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Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
An ageing queen, an heirless state, conspiracy all round: here is the court of Elizabeth I as never known before History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power. But the reality, especially during her later years, was not so simple. In 1583 Elizabeth is fifty years old, past ...Show more
Gresham's Law - The Life and World of Queen Elizabeth I's Banker by John Guy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Banker, gaoler, smuggler, spy: the many lives of a Tudor power-broker.
Henry VIII by John Guy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Monarchs
Charismatic, insatiable and cruel, Henry VIII was, as John Guy shows, a king who became mesmerized by his own legend - and in the process destroyed and remade England. Said to be a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most instantly recognizable of kings remains a figure of extreme contradictions: magni ...Show more
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe by Julia John; Fox Guy
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever. The story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is one of the most remarkable in history: a long courtship followed by a shotgun wedding and then a coronation, ending j ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots: Two Queens, One Future by John Guy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, ...Show more
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-year-old Story Retold by John Guy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From the winner of the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award and the Marsh Biography Award John Guy, comes Thomas Becket, a lively and enlightening new book that brings a colossal figure of British history vividly to life. This is the man, not the legend...Thomas Becket lived at the centre of medieval England. ...Show more
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: a 900-year-old Story Retold by John Guy
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Behind the legend, there was a man. In 1120 the wife of a Norman draper's merchant gave birth to a baby boy in London's bustling Cheapside. Despite his sickly constitution, middle-class background and unremarkable abilities, he rose within the space of thirty-five years to become the most powerful man i ...Show more
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