The most comprehensive biography of the Brontë sister that wrote Wuthering Heights.

235 x 156 mm | paperback | 224 pages | 50 b&w illustrations

The story of one of the most compelling love affairs ever. Amazingly this is the first biography of Antony and Cleopatra a love story of which is emblazoned in the public mind by Shakespeare.

234 x 156 mm | paperback | 208 pages | 38 illustrations

Catullus tells the story of the poet Gaius Valerius Catullus and his awe-inspiring poetry, set against the background of years of unrest, violence and death in ancient Rome.

235 x 156 mm | paperback | 224 pages | 32 b&w illustrations

The first ever biography of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII’s third wife, who died in childbirth giving the king what he craved most — a son and heir.

234 x 165 mm | hardback | 240 pages | 40 colour illustrations

The amazing life of Margaret of York, the woman who tried to overthrow the Tudors.

234 x 156 mm | paperback original | 208 pages | 40 illustrations

Born in 1944, the bastard son of a neurotic divorced mother and an unknown father, Keith Dockray was brought up by working class foster parents in Huddersfield. Poverty and insecurity dogged his early years but, in 1955, he passed the 11 plus, became a grammar school boy and, eventually, a history student at Bristol University in 1963. Theatre-going and social drinking soon became regular features of his lifestyle; however, an ever more powerful homosexual orientation, condemning him to membership of an oppressed and widely despised minority, blighted his teenage and undergraduate years: indeed, it took him over a decade to come to terms with his sexuality, longer still to embrace its pleasure potential without inhibition.

234 x 156 mm | hardback | 446 pages | 100 black and white photos

The first major study of Ranulf de Blondeville, a name once recounted in the same breath as Robin Hood.

A full, lavishly illustrated study of a nobleman whose exploits became the stuff of medieval romance, once recounted in the same breath as Robin Hood. Ranulf de Blondeville was fabulously rich and powerful. He served six kings, endured difficult regime-change, fought his way across half of France and back and more than once turned wrested victory from defeat. He never forgot that his roots were Norman although his efforts were for England, where he made his home.

248 x 172 mm | paperback | 172 pages | 100 mono and 30 colour illustrations

The Complete Diary of a Cotswold Lady is an extraordinary sequence of daily entries, almost without a break covering the years 1788 to 1824. During this thirty-seven year period Agnes recorded the weather, letters received and letters sent, and most importantly of all, her social diary. Her spirits made her rise above the family’s financial disaster caused by her husband’s bankruptcy and she and Edward always moved in the best circles, notwithstanding their straitened circumstances…

A classic of English biography as well as the portrait of a very remarkable woman and an eminently distinguished literary figure.

235 x 165 mm | paperback | 288 pages

The surprising story of the life of a remarkable woman whose heroic achievements helped to change the face of society in Victorian Britain.

235 x 156 mm | paperback | 192 pages | illustrations

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Corporal George Thomsen’s highly charged action filled account of warfare against all odds. The true story of the brave 22 marines left for dead on the shores of South Georgia.

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235 x 156 mm | hardback | 172 pages | 30 colour illustrations