Creator: Roy Strong
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-01-27
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.50
Review The Diary of John Evelyn / Everyman's Library:
Publication date: 2004-05-20
Dewey code: 940.542142092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.66
Review D-Day Hero: CSM Stanley Hollis VC / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-09-01
Dewey code: 942.055092
Price: £8.99
Review Elizabeth, the Queen / Pimlico:Elizabeth I survived to become queen by being very careful. The fact that she avoided being used or implicated by the various plots against her radically Protestant brother Henry VIII, and fanatically Catholic sister Mary I, was a triumph in itself, and she never forgot the lesson that survival needed to be her first goal. What many of her contemporaries took for irritating womanly indecision was a refusal to be hurried; some situations change and some go away, but you can never escape the consequences of your actions-she protected Mary, Queen of Scots for as long as she could. Alison Weir's new biography covers the facts well enough, but she understands Elizabeth's situation imaginatively, and that is what makes her book special. Elizabeth not only overcame the misogyny of the world she lived in-she exploited it; Weir's own feminism gives her insights into the canny role-playing that was so crucial to Elizabeth's chameleon nature. Everything had to be policy from wigs and fans to rack and gallows; this is a biography which understands not only what happened, but how it seemed and felt at the time. This is an excellent conclusion to Weir's series of Tudor biographies-popular history which brings good sense to bear on scholarly fact. -Roz Kaveney.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1987-12-01
Dewey code: 271.3024
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.62
Review St. Francis of Assisi / Bantam Doubleday Dell:There are certainly many studies of Saint Francis of Assisi that an interested reader might find, and many of them immensely praiseworthy. But in reading G. K. Chesterton on Francis you get two glories for one: first is an enlightening study of this most beloved of Christian saints, and second is Chesterton himself, one of the great Christian writers of the 20th century, who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 because, it has been said, "only the Roman Church could produce a St. Francis of Assisi". Published shortly after his conversion, Chesterton wrote this book in part to reclaim Francis for the Church. There are always those who want to claim Francis for their cause, Chesterton recognised, who also fail to understand the spiritual and intellectual ground upon which he stands. Chesterton would return Francis to Christ. As he summarises:however wild and romantic his gyrations might appear to many, [Francis] always hung on to reason by one invisible and indestructible hair. [+]The great saint was sane. He was not a mere eccentric because he was always turning towards the center and heart of the maze; he took the queerest and most zigzag short cuts through the wood, but he was always going home. As one editor of Chesterton's puts it, "of St. Francis he might have said what he said about Blake: 'We always feel that he is saying something very plain and emphatic even when we have not the wildest notion of what it is'". -Doug Thorpe.
Publication date: 2000-09
Dewey code: 900
RRP: £4.57
Price: £13.95
Review Daring the Sea: The Dramatic True Story of the First Men to Cross the Atlantic in a Rowboat / Pinnacle Books:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1998-06-29
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £9.95
Price: £5.84
Review We Landed by Moonlight: Secret Raf Landings in France 1940-1944 / Crecy Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2007-06-07
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.87
Review Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots Against the Fuhrer / Vintage:
Edition: 3. Uberarb. Und
Publication date: 2007-03-30
Dewey code: 002.0688
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.45
Review The Yellow-lighted Bookshop / Graywolf Press,U.S.:
Publication date: 2005-11-17
Dewey code: 940.48141
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.35
Review Veterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War / Leo Cooper Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-09-03
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.99
Review Courtesans / HarperPerennial:
Authors
- Arnaud Durieux
- Murray Englehart
Dewey code: 782.421660922
RRP: £16.98
Price: £31.40
Review AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll: The Ultimate Story of the World's Greatest Rock-And-Roll Band / HarperEntertainment:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-07-01
Dewey code: 823.92
RRP: £14.00
Price: £4.52
Review Plain Jane: A Novel of Jane Seymour / Berkley Publishing Group:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2005-12-27
Dewey code: 323.092
Price: £8.74
Review Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) / Penguin Books:
Publication date: 2005-06-03
Dewey code: 973.46092
RRP: £4.55
Price: £1.21
Review Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson / Dover Publications:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-09-23
Dewey code: 910.92
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.79
Review Slim: The Standardbearer (Wordsworth Military Library): The Standardbearer (Wordsworth Military Library) / Wordsworth Editions Ltd:
Creator: Edward Kelsey
Publication date: 2005-11-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.99
Review Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson / Crimson Cats:
Creator: Bernard O'Donoghue
Publication date: 2008-12-31
Dewey code: 821
RRP: £17.99
Price: £17.09
Review The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (Cambridge Companions to Literature) / Cambridge University Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-10-05
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.20
Review The Tyrannicide Brief: The Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold / Vintage:
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 1993-10-01
Dewey code: 381.149092
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.44
Review Sam Walton: Made in America / Bantam USA:
Publication date: 2008-09-17
Dewey code: 338.4779509793135
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.89
Review Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Lovemann, and the Race to Own Las Vegas / HYPERION:
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