Creator: Isla Blair
Publication date: 2004-02-05
Dewey code: 941
Price: £16.99
Review The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (CD) / Orion:
Creator: Jim Norton
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2008-10-01
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.89
Review Henry: Virtuous Prince / HarperPress:
Creator: Tim Pigott-Smith
Publication date: 2004-11-01
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.99
Review The Monarchy of England: Beginnings v. 1 / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Peter Jeffrey
Publication date: 1998-09-07
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £9.00
Price: £7.69
Review This Sceptred Isle: Elizabeth I to Cromwell 1547-1660 v.4: Elizabeth I to Cromwell 1547-1660 Vol 4 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-10-11
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.60
Review Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1660-1663 v. 1 / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 2003-10-20
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.76
Review The Vicious Vikings (Horrible Histories) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: John Lee
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-07-01
Dewey code: 940.21
RRP: £12.49
Price: £8.98
Review Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World / Tantor Media, Inc:
Creator: Patricia Hodge
Publication date: 2003-01-20
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.93
Review Elizabeth / HarperCollins Audio:The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, Good Queen Bess; Elizabeth I holds a unique place in the English imagination as one of the nation's most powerful, charismatic and successful monarchs. Elizabeth is usually imagined as the icy, untouchable figure memorably recreated on screen by Bette Davis and Judi Dench, but that vision of Elizabeth ignores the turbulent years of her early life, from her birth as the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1533, until her accession to the throne in 1558 following the death of her sister Mary. It is these early years which are the subject of David Starkey's fascinating Elizabeth I, written to accompany his television series about the life of Elizabeth. Starkey argues that in her first 25 years Elizabeth "had experienced every vicissitude of fortune and ever extreme of condition. She had been Princess and inheritrix of England, and bastard and disinherited; the nominated successor to the throne and an accused traitor on the verge of execution; showered with lands and houses and a prisoner in the Tower". He draws on his skills as a respected Tudor historian to produce a deft account of the religious, political and dynastic maelstrom of mid-16th century England that reads "like a historical thriller". The book carefully picks its way through the finer points of contemporary religious conflict and the peculiarities of Tudor court ceremony, whilst also exploring the formation of Elizabeth's character in relation to a murdered mother, a charismatic father, a tortured sister, and a predatory guardian. Highly readable and written with verve and pace, this is a fascinating account of the young Elizabeth. -Jerry Brotton.
Creator: Jim Norton
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2007-09-17
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.90
Review Monarchy: England and Her Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Creator: Anna Massey
Publication date: 2005-02-03
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.31
Review Catherine de Medici (CD) / Orion:
Creator: Robert Bathurst
Publication date: 2007-04-16
RRP: £16.99
Price: £0.80
Review The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Creator: Jill Balcon
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-07-01
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.00
Review Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self / Penguin Audiobooks:Claire Tomalin was born to write a biography of Samuel Pepys. Her previously acclaimed biographies of Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft have defined her as a scrupulous biographer who establishes a unique empathy with her subjects. In Pepys Tomalin has found her perfect subject, a man who is "both the most ordinary and the most extraordinary writer you will ever meet". Pepys wrote his diary throughout the 1660s, "a period as intellectually thrilling as it was dangerous and bloody", and Tomalin's book vividly brings to life the tumultuous world of 17-century London, where Pepys grew up. Pepys' life spanned the execution of one king and the restoration of another, and Tomalin elegantly recreates both Pepys' public and private lives. From his early days in London and then Cambridge, Tomalin pieces together the crucial years when "the private Samuel Pepys began to develop and yearn". She chronicles his rise through the bureaucracy of the restored king, Charles II, to his position as energetic reformer of the navy and successful husband to his vivacious, mercurial wife Elizabeth. But the book also deals with Pepy's personal tragedies, his struggle to secure patronage as a commoner, his frank and hilarious extra-marital exploits, and the cataclysmic Fire of London in 1666. This is a fine biography of an extraordinary man who "found the energy and commitment to create a new literary form" while also coming across as a generous, likeable, flawed human being. Tomalin's admiration for her subject is infectious, and will ensure that her biography becomes the standard reference for anyone interested in both Pepys's life and his art. [+]-Jerry Brotton.
Publication date: 2004-10-11
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.94
Review Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1667-1669 v. 3 / Hodder & Stoughton:
Creator: Neville Jason
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1997-05
Dewey code: 937
RRP: £24.99
Price: £16.48
Review The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 2): Audio CDs: Pt. 2 (Classic non-fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Renee Raudman
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-12-07
RRP: £15.49
Price: £8.60
Review The Railway Children (Unabridged Classics in Audio) / Tantor Media, Inc:
Publication date: 2003-10-20
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.76
Review The Measly Middle Ages (Horrible Histories) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Michael Maloney
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2003-04-30
Dewey code: 941.066092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.73
Review The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Selections / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2004-10-11
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £16.99
Price: £16.99
Review Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1664-1666 v. 2 / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-09-04
RRP: £75.00
Price: £46.99
Review This Sceptred Isle, Empire Box Set (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Peter Jeffrey
Publication date: 1998-10-05
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £9.00
Price: £6.09
Review This Sceptred Isle: Restoration and Glorious Revolution 1660-1702 v.5: Restoration and Glorious Revolution 1660-1702 Vol 5 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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