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Across Military & Wars, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, and Literary Criticism — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Birdsong by David James.

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Henrietta’s War News from the Home Front, 1939-1942 — Joyce Dennys

Henrietta’s War News from the Home Front, 1939-1942

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Lives of the Wives Five Literary Marriages — Carmela Ciuraru

Lives of the Wives Five Literary Marriages

Carmela Ciuraru

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Chasing Lost Time The Life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff : Soldier, Spy and Translator — Jean Findlay

Chasing Lost Time The Life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff : Soldier, Spy and Translator

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

King Arthur and His Knights Selected Tales — Sir Thomas Malory

King Arthur and His Knights Selected Tales — Sir Thomas Malory

SIR THOMAS. MALORY

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Virginia Woolf A Biography — Quentin Bell

Virginia Woolf A Biography

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Mary Barton — Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, by His Nephew G. Otto Trevelyan. Vol. 1 — George Otto Trevelyan

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, by His Nephew G. Otto Trevelyan. Vol. 1

George Otto Trevelyan

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Book of Margery Kempe — Margery Kempe

The Book of Margery Kempe

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Victorians Undone Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum — Kathryn Hughes

Victorians Undone Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Bronte

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Tess of the D’Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Ruth — Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Tales from Shakespeare — Charles Lamb

Tales from Shakespeare

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

In Command of History Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War — David Reynolds

In Command of History Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

In Stevenson’s Samoa (1895) — Marie Fraser

In Stevenson’s Samoa (1895)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Mystery of Charles Dickens — A. N. Wilson

The Mystery of Charles Dickens

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

A Man of Contradictions A Life of A.L. Rowse — Richard Lawrence Ollard

A Man of Contradictions A Life of A.L. Rowse

Richard Lawrence Ollard

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Women of the Cousins’ War The Duchess; The Queen; The King’s Mother — Philippa Gregory

The Women of the Cousins’ War The Duchess; The Queen; The King’s Mother

Philippa Gregory

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Idylls of the King — Alfred Tennyson

Idylls of the King

Alfred Tennyson

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Arthur Conan Doyle The Man Behind Sherlock Holmes — Andrew Norman

Arthur Conan Doyle The Man Behind Sherlock Holmes

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Trumpet-major — Thomas Hardy

The Trumpet-major

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Lost Years A Memoir 1945 – 1951 — Christopher Isherwood

Lost Years A Memoir 1945 – 1951

Christopher Isherwood

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Brontes of Haworth Yorkshire’s Literary Giants: Their Lives, Works, Influences and Inspirations — David W. Harrison

The Brontes of Haworth Yorkshire’s Literary Giants: Their Lives, Works, Influences and Inspirations

David W. Harrison

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Can You Forgive Her? — Anthony Trollope

Can You Forgive Her?

Anthony Trollope

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Birdsong by David James — spanning Military & Wars, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European and featuring authors such as Joyce Dennys, Carmela Ciuraru, Jean Findlay, SIR THOMAS. MALORY, and others.

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