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“roy hattersley”

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  • The Devonshires

    The Story of a Family and a Nation

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away from the throne of England and their grandson, Lord General of the North, fought to save the crown for Charles I. Fifty years later, the First Duke ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • David Lloyd George

    The Great Outsider

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, was the founding father of the Welfare State and was as great a peacetime leader as Churchill was in war.In this fascinating biography of an authentic radical, Roy Hattersley charts the great reforms - the first ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Buster's Secret Diaries

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    Diaries celebrating a dog's joy at owning a human, by the most famous dog in Britain.Buster has written these diaries himself - whenever he could remember where he hid the manuscript in his garden. In it he lays bear the truth of how The Man has held Buster back, pretending to protect fur and feathers. Buster's last book was an instant bestseller and, outrageously, The Man took all the credit. To ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Catholics

    The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history – 'A first-class storyteller' The TimesThroughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy – which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach with Rome – English Catholics were prosecuted, persecuted and penalised for the public expression of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Edwardians

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer afternoon before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began to take form. The class system remained rigidly in place and thousands were employed in domestic service. The habits and sports of the aristocracy were an everyday indulgence. But it was an age of invention as well as tradition. It saw ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • In Search Of England

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    Passionate, affectionate and indefatigably curious, In Search of England joins a tradition of writing, from William Cobbett to JB Priestley, that makes a journey around the English countryside and character. England is the most various of countries; within its borders, life changes mile on mile. Roy Hattersley celebrates crumbling churches and serene Victorian architecture, magnificent hills and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Blood and Fire

    William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years later he founded a new religious movement which succeeded to such a degree that the Salvation Army (which it became) is now a worldwide operation with massive membership.But that is only part of Booth's importance and heritage. In many ways his story is also ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Who Goes Home?

    Scenes from a Political Life

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    Each night when the House of Commons rises, throughout the Palace of Westminster policemen shout, 'Who goes home?', a relic of the days when Members of Parliament were escorted safely to their beds. WHO GOES HOME? is Roy Hattersley's witty and characteristically frank account of a lifetime in the Labour party from schoolboy canvassing in post-war Sheffield through Cabinet office and the wilderness ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Buster's Diaries

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    BUSTER'S DIARIES - offer a unique floor-level insight into the aromatic world of the man-owning dog. Buster stepped into the limelight in April 1996 after an incident with a goose in St James's Park, a goose which happened to belong to the Queen. Pursued by the press ever since, he has sought solace in writing. He details the absurdities of his life with The Man, who clearly wants to be a dog, but ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Yorkshire Boyhood

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    It was not until he was dead and I was forty that I realised my father was once in Holy Orders,' Roy Hattersley tells us in the opening pages of A YORKSHIRE BOYHOOD; so setting the tone for an elegant, continually surprising book.A somewhat precocious only child, Roy grew up surrounded by protective, ever-anxious adults, equally determined to expose him to books and to shield him from germs -- ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Borrowed Time

    The Story of Britain Between the Wars

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    Called an uneasy peace, the twenty years between the wars were a time of turmoil - Britain saw a general strike and the worst economic crisis in its history, armed rebellion in Ireland and open revolt in India, a Prime Minister's resignation and the King's abdication. Crisis followed crisis until Britain was engulfed in the Second World War - a catastrophe that could have been foreseen, possibly ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • 50 Years On

    A Prejudiced History of Britain Since the War

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    In FIFTY YEARS ON, Roy Hattersley explores and explains the events which have shaped modern Britain. Combining acute analysis of domestic politics with a brilliant eye for the bigger picture, his 'prejudiced history' takes the reader from the high hopes of 1945 to the cynicism of end-of century Britain. Roy Hattersley focuses his attention on two particular features of post-war Britain: the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD