Alexander Larman: 3 books
Restoration
1666: A Year in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
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...
by Alexander Larman
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
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.
Nine...
Blazing Star
The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
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...