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The unruly queen : the life of Queen Caroline
From the Publisher: When the Prince Regent (who would later become King George IV) separated privately from Princess Caroline in 1796, they had been together for less than a year. Their disastrous marriage, ridiculed by the satirists of the day, led to profound political consequences and the eventual trial of Queen Caroline for adultery. After her exile, Caroline traveled through Europe with her own court, with catastrophic results, eventually returning to England but still lacking the dignity of her station. With careful research and an eye to the parallels in the modern era, acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser crafts in The Unruly Queen a riveting portrait of a woman who, despite her persecution, refused to be victimized.
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Love in a cold climate
\"Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, is bored by the monotony of her glittering debut season in London. Having just come from India, where her father served as Viceroy, she claims to have hoped that society in a colder climate would be less obsessed with love affairs. The apparently aloof and indifferent Polly has a long-held secret, however, one that leads to the shattering of her mother's dreams and her own disinheritance. When an elderly duke begins pursuing the disgraced Polly and a callow potential heir curries favor with her parents, sa nothing goes as expected, but in the end all find happiness in their own unconventional ways\"--Back cover.
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ALL YOU'LL EVER NEED TO KNOW ABOUT KUBRICK'S OBSESSION
[...] what a fascinating insight into the mind of Kubrick this provides, as, fresh from the success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he plunged deeper and deeper into the abyss of Napoleonic studies. a Ten T separate books or sections, corresponding to the film-maker's original files, include the headings -- picture file, production, location scouting, correspondence and, of course, script.
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CLOCKING UP ZILLIONS OF CELEBRITIES
Haslam writes emotionally about Great Hundridge, the manor farm his father sold while young [Nicky Haslam] was in his first \"half\" at Eton, and poetically about the landscape in the South of France, where Michael Wishart, author of High Diver, was Haslam's lover and Mediterranean mentor. Not all of his love affairs have ended well but happiness came with the purchase of the Hunting Lodge, a small but perfect folly where Haslam is at home as he has perhaps never been since he left Great Hundridge. With his changes of environs, Haslam studiously alters his appearance, appearing brass blonde when he hit London in his teens and more recently, back in the capital, face-lifted and with jet-black hair in faithful imitation of the pop star Liam Gallagher. When Haslam tired of that look and appeared more his real age with silver hair, Gallagher said: \"What's happened, Nick? You don't look a bit like me any more.\" The looks that Haslam has devised for his or others' habitats are as various as his own.
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Old friends are rescuing the capital's authors
The best story of those energetic years comes from a cousin of mine who was lunching with the distinguished writer, Shiva Naipaul. His book A Hot Country had just come out and after lunch he asked her to go into Truslove and Hanson and ask if they had the book in. \"No,\" came the uncompromising answer, \"and you can tell Mr Naipaul, whom I see lurking outside, that we're not planning on getting it in either.\" But the bookshops were potentially the author's allies, and from those fine independent bookshops, Heywood Hill in Mayfair, John Sandoe in Chelsea and Hatchards in Piccadilly, I received nothing but kindness and encouragement. They, of course, are still going, while Truslove and Hanson is no more. Things changed in the Nebulous Nineties. Books ceased to come out and became \"products\" which were \"launched\" with \"campaigns\". There were also \"whopper\" or \"bonanza\" advances paid out to numerous authors, and many writers, rather than sitting writing or wandering up to the local bookshop for a thriller, took to speaking at literary festivals to startling numbers all over Britain.
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Reply Letters and emails: Our national heritage is not a luxury
Antony Beevor, Michael Burleigh, Patrick Bishop, Raymond Carr, Linda Colley, Artemis Cooper, Max Egremont, Niall Ferguson, Antonia Fraser, Flora Fraser, Max Hastings, Eric Hobsbawm, Bettany Hughes, Tristram Hunt, Diarmaid Maccullugh, Philip Mansel, John Julius Norwich, Simon Schama, Dan Snow, Anne Somerset, David Starkey and Adam Zamoyski
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REVIEWS Stepping down from his pedestal One new account of Nelson cuts through the romantic claptrap surrounding him, while another takes a spectacular romp through the gore of Trafalgar
As with all the best romantic literature, [Adam Nicolson] is even better after all passion is spent, when the battle and the terrible storm that succeeded it were over, and when the time came for reflection on what had been done that day. Nicolson paints for us the sights of battle, among them that of a French ship of the line with 300 out of a complement of 643 men dead on the decks, and 222 below, waiting to be operated on by surgeons. Further off, seen in the ocean, were \"the wrecks of ships, and here and there the bodies of the dead''. Not without purpose, Nicolson invokes the shades of Coleridge, of Wordsworth, of Blake and of Turner to help conjure up the spirit of the day. In his telling of the central story of [Horatio Nelson]'s death in the midst of victory, Nicolson also makes reference to medieval poetry, to the Iliad and indeed to Henry V. In his pursuit of creating a great tonepoem, the romantic literature of every age is grist to his mill. Is this romantic claptrap? Well, this is the most bizarre assessment of Admiral Nelson I have ever read: \"His method was exuberance and the tigers ofhis wrath were undaunted by the horses of instruction.'' And who does he expect to believe thefollowing? \"Englishmen in 1805 had more immediate access to their emotions than at any time before or since.'' Nicolson is infinitely safer on sails, reefs, sheets, yards, trusses and weather braces. But the whole is enormously engaging and enjoyable, if taken with several pounds of sea salt. Nicolson's gift for romantic writing and his eye fortopographical detail combine to give us Gricault-like pictures of the destruction in the name of victory out at sea. In fact, given that Nelsonis demonstrably dead, I christen Adam Nicolson themost romantic Englishman alive.
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