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The Caton sisters were Southern belles descended from the first settlers in Maryland, and were expected to 'marry a…

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States was a virtuous man ensnared by an uncontrollable vice. This…

Riktor doesn't like the way the policeman comes straight into the house without knocking. He doesn't like the arrogant way…

Without deepsmen guarding its shores, no nation can resist invasion - and without princes born of the royal blood, part…

• Rok vydání 2012

They fall in love and Noel keeps watching. In their final year, the boys room together and as Julius grows closer to Fall,…

From the author of the internationally acclaimed Putin's Russia and A Russian Diary. Until her murder in October 2006, Anna…

• Rok vydání 1825

It is 1825 and high in the mountains of South Africa a group of slavesstand accused of the murder of their owner, Nicolass…

Elizabeth I is often portrayed as a ruthless 'man's woman', who derided her own sex - and loved to flirt with the young men…

This is the story of the growing up of Martin Brennan, a troubled boy in troubled times, a boy who knows all the questions…

In the late 1990s, a group of young drifters find themselves together on the coast of Wales. They explore and attempt to…

Tells the story of Hollywood. This book takes us from the discovery of oil in the Twenties with the story of the tycoon…

Auden's dedication as a writer was matched only by his commitment to challenging the received view of political and personal…

The first volume of John Fowles's Journals ended with him achieving international literary renown after the publication of…

From his childhood in South Carolina, and the events which haunt him for the rest of his days, the narrative shifts to the…

Village life goes on, meanwhile, with its affairs and mysteries, marriages and murders, and the vintages keep improving -…

Promoted young to the position of Crown Court Judge - because of his ability, but perhaps also for certain questions of…

Paganism means living in harmony with nature and respecting all that nature has to offer.…

Written as an official report for MI5 in 1945, originally published with the permission of the British Government over…

From red giants - stars so enormous they could engulf a million suns - to supernova explosions - the most violent events in…

Errki's doctor refuses to believe that he could have committed such an horrific act and, for the first time since his wife's…

Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which…

By following a group of four contemporary girls - including her younger self - as they come of age in the seventies, Wolf…

But when his father is suddenly taken ill Thomas returns home, to the tiny village in the north of England where his father…

In this remarkable new assessment of the Fourth Crusade, Jonathan Phillips follows the fortunes of the leading players and…

He explains how new research demonstrates that the massive ethnic cleansing Eichmann conducted in argues controversially…

Burma is notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control: where scissor-wielding censors monitor the…

On holiday in Suffolk, a boy and his dog discover a World War II pillbox half buried on a deserted beach. They learn a…

ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to Henry changed England forever... JANE SEYMOUR:…

'Engaging and highly entertaining' Sunday Times The dramatic confrontation between the two 'mighty opposites' of the…

Includes Ms Cupcake's indulgent recipes to make at home using ingredients readily available at the supermarket or local…

Yasmin Khan presents the overlooked history of India at war, and shows how mobilisation for the war unleashed seismic…

A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany…

While tending to his father's business affairs, John Lempriere, a young scholar, discovers a 150-year-old conspiracy that…

The extraordinary story of a small Jewish ghetto in a small town in Poland - and of one man's obsessive quest to discover…

It includes extracts from A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil, as well as literary criticism on a range of writers from…

It is based on the most extensive independent research ever conducted inside the BBC, during which Georgina Born was allowed…

Stuart's step-brother Edward Baltram is tormented by guilt because he has, he believes, killed his best friend. Funny,…

Golden Richards is a normal dad. Unbeknownst to his wives, Golden has taken a construction job on a Nevada brothel. Lying to…

A dramatic, thought-provoking portrait of one of the most compelling figures in early Christianity which explores two…

Deals with the Rabbitte family from Barrytown, Dublin. In this title, we follow the rapid rise of Jimmy Rabbitte's soul…

Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization'.…

Tells the story of M Francisco Fabrigas, explorer, philosopher, heretical physicist, who took a shipful of children on a…

Henry Irving - a merchant's clerk who became the saviour of British theatre - and Ellen Terry, who made her first theatre…

For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound…

The third novel of the Pyat quartet finds Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski scheming his way from New York to Hollywood, Cairo to…

But as Wayne grows up within the hyper-male hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self - a girl he thinks of as…

Combining compelling narrative history with helpful chronology, A People's History of Britain tells the story - from the…

Though unquestionably one of the greatest and best-loved of all composers, George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) had received…