Kings and Queens: 1200 Years of English and British Monarchs
By: Iain Dale
4.36
Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition
'We all know about Queen Victoria, Edward VIII and Queen Elizabeth II, but how much do we really kn…
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1. Shakespeare: The World as Stage
By: Bill Bryson
3.81
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
At first glance, Bill Bryson seems an odd choice to write this addition to the Eminent Lives series… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Even Scientific American entered the fray with an article proposing that the person portrayed in the famous Martin Droeshout engraving might actually be--I weep to say it--Elizabeth I."-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"So it needs to be said that nearly all of the anti-Shakespeare sentiment—actually all of it, every bit—involves manipulative scholarship or sweeping misstatements of fact. Shakespeare “never owned a …"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"(...)we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don’t really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at …"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample l…"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
2. The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
By: Ian Mortimer
3.87
Format: 172 pages,
The past is a foreign country - this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-160… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
3. Beautiful
By: Katie Piper
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
A harrowing but ultimately inspiring memoir of how one girl's beautiful face and spirit was destroy… read more
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- nonfiction
4. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
By: Marc Morris
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king - a man born to rule … read more
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- history
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5. Predator: Incursion (The Rage War, #1)
By: Tim Lebbon
4.14
Format: 560 pages, ebook
Predator ships stream into human space in unprecedented numbers. The Colonial Marines, controlled b… read more
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6. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
By: Dan Jones
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more
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7. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
By: Ian Mortimer
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
"Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception."-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"So, as long as you can get enough to eat, and can avoid all the various lethal infections, the dangers of childbirth, lead poisoning, and the extreme violence, you should live a long time. All you ha…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"Collectively they remind us that history is much more than an education process. Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
8. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
9. Murder on Lake Garda
By: Tom Hindle
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more
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10. The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2)
By: Alison Weir
4.03
Format: 593 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the private side of t… read more
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- british literature
11. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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12. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
13. Tackle!
By: Jilly Cooper
3.74
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Jilly Cooper's legendary hero returns! Rupert Campbell-Black, undefeated race-horse owner and ha… read more
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14. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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15. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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16. Munich Wolf
By: Rory Clements
4.24
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Führer. In t… read more
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17. Cuentos de navidad
By: Charles Dickens
3.80
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
Junto a la célebre Canción de Navidad, este volumen reúne otros tres cuentos de Charles Dickens (18… read more
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"Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!"-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad
"A la hermosa vida de un plácido crepúsculo otoñal, a la vida tranquila una habitación silenciosa, con un enorme ventanal abierto; más allá, una terraza donde se movían las hojas y las flores perfumab…"-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad
"She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed — as no doubt it was; all kinds of good little dots about …"-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad
"The Grocers'! oh the Grocers'! nearly closed, with perhaps two shutters down, or one; but through those gaps such glimpses! It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sou…"-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad
18. Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II
By: Robert Hardman
4.33
Format: 690 pages, Hardcover
The definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by a renowned royal biographer. As seen on Good Morn… read more
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19. The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast
By: Tom Holland
3.85
Format: 522 pages, Kindle Edition
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys... there's a new history book in town. Fro… read more
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20. Doctor Who: The Star Beast
By: Gary Russell
3.95
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
A life-changing encounter. A fugitive from the stars. Wrathful warriors in pursuit. Landing on… read more
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21. Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder
By: Mark Morris
4.01
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
A ship at the edge of space. A robot with a secret. A sinister presence. The Doctor and Donna … read more
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22. The Good Wife
By: Gemma Rogers
4.35
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
Appearances can be deceiving… After a whirlwind romance and three years of marriage, I’d tried to b… read more
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23. Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War
By: Tim Marshall
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular wr… read more
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24. Kings and Queens: 1200 Years of English and British Monarchs
By: Iain Dale
4.36
Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition
'We all know about Queen Victoria, Edward VIII and Queen Elizabeth II, but how much do we really kn… read more
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25. A Wedding at the Comfort Food Café (Comfort Food Cafe, #6)
By: Debbie Johnson
4.24
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
Wedding bells ring out in Budbury as the Comfort Food Café and its cosy community of regulars are g… read more
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26. Blue Murder: The Rise and Fall of the Conservative Government, 2010–2024
By: Ben Riley-Smith
4.01
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The explosive full story of the past dozen years of Tory rule, from coalition to self-destruction. … read more
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27. The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2)
By: Mark Billingham
4.41
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . . The second rip-roaring mystery from m… read more
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28. The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain
By: Martin Williams
4.33
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Unforgettable as it was, the public response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 w… read more
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29. Our Planet
By: Alastair Fothergill
4.50
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
________ THE OFFICAL COMPANION TO THE GROUNDBREAKING NEW NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY SERIES ‘The futu… read more
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30. The Cauldron and the Drum: A Journey into Celtic Shamanism
By: Rhonda McCrimmon
4.38
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Rhonda McCrimmon brings the ancient, healing wisdom of Celtic shamanism to life so we can break fre… read more
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