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From the author of The Sisters, a chronicle of the most brutal, turbulent, and exuberant period of England's history. Bess Hardwick, the fifth daughter of an impoverished Derbyshire nobleman, did not have an auspicious start in life. Widowed at sixteen, she nonetheless outlived four monarchs, married three more times, built the great house at Chatsworth, and died one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in English history. In 1527 Englan...

* Reissue of the acclaimed biography of Beryl Markam

*A fascinating 'dual' biography of Richard and Isabel Burton.

This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the world wars. Jessica was a Communist, Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire, Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day, beautiful Diana married the Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, and Unity, a close friend of Hitler, shot herself in the head when England and Germany declared war. The Mitfords had style and presence and were mer...

Born in England and raised in Kenya, Beryl Markham was a notorious beauty. She trained race horses and had scandalous affairs, but she is most remembered for being a pioneering aviatrix. She became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the first person to make it from London to New York nonstop. In Mary S. Lovell's definitive biography, Beryl takes on new life-vividly portrayed by a master biographer whose knowledge of her subject is...

Mary S. Lovell brilliantly recounts the triumphant political and military campaigns, domestic tragedies, happy marriages, and disastrous unions throughout generations of Churchills. The first Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) was a soldier of such genius that a lavish palace, Blenheim, was built to honor his triumphs. Succeeding generations of Churchills sometimes achieved distinction but also included profligates and womanizers and were saddled...

La bellísima y apasionada lady Jane Digby acabó sus días en Damasco como esposa de un jeque beduino.

This definitive biography of aviation legend Amelia Earhart delivers a brilliantly researched report on Earhart's life--from her tomboy childhood and early fascination with flying to her consuming quest for aviation fame.

Paperback edition of Lovell's enthralling biography of Jane Digby. The diaries document her aristocratic life, an unsuccessful marriage at the age of seventeen, and a succession of lovers. Digby finally found happiness with a Bedouin nobleman in Syria, twenty years her junior. "A compelling narrative...Jane Digby's sins make a wonderfully good read." "Sunday Telegraph".

Their marriage was both improbable and inevitable. Isabel Arundell was a schoolgirl, the scion of England's most distinguished Catholic family. When she first saw him while walking at a seaside resort, Richard Burton had already made his mark as a linguist (he was fluent in twenty-nine languages), scholar, soldier, and explorer--at once a symbol of Victorian England's vision of empire and an avowed rebel against its mores. When she turned and ...