THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLERA Book of the Year in The Times and Financial Times'The biographer who brought down Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor' THE OBSERVER'This isn't a book; it's a case for revolution' SUNDAY TIMES'Undoubtedly the most important book of the last year, if not the century' MAIL ON SUNDAY'This book has changed the way its readers think.
In 1461 Edward earl of March, an able, handsome, and charming eighteen-year old, usurped the English throne from his feeble Lancastrian predecessor Henry VI.
Foremost medieval historian Anne Curry offers a new reinterpretation of Henry V and the battle that defined his kingship: AgincourtHenry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble.
Winner of the 2026 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical BiographyA Financial Times History Book of the Year 2025'After finishing this beguiling book, there seems no point in reading anything else.
Crown jewels, coronations and corgis, this is a warm and nostalgic biography of powerhouse monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, written by experienced biographer Michelle Morgan.
'A brilliant study of a brilliant woman' LUCY WORSLEYHistory has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as 'the cleverest queen consort Britain ever had'.
Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen - from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt - this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today - great history to appeal to readers of Ken Follet, Bernard Cornwell, Tom HollandEngland's greatest royal dynasty, the Plantagenets, ruled over England through eight generations of kings.
The image of Charles II as a randy monarch who dragged the crown through the moral mire and irredeemably weakened its position has persisted throughout the three centuries since John Evelyn gave his judgement.
Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2014A rich historical biography of 'those wild Wyndhams' - three cultured aristocratic sisters born into great privilege in late Victorian Britain.
Following on from his epic '1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow', bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna.
In this intimate portrait of Princess Sibylla of Sweden, renowned royal historian Roger Lundgren reveals the remarkable life of one of Europe's most misunderstood royal figures.
El escritor italiano Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) hizo de la novela policiaca una manera de mostrar el conflicto entre individuo y poder, un instrumento de la memoria en su lucha contra el olvido y una forma de exponer que todo poder es siempre inmoral.
When Charlene Wittstock married Prince Albert of Monaco in a star-studded wedding watched by millions across the world in 2011, rumours of her getting cold feet and her unhappiness about his love children swirled around the couple.
From the relentless media scrutiny and controversies of their 2022 Caribbean Tour to the shock cancer diagnoses of both the Princess of Wales and the King, this captivating biography by acclaimed royal expert Russell Myers intimately traces the story of William and Catherine s relationship from their earliest meeting at St Andrews University to the present day.
Ein monumentales literarisches Denkmal für eine Epoche im Umbruch – Heinrich von Saalfeld entführt seine Leser in die düsteren Augusttage des Jahres 1786, als Preußen Abschied von seinem größten König nahm.
Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel-Bevern, Konigin von Preuen, Gemahlin des bewunderten "e;Roi philosophe"e; - sie war eine der machtigsten Frauen Europas und zugleich eine der einsamsten.
"e;The Vicomte de Bragelonne: A Gripping Tale of Loyalty, Love, and Betrayal by Alexandre Dumas"e;Step into a world of loyalty, love, and political intrigue with Alexandre Dumas' "e;The Vicomte de Bragelonne,"e; an epic story that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
In "Mallorquinische Dynastien: Macht, Eroberungen und Intrigen im Herzen des Mittelmeers" entführt Sebastian Pinto den Leser in eine Epoche, in der Könige nicht nur über Länder, sondern auch über das Schicksal ganzer Völker herrschten.
Die Geschichte der britischen Monarchie ist weit mehr als eine Abfolge prunkvoller Zeremonien und makelloser Herrscher – sie ist ein stiller Wandel, der sich im leisen, aber tiefgreifenden Übergang von Thronfolger zu Monarch offenbart.
Conditioned by a childhood surrounded by the rivalries of the Stewart family, and by eighteen years of enforced exile in England, James I was to prove a king very different from his elderly and conservative forerunners.
