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Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeolo...

Product Description The chase is on - and Amelia Peabody and Co. are in the thick of it!1922 - convinced that the tomb of the little-known Ki...

Review I really do think Elizabeth Peters' books are great entertainment. -- Angela Rippon As full of riches as King Tut's tomb. ― Denver Post T...

Review I really do think Elizabeth Peters ― books are great entertainment.' Angela RipponThe most potent female force to hit Egypt since Cleop...

Product Description In Amelia's seventh adventure, she and Emerson take passage on a boat travelling up the Nile, enjoying a second honeymoon whi...

Undeterred by world war and enemy submarines, Amelia and Emerson set sail once again for Egypt, where ghosts of an ancient past and spectres of a p...

In this latest Amelia Peabody mystery there's more trouble in store for our intrepid Egyptologist. This time it is of a distinctly personal nature....

Review I can't wait for the next Peabody story... I really do think [Elizabeth Peters'] books are great entertainment. -- Angela RiponA writer...

Celebrate the Queen's remarkable life with this colourful and charming picture book by historian Kate Williams, taking young readers on an amazing ...

Like its acclaimed predecessors, RESTORATION LONDON and DR JOHNSON'S LONDON, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the pra...

Part of the Pitkin History of Britain series (linked to key stages 3 and 4 of the National Curriculum), this book draws on eye-witness accounts and...

A definitive portrait of one of the most compelling monarchs England has ever had: Elizabeth I. 'We are a prince from a line of princes.' Lisa Hi...

We can hardly imagine a Britain without Elizabeth II on the throne. It seems to be the job she was born for. And yet for much of her early life the...

From the Back Cover ?This book is a photographic portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, from her first official photograph as a baby in 1926 to her greet...

'Nicola Tallis, one of our great popular historians.' Alison Weir The first biography of Lettice Knollys, one of the most prominent women of the E...

Product Description It's hard to be good when your head is practically exploding with schemes! The hilarious Elizabella series is middle-grad...

Product Description In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries there was one art form in which English artists excelled above all thei...

One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, sp...

About the Author Valerie Wilding is a Londoner who now lives on the edge of a small market town in Hampshire. Val was an infant teacher for many y...

The first in-depth dual-biography of Elizabeth & Margaret, written by the bestselling royal biographer, Andrew Morton. They were the closest o...