period drama

Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters

by Joanna Walsh  · 22 Sep 2025  · 255pp  · 80,203 words

fleshed out with extra pixels so that they are no longer grainy and flat but look like they might have been filmed yesterday for some period drama. Like any mischievous modernist, the restorer plays with a contemporary version of Robert Hughes’ ‘shock of the new’. This shock is not provided by Wincklemann

This Is London: Life and Death in the World City

by Ben Judah  · 28 Jan 2016  · 385pp  · 119,859 words

dizzle dem bitches, I want fine wines in Kensington Roof Gardens . . . not hanging out with a Pepsi down KFC.’ Moses was watching TV. They loved period dramas in London. They loved people dressing up and living like it was the old days. And Moses would be thinking, Shit. That’s how I

No Shame: The Hilarious and Candid Memoir From One of Our Best-Loved Comedians

by Tom Allen  · 12 Nov 2020  · 214pp  · 69,986 words

interview. They also knew not to apply to the pretty colleges because they were already oversubscribed with idiots like me trying to live in a period drama. Instead of applying for popular subjects like history, they knew to apply for obscure ones like Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic at one of the

Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World

by Matt Alt  · 14 Apr 2020

the nominees. The list was filled with the Hollywood names you might expect: 20th Century Fox Animation’s Ice Age, Disney’s Lilo & Stitch, DreamWorks’ period drama Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. Then came a literal dark-horse contender: Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. It won. This was a seriously strange turn

Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

by Michaela Coel  · 6 Sep 2021  · 47pp  · 13,450 words

sweet from above. Silk Street Theatre—where the hottest talent met the hottest agents, to partner with the hottest casting directors, to make the hottest period dramas. I was the first Black girl they’d accepted in five years, a fact which the head of the school described to me as “the

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in the basement floor of the theatre. But this wasn’t about agents anymore; it was a chance to create something that wasn’t a period drama designed in period costumes. I wanted to make something for this period, so I did both. I wrote a dark comedy called Chewing Gum Dreams

The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath

by Nicco Mele  · 14 Apr 2013  · 270pp  · 79,992 words

of popular television hits or blockbuster movies. Popular online shows like the Shaytards do enjoy large followings, but they lack the gripping appeal of a period drama like Mad Men—a production arguably too expensive for the economic dynamics of YouTube. The one entertainment genre that remains stubbornly in the age of

Is It Just Me?

by Miranda Hart  · 14 Apr 2012  · 255pp  · 77,849 words

worry: we have found a way around that one. It goes like this: MIRANDA, her MOTHER and FATHER on sofa, watching television. The nice BBC Period Drama has suddenly become unexpectedly racy. MOTHER: Oh. Right. I see. (PAUSE) SO! I thought we could all go on a lovely Boxing Day walk tomorrow

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

by Paul Bloom  · 281pp  · 79,464 words

love their children. (This has to be the most banal sentence of this book.) Nobody wants to parent like Betty Draper, a character in the period drama Mad Men. Child: “I’m bored.” Betty: “Go bang your head against the wall.” Child: “Mom?” Betty: “Only boring people get bored.” But good parenting

The Paths Between Worlds: This Alien Earth Book One

by Paul Antony Jones  · 19 Mar 2019

, all with the same wide-eyed look of confusion in their eyes. One woman looked as though she’d stepped out of an eighteenth-century period drama, her long dress clinging to her body. Her auburn hair had been tied back in a bow, but it had come half-undone and flopped

A Half-Built Garden

by Ruthanna Emrys  · 25 Jul 2022  · 431pp  · 127,720 words

have no right to make accusations against them. “I came to Earth anticipating, like you, that humans would act like grateful tree-folk in a period drama. But the real history of the First Reach is one of teaching and learning, patience and curiosity. Symbiosis does not evolve in a day or

How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir

by Cat Marnell  · 30 Jan 2017  · 416pp  · 121,024 words

Hosting an Elegant Dinner Party: The Surgeon in the Kitchen

by Adam Frosh  · 17 Feb 2015  · 144pp  · 33,034 words

Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World

by Mark Vanhoenacker  · 14 Aug 2022  · 393pp  · 127,847 words

Station Eleven

by Emily St. John Mandel  · 8 Sep 2014  · 331pp  · 98,395 words

A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life

by Tara Button  · 8 Feb 2018  · 315pp  · 81,433 words

Confessions of a Bookseller

by Shaun Bythell  · 8 Aug 2019  · 335pp  · 95,549 words

The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir

by Karen Cheung  · 15 Feb 2022  · 297pp  · 96,945 words

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

by Graham Farmelo  · 24 Aug 2009  · 1,396pp  · 245,647 words

Emotional Ignorance: Lost and Found in the Science of Emotion

by Dean Burnett  · 10 Jan 2023  · 536pp  · 126,051 words

The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer Of 1982

by Chris Nashawaty  · 251pp  · 86,553 words

A United Ireland: Why Unification Is Inevitable and How It Will Come About

by Kevin Meagher  · 15 Nov 2016

Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party

by Samuel Earle  · 3 May 2023  · 245pp  · 88,158 words

Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations With Today's Top Comedy Writers

by Mike Sacks  · 23 Jun 2014

We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True

by Gabrielle Union  · 16 Oct 2017  · 235pp  · 74,200 words

It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO

by Felix Gillette and John Koblin  · 1 Nov 2022  · 575pp  · 140,384 words

How to Work Without Losing Your Mind

by Cate Sevilla  · 14 Jan 2021

Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

by Sathnam Sanghera  · 28 Jan 2021  · 430pp  · 111,038 words

Lonely Planet Sri Lanka

by Lonely Planet

Fodor's Seoul

by Fodor's Travel Guides  · 29 Nov 2022  · 373pp  · 107,111 words

Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain From the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times

by Lucy Lethbridge  · 18 Nov 2013  · 457pp  · 128,640 words

The Domestic Revolution

by Ruth Goodman  · 15 Apr 2020

Lonely Planet Egypt

by Lonely Planet  · 476pp  · 132,840 words

Sweden

by Becky Ohlsen  · 19 Jun 2009

Rough Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area

by Nick Edwards and Mark Ellwood  · 2 Jan 2009

The Railways: Nation, Network and People

by Simon Bradley  · 23 Sep 2015  · 916pp  · 248,265 words

Lonely Planet Wales (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet  · 17 Apr 2017  · 1,181pp  · 163,692 words

Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix

by Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski  · 18 Apr 2022  · 414pp  · 117,581 words

The Rough Guide to Seoul

by Rough Guides  · 26 Sep 2018  · 305pp  · 87,259 words

Scandinavia

by Andy Symington  · 24 Feb 2012

Lonely Planet Florence & Tuscany

by Lonely Planet, Virginia Maxwell and Nicola Williams  · 1 Dec 2013  · 874pp  · 154,810 words

Florence & Tuscany

by Lonely Planet  · 928pp  · 159,837 words

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

by Rose George  · 22 Oct 2018  · 453pp  · 130,632 words

Southeast Asia on a Shoestring Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet  · 30 May 2012

Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant

by Jeremy Musson  · 12 Nov 2009  · 516pp  · 128,667 words

Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

by Abby Norman  · 6 Mar 2018  · 323pp  · 107,963 words

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s

by Alwyn W. Turner  · 4 Sep 2013  · 1,013pp  · 302,015 words

Lonely Planet Greek Islands

by Lonely Planet, Alexis Averbuck, Michael S Clark, Des Hannigan, Victoria Kyriakopoulos and Korina Miller  · 31 Mar 2012

The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific

by David Bianculli  · 15 Nov 2016  · 676pp  · 203,386 words

The Rough Guide to Korea

by Rough Guides  · 24 Sep 2018  · 712pp  · 199,112 words

Greece Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Italy

by Damien Simonis  · 31 Jul 2010

Great Britain

by David Else and Fionn Davenport  · 2 Jan 2007

Greece

by Korina Miller  · 1 Mar 2010

England

by David Else  · 14 Oct 2010

Ireland (Lonely Planet, 9th Edition)

by Fionn Davenport  · 15 Jan 2010

The Rough Guide to England

by Rough Guides  · 29 Mar 2018