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As Assistant Private Secretary to four monarchs, 'Tommy' Lascelles had a ringside seat from which to observe the workings of the royal household and Downing Street during the first half of the 20th century. These fascinating diaries begin with Edward VIII's abdication and end with George VI's death and his daughter Elizabeth's Coronation. In between we see George VI at work and play, a portrait more intimate than any other previously published.  

Exiled to the winter shadows of the French Riviera after a fatal mistake, Chadwick is determined to lie low. But when a beautiful stranger begs him to help find her missing brother, he is drawn into a ruthless conspiracy that endangers everyone close to him. Forced to face the betrayal that destroyed his life, he is condemned to repeat the past — only this time, he may not survive.

Eleven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of Mary Queen of Scots and the Stuart royals. Under the Stuarts, Britain entered the modern world. But with great change came turmoil, and for 111 years, the Stuart monarchs faced dynastic struggles, religious conflict, the rise of parliamentary democracy - and civil war. These dramas chart that turbulent epoch through its royal family, from Mary, Queen of Scots to the ‘last Stuart’, Bonnie Prince Charlie’s daughter Charlotte.

Bloomsbury presents The Great Passion by James Runcie, read by Pip Torrens. A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' SCOTSMAN 'A wise, refreshing novel, and a touching human story ... Runcie has an expert imagination' HILARY MANTEL Love and Death. Grief and Joy. Music that lasts forever...

Bloomsbury presents Tell Me Good Things by James Runcie, read by Pip Torrens. ‘A tender memoir of the challenges of bereavement ... I closed this book wishing I’d met her – but feeling that I almost had’ Daily Telegraph _______________ A memoir of a husband's grief, and an unforgettable...

Bloomsbury presents Tell Me Good Things by James Runcie, read by Pip Torrens. A profound examination of grief and a great celebration of love by internationally bestselling author James Runcie. In early 2020, as the world sunk into the pandemic, James Runcie and his wife Marilyn Imrie were going...

Bloomsbury presents The Great Passion by James Runcie, read by Pip Torrens. From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach’s writing of the St. Matthew Passion. In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old...