Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a queen, her father an earl, & she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin & grandmother of monarchs. Some thought she should be queen of Engl&. She ranked high at the court of her uncle, Henry VIII, & was lady of honour to five of his wives. Beautiful & tempestuous, she created scandal, not just once, but twice, by falling in love with unsuitable men. Fortunately, the marriage arranged for her turned into a love match. Throughout her life her dynastic ties to two crowns proved hazardous. A born political intriguer, she was imprisoned in the Tower of London on three occasions, once under sentence of death. She helped to bring about one of the most notorious royal marriages of the sixteenth century, but it brought her only tragedy. Her son & her husband were brutally murdered, & there were rumours that she herself was poisoned. She warred with two queens, Mary of Scotland & Elizabeth of Engl&. A brave survivor, she was instrumental in securing the Stuart succession to the throne of England for her grandson. Her story deserves to be better known. This is the biography of an extraordinary life that spanned five Tudor reigns, a life packed with intrigue, drama & tragedy. ...

The idea of the village
- unspoilt, unpretentious, unchanging & growing almost organically out of the landscape
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From the genius behind ITV`s THE GHOST HUNTERS, this haunting novel is inspired by real historical events & features the notorious real-life ghost hunter, Harry Price. Many years ago, soldiers entered a remote English village called Imber & forced every inhabitant out. It remains abandoned... Each winter, on one night only, Imber`s former residents return to visit loved ones buried in the overgrown churchyard. But this year, something has gone wrong. Secrets are surfacing, putting all who come near Imber in danger. & only one man can help. Notorious ghost hunter Harry Price has reluctantly reunited with his former assistant Sarah Grey. Once, she worshipped Harry, but their relationship has recently soured. Harry knows that Sarah could be the key to unlocking the mystery of Imber, but will her involvement in the case be the undoing of them both? ...

In 1930 wealthy Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke followed her new husband to Cairo, where she discovered thousands of suffering former British war horses leading lives of toil & misery. Brought to the Middle East by British forces during the Great War, these ex-cavalry horses had been left behind at the war`s end, abandoned as used equipment too costly to send home. Grant Hayter-Menzies chronicles not only the lives & eventual rescue of these noble creatures, who after years of deprivation & suffering found respite in the Old War Horse Memorial Hospital established by Dorothy, but also the story of the challenges of founding & maintaining an animal-rescue institution on this scale. The legacy of the Old War Horse Memorial Hospital & its founder endures today in the dozens of international Brooke animal-welfare facilities dedicated to improving the lives of working horses, donkeys & mules across Africa, Asia & Latin America. ...

In 1930 wealthy Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke followed her new husband to Cairo, where she discovered thousands of suffering former British war horses leading lives of toil & misery. Brought to the Middle East by British forces during the Great War, these ex-cavalry horses had been left behind at the war`s end, abandoned as used equipment too costly to send home. Grant Hayter-Menzies chronicles not only the lives & eventual rescue of these noble creatures, who after years of deprivation & suffering found respite in the Old War Horse Memorial Hospital established by Dorothy, but also the story of the challenges of founding & maintaining an animal-rescue institution on this scale. The legacy of the Old War Horse Memorial Hospital & its founder endures today in the dozens of international Brooke animal-welfare facilities dedicated to improving the lives of working horses, donkeys & mules across Africa, Asia & Latin America. ...

ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL is famous for the engineering wonders he left behind
- from the SS Great Britain to the delights of Paddington
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A land before time
- a journey beyond belief... Unlucky in love, but desperate to prove himself in an adventure, journalist Ed
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A special edition of The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan`s 70th anniversary. In a rip-roaring journey of peril & adventure, four explorers find a lost prehistoric world in the remote wilds of South America. Huge pterodactyls rule the skies & the jungle beneath is home to lumbering stegosaurus, carnivorous dinosaurs & terrifying ape-men. If the adventurers can survive then fame & fortune almost certainly await them back in London, but in this dangerous land that defies all science & reason who knows what could happen. First published in 1912, this thrilling story by the creator of Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson was the inspiration for Jurassic Park. ...

A fresh, concise, & accessible history of one of the medieval world`s greatest empires For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East & West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Jonathan Harris, a leading scholar of Byzantium, eschews the usual run-through of emperors & battles & instead recounts the empire`s extraordinary history by focusing each chronological chapter on an archetypal figure, family, place, or event. Harris`s action-packed introduction presents a civilization rich in contrasts, combining orthodox Christianity with paganism, & classical Greek learning with Roman power. Frequently assailed by numerous armies-including those of Islam-Byzantium nonetheless survived & even flourished by dint of its somewhat unorthodox foreign policy & its sumptuous art & architecture, which helped to embed a deep sense of Byzantine identity in its people. Enormously engaging & utilizing a wealth of sources to cover all major aspects of the empire`s social, political, military, religious, cultural, & artistic history, Harris`s study illuminates the very heart of Byzantine civilization & explores its remarkable & lasting influence on its neighbors & on the modern world. ...

1989 was a year of revolution: it marked the collapse of communism in Eastern & Central Europe & an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Beginning in Hungary, the retreat from communism picked up speed over the summer when the Poles won an overwhelming victory in free elections over their pro-Soviet rulers. In the fall, East Germany & Czechoslovakia achieved freedom with surprisingly little violence. Only Romania, at the end of the year, witnessed a savage battle in the capital & the summary execution of the most notorious of Eastern Europe's dictators, Nicolae Ceausescu. In The Lost World of Communism, Peter Molloy, producer of the accompanying BBC series, collects first hand testimony of the people who lived in East Germany, Czechoslovakia & Romania during the Cold War era, & reveals an astonishingly rich tapestry of experience that goes beyond the headlines of spies & surveillance, secret police & political corruption
- in fact, many of the people remember their lives under communism as 'perfectly ordinary' & even hanker for the 'security' that it offered. From international figures like Vaclav Havel & Lech Walesa, via the shadowy figures of Eastern Europe's intelligence & security services to its 'ordinary' citizens, the voices collected on Peter Molloy's book evoke the moods, preoccupations & experiences of a world of that vanished almost overnight.
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