Mistresses - Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II (Porter Linda)(Paperback / softback)

Mistresses - Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II (Porter Linda)(Paperback / softback)

A vivid account of the many mistresses of Charles II, the king who was, according to one diarist 'addicted to

Mistress of My Fate - By the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE (Rubenhold Hallie)(Paperback / softback)

Georgian England, 1789. Under a cloud of scandal, Henrietta Lightfoot flees her home at Melmouth Park. She has little money and no worthwhile talents, for what use is a neat stitch and a pretty voice outside the drawing room? Without family support, her only hope of survival lies with the dashing

Come to This Court and Cry: Secrets and Survival at the Last Nazi Trials - Kinstler Linda

To probe the past is to submit the memory of one's ancestors to a certain kind of trial. In this case, the trial came to me.A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an

King's City - London under Charles II: A city that transformed a nation - and created modern Britain (Jordan Don)(Paperback / softback)

A fast-paced and thrilling history of London at the time of King Charles II, from the acclaimed co-author of The King's Revenge and The King's

England's Mistress - The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton (Williams Kate)(Paperback / softback)

A dramatic, sparkling tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, England's Mistress traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton. Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become England's first media

Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward - Sex, Scandal and Deadly Secrets in the Profumo Affair (Summers Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

The defining book on the Profumo scandal. Updated and republished to coincide with the opening of the major new Andrew Lloyd Weber musical: Stephen

Temptation Of Elizabeth Tudor (Norton Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

The riveting story of the sex scandal that threatened the life of the young Elizabeth Tudor, and whose outcome was pivotal to the creation of the public persona of Elizabeth

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

Katherine Swynford: The History of a Medieval Mistress (Lucraft Jeannette)(Paperback)

Katherine Swynford - sexual temptress or powerful woman at the centre of the medieval court? This book unravels the many myths and legacies of this fascinating woman, to show her in a whole new light.Katherine was sister-in-law to Geoffrey Chaucer and governess to the daughters of Blanche of

Mary Tudor - The First Queen (Porter Linda)(Paperback / softback)

A groundbreaking new history of the first woman to rule England in her own

More Than A Mistress - Number 1 in series (Balogh Mary)(Paperback / softback)

NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Mary Balogh invites you into a world of scandal and seduction, glittering high society and intrigue, as an arrogant duke does the unthinkable - falls in love with his mistress

Gambling Man - Charles II and the Restoration (Uglow Jenny)(Paperback / softback)

Bleak House (Dickens Charles)(Pevná vazba)

At the court of Chancery the inheritance case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has been going on for generations, but a new piece of evidence might end it once and for all. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon

King Charles II (Fraser Lady Antonia)(Paperback / softback)

'The fullest and most sophisticated account of the most charming and approachable of English kings'

Brideshead Revisited - The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder (Waugh Evelyn)(Paperback / softback)

Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants. But he also discovers a world which threatens

Vast Conspiracy - The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President (Toobin Jeffrey)(Paperback / softback)

The International Bestseller The definitive account of the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandals, A Vast Conspiracy casts an insightful eye over the extraordinary ordeal that nearly brought down a

London - A Social History (Porter Roy)(Paperback / softback)

Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, and Spark. It is a celebration of the city and also an elegy for its decline, with statistics

Angel and the Cad - Love, Loss and Scandal in Regency England (Roberts Geraldine)(Paperback / softback)

A compelling account of scandal and betrayal in Regency

Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (Doyle Jennifer)(Paperback)

The declaration that a work of art is 'about sex' is often announced to the public as a scandal after which there is nothing else to say about the work or the artist-controversy concludes a conversation when instead it should begin a new one. Moving beyond debates about pornography and censorship,

King's City - London under Charles II: A city that transformed a nation - and created modern Britain (Jordan Don)(Pevná vazba)

A fast-paced and thrilling history of London at the time of King Charles II, from the acclaimed co-author of The King's Revenge and The King's

Mistresses of Cliveden - Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home (Livingstone Natalie)(Paperback / softback)

'It covers three centuries of high living, high politics and high drama [...] it is so fascinating' MEL SYKES_____________________________A Sunday Times bestsellerFive

Castle on Sunset - Love, Fame, Death and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont (Levy Shawn)(Paperback / softback)

The intoxicating story of Hollywood, as seen from the suites and bungalows of its most iconic

Reinvention of Humanity - How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Remade Race, Sex and Gender (King Charles)(Paperback / softback)

All About Evolution (Winston Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Looks at the story of evolutionary science and the way Charles Darwin's revolutionary theories changed the world. This title shows how theories developed after Darwin, with modern scientists revealing the secrets of genes and DNA and showing what lies in the