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May 2017 Round Up: History, Memoir and Biography

After the April deluge of reviews of memoirs, the month of May has offered up a smaller, but more varied, collection of reviews. Fourteen books were reviewed during May by sixteen reviewers. Although the hype of the Stella Prize has abated, shortlisted titles continue to attract attention. Maxine Beneba Clark’s memoir The Hate Race has now been reviewed eleven times, and Catherine de Saint…