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The Elizabethan spy and double agent emerges from the shadows of history in the author's recent series that reimagine his involvement in the Babington Plot, Essex’s rebellion and the mysterious death of Christopher Marlowe.
Inspired by a trip to the county, the author sketches out Lincolnshire’s rich Roman, medieval and religious history, tracing the county’s independent Puritan tradition from the Reformation to the Pilgrims who founded Boston, Massachusetts.
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Tim Spicer
In his new biography, An Axe and Four Balloons, the author introduces the man who saved the SAS
A pivotal decision by Publius Scipio in 218 BC to send his brother Gnaeus to establish a Roman foothold in Iberia may have denied Hannibal the reinforcements he needed to defeat Rome and ultimately changed the course of Mediterranean history.
Paul Mason
Karl Marx was never the original architect of the communist tradition, which traces deeper roots from French revolutionary thought and the utopian ideals of Babeuf and Blanqui.
Judith S. Lewis
Wartime requisitioning of Britain’s country houses transformed the lives of owners, servants and occupiers and the consequences were far-reaching.
Paul French
A recently discovered diary from an American tutor who lived with Puyi and Wanrong offers an new perspective on the young couple’s marriage and the usual portrayal of China’s last emperor and empress as political symbols, victims or exotic caricatures.
The filmmaker-turned-author explains how his career shapes his fiction, which combines intrigue, historical fact, exotic locations and research.
