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Author: Elizabeth Hand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 **Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar** SIXTY YEARS LATER, HILL...

THE FIRST AUTHORISED FOLLOW-UP NOVEL TO THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE 'A fitting - and frightening - homage to The Haunting of Hill House ' NEW YORK TIMES 'Full of...

'Traveling with Nyamayaro - from Tblisi to Montevideo - is both inspiring and maddening, seeing all that has been accomplished and all that's left to do. Somehow, through it all,...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: embossed stamp on fep. Usual shelf-wear. Few monarchs have so captivated the historical imagination as Elizabeth I,...

A richly detailed account of the little-known cultural and political relationship between Elizabethan England and the Islamic world In 1570, after plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I was...

Author: Jasper RidleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Book Club Associates., 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical biography chronicles the life and reign of Elizabeth I, one of England's most iconic monarchs....

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Mary Barton(1848),subtitled 'A Tale of Manchester Life',is the first novel by Mrs Gaskell(1810-65).The entirely working-class cast of characters in this novel was then an innovation.The background story is Manchester in...

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 AN OPRAH WINFREY AND FEARNE COTTON BOOK CLUB PICK ' No one who reads this book will ever forget it ' Meg Mason...

Elizabeth I is one of England's most famous monarchs, whose story as the 'Virgin Queen' is well known. But queenship was by no means a certain path for Henry VIII's...

Author: Peter LaneBinding: HardbackPublished: Batsford Academic and Educational Ltd, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePeter Lane's Elizabethan England chronicles a pivotal era...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the edge of the world, where ice meets ocean and silence is broken only by the cry of seabirds, a remarkable story of...

'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph 'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good Housekeeping A sparkling celebration of...

"For a woman who thinks of herself as a New Yorker at this point, I buy a lot of clothes from companies named things like Shrimp & Grits. Why Because...

Power and Glory begins with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke of Windsor's wartime treachery, and ends with the Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. In...

The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century's most famous film...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today. From the internationally bestselling author...

May 7th -- There were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it...

Power and Glory begins with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke of Windsor's wartime treachery, and ends with the Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. In...

This book offers an original study of lyric form and social custom in the Elizabethan age. Ilona Bell explores the tendency of Elizabethan love poems not only to represent an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the golden and turbulent age of Shakespeare and the Virgin Queen, Elizabethan People: State and Society presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the darkest chapter of the Pacific War, a group of Australian nurses found themselves...

Author: G. W. Groos (translation)Binding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account, The Diary Of Baron Waldstein: A Traveller In Elizabethan England, chronicles...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Part of the respected Foundations of Modern History series, The Government of...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA scholarly yet accessible work of literary criticism, Elizabethan Poetry: Lyrical and Narrative presents a comprehensive examination of the rich...

Beautiful and talented, versatile and charismatic, Elizabeth Robins was one of the foremost actresses of her day. Yet, this enduring character was also an active and lifelong feminist. This biography...

Author: Elizabeth George Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 From New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George, a stunning mystery featuring Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley that explores the perfect crime--now...

Edition: reprinted with corrections.Condition remarks: Condition: VG. Jacket: Good within mylar; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Bookseller stamp on fep. Binding condition: Firm. Price stickers on DJs. A cornerstone...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series ' "Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in...

Elizabeth R applies the classic formula of the Brief Life to the most recognized yet still mysterious woman in the world, Queen Elizabeth II. For more than thirty years Robert...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * This "excellent, all-embracing" ( The New York Times ) biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a magisterial study of the woman known only from a...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good. Few journeys capture the vast, enigmatic soul of a nation quite like a...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work of Tudor and Renaissance historiography, The Age of Catherine...

Years ago, wealthy socialite Grace Tyler humiliated Seth and almost destroyed his family. Now the former boatyard hand is a multi-millionaire, and hes out to settle a long- overdue score....

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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerJo Manton's Elizabeth Garrett Anderson chronicles the extraordinary life of Britain's first qualified female physician and...

While the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s resulted in the destruction of much of England's built fabric, it was also a time in which many new initiatives emerged....

This beautiful, giftable collection celebrates and explores both the beauty and the anguish of love through classic poems, stories, and letters from some of literature's most beloved writers.Because it defines...

Author: John Hadfield (editor); PIPER, John (illustrations).Binding: HardbackPublished: Cupid Press, 1955, Numbered & Signed EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedNumber 612 in a limited edition of 660 copies...