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Charles Spencer
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Book Title: A Very Private School
Genre: Royal Historical Biography
Format: Hardback
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"A tour de force." --The Washington Post
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school.
A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all. Exploring the long-lasting impact of his experiences, Spencer presents a candid reckoning with his past and a reclamation of his childhood. And now, in a new afterword, Spencer reflects on the aftermath of his memoir's publication, including the outpouring of support and solidarity from fellow abuse survivors.
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Charles Spencer is an author, historian, public speaker, broadcaster and journalist. He is also the 9th Earl Spencer.
Charles Spencer is the author of seven non-fiction books, including three Sunday Times bestsellers: Blenheim, Battle for Europe, which was shortlisted for Historical Book of the Year at the 2005 National Book Awards; Killers of the King – which was the second highest selling History book in the UK in 2014; and The White Ship, the No. 1 bestseller on Amazon.
He has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of events in the UK, India, USA, South Africa, France, Australia, Canada, Spain, Portugal and New Zealand.
As a broadcaster, Charles Spencer worked for NBC News as an on-air correspondent from 1986 to 1995. He has been a reporter for Granada Television, has presented for the History Channel, and has appeared on many occasions as an expert on the BBC.
As a print journalist he has written in the UK for The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, and others. In the United States he has written for Vanity Fair, Veranda, and Nest magazines.
Charles Spencer was educated at Eton, and at Oxford University, where he earned his MA in Modern History.
Most recently, Charles Spencer has enjoyed success with ‘The Rabbit Hole Detectives’, – his new podcast presented alongside Dr Cat Jarman, and the Rev. Richard Coles – which takes listeners on a fascinating dive into the origins of real and symbolic historical objects.
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Genre: Royal Historical Biography
Format: Hardback
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The Book:
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
"A tour de force." --The Washington Post
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school.
A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all. Exploring the long-lasting impact of his experiences, Spencer presents a candid reckoning with his past and a reclamation of his childhood. And now, in a new afterword, Spencer reflects on the aftermath of his memoir's publication, including the outpouring of support and solidarity from fellow abuse survivors.
The Author:
Charles Spencer is an author, historian, public speaker, broadcaster and journalist. He is also the 9th Earl Spencer.
Charles Spencer is the author of seven non-fiction books, including three Sunday Times bestsellers: Blenheim, Battle for Europe, which was shortlisted for Historical Book of the Year at the 2005 National Book Awards; Killers of the King – which was the second highest selling History book in the UK in 2014; and The White Ship, the No. 1 bestseller on Amazon.
He has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of events in the UK, India, USA, South Africa, France, Australia, Canada, Spain, Portugal and New Zealand.
As a broadcaster, Charles Spencer worked for NBC News as an on-air correspondent from 1986 to 1995. He has been a reporter for Granada Television, has presented for the History Channel, and has appeared on many occasions as an expert on the BBC.
As a print journalist he has written in the UK for The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, and others. In the United States he has written for Vanity Fair, Veranda, and Nest magazines.
Charles Spencer was educated at Eton, and at Oxford University, where he earned his MA in Modern History.
Most recently, Charles Spencer has enjoyed success with ‘The Rabbit Hole Detectives’, – his new podcast presented alongside Dr Cat Jarman, and the Rev. Richard Coles – which takes listeners on a fascinating dive into the origins of real and symbolic historical objects.
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Lot 99
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Tony Riches
Tony Riches
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Title: Bess - Tudor Gentlewoman
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Bess Throckmorton defies her notorious background and lack of education to become Queen Elizabeth’s Gentlewoman and trusted confidante.
Forced to choose between loyalty and love, duty and desire, will she risk her queen’s anger by marrying adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh without permission?
Entangled in a web of intrigue, from the glittering Palace of Whitehall to the cells of the Tower of London, Bess endures tragedy and injustice, becoming a resilient, determined woman, who takes nothing for granted.
Can she outwit her enemies, protect her family, and claim her destiny in a world where women are pawns and survival is a game of deadly consequences?
This is the true story of the last of the Elizabethans, which ends the story of the Tudor dynasty – and introduces their successors, the Stuarts.
The Author:
Tony Riches is a full-time UK author of Tudor historical fiction. He lives with his wife in Pembrokeshire, West Wales and is a specialist in the lives of the early Tudors. As well as his Elizabethan series, Tony’s historical fiction novels include the best-selling Tudor trilogy and his Brandon trilogy, (about Charles Brandon and his wives).
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Genre: Historical Fiction
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Bess Throckmorton defies her notorious background and lack of education to become Queen Elizabeth’s Gentlewoman and trusted confidante.
Forced to choose between loyalty and love, duty and desire, will she risk her queen’s anger by marrying adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh without permission?
Entangled in a web of intrigue, from the glittering Palace of Whitehall to the cells of the Tower of London, Bess endures tragedy and injustice, becoming a resilient, determined woman, who takes nothing for granted.
Can she outwit her enemies, protect her family, and claim her destiny in a world where women are pawns and survival is a game of deadly consequences?
This is the true story of the last of the Elizabethans, which ends the story of the Tudor dynasty – and introduces their successors, the Stuarts.
The Author:
Tony Riches is a full-time UK author of Tudor historical fiction. He lives with his wife in Pembrokeshire, West Wales and is a specialist in the lives of the early Tudors. As well as his Elizabethan series, Tony’s historical fiction novels include the best-selling Tudor trilogy and his Brandon trilogy, (about Charles Brandon and his wives).
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Lot 153
£ 11
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Ally Sherrick
Ally Sherrick
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Book Title: ‘Rebel Heart’
Genre: Children’s (Middle Grade)
Format: Paperback
Dedication available: Yes
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England, 1645.
Merriweather Pryce is the daughter of a nobleman fighting for King Charles I in a war that divides the country.
When her family home is besieged by Cromwell’s army, Merri sets out to get help.
But in a land filled with enemy soldiers, turncoats and spies, who can she really trust?
The Author:
Ally is the award-winning author of stories full of history, mystery and adventure.
BLACK POWDER, her debut novel about a boy caught up in the Gunpowder Plot, won the Historical Association’s Young Quills Award. Other titles include THE BURIED CROWN, a wartime tale with a whiff of Anglo-Saxon myth and magic and THE QUEEN’S FOOL, a story of treachery and treason set at the court of King Henry VIII. Ally’s latest book, published February 2023 with Chicken House Books, is VITA AND THE GLADIATOR, the story of a young girl’s fight for justice in the high-stakes world of London’s gladiatorial arena.
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Genre: Children’s (Middle Grade)
Format: Paperback
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England, 1645.
Merriweather Pryce is the daughter of a nobleman fighting for King Charles I in a war that divides the country.
When her family home is besieged by Cromwell’s army, Merri sets out to get help.
But in a land filled with enemy soldiers, turncoats and spies, who can she really trust?
The Author:
Ally is the award-winning author of stories full of history, mystery and adventure.
BLACK POWDER, her debut novel about a boy caught up in the Gunpowder Plot, won the Historical Association’s Young Quills Award. Other titles include THE BURIED CROWN, a wartime tale with a whiff of Anglo-Saxon myth and magic and THE QUEEN’S FOOL, a story of treachery and treason set at the court of King Henry VIII. Ally’s latest book, published February 2023 with Chicken House Books, is VITA AND THE GLADIATOR, the story of a young girl’s fight for justice in the high-stakes world of London’s gladiatorial arena.
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Ciar Byrne
Ciar Byrne
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Title: A Lethal Cocktail
Genre: Cosy Crime
Format: Paperback
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Three ex-husbands. Two ex-wives. One shocking murder. A wedding that’s the talk of the town…
Tudor Close Hotel, Rottingdean, is the most glamorous venue of the season. And not somewhere Viriginia or her sister Vanessa would usually choose to frequent. They're far happier at home with their writing or painting, than brushing shoulders with debutantes or starlets.
But Lady Ottoline has had a difficult year, so - despite her rather outlandish tastes - they let her choose the meeting spot. And when the group bumps into fashion designer Mimi Mason in the hotel bar, they begrudgingly accept an invite to her wedding breakfast the next morning.
No one imagined that, a few cocktails later, Mimi would be dead.
As the sisters are drawn into a new case, it becomes clear that someone meticulously planned this murder. Beneath the glittering exterior, there was a dark side to this beautiful bride - and every wedding guest had a reason to sabotage this happy union.
But which one of them decided it was time to give Mimi a taste of her own poison?
The Author:
Ciar is an author and journalist living with her husband and three children in the historic country town of Lewes in Sussex, UK, which inspired her debut novel. When she is not dreaming up murderous plots involving members of the Bloomsbury Group, she writes about gardening for national publications. For three years she volunteered in the beautiful walled garden at Charleston farmhouse, the country home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and spent long hours while weeding imagining what life must have been like when they lived there. As a graduate of English Literature from Edinburgh University, she probably spends more time than is healthy thinking about Virginia Woolf, who lived with her husband Leonard just down the road at Monk's House in the village of Rodmell. When she is not writing she is usually to be found in her garden shed, or up on her allotment overlooking the South Downs.
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Genre: Cosy Crime
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Three ex-husbands. Two ex-wives. One shocking murder. A wedding that’s the talk of the town…
Tudor Close Hotel, Rottingdean, is the most glamorous venue of the season. And not somewhere Viriginia or her sister Vanessa would usually choose to frequent. They're far happier at home with their writing or painting, than brushing shoulders with debutantes or starlets.
But Lady Ottoline has had a difficult year, so - despite her rather outlandish tastes - they let her choose the meeting spot. And when the group bumps into fashion designer Mimi Mason in the hotel bar, they begrudgingly accept an invite to her wedding breakfast the next morning.
No one imagined that, a few cocktails later, Mimi would be dead.
As the sisters are drawn into a new case, it becomes clear that someone meticulously planned this murder. Beneath the glittering exterior, there was a dark side to this beautiful bride - and every wedding guest had a reason to sabotage this happy union.
But which one of them decided it was time to give Mimi a taste of her own poison?
The Author:
Ciar is an author and journalist living with her husband and three children in the historic country town of Lewes in Sussex, UK, which inspired her debut novel. When she is not dreaming up murderous plots involving members of the Bloomsbury Group, she writes about gardening for national publications. For three years she volunteered in the beautiful walled garden at Charleston farmhouse, the country home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and spent long hours while weeding imagining what life must have been like when they lived there. As a graduate of English Literature from Edinburgh University, she probably spends more time than is healthy thinking about Virginia Woolf, who lived with her husband Leonard just down the road at Monk's House in the village of Rodmell. When she is not writing she is usually to be found in her garden shed, or up on her allotment overlooking the South Downs.
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Lot 291
£ 35
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Jill Steeples
Jill Steeples
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*Jill's Lot: A signed paperback of her latest book, The Forever Cottage, a notebook and pen, bookmarks and Tony's chocolate bar.
Title: The Forever Cottage
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
The start of Jill Steeples’s uplifting Lower Leaping series, set in the beautiful English Cotswold Countryside
It’s never too late to change your story...
Tess Alexander lives an enviable life with her husband Charles, at Hollyhocks Cottage in the idyllic Cotswold village of Lower Leaping. Dreaming of their early retirement, Tess’s plans are dashed when Charles shares some devastating news and suddenly she’s left alone with only Barney, her adorable Beagle dog, for company.
Facing an uncertain future, Tess tries to reconnect with her old self. She begins to transform the neglected garden office into a beautiful retreat, the perfect spot for her to indulge in her long-forgotten creative passions.
However, a chance encounter with charming but down on his luck, Rob Templeton, soon puts pay to her plans, when she offers him the place to stay instead, sensing a kindred spirit.
With the support of old friends, Gina and Suzy, Tess must now step out of her comfort zone and embrace a different way of life, one that is filled with secrets, possibilities and second chances, if only Tess is prepared to take them.
With so many demands on her attention, will Tess find a way to follow her heart and discover her own happy ending?
The Author:
My stories are set in the close communities of picturesque English villages and the countryside setting, and its healing properties, is a recurrent theme in my novels. I love to explore the dynamics between friends and families across the generations, and write about new beginnings and old ties. You’ll always find a romantic love story at the centre of my books, and invariably they feature a dog or two who will steal your heart!
I write the kind of stories that I like to read; escapist uplifting fiction with a guaranteed happy ending.
I live with my husband in a quaint market town in the south of England and in my spare time enjoy reading, of course!, walking my lovable pointer dog, Amber, baking and spending time with family and friends.
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Title: The Forever Cottage
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
The start of Jill Steeples’s uplifting Lower Leaping series, set in the beautiful English Cotswold Countryside
It’s never too late to change your story...
Tess Alexander lives an enviable life with her husband Charles, at Hollyhocks Cottage in the idyllic Cotswold village of Lower Leaping. Dreaming of their early retirement, Tess’s plans are dashed when Charles shares some devastating news and suddenly she’s left alone with only Barney, her adorable Beagle dog, for company.
Facing an uncertain future, Tess tries to reconnect with her old self. She begins to transform the neglected garden office into a beautiful retreat, the perfect spot for her to indulge in her long-forgotten creative passions.
However, a chance encounter with charming but down on his luck, Rob Templeton, soon puts pay to her plans, when she offers him the place to stay instead, sensing a kindred spirit.
With the support of old friends, Gina and Suzy, Tess must now step out of her comfort zone and embrace a different way of life, one that is filled with secrets, possibilities and second chances, if only Tess is prepared to take them.
With so many demands on her attention, will Tess find a way to follow her heart and discover her own happy ending?
The Author:
My stories are set in the close communities of picturesque English villages and the countryside setting, and its healing properties, is a recurrent theme in my novels. I love to explore the dynamics between friends and families across the generations, and write about new beginnings and old ties. You’ll always find a romantic love story at the centre of my books, and invariably they feature a dog or two who will steal your heart!
I write the kind of stories that I like to read; escapist uplifting fiction with a guaranteed happy ending.
I live with my husband in a quaint market town in the south of England and in my spare time enjoy reading, of course!, walking my lovable pointer dog, Amber, baking and spending time with family and friends.
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Lot 304
£ 34
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Dr Helena Fry
Dr Helena Fry
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Title: The Worlds of Jane Austen
Genre: Non-fiction
Format: Hardback
Dedication available: Yes
Postage: UK only.
The Book;
The Worlds of Jane Austen invites readers to see one of Britain’s most beloved authors in a completely new light. Far from the quiet world of country houses and tea parties, Austen lived through revolution, war and major social change, and her sharp, observant fiction reveals just how engaged she was with the issues of her time.
This lively and accessible guide explores the people, politics and places that shaped Austen’s life and work. It features expert insight from bestselling author Helena Kelly alongside over 150 photographs, artworks and illustrations that bring her world vividly to life.
Whether you are discovering Austen for the first time or returning to her novels with fresh eyes, The Worlds of Jane Austen is the perfect companion for curious readers, literature lovers and admirers of classic storytelling.
The Author:
Dr. Helena Kelly is a scholar and author known for her work on notable literary figures. She holds a doctorate in English Literature from the University of Oxford and has taught there as well.
Dr. Kelly has written several acclaimed books, including Jane Austen, the Secret Radical and The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing
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Genre: Non-fiction
Format: Hardback
Dedication available: Yes
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The Book;
The Worlds of Jane Austen invites readers to see one of Britain’s most beloved authors in a completely new light. Far from the quiet world of country houses and tea parties, Austen lived through revolution, war and major social change, and her sharp, observant fiction reveals just how engaged she was with the issues of her time.
This lively and accessible guide explores the people, politics and places that shaped Austen’s life and work. It features expert insight from bestselling author Helena Kelly alongside over 150 photographs, artworks and illustrations that bring her world vividly to life.
Whether you are discovering Austen for the first time or returning to her novels with fresh eyes, The Worlds of Jane Austen is the perfect companion for curious readers, literature lovers and admirers of classic storytelling.
The Author:
Dr. Helena Kelly is a scholar and author known for her work on notable literary figures. She holds a doctorate in English Literature from the University of Oxford and has taught there as well.
Dr. Kelly has written several acclaimed books, including Jane Austen, the Secret Radical and The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing
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