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Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina by Virginia Rounding
Category: Biography
There are few characters in history about whom opinion has been more divided than the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his wife the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna. On one hand, they are venerated as saints, innocent victims of Bolshevik assassins, and on the other they are impugned as the unwitting h ...Show more
Burning Time, The by Rounding Virginia
Category: History
Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it became the location of London's most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor England, Smithfield had another, more si ...Show more
Catherine the Great by Virginia Rounding
Category: History
Many legends have grown up about the sexual rapacity of Catherine the Great. While it is true that she shocked the Russian court with the number and age of her lovers, there is no truth in the rumour of her death by stallion. This book reveals the story of an extraordinary woman, in all her complexity. ...Show more
Catherine the Great: Love, Sex and Power by Virginia Rounding
Category: Biography
Many legends have grown up about the sexual rapacity of Catherine the Great. While it is true that she shocked the Russian court with the number and age of her lovers, there is no truth in the rumour of her death by stallion. Unhappily married to the Grand Duke Peter, a man who preferred to play with hi ...Show more
Grandes Horizontales : The lives and legends of four nineteenth-century courtesans by Virginia Rounding
Category: Biography
A brilliant group biography in the mould of Stella Tillyard's Aristocrats and Katie Hickman's Daughters of Britannia, now published in paperback The lives and legends of four women, all representatives of the golden age of the French courtesan. In the reign of Emperor Napoleon III the opulent and pamp ...Show more
My Pretty Vampire by Rounding Virginia
Category: Graphic Novels
New soft-cover edition! Clover – the pretty vampire of the title – is a Bardot-esque blonde who dreams of the (now-dead) girl she once was four years ago before becoming a fanged bloodsucker. She is being kept prisoner by her brother, Marcel, who fears Clover will be hunted by the outside world (and who ...Show more
The Burning Time - Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London by Virginia Rounding
Category: European History
Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it became the location of London's most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor England, Smithfield had another, more si ...Show more
The Burning Time : The story of the Smithfield Martyrs by Rounding Virginia
Category: History
Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it became the location of London's most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor England, Smithfield had another, more si ...Show more
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