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Theo Farrell Chosen as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times and the Evening Standard'Authoritative and provocative… For its range and breadth, it is a tour de force and a must...

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Patrick MarnhamThe authorized, and astonishing, biography of Mary Wesley.Descended from the Duke of Wellington, Mary Wesley grew up a rebel, believing that she was her mother’s least favourite child. Like...

CJ Sansom A #1 internationally bestselling novel set in post-Civil War Spain by the author of Dominion and the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series September 1940: the Spanish Civil War is over, Madrid lies in ruin,...