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A celebration of the unsung hero of the plant word and an immersive journey through the British wetlands Glowflake, Rocket, Small Skies, Kind Spears, Marilyn . . . Moss is...

Young Jane - or Jenny, as she was known - is a girl with a head full of questions that no one seems able to answer. But the sudden arrival...

Joanna has everything a woman could desire: as the young, beautiful wife of a wealthy financier, her days are her own to spend at leisure - but her nights are...

A tough Welshman, he was softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman: she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For quarter of...

Is it a truth universally acknowledged that a young Austen heroine must be in want of a husband? You are in the world of a Jane Austen novel. As the...

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She was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirlwind. She created around her the atmosphere of a Court at which her friends...

Step into a very public marriage, in the compulsive novel from the bestselling author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman Fanny Savage was once dutiful, clever, vulnerable and dreamy. Now...

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I...

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'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...

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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...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew monarchs in history have commanded such enduring fascination as Elizabeth I of England, and Elizabeth Jenkins's Elizabeth...

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...

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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...

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in...

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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...

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The second of two volumes of Elizabeth Smart's journals, covering the mid-1940s during her affair with the poet George Barker to her death in 1986. Born in Canada, the book...

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...

Author: Alison PlowdenBinding: HardbackPublished: M, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markings'Elizabeth Regina 1588-1603' presents a compelling historical account of the final fifteen years of Queen Elizabeth I's remarkable...

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...

'The book of the year' SUNDAY TIMES 'One of the very best biographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRY 'A hot thunderstorm of a book' DAVID HARE 'I've never read...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis intimate epistolary collection presents a remarkable window into the private world of one of Victorian England's most celebrated poets,...

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Few people know the truth about Elizabeth II and her family. But biographer Sarah Bradford has spent the last ten years penetrating the Palace facade, uncovering unpublished documents and talking...

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'Very smart and entertaining . . . dishy-yet-earnest . . . Gefter shows why Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? hit the '60s like a torpedo.' - NPR, Fresh Air 'Raucous,...

Author: Thomas Travisano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsThis historical biography, Fanfare For Elizabeth, vividly chronicles the early life of Queen Elizabeth I, painting a detailed portrait of...

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Author: Milton WaldmanBinding: HardbackPublished: The Reprint Society, 1946Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerMilton Waldman's Elizabeth And Leicester chronicles the passionate and politically...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Renaissance, a singular nation was being forged — one defined by...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Few monarchs in history have commanded both a throne and the imagination...

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For the first time, Ben Pimlott ('the best writer of political biography new writing', Andrew Marr, Independent) treats the Queen seriously as the subject of historical biography. Using a wide...