The first biography to show what Richard III was really like. Not many people would claim to be saints or alternatively consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others but few have been held in greater infamy than Richard Plantagenet afterwards Duke of Gloucester & later still King Richard III. Richards character has been besmirched as often as it has been defended & the arguments between his detractors & supporters still rage after several centuries. Was he a ruthless hunchback who butchered his way to the throne a paragon of virtue who became a victim of Tudor propaganda or (as seems more likely) something in between? Some would argue that a true biography is impossible because the letters & other personal documents required for this purpose are simply not available; but David Baldwin has overcome this by an in-depth study of his dealings with his contemporaries. The fundamental question he has answered is what was Richard III really like. ...

Paul Murray Kendalls account of the life of Richard III explores not only the man himself but also the ways that he has influenced culture: Richard also played a central role in several literary works most notably as a character of William Shakespeares. Kendalls analysis of how others perceived Richard is central to the character study. ...

In 2012 Annette Carson formed part of the team that discovered King Richard IIIs mortal remains verified in 2013 by forensics including DNA matching. In response to the recent upsurge of interest her 2009 paperback has been updated with details of the discovery plus new illustrations & a larger typeface for easier readability. Carsons premise is that for centuries the vision of Richard III has been dominated by the fictional creations of Thomas More & Shakespeare. Many voices some of them eminent & scholarly have urged a more reasoned view to replace the traditional black portrait. This book seeks to redress the balance by examining the events of his reign as they actually happened based on reports in the original sources. Eschewing the overlay of assumptions so beloved by historians she instead traces actions & activities of the principal characters using facts & time-lines revealed in documentary evidence. In the process Carson dares to investigate areas where historians fear to tread & raises many controversial questions. ...

The reign of Richard III was one of the shortest in English history: yet the King himself was one of the most enigmatic personalities to have occupied the throne. Only 31 at the time of his death Richard in his brief career demonstrated an extraordinary range of contradictory qualities
- staunch loyalty & dissimulating perfidy dignified generosity & ruthless self-interest scrupulous honesty in government & a cynical manipulativeness. From the later 18th century onwards he has been a hero for those who are drawn to lost causes.
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The only biography to include the findings of the archaeological dig in the Leicester car park. Not many people would claim to be saints or alternatively consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others but few have been held in greater infamy than Richard Plantagenet afterwards Duke of Gloucester & later still King Richard III. Richard's character has been besmirched as often as it has been defended & the arguments between his detractors & supporters still rage after several centuries. Was he a ruthless hunchback who butchered his way to the throne a paragon of virtue who became a victim of Tudor propaganda or (as seems more likely) something in between? Some would argue that a true biography is impossible because the letters & other personal documents required for this purpose are simply not available; but David Baldwin has overcome this by an in-depth study of his dealings with his contemporaries. The fundamental question he has answered is 'what was Richard III really like'. Consists of 81 illustrations 57 of which are in colour. ...

A major new biography of the young Richard III. Richard III is a paradox
- the most hated of English kings yet the most beloved
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Includes: regular exercises for students to complete practical ideas to try out examiner's tips & suggestions for further
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THE STAKE In an abandoned hotel in a Californian ghost town horror writer Larry Dunbar & his friends make a chilling discovery. By chance they stumble on a coffin hidden under the stairs. Within lies the corpse of a naked female
- with a stake through its heart. Was she the innocent victim of a gruesome murder? Or was she a vampire? Theres only one way for Larry to solve the mystery
- he must pull out the stake...FUNLAND A series of unexplained disappearances has cast a dark shadow over the summer pleasures over the seaside town of Boleta Bay. & holiday-makers are being threatened by a growing army of leering foul-mouthed bums who have taken over the promenade. Convinced that the down-&-outs are behind the abductions a gang of local teenagers decide to wreak violent revenge. Led by the charismatic Tanya the gang graduate from simple beatings to more sinister punishments. & as they grow more daring their campaign leads them to the old abandoned Funhouse where the real truth of the disappearances awaits them...

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DARKNESS TELL US It starts at an end-of-term party. Six college kids & a Ouija board. The board that Professor Coreen Dalton had hidden at the back of a cupboard & sworn never to touch again
- not after Jakes death. & now here are these kids falling for the revelations of a spirit called Butler swallowing its promise of a fortune hidden in the mountains. Not that Corie believes they would be stupid enough to head off in to the wilderness on the say-so of a childs plaything. To embark on a two-day hike into the unknown where any foul danger may lie in wait to cut & slice & tear them limb from limb. But then professor or not Corie could be wrong...ONE RAINY NIGHT The water drops like a shroud on the town of Bixby. Warm viscous & unnatural it coats the inhabitants in an unending torrent
- & turns them into crazy hate-filled maniacs. A helpful stranger at a gas station shoves a petrol pump down a customers throat & squeezes the trigger. A soaking-wet queue of cinema-goers smashes its way inside the movie house to slice up the dry people within.A loving wife attacks her husband bouncing the back of his head on the marble floor until it sounds like sloppy wet meat...

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MIDNIGHTS LAIR Mordocks Cave is one of those wonders of the world: a place where thousands of sightseers every year taker an awe-inspiring boat trip on a lake deep beneath the earths surface & marvel at Natures handiwork. But the darkness is also the home of things Nature never intended
- things violent bestial & obscenely evil. & when a sudden power failure traps a group of tourists underground the unnatural creatures who dwell there emerge from the depths...ENDLESS NIGHT Jody Fargo is sweet sixteen but tougher than she looks -- she has to be. Shes sleeping over at a friends when the killers break in. They slaughter the family but Jody escapes rescuing twelve-year-old Andy on the way... Simon Quirt doesnt seem like the kind of fellow who would rape & murder in the dead of night. But together with his friends thats just what he does. Now Simon is alone. His task is to track down the only eyewitnesses to the massacre & dispose of them. Simon just cant wait to get his hands on Jody...
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