Deborah Cadbury

Deborah Cadbury takes a journey into her own family history to uncover the rivalries that have driven 250 years of chocolate empire-building.

In the nineteenth century the study of geology was in its infancy and was dominated by a bitter rivalry between the two men dominating the subject. This book recreates the story of Gideon Mantell and Richard Owen.

In December 1936 King Edward VIII abandoned his throne to marry Wallis Simpson. This left the new king, George VI, magnificently unprepared for the demands of ruling the kingdom and empire. Drawing on personal accounts from the royal archives, Deborah Cadbury uncovers the very private conflict between George VI and his older brother.

Queen Victoria had over thirty surviving grandchildren, and to maintain and increase power in Europe, she hoped to manoeuvre them into dynastic marriages. This is a captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother.

In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fuelled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England.

But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a rundown manor house in Kent would test her to the limit. As the news from Europe continued to darken, Anna rescued successive waves of fleeing children and, when war broke out, she and her pupils faced a second exodus.

Featuring moving first-hand testimony, and drawn from letters, diaries and present-day interviews, The School That Escaped the Nazis is a dramatic human tale that offers a unique child's-eye perspective on Nazi persecution and the Holocaust.

The Industrial Revolution changed the face of the planet forever. Here we are presented with seven of the greatest feats of engineering of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Details of the technical achievements and human costs for each project are explained in a knowledgeable but accessible way.

When the death of 10-year-old Louis XVII, Marie-Antoinette’s son, was announced by the revolutionary authorities there were rumours that he had escaped from prison. Since then a number of ‘Princes’ have emerged to claim his name but only now, thanks to DNA testing, can the 200-year mystery be solved.