Patrick O'Brian - The Making Of The Novelist by Nikolai Tolstoy
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To many, Patrick O'Brian was the greatest British novelist of the twentieth century. The fifteen volumes of the series set in the Royal Navy of the beginning of the nineteenth century and featuring Aubrey and Maturin have been hailed as 'the best historical novels ever written' by the New York Times. Th ...Show more
Palmerston: The People's Darling by James Chambers
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The outline of Palmerston's extraordinary career is well-known: his near forty years in Cabinet office, his lead in bringing the Crimean War to an end, his attempt to bluff Bismarck over Schleswig-Holstein. Also known is his swashbuckling, womanising reputation. But not explored until now are the powerf ...Show more
Burning Man: The Ascent of D. H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson
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'Frances Wilson writes books that blow your hair back. She makes Lawrence live and breathe, annoy and captivate you - she conjures the past with such clarity and wit and flair that it feels utterly present' Katherine Rundell 'A brilliantly unconventional biography, passionately researched and written w ...Show more
How to Be a Refugee - One Family's Story of Exile and Belonging by Simon May
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'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception and, at least for the main characters, survival.' Literary Review' Simon May's remarkable How to Be a Refugee is a memoir of family secrets with a ruminative twist, o ...Show more
The Duchess Countess Elizabeth Chudleigh by Catherine Ostler
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'Outrageously scandalous, soaked in sex and money, aristocracy, adventure and grandeur... Catherine Ostler, accomplished storyteller, is the perfect writer to restore the Duchess Countess to life.' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Fascinating. Magnificient. Sensitively told.' Hallie Rubenfold When the glamorous ...Show more
The Diary of William Thomas of Michaelston-super-Ely, near St Fagans Glamorgan 1762-1795 by R. T. W. Denning (ed)
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THE DIARY OF A VILLAGE SHOPKEEPER 1754-1765 by THOMAS TURNER
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Alan Moorehead by Tom Pocock
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Alan Moorehead was lionised as a literary man of action: the most famous war correspondent of the Second World War; the award-winning and best-selling author of books that vividly combin adventure and hisotry; the star travel-writer of the New Yorker; and a pioneer advocate of wildlife conservation. Dra ...Show more
MAILMAN OF BIRDSVILLE TRACK : THE STORY OF TOM KRUSE by KRISTIN WEIDENBACH
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King Charles II by Antonia Fraser
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The story of King Charles II is one of enduring fascination. The golden childhood of the boy Prince in the Van Dyck pictures gave way to an adventurous youth in Civil War England and abroad, ending traumatically when his father was executed in 1649. Charles II, King at eighteen, succeeded to `nothing bu ...Show more