Paul Lay Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Senior Editor, Engelsberg Ideas. Author of Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate. Presenter of 1666 and All That. Amused sceptic.

30 books

The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure

Michel Foucault

Paul Lay

@johnmilbank3 ‘There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, is absolutely necessary if one is to go on thinking and reflecting at all.’ Michel Foucault, The Use of Pleasure

Paperback, 1990

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Oscar Wilde

Paul Lay

@yuanyi_z They should read Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism.

Paperback, 2021

$4.99$2.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS

Gavin Mortimer

Paul Lay

Gavin Mortimer talks about his myth-busting history of David Stirling’s role in the creation of the SAS. https://t.co/Lr2O8mBWRg

Hardcover, 2022

$36.99$18.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Ever Closer Union?: Europe in the West

Perry Anderson

Paul Lay

Having just finished Perry Anderson’s Ever Closer Union? (fascinating on Naude, btw), I’ll finally give this the close read it deserves. https://t.co/GspdOFSC20

Hardcover, 2021

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Magician

Colm Toibin

Paul Lay

Just finished Colm Toibin’s The Magician. A mesmerising meditation on creativity, scepticism, doubt, sexuality, family, Germany, Europe, America, music, and much else.

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Living

Henry Green

Paul Lay

@JonNeale @matthewwalker28 Though also from Aston. Do you know the final passage of Henry Green’s Living?

Paperback, 2017

$14.00$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

Barbara W. Tuchman

Paul Lay

@AspectsHistory @simonmontefiore @Roger_Moorhouse @LeandadeLisle @robert_lyman @ProfGSheffield Diarmaid MacCulloch, Tudor Church Militant Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity Hugh Thomas, The Conquest of Mexico Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich: a New History

Paperback, 1996

$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

all that

Ency Bearis

Paul Lay

In the latest episode of 1666 and All That, ⁦@MirandaMalins⁩ and I discuss a great poet, a doomed king, and the challenges and triumphs of historical fiction with the excellent Julie Maxwell. https://t.co/bgtYTbXa13

Paperback, 2018

$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

Hugh Thomas

Paul Lay

@AspectsHistory @simonmontefiore @Roger_Moorhouse @LeandadeLisle @robert_lyman @ProfGSheffield Diarmaid MacCulloch, Tudor Church Militant Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity Hugh Thomas, The Conquest of Mexico Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich: a New History

Paperback, 1995

$32.99$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Oscar Wilde

Paul Lay

@yuanyi_z They should read Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism.

Paperback, 2016

$5.38$2.69 + Free shipping50% off your first book