The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
Great Britain
- Author:Fry, StephenSummary:
- Author:Lambdin, DeweySummary:
It is 1781 and the British-held American port of Yorktown on the Chesapeake Bay is under siege. Pounded by the American colonists on land and the deadly warships of their French allies at sea, the once proud city is in flames and near...
- Author:Edwards, Ruth DudleySummary:
Can anyone British teach English as a foreign language? He's also a civil servant down on his luck and out of a job and thus ripe for a post as a police spy at the Knightsbridge School. Robert's cover will be to teach English as a...
- Author:Quinn, JuliaSummary:
Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn't as if the...
- Author:Junor, PennySummary:
In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall-the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded"-esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and...
- Author:Pepys, SamuelSummary:
Presents excerpts chronicling one of the most colorful periods of the Restoration.
- Author:Kildaire, V. B.Summary:
Leander Mayfield is the only surviving son of a poor farmer ... or so he believes until the day he learns he is in fact the new Earl of Dearborn. Still recovering from a lingering illness, the sensitive young man travels to Great...
- Author:Doherty, PaulSummary:
The fate of kings is not always glorious. Indeed, England’s Edward II so angered his wife, her lover, and his subjects when he flaunted his male favorites that they revolted, deposed him, and made him prisoner. History records Edward II...
- Author:H.K. FlemingSummary:
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- Author:Jalalzai, Musa KhanSummary:
The revelations of Mr. Edward Snowden sparked widespread outrage about the illegal surveillance mechanisms of N.S.A. and G.C.H.Q. The intelligence war between allies and friends broke into the open when France, Germany and Spain...
- Author:Gregory, PhilippaSummary:
Daughter of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, Katherine has been fated her whole life to marry Prince Arthur of England. When they meet and are married, the match becomes as passionate as it is politically expedient. The young...
- Author:Smith, FrankSummary:
This is the new DCI Neil Paget mystery. Holbrook Micro-Engineering Labs is owned jointly by Simon and Laura Holbrook. When Laura Holbrook is brutally murdered one evening while her husband, Simon, a confirmed womanizer, is supposedly...
- Author:Weir, AlisonSummary:
Weir sheds light on the scheming, backstabbing and brutality that plagued 16th-century England.
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- Author:Martin, KatSummary:
Knowing that she alone can protect her sister from the Baron Harwood, their lecherous stepfather, Victoria Temple Whiting snatches the family's heirloom necklace-believed to hold the power to bring great happiness or terrible tragedy-to...
- Author:Hill, LawrenceSummary:
"Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle--a string of slaves-- Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges...
- Author:Stross, CharlesSummary:
A lowly computer geek working for a secret British intelligence agency gets promoted to field service after accidentally saving lives in a disaster. Now he's faced with saving the universe using only his smarts and a disembodied hand...
- Author:Stross, CharlesSummary:
Occasionally hapless British agent Bob Howard tackles a case involving an American televangelist and a supernatural threat of global proportions.
- Author:Holmes, RichardSummary:
When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages...