The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown
By: Nick Barratt
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"A vivid and humane study of the Plantagenets' diabolical and devious first family - a real joy to …
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1. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
By: Dan Jones
4.27
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Rebels depend on willful gullibility."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Extravagance was a political necessity."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
2. Debs At War: How Wartime Changed their Lives, 1939-1945
By: Anne de Courcy
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
This volume concerns how wartime changed the lives of the most sheltered section of British society… read more
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- historical
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3. The Outcasts of Time
By: Ian Mortimer
4.35
Format: 104 pages,
The year is 1348 and brothers John and William have been infected by the plague. Their fate is seal… read more
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- historical
4. Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
By: Gareth Russell
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretati… read more
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5. The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
By: Leanda de Lisle
4.67
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times Bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the tragic stor… read more
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6. The Chessmen (Lewis Trilogy, #3)
By: Peter May
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating … read more
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7. A Realm Divided: England in 1215
By: Dan Jones
3.93
Format: 300 pages,
1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history … read more
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8. 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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9. Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
By: C.J. Sansom
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII h… read more
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10. The Good Shepherd
By: C.S. Forester
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
The Good Shepherd has been adapted into a major motion picture, Greyhound, scripted by and starring… read more
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11. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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- european history
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12. The Bookseller of Inverness
By: S.G. MacLean
4.08
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more
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13. 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
14. 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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15. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By: Charles Spencer
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more
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- medieval history
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- european history
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16. Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
By: Dan Jones
3.92
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel… read more
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"What matters is that you did not know the story. And the reason you did not...is that our ancestor William - through his deeds of arms, his force of personality and his vast conquests - had achieved …"-Dan Jones, Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
17. A Spy Alone
By: Charles Beaumont
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
'This is first class' The Times 'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘A marvellously con… read more
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18. Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI
By: Lauren Johnson
4.33
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
First-born son of a warrior father who defeated the French at Agincourt, Henry VI of the House Lanc… read more
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"As is often the case in politics, the truth was less important than public perception."-Lauren Johnson, Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI
19. Brothers York
By: Thomas Penn
4.24
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
In early 1461, a seventeen-year-old boy won a battle on a freezing morning in the Welsh marches, an… read more
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20. The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown
By: Nick Barratt
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"A vivid and humane study of the Plantagenets' diabolical and devious first family - a real joy to … read more
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21. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
