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This is an entertaining, readable, yet well-researched look at the royal courts of George I and II of England (early to mid-18th century). Worsley picks out a handful of people and follows them throughout the book: a royal mistress who was also the queen’s lady-in-waiting; an ambitious painter who g...
Rating: To Come"Thank you Rafflecopter and Candlewick Press for providing this book as a giveaway which I was surprised to have won!"So, I recieved this book, rather unexpectedly, in the mail today. I must say I was rather surprised and excited. Let me first say, that cover is amazing! I cannot w...
I liked this story of a member of Henry VIII's court and her adventures, making her Katherine Howards' cousin allowed for a lot of messy realities to be dealt with.
bookshelves: published-2013, summer-2015, nonfiction, books-about-books-and-book-shops, true-grime, next Read from August 30 to 31, 2015 Description: Murder - a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very English obsession. But wh...
How did we come to a place where crime is entertainment? It's a really good question. Short answer: as the odds of certain risks (murder) go down, fascination with it goes up. Well, Worsley wrote a whole book explaining it better that that, and a very entertaining book it is, tracing the rise of new...
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