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By: Blaine Harden

ISBN: 9781509815791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2019
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Discover the true story of the dark reign of the number one US spy-master in Korea.


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By: Claudia Gold

ISBN: 9780007554805
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Henry II conquered the largest empire of any English medieval king. Yet it is the people around him we remember: his wife Eleanor, whom he seduced from the French king; his son Richard the Lionheart; Thomas Becket, murdered in his cathedral. Who was this great, yet tragic king For fans of Dan Jones, George RR Martin and Bernard Cornwell.


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By: Sir Alan Lascelles

ISBN: 9781474618205
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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'Tommy' Lascelles was Private Secretary to four monarchs - and depicted in the Netflix hit The Crown. These diaries reveal the inside story of the royal household during the abdication crisis, the second world war and the Princess Margaret-Peter Townsend affair
'Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless' Spectator


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By: Tracy Borman

ISBN: 9780099549178
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. The mark that this enigmatic and largely neglected royal mistress left on the society and culture of early Georgian England was to resonate well beyond the confines of the court, and can still be felt today.


(Hardback)

By: Sonia Purnell

ISBN: 9780349014722
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The sensationally gripping and revelatory biography of Pamela Churchill Harriman, one of the most influential women in 20th century politics, from the bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance


(Paperback)

By: Niall Ferguson

ISBN: 9780141022000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: C. Brad Faught

ISBN: 9781784533502
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Revisionist new biography of Earl Kitchener, pivotal figure in World War I and British Empire history


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By: John Man

ISBN: 9780553817188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2007
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2007
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Using China's great wealth, coupled with his shrewd and subtle government, he created an empire that was the greatest since the fall of Rome, and shaped the modern world as we know it today.


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By: Lady Antonia Fraser

ISBN: 9781474624824
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 18th May 2023
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The vivid and dramatic life of Lady Caroline Lamb , whose love affair with the poet Lord Byron scandalised British society, by one of the UK's best-loved historians.


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By: Lucy Moore

ISBN: 9781782398127
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2018
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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Peppered with advice, remedies and recipes, and framed by the English Civil War, Lucy Moore brilliantly brings to life Lady Ann Fanshawe's setbacks and successes.


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By: Colm Tibn

ISBN: 9780330419932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2003
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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This sharp and stylish biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as the greatest living Irishwoman Augusta Gregory.


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By: Alison Weir

ISBN: 9780099540175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery, deceit and - at St Albans, Blore Hill and Towton, - some of the bloodiest and most dramatic battles on England's soil.


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By: Jane Brown

ISBN: 9781845951795
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green.


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By: Craig Shirley

ISBN: 9781595555342
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
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The definitive work on Ronald Reagans last years by noted Reagan biographer and best-selling author.


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By: Barb Rosenstock

ISBN: 9780316415712
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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In this inspiring tribute, award-winning author Barb Rosenstock and New York Times bestselling artist Elizabeth Baddeley tell the true story of one of America's greatest founding mothers: Abigail Adams.


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By: Lee Lockwood

ISBN: 9783836529983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2016
Publisher: Taschen GmbH
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Between 1959 and 1969, photojournalist Lee Lockwood documented Cuba and its victorious revolutionary Fidel Castro with unprecedented freedom and access, including a marathon seven-day interview with Castro himself. This volume includes Lockwood's evocative photographs of Cuba and Castro, his many insightful observations, and extensive excerpts from the legendary Lockwood-Castro conversations.


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By: Robert Service

ISBN: 9780330518383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2010
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The critically acclaimed biography of Lenin by one of the greatest Russian history experts and bestselling author of Trotsky, Stalin and Comrades.


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By: Ziauddin Yousafzai

ISBN: 9780753552988
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2019
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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In this intimate and extraordinary memoir, Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala, gives a moving account of fatherhood and his lifelong fight for equality proving there are many faces of feminism.


Whenever anybody has asked me how Malala became who she is, I have often used the phrase.


(Hardback)

By: Allen Fordyce

ISBN: 9780578826967
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback, Illustrated edition)

By: Cal Finnigan

ISBN: 9781472243997
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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THE LETTERS FROM THE SUITCASE - An enchanting, poignant and incredibly moving account of the five year early marriage between two lovers divided by war - and the legacy they left for their only child.


(Hardback)

By: Jared Cohen

ISBN: 9781982154547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Jared Cohen

ISBN: 9781982154554
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9780451531209
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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At once a romantic history of a mighty river and an autobiographical account of Twain's early steamboat days, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Revised reissue.


(Hardback)

By: Rebecca George

ISBN: 9780806538969
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.
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The incredible true story of a WW2 fighter pilot rescued from a German prison camp by his chaplain father.

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