Amberley imprint: 2705 books
by Tony Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Manchester City is one of the foremost clubs in English football. In Manchester City: Player by Player, Tony Matthews presents the multitudinous, authentic personal details of every player who has appeared and scored for the club (Ardwick/Manchester City) at senior level over the past 125 years. The...
What the British Invented
From the Great to the Downright Bonkers
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Invent verb; to produce or contrive something previously unknown by the use of ingenuity or imagination. The world would be a much poorer place without our great British inventions – from catseyes to crossword puzzles, tarmac to telephones, steam engines to shorthand, British inventors have led...
by Elizabeth Rees
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Throughout the Celtic world, in Britain, Ireland and France, the legacy of the Celtic saints remains visible. It is not easy to come close to the Celtic saints as many of their biographies were written centuries after their deaths, but the sites where they lived and worked can still be seen in the...
Poltergeists
A History of Violent Ghostly Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
The story of violent ghost phenomena through the ages. The poltergeist of 'noisy ghost' phenomenon is commonly thought to be the result of a dead person's angry spirit expressing that anger by violence in the physical world, or the projected energies of an emotionally volatile human being, often a...
The British Witch
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
For over 500 years witches, male and female, practised magic for both harm and good in their communities. Most witches worked locally, used by their neighbours to cure illness, create love, or gratify personal spite against another. Margaret Lindsay from Northumberland was prosecuted for making men...
The King's Pearl
Henry VIII and His Daughter Mary
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Mary Tudor has always been known as ‘Bloody Mary’, the name given to her by later Protestant chroniclers who vilified her for attempting to re-impose Roman Catholicism in England. Although a more nuanced picture of the first queen regnant has since emerged, she is still stereotyped, depicted as...
by Dominic Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
At the heart of the English Civil War stands the wife of Charles I, Henrietta Maria. She came to England in 1625 at the age of fifteen, undermined by her greedy French entourage, blocked by the forceful Duke of Buckingham and weighed down by instructions from the Pope to protect the Catholics of England....
by Dawn G. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The third book about Bude by Dawn Robinson is a little different to the first two. Certainly, it contains historical and contemporary images; however, its focus is very much on the facts, fiction, people and places you may know little about in this friendly seaside town. Bude has little by way of...
by Lacey Baldwin-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The Henry VIII of popular legend and historical fiction is a bacchanalian figure of gargantuan proportions. Historical fact, however, is another matter. A deeply insecure man constantly in need of reassurance, a ritualist, a prude unsure of his prowess and easily embarrassed by sex - these are the...
by Philip MacDougall
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Dr Philip MacDougall, local historian, takes you on a journey through the City of Chichester revealing much of its lesser-known history. Here you will find the story behind the city’s nineteenth-century banking crisis, the activities of a London mob of criminals who targeted the Goodwood races,...
Shakespeare's Dark Lady
Amelia Bassano Lanier The Woman Behind Shakepeare's Plays?
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age of thirteen, she became mistress to the fiftysix-year-old Lord Hunsdon, Henry VIII’s reputed son by Mary Boleyn. As Lord Chamberlain, Hunsdon was in charge of the English...
Henry VIII's Last Love
The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady in Waiting to the Tudors
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In 1533, Katherine Willoughby married Charles Brandon, Henry VIII’s closest friend. She would go on to serve at the court of every Tudor monarch except Henry VII and Mary Tudor. Duchess of Suffolk at the age of fourteen, she became a powerful woman ruling over her own households and wielding influence...
The Beauty of Her Age
A Tale of Sex, Scandal and Money in Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Yolande Duvernay was born in poverty in Paris in 1812. Under the control of a formidable stage mother, she became a celebrated ballerina – the favourite dancer of Princess Victoria – renowned for her beauty, grace, and provocative style on stage. Sold for sexual assignations from puberty, she...
Thomas Cromwell
Servant to Henry VIII
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Thomas Cromwell was a self-made lawyer who served first Cardinal Wolsey and then Henry VIII. His time with Wolsey served him well in his work for the king after the cardinal’s fall from power in 1529. Cromwell’s time in office from 1530 until his execution in 1540 was one of the most crucial periods...