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(Hardback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781785907647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 9th February 2023
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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For as long as the British monarchy has existed, royal children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us. Interweaving exclusive testimonies from palace staff with historical sources, Tom Quinn also uncovers outrageous tales of royal children misbehaving, often hilariously.


(Hardback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781785904790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 14th May 2020
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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Through exclusive interviews with palace staff past and present and detailed historical sources, Tom Quinn takes a look beyond official accounts, delving into the frequently outrageous but often heart-warming history of the palace and its inhabitants, from its earliest beginnings to the present day.


(Hardback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781785900488
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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The Duchess of Cornwall's great-grandmother Alice Keppel was perhaps the greatest courtesan in history. Charming, voracious, selfish, manipulative and strikingly modern, this remarkable book shows how Mrs Keppel became one of the most compelling characters of the Edwardian era.


(Paperback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781785906527
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 19th October 2021
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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George Orwell once said that the British love a really good murder. He might have added that the only thing the British love more than a good murder is a really good scandal, and best of all are the sexual and political scandals that take place behind the gilded doors of Britain's royal palaces.


(Hardback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781785903168
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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The extraordinary and unhappy life story of one of the world's richest men. By the author of the best-selling Backstairs Billy ISBN 9781849547802 hb and ISBN: 9781785900006 pb, with combined sales of 15,600 across cloth, paper and Ebook.


(Hardback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781785908460
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 20th March 2025
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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If you want to find out who the royal servants are, what they do and why, in so many cases, they devote their whole lives to royal service, then this book is for you.


(Paperback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781911042457
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Extraordinary but true stories from over two hundred years of angling history.


(Paperback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781847739476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: IMM Lifestyle Books
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(Paperback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781444735956
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Insightful and endearing memoir of a life lived in service as a housekeeper at a stately home.


(Hardback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781911622024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A quirky collection of stories from London's stranger side, featuring a tiny prison cell in Trafalgar Square, a train disguised as a ship, and a church that's completely the wrong way round.


(Paperback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781910232880
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 11th February 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A quirky collection of stories from London's stranger side, featuring a tiny prison cell in Trafalgar Square, a train disguised as a ship, and a church that's completely the wrong way round.


(Paperback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781911042440
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 9th March 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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More extraordinary but true stories from Londons history.


(Paperback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781911042808
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A fascinating collection of bizarre but true stories from nearly 200 years of railway history.


(Paperback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781444735895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A revealing memoir of life below stairs


(Paperback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781444735864
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A revealing memoir of life below stairs


(Paperback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781911622208
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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All the fun of Portico's bestselling Strangest series, now in quiz form!


(Paperback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781444735925
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2012
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A revealing memoir of life below stairs


(Hardback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781849547802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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The fascinating life story of one of the most original characters ever to have graced the royal household.


(Hardback)

By: Tom Quinn

ISBN: 9781846892417
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Quiller Publishing Ltd
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A unique collection of hilarious fishing tales from the last 200 years when all has gone horribly wrong.