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Product Description In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare's Kings chronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare's history ...

From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, acclaimed historian John Julius Norwich t...

A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a boo...

Product Description From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development ...

'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity ...

'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his sights to Sicily in this beautiful ...

The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This is a fabulous, jaw-d...

Review Fascinating for two things: their testament to an exhilarating century and their witness to a vanished age of power and privilege ... What ...