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  • The Rage of Party

    by George Owers ...
    THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A CAPX AND ENGELSBERG IDEAS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025The late 17th century saw the rise of a new phenomenon that would transform Britain forever: party politics.Beginning with a furious dispute over whether to allow a Roman Catholic - James II - to become king, the division between Whig and Tory marked the chief political battlelines of a ferociously polarised ... Read more

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    The Rage of Party

    by George Owers ...
    Narrated by Justin Avoth ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 50 min

    THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A CAPX AND ENGELSBERG IDEAS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025The late 17th century saw the rise of a new phenomenon that would transform Britain forever: party politics.Beginning with a furious dispute over whether to allow a Roman Catholic - James II - to become king, the division between Whig and Tory marked the chief political battlelines of a ferociously polarised ... Read more

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    The Rebel Empresses

    Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

    by Nancy Goldstone ...
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    From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe—Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France—and their efforts to rule amid the scandal, intrigue, tragedy, and violence of their era.When they married Emperors Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, respectively, Elisabeth ... Read more

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  • The Stones of Britain

    A History of Britain through its Geology

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    'Cannon has a keen descriptive eye and a striking, lyrical turn of phrase . . . a rich, warm, authoritative book' TLSThis is the definitive tale of how our island history is written in stone.The Stones of Britain is about how rocks make places, exploring the connection between geology and landscape, the stones beneath the surface and the history that has played out above it. It movingly ... Read more

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    The Golden Throne

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    by Christopher de Bellaigue ...
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    Brought to you by Penguin.A ground-breaking, present-tense reconstruction of the life and world of one of the most consequential figures in world history, Suleyman the Magnificent, from the author of The Lion HouseChosen by The Times, Guardian and Financial Times as a 'Book to Look Out For' in 2025Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the Ottoman Sultans is at the pinnacle of world power, while... ... Read more

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    Babylon

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    by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones ...
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    A vibrant, colorful, and authoritative exploration of the world's first and most illustrious metropolis.'Babylon' is a name that has a double life: it denotes the great ancient Mesopotamian city with a long and complex history, and it is also a fictive allusion with a wide variety of connotations, from the Hebrew bible's Tower of Babel, through the New Testament's 'Whore of Babylon' to the iconic ... Read more

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    **Brought to you by Penguin.Meet the misfits and mavericks who waged psychological warfare against the Nazis**September, 1939. While Britain hovered on the brink of the Second World War, a team of unlikely and ill-assorted characters assembled in their secret headquarters. They had left their civilian roles as politicians, journalists, novelists and spies, advertisers, artists and even forgers, to ... Read more

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  • The Rebel Empresses

    Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

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