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‘Queen Victoria had a very complicated and psychologically fascinating personality and only a very talented biographer could get to the key of her character. Fortunately in Matthew Dennison’s pithy, well-researched, beautifully written and very accessible book, she has found one’ Andrew Roberts
This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country has ever seen, and the worst. The Plantagenets – their story is the story of Britain.
A nostalgic look at what it was really like to be a 1950s mother and how the baby-boom generation was made.
28th April 1870. The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre. All eyes are riveted upon their lascivious oglings of the gentlemen in the stalls. Moments later they are led away by the police. What followed was a scandal that shocked and titillated Victorian England in equal measure.
David Foster Wallace was heralded by critics and fans as the voice of a generation. This book collects together 15 of Wallace’s essays, from ‘Federer Both Flesh and Not’, considered by many to be his non-fiction masterpiece, to ‘The (As it Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2’, his deft dissection of James Cameron’s blockbuster.
‘Winter’ takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter.
This is a portrait of the life, work and death of David Foster Wallace, the American writer who inspired a generation before tragically committing suicide in 2008 after a case of severe depression.
Jeremy Paxman goes to the very heart of empire. As he describes the selection process for colonial officers, the importance of sport, the domestic life of the colonial officer’s wife, and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum, Paxman brings to life the tragedy and comedy of Empire and reveals its profound and lasting effect on our nation.
Ahilarious memoir of growing up in 1950s suburbia by one of the UK’s best-loved columnists.
A spectacularly revealing and harrowing portrait of ordinary lives in the world’s least ordinary country, North Korea. Newly updated in 2013
While Jeu de paume has been played in France for hundreds of years, the modern game of tennis dates from 1874. Published in association with the All England Lawn Tennis Club (Wimbledon), this book examines the history of the rules of tennis from their first codification to the present day
Presents the adventures and tribulations of Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children.
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