The 15 Minute Book Club

Stein Ringen joins us to talk about his incredible new book "The Story of Scandinavia". There is much more to Scandinavia than just the Vikings as we found out. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.yout...

Charly is joined by Dr Benjamin Redding to discuss the role of The Gloucester in Cromwell's Western Design. What was Oliver Cromwell up to in the Caribbean?  Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.yo...

Not discovered Boney's aviation podcast yet? Here's your chance with a crossover: On Wednesday 21st March 1945, the RAF’s 140 Wing of De Havilland Mosquito  FB.VI  fighter bombers, with an escort of Mustangs, attacked the Shellhus in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Shellhus was the HQ for the Gestapo in Denmark, and most of the Danish Resistance’s top men were within its walls. The low-level at...

Leonora Nattress joins us to talk about her historical fiction novel "Scarlet Town" the third book in the series of 18th Century politics and crime. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/@15M...

John McManus joins us to talk about his new book " Love in a Lost Land", when Foreign Correspondent Richard Brady arrives in Africa to report on a nationalist insurgency and discovers more than violence. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/...

Anthony Adolph joins us to talk about the classical world and his new book "In Search of Aeneas: Classical Myth or Bronze Age Hero?" Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/@15MinuteBook_Club B...

Chat Williams joins us to talk to us about his new book "The untold story of W.E.B. Du Bois". We talk about Civil rights in the USA as well as what Du Bois did during WW1. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https...

Emily Cockayne joins us to talk about her new book "Penning Poison: A History of Anonymous Letters" Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/@15MinuteBook_Club Buy [INSERT BOOK TITLE] at our Boo...

Joseph Quinn joins us to talk about Their Finest Hour Project. How does it work, what is it and how others can join in. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/@15MinuteBook_Club Buy [INSERT BO...

Charly and Beth are joined by Mark Turnbull to discuss Charles I's private life. Always overshadowed by his son's bedroom antics, what was Charles I really like behind closed doors? Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video vers...

Dawid Gralik joins Alina to talk about Prince Poniatowski, what he got up to with Napoleon and his playboy days while running naked through the streets of Warsaw. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.yo...

Malka Levine joins us to talk about her experience as a child survivor of the Holocaust. She wrote her memoirs down in her new book "A Mother's Courage" Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/...

Jonathan Clements is back to talk to us about an aspect of his new book about Taiwan. This time we are talking about shipwrecks around the island and what happened to them. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: http...

The fabulous Mary Beard is back!!! She joins us to talk about her new book "Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World". We discuss Augustus among other Emperors. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.you...

Anika Scott joins us to talk about her new novel "Sinners of Starlight City" the world fair in Chicago in the 1930s. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/@15MinuteBook_Club Buy [INSERT BOOK...

Richard Sugg joins us to continue our chat on the history of disgust. This time we touch on fighting fascism and political language. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/@15MinuteBook_Club B...

James Holland joins us to talk about his captivating new book "The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943" Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/@15MinuteBook_Club Buy [INSERT BOOK TITLE] at...

Gemma Mason joins us to talk about the Ottomans and her PhD Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/@15MinuteBook_Club Buy [INSERT BOOK TITLE] at our Bookshop.org shop. Support authors, indie b...

Charly and Alex are joined by author Steven Veerapen for a new look at James VI and I. Does this first Stuart king to rule both England and Scotland deserve his reputation as The Wisest Fool?  Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub...

Charly is joined by author Francesca Peacock to explore the revolutionary life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Was she mad, or just misunderstood? Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtu...

Jonathan North joins us to talk about his new book "Napoleon’s Invasion of Egypt: An Eyewitness History" Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/@15MinuteBook_Club Buy [INSERT BOOK TITLE] at ou...

Charly is joined by film journalist Helen O'Hara to discuss the forgotten women who built Hollywood. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/@15MinuteBook_Club Buy [INSERT BOOK TITLE] at our Bo...

John Croucher joins us to talk about his new book "IT Girls: Pioneer Women in Computing" Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/@15MinuteBook_Club Buy [INSERT BOOK TITLE] at our Bookshop.org s...

Zane Whitney joins us to talk about No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando and the Polish 6th Troop. Zane has been knee-deep in this research for the past few years and has uncovered information that wasn't known before. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15Minu...

Kenneth Harl joins us to talk about his fantastic new book "Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation". Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/@15MinuteBook_Club Buy [...