Elizabeth I (Somerset Lady Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Elizabeth I (Somerset Lady Anne)(Paperback / softback)

An acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I and an examination of the politics and intrigues of her Tudor

Unnatural Murder: Poison In The Court Of James I (Somerset Lady Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Royal scandal, set against the background of the Jacobean court, involving love, bribery, poison, treachery and black magic - 'a hugely enjoyable book' Daily

Northern Lady (Jacobs Anna)(Paperback / softback)

Queen Anne - The Politics of Passion (Somerset Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Her personal life riven by passion, illness and intrigue, Queen Anne presided over some of the most momentous events in British history. Like Antonia Fraser's life of Marie Antoinette or Amanda Foreman's 'The Duchess', 'Queen Anne' is historical biography at its

View Of The Harbour - A Virago Modern Classic (Taylor Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all' Anne TylerIn the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory is painfully involved with her

Somerset (Mitchell David)(Paperback / softback)

Lady Anne's Way (Gordon Sheila)(Paperback / softback)

Lady Anne's Way is a long distance trail of 100 miles following in the footsteps of the remarkable Lady Anne Clifford. Large scale strip maps and detailed descriptions of the entire route are interspersed with fascinating historical background, brought together with 40 beautiful drawings from

Cakes And Ale (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

West Somerset Railway Further Recollections(Paperback / softback)

Lady Audley's Secret (Braddon Mary Elizabeth)(Paperback)

Weathering critical scorn, Lady Audley's Secret quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, sharing the honour only with Wilkie Collins. Addictive, cunningly plotted and certainly sensational, Lady Audley's Secret draws on contemporary theories

Ladies in Waiting - a history of court life from the Tudors to the present day (Somerset Anne)(Paperback / softback)

An illuminating commentary on court life from the Tudors to the present

Lady Audley's Secret (Braddon Mary Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despair. In this fiction, a new Lady Audley arrives at the manor: young, beautiful - and very mysterious. Why does she behave so strangely? What, exactly, is the dark secret this seductive

Collected Short Stories Volume 2 (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

Ashenden (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. The stories collected in Ashenden are rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue

Lady in Waiting (Glenconner Anne)(Paperback)

Somerset & Dorset Railway Through Time (Gillett Steph)(Paperback / softback)

A wonderful collection of photographs showing the Somerset & Dorset Railway in operation, after abandonment and during the present

Walks for All Ages Somerset - 19 Circular Walks (Robinson Sue)(Paperback / softback)

Aurora Floyd (Braddon Mary Elizabeth)(Paperback)

With Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs Henry Wood, as one of the ruling triumvirate of sensation novelists'. Aurora Floyd (1862-3), following hot on its heels, achieved almost equal popularity and notoriety. Like Lady Audley,

Cranford (Gaskell Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Party (Day Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Grobblechops (Laird Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

microbursts (Reeder Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Valentine (Wetmore Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Friends And Relations (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Two of Bowen's most memorable characters are in attendance: Lady Elfrida, a creature of privilege, and Theodora Thirdman, a gawky teenager with zero self-awareness. The sunset of prosperity is upon this complacent, moneyed class, but Bowen's precise and beautiful prose pins real pain and comedy