With equal measures of wit and wisdom, the author of 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret draws a deeply original, hilarious, and telling portrait of the Queen herself.
She was the most famous person on earth; she first appeared on the cover of Time magazine at the age of three. When she died, few people were old enough to recall a time when she was not alive.
Her likeness has been reproduced―in photographs, on stamps, on the notes and coins of thirty different currencies―more than any since Jesus. It is probable that, over the course of her ninety-six years, she was…
Dickens exposes the corrupting power of money in his last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, with its expansive cast of characters and interweaving plots.
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an afterword by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley and original illustrations by Marcus Stone.
John Harmon made his fortune collecting 'dust'. On his death his estranged son is due…
Esther, at fourteen, has never known love. Determined to live well, earn some love and overcome the shadow of her birth, she takes her first steps into an unknown world. A family curse, a manipulating lawyer, poverty and secrets threaten to destroy Esther's world. Are the walls of Bleak House strong enough to protect her and her new friends from such powerful forces? The reader will be caught up in an unfolding mystery, full of surprises. Perhaps the biggest mystery of all is: Who is Nemo?
When George Villiers, aged twenty two, arrived at the court of King James I of England in 1614 he was nobody special. His only assets were his stunning beauty and his skill as a dancer. Soon, King James was passionately in love with him, calling him 'my sweet child and wife'. So he achieved influence, wealth, and power. When he was murdered fourteen years later he was the Duke of Buckingham, he had been first minister to two kings, and he was the richest man in the country. This book - described by reviewers as 'sparkling... glittering.... vivid... witty... fabulous... brilliant... tragic' - tells the story of how he rose and fell. With the deep knowledge of a historian and the narrative gifts of a novelist, Hughes-Hallett summons up a world where a terror of witches coexisted with the first stirrings of the Enlightenment, where a belief in the divinity of kings was being challenged by a new phenomenon - the press. She writes about art (Buckingham was a great patron and collector), about poison and scandal, about sex and the gender-fluidity that the Puritans found abominable, about war and pacifism, and about the great conflict between royal absolutism and parliamentary democracy in which Buckingham was to come to be seen as the 'cause of all our miseries'.
