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Thomas Messel

Thomas Messel has for forty years been a leading English furniture designer. He is also the author of two books. His non-fiction Oliver Messel in the Theatre of Design (Winner of the Speares Book Award 2012) was a comprehensive study of the life and work of his uncle, Oliver Messel. His current book, The Nightingale of Bath, is a historical fiction covering the life of his eighteenth-century ancestor, the singer and beacon of the Whig party, Elizabeth Linley.

Thomas Messel

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The History behind The Bratinsky Affair

Exile and loss permeate Ireland’s history and its people’s relationship with Europe, themes to which the author anchors his debut novel.

Jim Loughran

The History behind The Bratinsky Affair "It is not the wimpled version of history that is interesting but its brutality." - Hilary Mantel The story of Countess Irina Bratinsky, née O’Rourke de Breffny, has its roots in the religious wars of 17th-century Ireland and...

The Five Armies That Made Europe

As national defence rises up the agendas of Western governments, the author spans two millennia and provides examples of fundamental military reform that shaped history.

Barney White-Spunner

The Five Armies That Made Europe Regrettably, war is inevitable. Many of us who have had the privilege of being born in Western democracies after 1945 have been spared having to confront war directly. This has created a false optimism that future generations may not...

Echoing Greens: How Cricket Shaped the English Imagination, by Brendan Cooper

A rich quarry for artists and writers alike, the psychology and morals of an era can be unearthed from cricket's plotlines and characters.

Zeb Baker-Smith

Echoing Greens: How Cricket Shaped the English Imagination, by Brendan Cooper It is now a cliché - perhaps always has been - to refer to cricket as a rich quarry for artistic achievement, even as mainstream coverage becomes less fixated on the written word and more...

2025 Summer Reads from Aspects of History

Our authors and contributors recommend books to take on summer holidays.

Summer Reads from Aspects of HistoryLucy Ashe Author of The Sleeping BeautiesThe Eights is Joanna Miller’s debut novel that combines fascinating historical research with the creation of four compelling female characters, The Eights is set at St Hugh’s College, Oxford,...

Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives, by Alice Loxton

In this wonderfully entertaining book, written with assured flair, historian Alice Loxton takes the age of eighteen as a unifying theme for telling the story of Britain.

Richard Stone

Views on age and life’s milestones have changed over time. In the last century average life expectancy exceeded what we would call middle age for the first time and in the process changed perspectives. Empress Matilda, one of the subjects of Eighteen, married Henry V...

Nelson: Hero of the Seas, by Dominic Sandbrook

Dominic Sandbrook’s latest entry to his Adventures in Time series, aimed at younger readers, is perhaps his best yet.

Oliver Webb-Carter

Nelson: Hero of the Seas, by Dominic Sandbrook On 24 September 1805, Admiral Horatio Nelson was waiting for an audience with Lord Castlereagh, Secretary for War and the Colonies, at the Colonial Office. In the assembly room with him was Sir Arthur Wellesley, who had...

‘Educating the Natives’

In his latest novel, the American writer and film director John Sayles examines the treatment of the Native Americans in the late 19th, and early 20th centuries, as young Indians were ‘civilised.’

John Sayles

‘Educating the Natives’ Like most Americans, my initial and only knowledge of the Carlisle Indian School was in relation to Jim Thorpe, the star football player and Olympic athlete who was a student there in the early 1900s. I did a report in class on a young-adult...

Historical Heroes: Matthew Flinders

Conscious of following in the footsteps of his own heroes, Flinders, the cartographer of Australia, illustrates all the questions surrounding the definition of a historical hero.

Michael Barritt

On a grey evening last autumn in the outer concourse of drab Euston Station, I took pity on two teachers and their assistants who were corralling a large group of school-children. I offered them a distraction. We moved across to one of the two statues – not that of...

Holand Press

Holand Press is a new, independent publisher which is focused on fostering new talent. We believe in building brands and generating sales through an ongoing, long-term strategy.

Sharpe Books

Holand Books Click on any of the books covers below to either buy or get more information on AmazonFrom the Publisher Books matter. Readers matter. Writers matter. As such, there is always a demand for new stories and new authors. Holand Press has been founded to help...