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'SUBLIME' A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.
'Lord Buckingham rockets off the page of this gloriously epic, seductively detailed biography' OLIVIA LAING
'This…
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Biography in a fresh new way. The England of James I and the seventeenth century are vivid and fascinating in this life of the Duke of Buckingham, first minister to two consecutive kings -- and lover of one.
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