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The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Other books by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Our most recommended books

The Politics of Dr Johnson by Donald Greene

A Week with Gandhi by Louis Fischer

Bad Faith: A History of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil

Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica by Arrian

Baldwin by Keith Middlemas and John Barnes

Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East by Warren Dockter

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The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Peculiar Ground
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

The Politics of Dr Johnson
by Donald Greene

A Week with Gandhi
by Louis Fischer

Bad Faith: A History of Family and Fatherland
by Carmen Callil

Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica
by Arrian

Baldwin
by Keith Middlemas and John Barnes

Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East
by Warren Dockter