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| Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton Flora Fraser The mistress and obsession of Britain's greatest hero, Emma was the daughter of a blacksmith, a prostitute by 17, and wife of the British ambassador to Naples by 26. This is the extraordinary life and career of one of the most captivating women of the 19th century.… |
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| Byron: Life and Legend Fiona MacCarthy Famously mad, bad, and dangerous to know. The first and most enduring international pop star, rebel, and freedom fighter. Moody romantics and melancholy poets have been copying him (whether they know it or not) ever since he shot to overnight fame in 1812. Incest and sodo… |
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| Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino Emily W. Leider The iconic lover of the 20th century and Hollywood's first and defining "leading man". Valentino died young but his life, from the early days in Italy and France to his apogee in Hollywood, was tumultuous. Women didn't know what had hit them (and consequently neith… |
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| David Beckham: My Side - The Autobiography David Beckham Ubiquitous. More pinned up than J***s. Captain of England and the most marketable sportsman on Earth. What does it take? Hear it from the EX-captain of England. Paperback - HarperCollinsWillow - 2004… |
£7.99 | ||
| Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England Alison Weir The greatest heiress of the age; raised at the birthplace of courtly love; the only person to sit on the thrones of England and France; mentioned in the Carmina Burana as a bit of all right; participant in the Second Crusade; mother of Richard the Lionheart. Eleanor was famously beautiful… |
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| Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn Donald Spoto "God kissed her on the cheek and there she was". Since one can never do enough credit to Audrey hepburn the biographies will keep flowing. Donald Spoto's new material on the Icon of 20th century style and grace follows his much lauded biographies of… |
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| Evita: The Real Lives of Eva Peron Nicholas Fraser/Marysa Navarro The most mythologised political figure of the 20th century? A character in a musical? A tomb bigger than the Statue of Liberty? A saint? A nazi? An unelected egomaniac? Who the hell is Eva Peron? Paperback - Andre Deutsch - 2003… |
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| Isabella: She-wolf of France, Queen of England Alison Weir Did Isabella get it on with that nice William Wallace? Did she really shove a red hot poker up Edward II's bottom? Alison Weir avoids the Mel Gibson "interpretaton" but argues that she wasn't really a nasty murderess either. Another gripping tale of a st… |
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| Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy Sarah Bradford The epitome of the femme fatale-type pin up, Lucrezia Borgia lived in turbulent times. Daughter of the notorious Pope Alexander VI, sister to Cesare Borgia (the model for Machiavelli's Prince), she was reputedly lover to both. Inextricably linked to the power politics&… |
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| Queen Emma and the Vikings: The Woman who Shaped the Events of 1066 Harriet O'Brien Power, politics, love, greed, and scandal Viking style - a Norman princess, wife to two kings of England (Aethelred the Unready and Cnut), mother to two more, step-mother to another two, and great aunt to William the Conqueror. Emma was the pin up who set the scene for 1066… |
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| Sir Walter Raleigh Robert Lacey The cloak and the puddle, tobacco and chips. Raleigh set the standard for chivalrous pinuppery. Gentleman and scholar, Queen Elizabeth's favourite, buccaneer and explorer, and finally prisoner in the Tower of London. Walter Raleigh was the English Renaissance man extraordinaire… |
£14.99 | ||
| The Story of My Life Giacomo Casanova Casanova went everywhere and met everyone, got exiled from half of them and slept with most of them; he died at 73, a librarian in a castle in Bohemia. The archetypal seducer...but also adventurer, gambler, churchman, prisoner, exile, traveller, spy, diplomat, philosop… |
£8.99 |