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Hermann Goering: The Personal Photograph Albums (5 Volumes)

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Jack Hawkins: A Biography

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Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment

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Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment

Fifteen stories showing from many different perspectives what happened when the evil of slavery was confronted with the values of the Scottish Enlightenment.

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Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment

A Grand Tour Journal 1820–1822: The Awakening of the Man

Auld Greekie: Edinburgh as the Athens of the North

Frolics in the Face of Europe: Sir Walter Scott, Continental Travel and the Tradition of the Grand Tour

A Noble Way to Go: Deaths of English, Scots and Irish Peers 1100-1900

Shakespeare’s Missing Years

The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts

William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians

Jane Austen: Love is a Like a Rose

Sabine Baring-Gould: The Life and Work of a Complete Victorian

The Consummate Collector: William Beckford's Letters to his Bookseller

Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning

Agatha Christie: The Disappearing Novelist

T. E. Lawrence: Tormented Hero

Conan Doyle and the Crimes Club: The Creator of Sherlock Holmes and his Criminological Friends

These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath

Pamela Colman Smith Tarot Artist: The Pious Pixie

A Grand Tour Journal 1820–1822: The Awakening of the Man

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A Grand Tour Journal 1820–1822: The Awakening of the Man

The recently discovered Grand Tour journal of Edward Geoffrey Stanley, the future 14th earl of Derby and three-times prime minister.

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Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment

A Grand Tour Journal 1820–1822: The Awakening of the Man

Auld Greekie: Edinburgh as the Athens of the North

Frolics in the Face of Europe: Sir Walter Scott, Continental Travel and the Tradition of the Grand Tour

A Noble Way to Go: Deaths of English, Scots and Irish Peers 1100-1900

Shakespeare’s Missing Years

The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts

William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians

Jane Austen: Love is a Like a Rose

Sabine Baring-Gould: The Life and Work of a Complete Victorian

The Consummate Collector: William Beckford's Letters to his Bookseller

Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning

Agatha Christie: The Disappearing Novelist

T. E. Lawrence: Tormented Hero

Conan Doyle and the Crimes Club: The Creator of Sherlock Holmes and his Criminological Friends

These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath

Pamela Colman Smith Tarot Artist: The Pious Pixie

Auld Greekie: Edinburgh as the Athens of the North

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Auld Greekie: Edinburgh as the Athens of the North

A pioneering study of the remarkable phenomenon of how a modern British city came to imagine itself heir to an ancient city.

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Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment

A Grand Tour Journal 1820–1822: The Awakening of the Man

Auld Greekie: Edinburgh as the Athens of the North

Frolics in the Face of Europe: Sir Walter Scott, Continental Travel and the Tradition of the Grand Tour

A Noble Way to Go: Deaths of English, Scots and Irish Peers 1100-1900

Shakespeare’s Missing Years

The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts

William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians

Jane Austen: Love is a Like a Rose

Sabine Baring-Gould: The Life and Work of a Complete Victorian

The Consummate Collector: William Beckford's Letters to his Bookseller

Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning

Agatha Christie: The Disappearing Novelist

T. E. Lawrence: Tormented Hero

Conan Doyle and the Crimes Club: The Creator of Sherlock Holmes and his Criminological Friends

These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath

Pamela Colman Smith Tarot Artist: The Pious Pixie

Frolics in the Face of Europe: Sir Walter Scott, Continental Travel and the Tradition of the Grand Tour

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Frolics in the Face of Europe: Sir Walter Scott, Continental Travel and the Tradition of the Grand Tour

A new study of Scott to commemorate the 250th anniversary of his birth in 1771, which focuses on little-explored aspects of his life.

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Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment

A Grand Tour Journal 1820–1822: The Awakening of the Man

Auld Greekie: Edinburgh as the Athens of the North

Frolics in the Face of Europe: Sir Walter Scott, Continental Travel and the Tradition of the Grand Tour

A Noble Way to Go: Deaths of English, Scots and Irish Peers 1100-1900

Shakespeare’s Missing Years

The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts

William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians

Jane Austen: Love is a Like a Rose

Sabine Baring-Gould: The Life and Work of a Complete Victorian

The Consummate Collector: William Beckford's Letters to his Bookseller

Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning

Agatha Christie: The Disappearing Novelist

T. E. Lawrence: Tormented Hero

Conan Doyle and the Crimes Club: The Creator of Sherlock Holmes and his Criminological Friends

These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath

Pamela Colman Smith Tarot Artist: The Pious Pixie

A Noble Way to Go: Deaths of English, Scots and Irish Peers 1100-1900

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A Noble Way to Go: Deaths of English, Scots and Irish Peers 1100-1900

A study of death among titled members of Britain’s upper classes in a fascinating variety of cause, place and circumstance.

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Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment

A Grand Tour Journal 1820–1822: The Awakening of the Man

Auld Greekie: Edinburgh as the Athens of the North

Queen Victoria and the European Empires (paperback)

Passengers: Life in Britain During the Stagecoach Era

Frolics in the Face of Europe: Sir Walter Scott, Continental Travel and the Tradition of the Grand Tour

Kowtow: Georgian Britain, Imperial China and the Irishman Who Introduced Them

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain’s Opium Wars with China 1839-1860

A Noble Way to Go: Deaths of English, Scots and Irish Peers 1100-1900

The Two Duchesses: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire

Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire: The Face Without a Frown

Chitral 1895: An Episode of the Great Game

An Edinburgh Diary 1793–1798

Queen Victoria and the European Empires (hardback)

William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts

The Daughters of George III

Jane Austen: Love is a Like a Rose

John Whitehurst: Innovator, Scientist, Geologist and Clockmaker

The Diary of a Cotswold Parson

Sabine Baring-Gould: The Life and Work of a Complete Victorian

The Consummate Collector: William Beckford's Letters to his Bookseller

David Livingstone, Africa's Greatest Explorer: The Man, the Missionary and the Myth (paperback)

A Spencer Love Affair: Eighteen Century Theatricals at Blenheim Palace

Charles Dickens: A Pictorial Biography of the World’s Greatest Storyteller

David Livingstone, Africa's Greatest Explorer: The Man, the Missionary and the Myth (hardback)

A History of the Liverpool Waterfront 1850-1890: The Struggle for Organisation

Alfred: Queen Victoria’s Second Son

Death by Chocolate: The Serial Poisoning of Victorian Brighton

Dearest Bess: The Life and Times of Lady Elizabeth Foster

Shakespeare’s Missing Years

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Shakespeare’s Missing Years

A new work that adds significant detail to knowledge of the playwright’s early life, much of which is new and original.

£16.99

The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

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The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

A unique approach to Sylvia Plath studies focusing on readers of her work than the cultural literary figurehead.

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William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts

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William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts

The full story of William Beckford’s museums of art: Fonthill Splendens and Fonthill Abbey.

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William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians

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William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians

How and why William Shakespeare ensured immortality for the Wars of the Roses.

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Jane Austen: Love is a Like a Rose

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Jane Austen: Love is a Like a Rose

The identity of Jane Austen’s mystery lover is revealed for the first time!

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Sabine Baring-Gould: The Life and Work of a Complete Victorian

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Sabine Baring-Gould: The Life and Work of a Complete Victorian

The life story of an important and eminent - but largely unsung Victorian.

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The Consummate Collector: William Beckford's Letters to his Bookseller

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The Consummate Collector: William Beckford's Letters to his Bookseller

A collection of over 350 letters written by William Beckford to his bookseller George Clarke - the most complete documentary record of Beckford's collecting habits and literary pursuits.

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Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning

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Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning

A unique analysis of a crucial period in the life of this iconic writer, who tragically committed suicide just months later.

£14.99

Agatha Christie: The Disappearing Novelist - available now from Fonthill Media

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Agatha Christie: The Disappearing Novelist

When Agatha Christie, the so-called ‘Queen of Crime’, disappeared from her home in Sunningdale in Berkshire for eleven days on 3 December 1927, the whole nation held its breath.

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T. E. Lawrence: Tormented Hero

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T. E. Lawrence: Tormented Hero

In T. E. Lawrence: Tormented Hero, Andrew Norman sheds new light on Lawrence of Arabia that remains a mystery to this day. Lawrence’s sexual orientation is discussed in detail, including his dislike of physical relationships and it is suggested that he suffered from sexual aversion disorder.

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Conan Doyle and the Crimes Club - available from Fonthill Media

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Conan Doyle and the Crimes Club: The Creator of Sherlock Holmes and his Criminological Friends

A lively and compelling read, Conan Doyle and the Crimes Club provides a unique window into the Edwardian clique of criminologists and gentleman sleuths. Welcome to the club.

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These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath

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These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath

These Ghostly Archives shows the reciprocal haunting nature of both Sylvia Plath and her archives.

£18.99

Pamela Colman Smith Tarot Artist: The Pious Pixie

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Pamela Colman Smith Tarot Artist: The Pious Pixie

What makes a talented mystical artist convert to Catholicism after creating the world’s most renowned Waite-Smith tarot deck?

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Pamela Colman Smith Tarot Artist: The Pious Pixie

Sawdust Sisterhood: How Circus Empowered Women

Agatha Christie: The Disappearing Novelist

The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire: The Face Without a Frown

The Two Duchesses: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire

A History of Savoy: Gatekeeper of the Alps

Making Sense of Marilyn

These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath

Evelina: A Victorian Heroine in Venice

The Wandering Princess: Princess Hélène of France, Duchess of Aosta (1871-1951)

Women in Ancient Greece

Dearest Bess: The Life and Times of Lady Elizabeth Foster

An Edinburgh Diary 1793–1798

Hypatia: Mathematician, Philosopher, Myth

Queen Victoria and the European Empires (hardback)

Agnetha Fältskog: The Girl with the Golden Hair

Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records

The Daughters of George III

Jane Austen: Love is a Like a Rose

The British Shell Shortage of the First World War

Knight Errant: Lord Craven and the Court of the Winter Queen

Roman Women: The Women who influenced the History of Rome

Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning

Women on Duty: A History of the First Female Police Force

The Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II

A Spencer Love Affair: Eighteen Century Theatricals at Blenheim Palace

Gwennie's Diary: A Kiwi's World Tour to Yorkshire 1939-40

Napoleon and His Women Friends

Anna Amalia, Grand-Duchess: Patron of Goethe and Schiller

Queen Victoria and the European Empires (paperback)

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