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1.		The Duchess from HarperPerennial Price: £3.99 Customer Review: The book is simply amazing. The letters that the Duchess exchanged with others bring her character and her peers back to life. Despite the high rank and society Georgiana belonged to, she was just a woman whose ambitions moved her forward, whose love-life could not be more difficult and restrained... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire from Flamingo Price: £4.99 Customer Review: Although 'Georgiana' is competently written and well-researched, I am frankly amazed that it has achieved such massive success and popularity since its first publication ten years ago. As other reviewers have pointed out, it perhaps fulfills a useful purpose in putting women back in the 'front-line'... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Wellington: A Journey Through My Family from Weidenfeld & Nicolson Price: £13.99	Click here for more information

4.		The Decline and Fall of the British Empire from Vintage Price: £5.99 Customer Review: Im still reading this, It gives a considered and riveting tale of my Countrys History. Keep an open mind, fantastic achievements by towering figures, they were Empire builders and Empire spoilers, working to the values and ethics of their times. Reads like an action packed novel. Well done ancestors... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God from Vintage Price: £7.69 Customer Review: This book sparked my interest in London's history generally because you can clearly relate the happenings and statistics in this book to our present times and recent past. A thoroughly enjoyable read, and I'm looking forward to reading his 20th century history of London.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Lady Worsley's Whim: An Eighteenth-century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce from Chatto & Windus Price: £17.49	Click here for more information

7.		William Pitt the Younger: A Biography from HarperPerennial Price: £6.99 Customer Review: William Hague points out in the afterword to this book that Margaret Thatcher likened him to Pitt the Younger when he famously took the stage at the Conservative Party Conference aged 16 many years ago. He certainly has a sympathy for his subject but not a slavish one ; he sees weaknesses as well as... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum from The Bodley Head Ltd Price: £14.00 Customer Review: I am enjoying this book because it has shed new light on my own family's story as they lived in Bethnal Green at the end of the 19th century. The use of personal stories especially those of Arthur Harding is very effective and one of the best things about the book. I have struggled with its... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		Blake from Vintage Price: £6.99 Customer Review: Blake's prophetic books are, in proportion to their length and literary importance, amongst the least read texts within the body of English Literature. Certainly, they are the least understood. This is partly because of the notion, common today as it was amongst Blake's contemporaries, that the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		Cochrane the Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane, 1775-1860 from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Price: £6.99 Customer Review: The story has been recovered fron cochranes own autobiography but lack of detail in the combat zones ,leaves a feeling of glossing over what could have been a grate read. maybe the origonal book was writtn in a stilted style because "real men do not bring attention to thier deeds"... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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