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Duty to the Crown

Aimie K. Runyan

Duty to the Crown

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Aimie K. Runyan

The Political Economy of Slavery

Eugene D. Genovese

The Political Economy of Slavery

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Eugene D. Genovese

The Welsh Methodist Society

Eryn M. White

The Welsh Methodist Society

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Eryn M. White

The Red Vienna Sourcebook

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The Red Vienna Sourcebook

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Eighteenth Century Writing from Wal...

Sarah Prescott

Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales

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Sarah Prescott

The Noble Assassin

Christie Dickason

The Noble Assassin

A thrilling account of one of English history’s most daring women, who risked everything in the dark days leading up to the Civil War. The perfect novel for fans of Suzannah Dunn and Phillipa Gregory.Court beauty, Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford, feels frustrated by life with her weak husband. Poverty stricken, they are confined to their country estate and excluded from court life in London after he disastrously allies himself against Elizabeth I.Now, some years later, James I is seated on the...

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Christie Dickason

The Queen’s Sorrow

Suzannah Dunn

The Queen’s Sorrow

A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused – the tragedy of Mary Tudor.These are desperate times for Mary Tudor. As England’s first ruling queen, her joy should be complete when she marries Philip, the dashing Prince of Spain. But despite her ardent devotion, he’s making it painfully obvious that he cares little for his new wife – and her struggle to produce an heir only makes him colder towards him. Lonely and depressed, Mary begins to vent her anguish on her people – and England...

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Suzannah Dunn

The History of the Times: The Murdo...

Graham Stewart

The History of the Times: The Murdoch Years

The seventh in a series chronicling the remarkable history of The Times newspaper and the media mogul who bought and reshaped it in the early 1980s.This volume looks at the history of one of Britain’s most venerable newspapers since its takeover by Rupert Murdoch in 1981, and the many changes that took place in the turbulent years that followed.The account will encompass the media mogul’s infamous clashes with the British printers’ unions, culminating in 1986 with the Wapping dispute in which...

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Graham Stewart

The Agincourt Bride

Джоанна Хиксон

The Agincourt Bride

Shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Historical Fiction award, The Agincourt Bride tells the thrilling story of the French princess who became an English queen.When her own first child is tragically still-born, the young Mette is pressed into service as a wet-nurse at the court of the mad king, Charles VI of France. Her young charge is the princess, Catherine de Valois, caught up in the turbulence and chaos of life at court.Mette and the child forge a bond, one that transcends...

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Джоанна Хиксон

Barry Island

Andy Croll

Barry Island

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Andy Croll

Songs for a Revolution

David Robb

Songs for a Revolution

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David Robb

The Sprawl

Jason Diamond

The Sprawl

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Jason Diamond

Puritan Village

Sumner Chilton Powell

Puritan Village

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Sumner Chilton Powell

Stove by a Whale

Thomas Farel Heffernan

Stove by a Whale

<P>The first documented sinking of a ship by a whale and a harrowing account by the ship's first mate of the survivors' three months adrift in small boats. A thrilling narrative that inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick.</P>

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Thomas Farel Heffernan

The Honourable Company

John Keay

The Honourable Company

A history of the English East India company.During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into «the grandest society of merchants in the universe». As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there would have been no British India and no British Empire. In a tapestry ranging from Southern Africa to north-west America, and from the reign of Elizabeth...

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John Keay

The Illicit Love of a Courtesan

Jane Lark

The Illicit Love of a Courtesan

Pure, unadulterated romance. Best Chick Lit.comIn the eyes of the ton, Ellen Harding lives a charmed life – she is the beautiful, exquisitely adorned mistress of Lord Gainsborough.But on the inside, behind her glamorous façade, she is empty – a vessel – deaf to the voice of morality and blind to shame. Unable to escape the gilded cage she has been trapped within.Kind, gentle Edward Marlow could prove to be her salvation… With one look he gives her hope. With one touch he sets her senses...

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Jane Lark

The Irish Are Coming

Ryan Tubridy

The Irish Are Coming

In the sequel to his bestselling JFK in Ireland, the Emerald Isle’s favourite son delves into his country’s past to celebrate the Irish people who through their skills and endeavours helped make the British Isles great.In ‘The Irish Are Coming’ Ryan Tubridy takes a journey into Ireland’s past to unearth the many amazing, and altogether fascinating, contributions the Irish have made to everyday British life; whether it be making us laugh (Graham Norton), thrilling us with their acting (Peter...

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Ryan Tubridy

The Flower Seller

Linda Finlay

The Flower Seller

A charming and evocative tale of family and fortune from the queen of West Country saga, Linda Finlay.Isabella Carrington has been brought up in a life of privilege in London. Her life seems perfect, until her father suddenly announces bankruptcy. To save Isabella from destitution he sends her to stay with family she has never met, far away on a violet farm deep in Devon.Isabella is horrified to find her uncle expects her to work for her keep, packing up the flowers and selling them in the...

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Linda Finlay

Tales from the Special Forces Club

Sean Rayment

Tales from the Special Forces Club

There are just a handful of men and women alive today who served and fought with the Special Forces during the Second World War. They are a dwindling bunch of veterans in their twilight years whose tales of heroism and daring-do will soon be lost in time forever – yet they still regularly get together in a gentleman’s club, right in the heart of London – The Special Forces Club.In ten separate and astonishing accounts of ingenuity and heroism, the Sunday Telegraph defence correspondent Sean...

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Sean Rayment

Cinema and Fascism

Steven Ricci

Cinema and Fascism

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Steven Ricci

Cosmopolitans

Fred Rosenbaum

Cosmopolitans

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Fred Rosenbaum

Spirit of Place

Susan Owens

Spirit of Place

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Susan Owens

The Last Days of the Spanish Republ...

Paul Preston

The Last Days of the Spanish Republic

Told for the first time in English, Paul Preston’s new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War.This is the story of an avoidable humanitarian tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more.On 5 March 1939, the eternally malcontent Colonel Segismundo Casado launched a military coup against the government of Juan Negrín. To fulfil his ambition to go down in...

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Paul Preston

The Memory Palace

Christie Dickason

The Memory Palace

An epic love story set in the period of Music and Silence, for readers of Rose Tremain and Philippa Gregory.1639. Zeal Beester, mistress of the rolling Hampshire estate of Hawkridge, is pregnant, unwed, and the King has banished her lover to the New World. The Puritan Praise-God Gifford will have her burnt at the stake for depravity.To save herself and the child, Zeal becomes the wife of Philip Wentworth, an ageing soldier and adventurer. But Philip’s extraordinary tales of El Dorado only remind...

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Christie Dickason

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