Books of the Year

Congratulations to the following authors whose books made ‘Books of the Year’:

Roger Crowley’s Spice: The sixteenth century contest that shaped the modern world in the Times.

Mary Hollingsworth’s Catherine de Medici: The Life & Times of the Serpent Queen in the Daily Telegraph’s ‘The best biographies and memoirs of 2024’, and the Financial Times’s ‘The best 10 history books of the year’.

Roger Morris’s Death of a Princess in Aspects of HIstory . Daniel Tammet’s Nine Minds in the Sydney Morning Herald. and a Watestones ‘Best Popular Science Book of 2024’

Richard Wallace’s The King’s Loot in the Daily Mail.

About article author

Mary Hollingsworth

Mary Hollingsworth

Mary Hollingsworth has a B.Sc. in business studies and a Ph.D. in art history. Her doctoral thesis dealt with the role of the architect in Italian Renaissance building projects and led to research on the role of the patron in the development of Renaissance art and architecture, a subject she taug...More about Mary Hollingsworth