The Life of Louis XVI
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A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers Louis XVI of...
This Awareness of Beauty: The Orchestral & Wind Band Music of Healey Willan
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This Awareness of Beauty is the first book to consider the orchestral and wind band music of...
Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician
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This candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography offers a fresh account of Robert...
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
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AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER. "A gripping account of the...
Coco Chanel: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon
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Coco Chanel: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon is an illustrated biography of Coco's Chanel's...
Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing
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Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all...
Diana: In Pursuit of Love
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When Andrew Morton's world-famous biography, Diana: Her True Story, was first published, it caused a...
Edward Lear: A Life
Peter Levi and Robin Hanbury Tenison
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"Children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land." W.H. Auden Edward Lear - beloved nonsense...
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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This is from the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story. In this groundbreaking...
Katharine of Aragon: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's First Unfortunate Wife
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KATHARINE OF ARAGON was a central figure in one of the most dramatic and formative events of Tudor...