Giles St Aubyn: 3 books
Infamous Victorians
Palmer and Lamson, Two Notorious Poisoners
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
'Even the lives of scoundrels play some part in portraying an age...'Our interest in all things Victorian - in the seamy side of the era especially - is ageless and undimmed. Giles St. Aubyn's Infamous Victorians, first published in 1971, stands as a brilliant illumination of two dark stories...
by Giles St Aubyn
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Richard III has the most controversial reputation of any English king. If he was the murderer of his two nephews and (as many contemporaries thought) the poisoner of his own wife, he has a place among the foremost villains of history. If however his only real crime was to have been on the losing side,...
The Royal George
The Duke of Cambridge: His Family and Career, 1819-1904
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Son of the eccentric Adolphus, seventh and favourite son of George III, Prince George was born in 1819 and was briefly heir presumptive to the throne of England until the birth that same year of his cousin Victoria. Instead he became George, second Duke of Cambridge, and rose to be Commander-in-Chief...