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Historical Fun with Good Feedback/Old Europe Comes to Life
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of The Sun KingLove and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of The Sun King by Antonia Fraser
Buy new: £5.67 / Used from: £0.31
The Sun King rises again....and again...Fraser never lets us down
A Visit from Voltaire: A Comic NovelA Visit from Voltaire: A Comic Novel by Dinah Lee Küng
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01
Funny mix of history and modern comedy. Heartwarming, offbeat, uplifting
Catherine The Great & Potemkin: The Imperial AffairCatherine The Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Affair by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Buy new: £9.07 / Used from: £3.81
The best yet on an amazing woman and love affair to end all....
The Borgia BrideThe Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis
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Dark, sensual and dangerous
Madame De PompadourMadame De Pompadour by Nancy Mitford
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Reads like a novel and full of romance and intrigue
Catherine the GreatCatherine the Great by Virginia Rounding
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.99
She was a killer, in so many ways!
In the Company of the CourtesanIn the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
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Courtesan and dwarf sidekick caught in the heat of 16th century Rome
Marie AntoinetteMarie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
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talk about losing your head....Fraser is quite sympathetic
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
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Raj on...
The Boleyn InheritanceThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
Buy new: £17.09 / Used from: £0.01
Gregory is very prolific and light, but good for beach
Shakespeare's WifeShakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
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Greer's new polemic examines Elizabethan wifery, part-bio/part-history