Book round-up: January 2021

I was on holiday for the first third of this month, so got a bit of summer reading done (yay). I re-read Reaper Man, because it’s always worth re-reading a Discworld novel now and then, and the only non-fiction book I read was The Year 1000 by Valerie Hansen, a study of pre-colonial globalisation. It was quite narrowly focused on economic history, but a very easy read and had a decent amount of new stuff for me (which pop history doesn’t always). It’s largely focused on everywhere except Europe and makes a decent stab at North American and African trade routes as well as the more familiar Silk Road stuff; I’d recommend it to Old Guard fans interested in thinking about how the world looked in terms of travel, trade, and economy around the time Joe and Nicky died.

Below the cut: fiction!

( Fiction new reads )