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Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People by Andrew Marr
Category: Biography
Published alongside a flagship BBC television series to mark her Diamond Jubilee, this book is an account of The Queen's reign. With the flair for narrative and the meticulous research that readers have come to expect, Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch - and to the monarchy, chronicling the ...Show more
Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged by Andrew Marr
Category: History
The Sunday Times bestseller Now a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan Morris. Diana Dors. Bob Geldof. David Olusoga. Elizabeth David. Zaha Hadid. Frank Crichlow. Quentin Crisp. Dusty Springfield. Captain Tom. Who made modern Britain the country it is tod ...Show more
Gillian Ayres by Andrew Marr
Category: Art and Design
This beautifully produced volume is the definitive monograph on an artist described by contributor Andrew Marr as 'probably the finest abstract painter alive in Britain'. Now in her late eighties, Gillian Ayres has been celebrated for more than six decades for her use of vibrant colour and bold forms to ...Show more
Head of State by Andrew Marr
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Two corpses. A country on the edge of a political precipice. A conspiracy so bold it would make Machiavelli wince. Andrew Marr's debut novel imagines what really might be going on behind the door of 10 Downing Street. When a young investigative reporter is found dead on the streets of London few people ...Show more
Head of State by Andrew Marr
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Two corpses. A country on the edge of a political precipice. A conspiracy so bold it would make Machiavelli wince. Andrew Marr's debut novel imagines what really might be going on behind the door of 10 Downing Street. When a young investigative reporter is found dead on the streets of London few people ...Show more
New History of the World by Andrew Marr
Category: History
Andrew Marr, author of two best-selling histories of Great Britain now turns his attention to the world as a whole. A New History of the World takes readers from the Mayans to Mongolia, from the kingdom of Benin to the court of the Jagiellonian kings of Poland. Traditional histories of this kind have te ...Show more
The Battle for Scotland by Andrew Marr
Category: History
Andrew Marr's first book tells the distinctive story of Scottish politics - now updated with a new introductory chapter. 'We may be about to see a new country - indeed, two new countries, - emerging on these islands. Half a lifetime ago, I sat down to write this book as a work of history. As it's aged, ...Show more
The Changeling by Robin Jenkins; Andrew Marr (Afterword by); Alan Spence (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but only one, Charlie Forbes, sees something in Tom and his seemingly insolent smile. So, Forbes decides to take Tom on holiday with his own family, with tragic consequences.From ...Show more
The Diamond Queen by Andrew Marr
Category: Biography
<b><i>Sunday Times</i> Top 10 B</b><b>estseller</b><b>, fully revised and updated with a new chapter.</b> <b>'</b><b>Absorbing . . . particularly acute on the political aspects of constitutional monarchy, but he also writes perceptively a ...Show more