Item category 1: Adult Hardback

Consider Vivien in November 1922. She is 24, and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and - worse - intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as 'the giantess'. Fortunately, she is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charisma...

Alison Weir's enthralling account of Henry VIII's first wife is based on extensive research and new theories. It reveals a strong, spirited woman determined to fight for her rights and the rightful place of her daughter; a woman who believed that to be the wife of a king was her destiny. History ...

Ramshackle and crumbling, trapped in the past and resisting the future, St Saviour's Infirmary awaits demolition. Within its stinking wards and cramped corridors the doctors bicker and fight. Ambition, jealousy and hatred seethe beneath the veneer of professional courtesy. Always an outsider, and...

Rome, AD 68. Nero has committed suicide. 100 years of imperial rule by the descendants of Julius Caesar has ended, and chaos rules. His successor Galba dismisses the incorruptible Germans of the Imperial Bodyguard for the crime of loyalty to the dead emperor. Ordering them back to their homeland ...