"The original picture book text for this story has been modified by the author to be an early reader"--Publisher.

'A riveting read ... a dark story of murder and deceit with verve and insight' John Woolf, author of The Wonders THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A 19TH-CENTURY CIRCUS LEG

A compendium of illustrated biographies of the British monarchs, revised throughout and updated to include the recent history of the Windsors.

The second volume, on early and mid-Georgian Britain, shows how the country used its expanding wealth, its new-found social cohesion at home and its internation