Pan Books published The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. She tells the stories of three women in search of their roots covering a hundred years. While two of them were displaced by no choice of their own, the third is set upon her quest by her grandmother to solve a family mystery.
Splendour & Squalor by Marcus Scriven was published by Atlantic Books. The book offers a kaleidoscope of British aristocrats who behaved with anything but noblesse. It’s a treasure trove for the weird, the wacky, and the wonderfully eccentric.
The Last Kingdom is set in late 9th century England and covers the attempts of the Vikings to conquer the last Anglo -Saxon kingdom, Wessex. It also tells the story of a young English Earl, Uhtred.
This is a nonfiction comparison of Queen Elizabeth I and Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The character of Miss Havisham, it seems, may not be entirely the invention of the famous writer – Charles Dickens. A true-life story that happened in Sydney, Australia in 1856, and the character of Miss Havisham appearing in "Great Expectations" five years later, may well be more than just sheer coincidence.
Set in rural Suffolk, England and Kanpur, India this is the life story of two children born thousands of miles apart during the year 1921, and how they meet.
Marc Morris’ book is the first major biography of the legendary English king, Edward I since the 1970s. It was intended to provide an updated appraisal of this curiously ignored monarch. Considering the impact that Edward had during his own lifetime and subsequent generations that lack of attention was something Morris aimed to redress.
An introduction to the first of Shakespeare’s late comedies or romance plays, Cymbeline, a tale of evil and virtue rewarded (eventually).
In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, Hamlet faces several different conflicts concerning his relationships with his friends Horatio, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.
