Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France
10 best books like Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France (Christine Pevitt): All Things Wise and Wonderful, Marie Antoinette: The Journey, Me, The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV, Madame de Pompadour: A Life, The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon's Josephine, Caesars' Wives: The Women Who Shaped the History of Rome, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat, The Queen's Dollmaker, Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World
All Things Wise and Wonderful
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0312335288 |
The third volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series
Readers adored James Herriot's tales of his life as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful. Now here's a third delightful volume of memoirs rich with Herriot's own brand of...
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
| Author | Antonia Fraser |
| ISBN | 0307277747 |
Brilliantly written, a work of impeccable scholarship. An utterly riveting and intensely moving book by one of our finest biographers.
Never before has the life of Marie Antoinette been told so intimately and with such authority as in Antonia Fraser's newest work, Marie Antoinette: The...
| Author | Elton John |
| ISBN | 1250147603 |
In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, which is also the subject of the film Rocketman. The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time.
Christened...
| Author | Anne Somerset |
| ISBN | 0312330170 |
The Affair of the Poisons, as it became known, was an extraordinary episode that took place in France during the reign of Louis XIV. When poisoning and black magic became widespread, arrests followed. Suspects included those among the highest ranks of society. Many were tortured and numerous executions...
| Author | Évelyne Lever |
| ISBN | 0312310501 |
A sumptuous new biography of one of the most famous dangerous liaisons
When Jeanne Antoinette Poisson was a child, a fortune-teller predicted that she would one day be the mistress of a king. Born into the financial bourgeoisie that was a world apart from the royal court, the beautiful Jeanne Antoinette...
The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon's Josephine
| Author | Andrea Stuart |
| ISBN | 0802142028 |
One of the most remarkable women of the modern era, Josephine Bonaparte was born Rose de Tasher on her family's sugar plantation in Martinique. She embodied all the characteristics of a true Creole-sensuality, vivacity, and willfulness. Using diaries and letters, Andrea Stuart expertly re-creates...
| Author | Annelise Freisenbruch |
| ISBN | 1416583033 |
In scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have been popularly characterized as heartless murderers, shameless adulteresses, and conniving politicians in the high dramas of the Roman court. Yet little has...
The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
| Author | Bob Woodward |
| ISBN | 0743287150 |
In The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat, Bob Woodward lays down the Watergate history and then spends the rest of the book detailing his struggle with revealing the identity of Deep Throat, the source that helped him and Carl Bernstein understand and unveil the scandal. If you're unfamiliar...
| Author | Christine Trent |
| ISBN | 0758238576 |
A young woman, struggling to expand her London dollmaking trade, finds a surprising customer in Queen Marie Antoinette, an avid doll collector herself. This seemingly innocent exchange puts Claudette’s life in danger when she is lured to Paris under false pretenses. Money and jewels are being...
| Author | Diana Preston |
| ISBN | 0802717381 |
The story of the world's best-remembered celebrity couple, set against the political backdrop of their time.
On a stiflingly hot day in August 30 b.c., the thirty-nine-year-old queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own life rather than be paraded in chains through Rome by her conqueror, Octavian--the...
