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  • The Gunpowder Plot: Classic Histories Series

    by Alan Haynes ...
    Series series Classic Histories Series
    Every child has heard of Guy Fawkes and will most likely have watched a 'guy' being burnt on a bonfire and fireworks lighting up the night sky on Bonfire Night. This book answers the questions of history that lie behind the celebrations of 5 November.Who was Guy Fawkes and how to did he come to be below the chamber of the House of Lords in the first hour of 5 November 1605? What desperation drove ... Read more

    $5.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sex in Elizabethan England

    by Alan Haynes ...
    Approached through the literature and literary personalities of the period, this fascinating study examines sexual behaviour in the Elizabethan age. Although there is much we will never know, poets and playwrights can provide valuable insights into our ancestors' sexual lives. Here, with help from the work of figures such as Shakespeare, Marlowe and Donne, Alan Haynes builds up a vivid picture of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walsingham

    Elizabethan Spymaster and Statesman

    by Alan Haynes ...
    Walsingham, Elizabeth's spymaster had established the most extensive spy network the world had ever seen, placing secret agents throughout Europe, especially in the Catholic courts of Spain, Italy, and France, to ferret out Catholic plots against Elizabeth. He took an active part in the persecution of Catholics and, with the backing of William Cecil, entered Parliament in 1563. Joining the Privy ... Read more

    $14.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Elizabethan Secret Services

    by Alan Haynes ...
    The England of Elizabeth was a nation under threat, both from factions within and great powers without. Opposition to the Protestant establishment meant that the queen and her court constantly believe themselves menaces by subterfuge and plots. In this fragile climate, spies and spy networks were of cardinal importance. This is an unrivalled and impeccably detailed account of the 'secret services' ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Make Today Amazing Positive Affirmations, Plain Lined Workbook, Food Diary, Recipe Notebook, Planner, To Do List, Scrapbook, Academic Notepad

    by Alan Haynes ...
    "Do you want an interactive workbook that will help you to document and expand your knowledge while stimulating your mind through positive affirmations?" Then this book is for you! A wonderful workbook, tracker, diary log - or whatever you want to make it - this is one tool that will truly support you through your own daily individual journeys. You will really appreciate using this workbook. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Harem: The World Behind the Veil (25th Anniversary Edition)

    by Alev Lytle Croutier ...
    A fascinating illustrated history of one of the strangest, and cruelest, cultural institutions ever devised. A worldwide best seller, translated into twenty-five languages.“I was born in a konak (old house), which once was the harem of a pasha,” writes Alev Lytle Croutier. “People around me often whispered things about harems; my own grandmother and her sister had been brought up in one.”Drawing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Kim Jong-Il Production

    The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

    by Paul Fischer ...
    "The absurd, harrowing, and true story" of South Korean cinema stars kidnapped by Kim Jong-Il and forced to make movies before their daring escape (Esquire.com).Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios. Underwhelmed by the talent pool available to him, he took drastic steps, ordering the kidnapping of Choi Eun ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Creation of Anne Boleyn

    A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen

    by Susan Bordo ...
    This illuminating history examines the life and many legends of the 16th century Queen who was executed by her husband, King Henry VIII.Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne's life and a revealing look at her afterlife in the popular imagination. Why is her story so compelling? Why has she inspired such extreme reactions? Was she ... Read more

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  • The How To Series - 3 Book Boxed Set

    by Mia Marlowe ...
    From award-winning author Mia Marlowe, three full-length historical romances with sexy alpha heroes and the independent women who figure out “how to” bring them to heel. How to Distract a Duchess, How to Please a Pirate and How to Vex a Viscount in one glorious romp of a book set!Book 1—How to Distract a DuchessThe widowed Duchess of Southwycke doesn’t give two figs for the ton’s opinions on ... Read more

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  • The Royal Stuarts

    by Allan Massie ...
    An "evocative, visceral [and] haunting" look at one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns ( Daily Telegraph, UK)."Compelling . . . Seven hundred years of history pass lightly but with absolute assurance under Mr. Massie's hand." — The Wall Street JournalThis panoramic history of one of the world's most fascinating royal families tells the complete story of the Stuarts, from the first ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Henry IV: The Righteous King

    by Ian Mortimer ...
    The real life story of the Plantagenet ruler, by "the most remarkable medieval historian of our time" ( The Times, London).The talented, confident, and intelligent son of John of Gaunt, Henry IV started his reign as a popular and charismatic king after he dethroned the tyrannical and wildly unpopular Richard II. But six years into his reign, Henry had survived eight assassination and overthrow ... Read more

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  • The Gunpowder Plot: History in an Hour

    by Sinead Fitzgibbon ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.‘Remember, remember, the fifth of November’. The gunpowder plot is a famed tale of treachery that continues to fascinate and capture the imagination four hundred years on.The Gunpowder Plot in an Hour reveals the elaborate background to the infamous plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and James I, the ultimate act of treason. This ... Read more

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