mind. The new world of manipulation and how to resist it.
Robert F. Kennedy Jnr. – The Real Antony Fauci. Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the global war on democracy and public health.
Sebastian Rushworth – Covid. Why most of what you know is wrong.
Michael P. Senger- Snake Oil. How Xi Jinping Shut Down The World
Naomi Wolf -The Bodies of Others. The new authoritarians, covid-19 and the war against the human
Culture Wars
Sharron Davies and Craig Lord – Unfair Play. The Battle for women’s sport
Andrew Doyle – Free Speech and why it matters
Victor Davis Hanson – The Dying Citizen
Vaclav Havel – The Power of the Powerless
Konstantin Kisin- An immigrant’s love letter to the West
Douglas Murray
The Madness of Crowds
The War on the West. How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason
Helen Thompson – Disorder. Hard Times in the 21st Century
Religion and Philosophy.
The Bible.
King James version.
Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
Boethius – The Consolations of Philosophy
Confucius – The Analects
Rob Dreyer – Live Not By Lies
Tom Holland – Dominion. The Making of the Western Mind
Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche – From a mountain in Tibet, a monk’s journey
Sun Tzu – The Art of War
Bankers and their rise to Real global power
Javier Blas and Jack Farley – The world for sale. Money, power and the traders who barter the earth’s resources
William Guy Carr – Pawns in the Game*
Niall Ferguson – The House of Rothschild
vol 1. Money’s Prophets 1798-1848
vol 2. The World’s Banker 1849-1999
G.Edward Griffin – The creature from Jekyll Island, a second look at the Federal Reserve
E. C. Knuth – Empire of the City*
Antony C. Sutton – The Federal Reserve Conspiracy
(* published together as – The Money Power)
Other Real Powers That Were
Kevin Alan Brook – The Jews of Khazaria
Mathew Ehret – The Clash of the two Americas
vol. 1. The Unfinished Symphony
vol. 4. The Anglo-Venetian roots of the Deep State
Jim Marrs -The Rise of the Fourth Reich
-Rule by Secrecy
Jacob Nordengard – Rockerfeller. Controlling the game.
Robin de Ruiter – Paving the road to hell. The thirteen satanic bloodlines quartet
Tyranny. Past and Present
Hannah Arendt – The Origins of Totalitarianism
Mattias Desmet – The Psychology of Totalitarianism
George Orwell – 1984
Alexandar Solzhenitsyn – The Gulag Archipelago
We’ve Been Lied To
David Craig – There is no climate crisis.
Feargus O’ Connor Greenwood – 180′. Unlearn the Lies You’ve Been Taught To Believe
John Hamer
The Falsification of History, our distorted reality
The Falsification of Science
Ian Plimer – Heaven and Earth. Global warming; the missing science
Mel Stamper – Fruit from a Poisonous Tree. Secrets that were never to be revealed.
Humour
Clive James – Unreliable Memoirs
Edward Lear (edited by Vivien Noakes) – The Complete Nonsense and other verse
William C. Sellar and Robert J. Yeatman – 1066 And All That
Law
The Secret Barrister
The Secret Barrister. Stories of the Law and how it’s broken
Fake Law. The Truth about Justice in an Age of Lies
Travel Writing
William Dalrymple – In Xanadu, A Quest.
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
The Travels of Ibn Battutah
Travels with a tangerine, a journey in the footnotes of Ibn Battutah
Mental Health and Wellness
Paul Chek- How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy
Russell G. Foster and Leon Kreitzman – Circadian Rhythms. A very short introduction
Russell G. Foster and Steven W. Lockley – Sleep. A very short introduction
Paul Gilbert – The Compassionate Mind
Bear Grylls – Never Give Up
Heather Heying and Brett Weinstein – A Hunter Gatherer’s guide to the twenty-first century
Bruce H. Lipton PhD. – The Biology of Belief
Poetry
BBC (edited by Griff Rhys Jones) – The Nation’s Favourite Poems
John Betjeman – Trains and buttered toast
William Shakespeare – The Sonnets (Folio Society edition)
