Told with novelistic verve, DRAKE is a thoroughly modern re-assessment of a man who embodied all the ebullient courage and personal shortcomings of the great age of Elizabethan expansion. Was Drake just a rabid anti-papist...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:352
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Stephen Coote
ISBN:9780743220071
A masterly re-evaluation of a self-made Elizabethan hero, and a fascinating re-creation of the man and his era. Sir Francis Drake: pirate, explorer and Protestant zealot...more details Format:Hardback Pages:384
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Stephen Coote
ISBN:9780306815072
Vienna, 1815: As the political leaders of Europe assemble to determine the fate of the continent after defeating Napoleon, the alarming news arrives that Napoleon has escaped captivity. Bonaparte had returned...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:308
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Stephen Coote
ISBN:9780743449939
In Vienna, 1815, as the political aristocrats of Europe assembled to determine the fate of the continent after the wars of the last twenty years...more details Format:Paperback / softback
In Vienna, 1815, as the political aristocrats of Europe assembled to determine the fate of the continent after the wars of the last twenty years...more details Format:Hardback
In the PENGUIN STUDY NOTES series and originally published as ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM, a study guide to the novel, aimed at those preparing for the GCSE examination. It includes character studies...more details Format:Paperback Pages:112
In the PENGUIN STUDY NOTES series and originally published in 1984 as EMILY BRONTE'S WUTHERING HEIGHTS, a study guide to the novel, aimed at those preparing for the GCSE examination. It includes character studies...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
In a sweeping narrative that takes the reader from palaces and battlefields through exile, bitterness, triumph and deceit, Stephen Coote strips away the varnish of sentiment that has clouded the image of the merry monarch to reveal Charles as a fascinating...more details Format:Paperback Pages:396
Pepys was a highly energetic man and closely involved in the strenuous and exciting times. This is an irresistible combination of public events and private passions...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
Pepys was a highly energetic man and closely involved in the strenuous and exciting times. This is an irresistible combination of public events and private passions...more details Format:Hardback Pages:350
In this biography of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) the author shows him through a life of tumultuous creativity through which he strove to bring new meaning to poetry...more details Format:Paperback Pages:623
Comic dramatist, poet and reviewer, Oliver Goldsmith wrote one novel, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), now acknowledged as his finest work. The story opens in the country parsonage of Dr Primrose...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224