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1970: a Year in Rock - The Year Rock Became Mainstream by John Van Der Kiste
Category: Performing Arts
1970 was a year of change in pop and rock music, with divisions between both becoming ever more blurred. More ambitiously-constructed epics, heavy rock numbers and contemporary folk songs competed with mainstream and easy listening fare on Top of the Pops and in the Top 30 singles, while progressive and ...Show more
Devon Murders by JOHN VAN DER KISTE
Category: True Crime
It recounts several notable cases, from the killing of Sarah and Edward Glass at Wadland Down in 1827 and the poisonings of Samuel Wescombe in Exeter in 1829 and William Ashford at Honiton Clyst in 1866, both by wives whose affections had gone elsewhere, to the horrific murder of Emma Doidge and her boy ...Show more
Emperor Francis Joseph - Life, Death and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire by John Van Der Kiste
Category: History | Series: Sutton Ser.
In 1848, 28-year-old Francis Joseph became King of Hungary and Emperor of Austria. He would reign for almost 68 years, the longest of any modern European monarch. Focusing on the life of Emperor Francis Joseph and his family, this book examines their personal relationships against the turbulent backgrou ...Show more
JEFF LYNNE the electric light orchestra before & after by VAN DER KISTE JOHN
Category: Performing Arts
Kate Bush: Song by Song by John Van der Kiste
Category: Performing Arts
Kate Bush began her career in 1978 at the age of 19 with the single 'Wuthering Heights', inspired by a film adaptation of the Emily Bront novel, the first No. 1 UK single to be written and sung by a female artist, and the accompanying album 'The Kick Inside', both of which established her as a highly in ...Show more
Queen Victoria and the European Empires by John Van der Kiste
Category: Biography
This latest book from John Van der Kiste, the eminent historian of European royalty, is an account of Queen Victoria's personal and political relationships with the empires, or to be more exact, the Kings and Queens, Emperors, Empresses and their families of France, Germany, Austria and Russia. Victoria ...Show more
Queen Victoria's Children by VAN DER KISTE John
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: History Press Ser.
Queen Victoria's children
William John Wills: Pioneer of the Australian Outback by John Van Der Kiste
Category: History | Series: History Press Ser.
In 1860 the Australian interior was unmapped and unknown to European settlers. When the Victorian Exploring Expedition tasked Robert O'Hara Burke, William John Wills and a party of nineteen men with crossing the country from South to North, this was soon to change. Following their slow and arduous journ ...Show more
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