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A Daughter's Love: Thomas and Margaret More by John Guy
Category: Biography
This book will break open a secret. It is a gripping tale of love, loyalty and domestic happiness that came to be overwhelmed by the forces of ambition, deceit and treachery, from the award-winning author of 'My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots'. The life of Sir Thomas More is familiar ...Show more
Daughters Love by Guy, John
Category: History
This book will break open a secret. It is a gripping tale of love, loyalty and domestic happiness that came to be overwhelmed by the forces of ambition, deceit and treachery, from the award-winning author of 'My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots'. The life of Sir Thomas More is familiar ...Show more
Dungeons and Torture (Snapping-Turtle Guide) by John Guy, Fiona MacDonald & David Spence
Category: Fiction
A comprehensive, informative and highly readable introduction to brutal punishments of the past.
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
Category: History
An ageing queen, an heirless state, conspiracy all round: here is the court of Elizabeth I as never known before History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power. But the reality, especially during her later years, was not so simple. In 1583 Elizabeth is fifty years old, past ...Show more
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
Category: Biography
History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power -- and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is fifty, there is relentless plotting among her courtiers -- and still to come is the Spanish Armada and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. We ...Show more
Elizabeth - The Later Years by John Guy
Category: European History
History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power -- and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is fifty, there is relentless plotting among her courtiers -- and still to come is the Spanish Armada and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. We ...Show more
Gresham's Law - The Life and World of Queen Elizabeth I's Banker by John Guy
Category: Biography
Banker, gaoler, smuggler, spy: the many lives of a Tudor power-broker.
Gresham's Law - The Life and World of Queen Elizabeth I's Banker by John Guy
Category: History
In this biography of Sir Thomas Gresham, Dr John Guy draws on hitherto overlooked primary sources to give a fuller picture of one of the men who made London the financial centre of the planet. He reveals a flawed, ambitious man who was constantly obsessed with his status, a canny operator, who overcharg ...Show more
Henry VIII by John Guy
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Monarchs
Charismatic, insatiable and cruel, Henry VIII was, as John Guy shows, a king who became mesmerized by his own legend - and in the process destroyed and remade England. Said to be a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most instantly recognizable of kings remains a figure of extreme contradictions: magni ...Show more
Heralds of the Siege #52 Horus Heresy by John French; Rob Sanders; Nick Kyme; James Swallow; Gav Thorpe; Guy Haley; Chris Wraight; Anthony Reynolds
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: The\Horus Heresy Ser.
? Book 52 of the much loved and hugely popular Horus Heresy series. An awesome collection of sixteen short stories, including several set just before the Siege of Terra begins... A galaxy burns and brother turns on brother as the conflict brought about by a beloved son's betrayal reaches its fateful end ...Show more
Hunting the Falcon - Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe by John Guy; Julia Fox
Category: History
A groundbreaking, freshly-researched examination of one of the most dramatic and consequential marriages in history: Henry VIII's long courtship, short union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn. Hunting the Falcon is the story of how Henry VIII's obsessive desire for Anne Boleyn changed him and his cou ...Show more
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe by Julia John; Fox Guy
Category: History
A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever. The story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is one of the most remarkable in history: a long courtship followed by a shotgun wedding and then a coronation, ending j ...Show more