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|author=Peter Rex

|title=William the Conqueror: The Bastard of Normandy

|rating=4.5

|genre=History

|summary= The basic facts of William I's life are inevitably as clouded as those surrounding the Norman conquest, the events and politics which led up to it, and the aftermath. As Peter Rex makes clear in his introduction, any surviving sources are inevitably very incomplete. Moreover, 'the writing of the history of the eleventh century requires the historian to attempt to provide motives and explanations for events that are only sketchily described at best'.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660172</amazonuk>

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|author= Penny Parkes

|summary= Every so often Amnesty International gets together a number of great authors and produces an anthology of writing. This time, they've done it for younger readers with ''Here I Stand''. Twenty-five contributions explore where we are with human rights in today's society: the sacrifices many made to win them; the sacrifices that still need to be made to spread them; how, where and why these rights are under attack and how deep is the need to defend them.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140635838X</amazonuk>

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~~|author= William Sutton~~

~~|title= Lawless and the Flowers of Sin~~

~~|rating= 4~~

~~|genre= Crime (Historical)~~

|summary= Much of this book centres on, as we are accustomed to in tales of Victorian London, dastardly deeds done on a foggy night. Indeed the fog runs thick through this novel, draping the seedy events in a soupy broth of vice. Our hero, Lawless, rather ironically, is that most rare of birds, an honest detective, although as we learn he, himself, is not without his vices. What becomes clear however is that he is something of a social crusader when his eyes are opened to the misery and degradation faced by 'fallen' women. At its heart, the Flowers of Sin is a detective story, with Lawless given an impossible task to complete alongside solving a seemingly impossible crime. Along the way he meets a rag tag bunch of misfits who help, hurt and hinder our hero. There is romance and intrigue along the way as well as a sensational public trial, murder and episodes of mayhem.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>~~

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