This captivating biography of perhaps the most charismatic monarch of all time describes Henrys life & love affairs at the English Court together with his political wrangling, military campaigns, & acts of murderous brutality. It focuses not only on his marital endeavours but assesses his abilities as a politician, reformer, military strategist & man of great culture & learning. Included alongside illustrations are many fascinating titbits about life in Tudor Engl&. This makes a great gift for any Tudor enthusiast, as well as for secondary level students studying the Tudor period. ...

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was one of the most flamboyant & controversial characters of Henry VIII's reign. Celebrated for his chivalrous deeds both on & off the battlefield, Surrey became, at only twenty-eight, the King's Lieutenant General in France. This book sheds light on the opulence & artifice of a deadly age. ...

Henry VIII is Britain's most notorious monarch, remembered for his six wives & splitting the church in two for the sake of annulling

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The Tudors retained only a precarious grip on the crown of Engl&, founded on a title that was both tenuous & legally flimsy.

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Without Henry V’s Navy, the Battle of Agincourt would never have happened.

Henry’s fleet played a major – if often unrecognised

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On a cold February day, 2 months after his 20th birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into the freezing water of Newhaven estuary outside Brighton & tried to swim across, almost drowning in the process. Voices, he said, had told him to do it. Nearly halfway around the world in Afghanistan, journalist Patrick Cockburn learned that his son has been admitted to a hospital mental ward & eventually diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Thus begins Patrick & Henry's extraordinary account of Henry's rapid descent into mental illness & of Patrick's journey towards understanding the changes in his son. This book has 238 pages & is 22.3cm x 14.2cm x 2.3cm ...

Curl up with Cathy Lamb, an author you will come to cherish, as she makes you laugh, cry & reach for the chocolate
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On a cold February day two months after his 20th birthday, Henry waded into the lethally cold Newhaven estuary & almost drowned. The trees, he said, had told him to do it. In Afghanistan, Patrick learned that Henry had been admitted to a hospital mental ward. Ten days later he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. With remarkable candour, Patrick writes of the seven years Henry has since spent almost entirely in mental hospitals. Schizophrenics are at high risk for suicide, & his parents live in constant fear for Henry's life. The book also

Includes:: Henry's own account of his experiences. In these raw & eerily beautiful chapters he tells of his visions & voices, the sense that he has discovered something magical & profound. Together, Patrick & Henry's stories create one of the most nuanced & revealing portraits of mental illness ever written, & a stirring memoir of family, parenthood, & courage.

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This book is about keeping hens for pleasure in your garden, about their suitability as pets & the joy of having fresh free-range eggs. There are also useful details on how the egg is produced, the composition of an egg & the best way to store & freeze eggs. ...

Details: Katie, Georgia & Alice were at each others hen nights but now the chickens have come home to roost: their marriages
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