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Derek Wilson

Birth date: October 10, 1935

Website: www.derekwilson.com

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Biographies & Memoirs, Mystery & Thrillers, Nonfiction

Derek Wilson's Books

A Brief History of Henry VIII - Derek Wilson

The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black History of the Dudleys and the Tudor Throne - Derek Wilson

Shakespearean Whodunnits - Mike Ashley, Rosemary Aitken, John T. Aquino, Cherith Baldry, Stephen Baxter, Molly Brown, Louise Cooper, Martin Edwards, Margaret Frazer, Susanna Gregory, Edward D. Hoch, Tom Holt, Susan B. Kelly, Steve Lockley, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Patricia A. McKillip, Amy Myers, K

In the Lion's Court: Power, Ambition, and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII - Derek Wilson

The Nature of Rare Things - Derek Wilson

Motherwell FC On This Day: History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year - Derek Wilson

Breakthrough: Tunnelling the Channel - D...

Rothschild: The Wealth and Power of a Dynasty - Derek Wilson

The Plantagenets: The Kings that made Britain 1154-1485 - Derek Wilson

Mammoth Books Presents the Bothersome Business of the Dutch Nativity - Derek Wilson

A Brief History of Circumnavigators - Derek Wilson

England in the Age of Thomas More - Dere...

Scotland On This Day: History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year - Derek Wilson

Sir Francis Walsingham: Courtier in an Age of Terror - Derek Wilson

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Calamities and Catastrophes: The Ten Absolutely Worst Years in History - Derek Wilson

The Plantagenet Chronicles 1154-1485 (Richard the Lionheart, Richard II, Henry V, Richard III) - Derek Wilson

Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man - Derek Wilson

Sweet Robin: A Biography of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester 1533-1588 - Derek Wilson

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Elentarri's Book Blog rated it

9 years ago

text Calamities & Catastrophes

Some new information, but mostly old information. Each chapter deals (rather briefly) with a different catastrophe or calamity in history, which the author as arbitrarily decided is the "worst year in history". One chapter gives a brief overview of the Justinian Plague, another one mentions the ef...

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jemidar rated it

12 years ago

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While not bad, this bio of Charles II definitely doesn't live up to the promise of the title.

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Elysium rated it

13 years ago

text All the King's Women

DNF page 144The book focused too much on just Charles's life and not in the women and I started to nod off. I don't know why but something in Charles always has that effect.

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Witty Little Knitter rated it

15 years ago

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In which I am talking to myself:"So Aoife, tell me again: Did you ever read a crime short-story collection (apart from Sherlock Holmes) you actually liked?""Well, there was this one by Pater Tremayne.""And apart from that?""None.""So why exactly did you think you'd like that one?""Because of the con...

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