Mistress Of Empires
£20.00An account of the extraordinary life of Josephine Bonaparte, the charming and promiscuous socialite who stole Napoleon’s heart.
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Sensation Double Life Of Wilkie Collins
£20.00A biography of William Wilkie Collins, English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was very popular during the Victorian era and wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and more than 100 nonfiction essays.
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Shipton & Tilman
£25.00Using unpublished diaries, Jim Perrin tells the story of the greatest exploring partnership in British history. In the 1930s Tilman and the younger Shipton pioneered many routes in Africa and the Himalayas and found the key to unlocking Everest. They crossed Africa by bicycle, explored China with Spender and Auden, journeyed down the Oxus River to its source and, with no support, opened up much of the Nepalese Himalaya.
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Britten A Life For Music
£25.00Benjamin Britten, the greatest 20th-century English composer and one of the outstanding musicians of his age, was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 1913. The East Anglian coast was to be a constant presence in his life and work. This biography follows Britten through school and college days, involvement with the Auden generation in the 1930s and self-imposed wartime exile in America, to his emergence as a central yet paradoxical figure in his country’s musical life.
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Saint Zita Society
£18.99Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico. The hired help, a motley assortment of au pairs, drivers and cleaners, decide to form the Saint Zita Society as an excuse to meet at the local pub and air their grievances. When Dex is invited, the others find that he is a strange man, seemingly ill at ease with human beings. These first impressions are compounded when they discover he has recently been released from a hospital for the criminally insane, where he was incarcerated for attempting to kill his own mother.