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The most civilised place in Britain

... known for its flax-growing —there were lint pools all the way up the brae—until Gen Wade’s road arrived in 1733. Then, Queen Victoria’s physician, Sir James Clark, began recommending Pitlochry’s sanative climate, and health tourism began. The railway arrived ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 2009
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 955 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Accession Day dress

... Accession Day dress On June 20, 1837, Victoria was woken at 6am with the news that her uncle, William IV, had died in the night. She was now queen. If you know Sir David Wilkie’s famous painting of her first Privy Council meeting held later that morning ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 2009
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Riding habit

... habit Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales riding in Windsor Park ‘I rode a new horse,’ Victoria writes in her diary, ‘he has a very springy charming canter… the roads were so dirty that my habit was quite heavy with mud.’ Victoria’s dashing ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 2009
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 246 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

paperback preview: april

... due to be broadcast next year. She just gets bigger. philippa Gregory The Other Queen Harper, £7.99, 6th, 9780007192144 kathy reichs Devil bones A portrait of Mary Queen of Scotsimprisoned in Arrow, £7.99, 23rd, 9780099492375 The next to leave the A format ...

Published: Friday 19 December 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 810 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

TRADITIONS Of LOVE

... believe me 59 Which flowering tree, commonly associated with love and marriage, was propagated widely from the cuttings of Queen Victoria’s wedding bouquet? As such, many mature trees in the south of England are of that provenance. 60 In the cult Bob Dylan ...

Published: Friday 12 December 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 339 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

TOP 20 Original ficTiOn Pos last Title author Publisher iSBn Pub date rrP aSP Units 1 New Doors Open Rankin,

... Sep 08 £18.99 £12.95 4,441 5 4 Devil Bones Reichs, Kathy Heinemann 9780434014651 Aug 08 £18.99 £12.54 3,412 6 5 The Other Queen Gregory, philippa Harper Collins 9780007190348 Aug 08 £18.99 £11.67 3,105 7 6 Deadly Intent La plante, Lynda Simon & Schuster ...

Published: Friday 26 September 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 309 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

TOP 20 Original ficTiOn Pos last Title author Publisher iSBn Pub date rrP aSP Units 1 1 Bones of the

... Sep 08 £18.99 £12.52 5,070 4 4 Devil Bones Reichs, Kathy Heinemann 9780434014651 Aug 08 £18.99 £11.72 4,348 5 2 The Other Queen Gregory, Philippa Harper Collins 9780007190348 Aug 08 £18.99 £11.73 4,003 6 8 Deadly Intent La Plante, Lynda Simon & Schuster ...

Published: Friday 19 September 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 309 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

TOP 20 Original ficTiOn Pos last Title author Publisher iSBn Pub date rrP aSP Units 1 3 Bones of the

... rrP aSP Units 1 3 Bones of the Hills Iggulden, Conn Harper Collins 9780007201785 Sep 08 £18.99 £10.31 12,236 2 2 The Other Queen Gregory, Philippa Harper Collins 9780007190348 Aug 08 £18.99 £lO.BO 7,420 3 5 The Private Patient James, P D Faber 9780571242443 ...

Published: Friday 12 September 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 316 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

TOP 20 Original ficTiOn Pos last Title author Publisher iSBn Pub date rrP aSP Units 1 1 Devil Bones Reichs,

... iSBn Pub date rrP aSP Units 1 1 Devil Bones Reichs, Kathy Heinemann 9780434014651 Aug 08 £18.99 £10.02 10,668 2 2 The Other Queen Gregory, Philippa Harper Collins 9780007190348 Aug 08 £18.99 £10.43 9,609 3 New Bones of the Hills Iggulden, Conn Harper Collins ...

Published: Friday 05 September 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

selling around 8,000 copies a week through the market, thanks to Hodder’s strategic and extremely successful ..

... Sam Bourne The Righteous Men 4,170 9 Jodi Picoult My Sister’s Keeper 2,486 10 Michael Connelly The Lincoln Lawyer 2,340 11 Victoria Hislop The Island 7,227 12 Dorothy Koomson My Best Friend’s Girl 4,577 13 P J Tracy Want to Play? 1,017 14 Cecelia Ahern ...

Published: Friday 29 August 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 874 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

What is the ‘Richard & Judy’ effect on an author’s follow-up book or backlist? The Bookseller charts editor ..

... Kenick Deadline 73,872 13 William Dalrymple The Last Mughals 59,170 14 Adriana Trigiani Queen of the Big Time 54,297 15 Anchee Min The Last Empress 54,116 16 Victoria Hislop The Return 46,842 17 Asne Seierstad A Hundred and One Days 43,366 18 Alice Sebold ...

Published: Friday 29 August 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 780 | Page: 18 | Tags: none