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The first biography of Lettice Knollys, one of the most prominent women of the Elizabethan era.Living from the reign of Henry VIII through to Charles I, Lettice's story offers an extraordinary and intimate perspective on the history of the period.

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The first biography of Lettice Knollys, one of the most prominent women of the Elizabethan era.

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Elizabeth I is often portrayed as a ruthless 'man's woman', who derided her own sex - and loved to flirt with the young men at her court. Yet she was born into a world of women and it is her relationships with these women that provide the most fascinating insight into the character of this remarkable monarch.

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Portrays Elizabeth as both a woman and a queen, an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age. This book tells of: Elizabeth's long-standing affair with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; her dealings with her many suitors; her rivalry with Mary, Queen of Scots; and, her bizarre relationship with the Earl of Essex, thirty years her junior.

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Elizabeth Chudleigh was one of the eighteenth century's most colourful characters. In an engaging history of this strong and wilful woman, Gervat shows there was far more to Elizabeth than the caricature villain her contemporaries made her out to be.

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When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic, living at home and borrowing tools from her brother.

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A major biography of Emma Darwin of whom the author writes: 'Darwin's debt to Emma can never be fully estimated. Without her he might have been a clever man who yet achieved nothing'

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The life, times and historical legacy of the man who created modern Europe.

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A brand-new biography of one of the most extraordinary figures of Antiquity.

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What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands

With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies.

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A dramatic, sparkling tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, England's Mistress traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton.

Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become England's first media superstar.

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Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds is the story of a pioneering conservationist who led the campaign against the slaughter of wild birds for extravagantly feathered hats and coaxed the world to care for birds.

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A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs

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For more than a decade Europe's most wanted man, Radovan Karadzic, evaded the combined efforts of western intelligence agencies, NATO peacekeepers and Hague investigators and maverick bounty hunters to track him down.

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The incredible story of U.S. senator and Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth.

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If you're thinking, 'Jess, who' then I'm glad that there was something about 'Everywoman' and 'truth' that caught your eye. Or you might already know me as that gobby MP who has a tendency to shout about the stuff I care about. Because I'm a woman with a cause, I have been called a feminazi witch, a murderer and threatened with rape.

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The searing memoir from the man tasked with finding the world's deadliest bomb makers.

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Two-term governor of Tennessee Bill Haslam reveals how faith--too often divisive and contentious--can be a redemptive and unifying presence in the public square.

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The first dual biography of the most remarkable political friendship of the twentieth century: Fidel Castro and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara.

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From an esteemed historian, a riveting group portrait of international journalists in the interwar period