Hardback reissue of a classic study of women in Civil War England - part of THE SIX LIVES OF ANTONIA FRASER promotion

A revealing - amusing and sad - biography of a unique family

Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history.

Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to be a young man in Restoration London.

A biography of Samuel Johnson which concerns the last twenty years of his life. It establishes Johnson's centrality in 18th century letters. It places him in a literary and cultural context.

From the first exploratory expeditions into foreign lands, through the heyday of the British Empire and still at the end of the millennium, the foreign service has been shaped and run behind the scenes by the wives of ambassadors and minor civil servants. These are some of their stories.