The Earl and the Pharaoh
£20.00Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography.
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Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography.

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgotten rainforests – and an inspiring intervention to help restore them to the places they once were


This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out.
When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. ‘Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!’

‘Something’s crossed over in me and I can’t go back,’ says Geena Davis’s Thelma to Susan Sarandon’s Louise. The path to empowerment never did run smooth ?

The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation.

A gorgeously produced, hugely original examination of Black Britishness in the 21st century


The very best photographs from Bird Photographer of the Year.


From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography.
‘It’s Succession in tailcoats and spats ? This is a vivid and eye-opening group biography, backgrounded by the rise of supermarket moguls from humble beginnings’ Sunday Times

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