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Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by Alexander Larman
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
He was 'THE WICKEDEST MAN ALIVE'. He went to Oxford University at the age of 12 He slept with his first prostitute at 13 He was an alcoholic by 14 He was imprisoned in the Tower at 18 He was acclaimed a war hero at 19 He died of syphilis at the age of 33 He was English history's first celebrity. He was ...Show more
Byron's Women by Alexander Larman
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley's wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead. Ni ...Show more
Byron's Women by Alexander Larman
$44.99 NZD
Category: History
One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley's wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead. Ni ...Show more
Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty by Alexander Larman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Power and Glory brings us to the dramatic conclusion of Larman's 'Windsors trilogy'. It begins with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke of Windsor's wartime treachery, and ends with the Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. In between, it depicts a monarchy - and a country - struggling to c ...Show more
Restoration : England in 1666 by Alexander Larman
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
In an England inhabited by Pepys, Evelyn, Dryden, Hobbes and the young Isaac Newton, Charles II is king, and the nation is beginning to relax a little after the tough, joyless years of Cromwell's Protectorate. In RESTORATION, Alex Larman paints a fascinating portrait of a country in the throes of social ...Show more
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