Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Zoli
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“Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. Seventy-three years have passed now across my brow. I ...Read Review
Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII’s Most Notorious Minister
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Thomas Cromwell and his first master Cardinal Wolsey had much in common: both were commoners whose loyalty lay entirely with the Tudor crown ...Read Review
Edward VI: The Lost King of England
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The ‘tagline’ of this work is ‘the struggle for the soul of England after the death of Henry VIII’. This is important because ...Read Review
Ghostwalk
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This is a strange and intriguing book, part detective mystery, part love story, part ghost story. It is set in Cambridge from 2003 onwards ...Read Review
Pompeii: The Living City
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Beginning in 54 AD, twenty-five years before Vesuvius rained ash and death, Pompeii covers the life of the city through the eyes of citizens ...Read Review
Twelve Days
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Everyone knows about the defeated Hungarian revolution of 1956, but few know the details. Although the rebellion does not start until a hundred pages ...Read Review
The Foreign Correspondent
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Carlo Weisz is an Italian émigré living in Paris and working for Reuters, covering the Spanish Civil War during the winter of 1938...Read Review
Elizabeth’s Spy Master : Francis Walshingham and the Secret War that Saved England
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This is a meticulous study of the shadowy world of espionage and its master, Francis Walsingham. As Elizabeth’s principal Secretary of ...Read Review
The Last Days of Newgate
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This is the first of a proposed series featuring Pyke, sometimes crook, sometimes Bow Street Runner. It is 1829. Peel is proposing controversial ...Read Review
A Strange Death: Espionage, Betrayal and Vengeance in a Village in Old Palestine
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This book may be non-fiction, but it is far from being your usual history book. It is a murder-mystery set in a small ...Read Review
