The second edition of this popular Years of...title provides core coverage of English history from the emergence of the Tudor dynasty during the Wars of the Roses through to the death of Elizabeth I. The authors analyse the reigns of the respective Tudor monarchs & examine important themes including the Tudor Rebellions economy & society culture & society religion in Tudor England & relations with Scotland Wales & Ireland during the period. The chapters are detailed yet accessible & feature up-to-date & stimulating selections of visual & written source material. ...

Rich in detail & atmosphere & told in vivid prose Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIIIs cataclysmic break with Rome & his relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife & the perfect heir; of how the brief reign of the teenage king Edward VI gave way to the violent reimposition of Catholicism & the stench of bonfires under Bloody Mary. It tells too of the long reign of Elizabeth I which though marked by civil strife plots against the queen & even an invasion force finally brought stability. Above all however it is the story of the English Reformation & the making of the Anglican Church. At the beginning of the sixteenth century England was still largely feudal & looked to Rome for direction; at its end it was a country where good governance was the duty of the state not the church & where men & women began to look to themselves for answers rather than to those who ruled them. ...

The Tudor period is regarded by many as England As golden age & still casts a spell over the public imagination. Whether it As the glittering rule of Elizabeth the ruthless power of her father Henry VIII or the bloody & radical reign of Mary the Tudors remain the most fascinating English dynasty. Richard Rex looks at how the public & private lives of the Tudors were inextricably linked & how each Tudor monarch exuded charisma & danger in equal measure. ...

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Rich in detail & atmosphere & told in vivid prose Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome & his relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife & the perfect heir; of how the brief reign of the teenage king Edward VI gave way to the violent reimposition of Catholicism & the stench of bonfires under ' Bloody Mary'. It tells too of the long reign of Elizabeth I which though marked by civil strife plots against the queen & even an invasion force finally brought stability. Above all however it is the story of the English Reformation & the making of the Anglican Church. At the beginning of the sixteenth century England was still largely feudal & looked to Rome for direction; at its end it was a country where good governance was the duty of the state not the church & where men & women began to look to themselves for answers rather than to those who ruled them. ...

Nicci French the bestselling author of What to do When Someone Dies & " Losing You" returns with the second book in the gripping new series that began with Top Ten Bestseller " Blue Monday". Fans of Peter James " Roy Grace" series & Peter Robinsons "DCI Banks" series will love central character psychotherapist Frieda Klein who is consulted on a grisly & seemingly unsolvable crime. For Frieda Klein the days get longer the cases darker... Psychotherapist Frieda Klein thought she was done with the police. But once more DCI Karlsson is knocking at her door. A mans decomposed body has been found in the flat of Michelle Doyce a woman trapped in a world of strange mental disorder. The police dont know who it is how he got there or what happened
- & Michelle cant tell them. But Karlsson hopes Frieda can get access to the truths buried beneath her confusion. Painstakingly Frieda uncovers a possible identity for the corpse: Robert Poole a jack of all trades & master conman. But the deeper Frieda & Karlsson dig into Pooles past the more of his victims they encounter
- & the more motives they find for murder. Meanwhile violent ghosts from Friedas own past are returning to threaten her. Unable to discover quite who is telling the truth & who is lying they know they are getting closer to a killer. But whoever murdered Poole is determined to stay free
- & anyone that gets too close will meet the same fate. A gritty heroine a gruesome crime & a terrifying hunt for a psychotic killer " Tuesdays Gone" is not to be missed by fans of psychological thrillers. " Nicci French knows just how to play on our worst fears". (" Daily Mail"). Nicci French is the pseudonym for Nicci Gerrard & Sean French. The couple live in Suffolk & have written twelve other bestselling novels including " Beneath the Skin" & " Blue Monday" the first thrilling instalment in the Frieda Klein series."


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Nicci French the bestselling author of What to do When Someone Dies" & " Losing You" returns with the second book in the gripping new series that began with Top Ten Bestseller " Blue Monday". Fans of Peter James' " Roy Grace" series & Peter Robinson's "DCI Banks" series will love central character psychotherapist Frieda Klein who is consulted on a grisly & seemingly unsolvable crime. For Frieda Klein the days get longer the cases darker... Psychotherapist Frieda Klein thought she was done with the police. But once more DCI Karlsson is knocking at her door. A man's decomposed body has been found in the flat of Michelle Doyce a woman trapped in a world of strange mental disorder. The police don't know who it is how he got there or what happened
- & Michelle can't tell them. But Karlsson hopes Frieda can get access to the truths buried beneath her confusion. Painstakingly Frieda uncovers a possible identity for the corpse: Robert Poole a jack of all trades & master conman. But the deeper Frieda & Karlsson dig into Poole's past the more of his victims they encounter
- & the more motives they find for murder. Meanwhile violent ghosts from Frieda's own past are returning to threaten her. Unable to discover quite who is telling the truth & who is lying they know they are getting closer to a killer. But whoever murdered Poole is determined to stay free
- & anyone that gets too close will meet the same fate. A gritty heroine a gruesome crime & a terrifying hunt for a psychotic killer " Tuesday's Gone" is not to be missed by fans of psychological thrillers. " Nicci French knows just how to play on our worst fears." (" Daily Mail"). Nicci French is the pseudonym for Nicci Gerrard & Sean French. The couple live in Suffolk & have written twelve other bestselling novels including " Beneath the Skin" & " Blue Monday" the first thrilling installment in the Frieda Klein series."


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Tuesday is Princess Celie's favourite day. Castle Glower magically grows a new room a turret or sometimes an entire wing! No one quite knows how or why but luckily Princess Celie has mapped out the Castle's many twists & turns. When the king & queen disappear & Councillors from neighbouring kingdoms arrive to advise Celie a new tower & a secret passageway appear just as Celie needs them. The Castle is definitely trying to tell her something. But it's down to Celie to find her parents hold on to the kingdom & protect her home before it's too late. This page-turning adventure marks the launch of a series sure to delight fans of Jessica Day George & win her countless new ones. ...

Maybe it was a grandparent or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older patient & wise who understood you when you were young & searching & gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom that person was Morrie Schwartz his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe like Mitch you lost track of this mentor as you made your way & the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS
- or motor neurone disease
- MItch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE is a magical chronicle of their time together through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.

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Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader (one of the few) & he likes cats. So how is it that despite being up against the worst villains in the universe he has become the proud owner of the last working seedship pride of Earth's Ecological Engineering Corps? We'll leave that aside for now
- just be thankful that the most powerful weapon in space is in good hands hands which now control cellular material for thousands of outlandish creatures. With his unique equipment & powerful spacecraft Tuf is set to tackle the myriad problems that human settlers have created during their colonisation of far flung worlds. Hosts of hostile monsters a population addicted to procreation a dictator who is willing to unleash plagues to get his own way
- & all that stands between the colonists & disaster is Tuf's ingenuity & his reputation as an honest dealer in a universe of rogues...

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