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Scandals of the Royal Palaces
George Orwell once said that the British love a really good murder. He might have added that the only thing the British love more than a good murder is a really good scandal, and …
Kensington Palace
For more than 300 years, Kensington Palace has played host to a colourful cast of kings, queens and assorted aristocratic hangers-on. A stone’s throw from the bustling streets of …
Gilded Youth: A History of Growing Up in the Royal Family: From the Plantagenets to the Cambridges
A colorful, fascinating look at growing up in the royal family over the centuries, from the Plantagenets and Tudors to the Windsors and Cambridges. For as long as the British royal …
Cardiac Care
Written by experienced clinicians, Cardiac Care: An Introduction for Nurses takes readers step by step through the patient journey, from initial prevention through the critical …
Fishing's Strangest Tales
Extraordinary but true stories from over two hundred years of angling history. Fishing's Strangest Tales gathers together choice stories and …
Railways' Strangest Tales
A fascinating collection of bizarre but true stories from nearly 200 years of railway history. Right from the very start, when George Stephenson’s …
Barking Mad
Barking Mad taps into the British passion for dogs by bringing together a unique collection of extraordinary, touching and sometimes bizarre but true stories covering sporting dogs …
London's Truly Strangest Tales
More extraordinary but true stories from London’s history. In this fascinating follow-up to his bestselling London’s Strangest Tales, Tom Quinn …
Drooling Banjos (And all that Jazz)
Who would have thought, that trumpet, trombone, clarinet, banjo, piano, tuba, and drums would produce a noise anybody would find "attractive." Or, in Dixieland jargon, TASTY. …
London's Strangest Tales
A quirky collection of stories from London's stranger side, featuring a tiny prison cell in Trafalgar Square, a train disguised as a ship, and a church that's completely the wrong …
American Massacre: Fort Pillow and the Day That Changed a War
Backstairs Billy
From humble beginnings as a shopkeeper's son in Coventry to 'Page of the Backstairs' at Clarence House, William Tallon, or 'Backstairs Billy' as he came to be known, always knew he …