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A short illustrated life of one of Britain's most revered people of all time, covering all periods of his life but always returning to his literal and spiritual home, Chartwell.

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Sarah Gristwood celebrates the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II and how her enduring popularity was tantamount to her many supporters. The twists and turns of her life follow her teenage years during the war, marrying the Duke of Edinburgh and her ascension to the throne.

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A smaller, cheaper edition of this acclaimed illustrated biography of Beatrix Potter. Respected biographer Sarah Gristwood discovers a life crisscrossed with contradictions and marked by tragedy, yet one that left a remarkable literary and environmental legacy.

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Mary had made her mark in fashionable Georgian society and this, over the next two momentous decades, was where she contrived to stay.

This vivid and accessible biography explores Georgian England during a period of extreme political, social and cultural upheaval through the life of this remarkable woman.

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Few relationships fire our imagination like that of Elizabeth I and her 'bonnie sweet Robin' - the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley.

Almost immediately after she became queen, Elizabeth's infatuation with the married Earl became the subject of letters from scandalized ambassadors.

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Entrancing, compelling, and beautifully writtena fabulous novel, bursting with integrity and authenticity, vividly eboking the court of Elizabeth II feel I know the characters and was mesmerised by their story. This is the historical novel as literary fiction and damned good literary fiction at that. Alison Weir

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To this day, Beatrix Potters tales delight children and grown-ups around the world. But few people realise how extraordinary her own story is. Respected biographer Sarah Gristwood discovers a life crisscrossed with contradictions and marked by tragedy, yet one that left a remarkable literary - and environmental - legacy.

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A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair.

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Niece to Mary, Queen of Scots, granddaughter to the great Tudor dynast Bess of Hardwick, Lady Arbella Stuart was brought up in the belief that she would inherit Elizabeth I's throne.

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The true story of the White Queen and more, this is a thrilling history of the extraordinary noblewomen who lived through the Wars of the Roses.

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A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year the rise and fall of the women who ruled sixteenth-century Europe

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The bestselling historian finds a new way to look at the most famous English royal dynasty

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The bestselling historian finds a new way to look at the most famous English royal dynasty