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• Best-loved Classics: Rapunzel by Sarah Gibb
  ...ry a joy to read every time my daughter asks. Perfect for princess-loving little girls! ...by The Brothers Grimm. This is a lovely book to share and stays closer to the original story than Disney's 'Tangled' film.
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• Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke
  ...to become a passionate Francophile, culminating in his paving the way for the Entente cordiale with England in 1904 ...u will ever find, but it is certainly an entertaining, racy gallop through the life of its subject.
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• American Royals by Katharine McGee
  ...ok at what the United States would look like if they had a royal family. ''The Crown'' meets ''Gossip Girl''! ...rice's whole life has been building up to her ruling the United States and the time for her reign is imminent.
  5 KB (898 words) - 10:15, 4 September 2019
• Winning Without Losing: 66 strategies for succeeding in business while living a happy and balanced life by Martin Bjergegaard and Jordan Milne
  ...prove your work/life balance. Although directed at entrepreneurs a lot of the suggestions are valid for anyone who has ''stuff'' to get through. ...xty six ideas for ways in which you could adjust your working life to make the most of it without ruining everything else.
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• The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart by Sarah Fraser
  |title= The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart |sort=Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart
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• A Humble Companion by Laurie Graham
  |summary=A lightly-fictionalised look at the life of Princess Sophia, daughter of George III. It's a deceptively easy r ...as actually the daughter of a high-ranking steward in the household of the Prince of Wales, but with only two years difference in age they became life-long f
  3 KB (582 words) - 10:55, 11 August 2020
• A Palace Full of Princesses by Sally Gardner
  |summary=A bind-up of four favourite fairy tales for the emerging reader. You might know a princess who would love it. ...but an activity you really look forward to. If children get that idea in the early years at school then they have a pleasure which will stay with them a
  3 KB (421 words) - 10:47, 28 August 2020
• Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business is Easier Than You Think by Luke Johnson
  ...business which you might have been expecting but an inspirational guide to the life of an entrepreneur. ...t to open a restaurant, Mr Plumb, who's been havering about splitting from the builder who employs him and Miss Baker who think that our prosperous villag
  4 KB (678 words) - 09:47, 27 August 2020
• Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was by Sean Cunningham
  |title=Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was ...s almost nothing, but in fact, he has opened a very considerable window on the early Tudor court.
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• The King's Jockey by Lesley Gray
  |title=The King's Jockey ...tie Jones, who rode the horse which collided with Emily Wilding Davison in the notorious suffragette Derby. A good and thought-provoking read.
  3 KB (584 words) - 14:00, 17 March 2018
• The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha
  |title=The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career |sort=Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
  4 KB (747 words) - 20:42, 22 November 2020
• Ruby Rocksparkle: Her Wildly Incredible Adventure by Jean Clemens Loftus
  ...Rocksparkle is a really sweet, Disney-esque fairy tale written with charm. The book itself has been put together very thoughtfully and girly girls from pr ...is fast approaching. Ruby, a vivid, read-headed beauty, dreams of marrying Prince Alano. If only he could ever marry a commoner - but even Ruby knows that co
  4 KB (671 words) - 17:40, 21 April 2018
• The Eye of Winter’s Fury by Michael J Ward
  |title=The Eye of Winter’s Fury ...ults, ''The Eye of Winters Fury'' is a hugely exciting and involving book. The game mechanisms may take some getting used to, but you’ll soon be hooked.
  4 KB (736 words) - 11:42, 13 March 2018
• Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
  ...cate but subtle worldbuilding and elegant prose - perfect for this reader. The pace is measured, slow even, again perfect for this reader but perhaps frus '''Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013'''
  4 KB (587 words) - 16:39, 14 March 2018
• The Countess: The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey by Tim Clarke
  |title= The Countess: The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey |sort=Countess: The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey
  5 KB (808 words) - 15:19, 8 April 2018
• Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel Prince by Celine Kiernan
  |title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel Prince ...ehow actually lives up to the insanely high expectations I had of it after the superb first two books. Highest recommendation possible.
  4 KB (614 words) - 13:21, 19 February 2018
• Havenfall by Sara Holland
  ...teresting with plenty of room for development, but we'd have liked some of the plot and character set-ups to have been better disguised. ...cause the crime Maddie's mum is languishing on death row for committing is the murder of Maddie's brother...
  4 KB (611 words) - 16:41, 14 November 2019
• I Didn't Do It! (Little Princess) by Tony Ross
  |title=I Didn't Do It! (Little Princess) ...ims very loudly, she didn't do it! If she didn't though, who did? And will the culprit ever own up?
  3 KB (520 words) - 12:41, 2 March 2018
• Warlord (Wolfblade Trilogy) by Jennifer Fallon
  ...ut Marla has been playing a waiting game for the last twenty years and now the gloves are off. She will have revenge and, if she has her way, it will be c ...mated forces of Hythria win a war? Or will the Wolfblade line fall before the young heir has time to prove his worth?
  4 KB (605 words) - 12:33, 13 March 2018
• The Hidden Kingdom by Ian Beck
  |title=The Hidden Kingdom ...he has refused to acknowledge. Only the skill and devotion of a couple of the young peasants he despises can lead him to accept his role in history.
  4 KB (798 words) - 10:00, 11 March 2018

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