Extraordinary: meticulously researched, beautifully written, and heartbreakingly relevant. I urge you to read it.” A nation of wheeler dealers: Half who sold a car online did so to an online buying service... and three-quarters were HAPPY with the experience! but the presenter brushes off the drama and dons a sexy Storm costume as she joins Paloma Faith and Jourdan Dunn at star-studded Halloween bash Age-defying Elle MacPherson, 59, confirms she gets fillers and Botox as the supermodel gushes about Australian facial injector to the stars

The Siege of Loyalty House - Penguin Books Australia The Siege of Loyalty House - Penguin Books Australia

The song "They called her Babylon" by Steeleye Span tells the story of the siege. It appears on their 2004 album of the same name. From heartthrob to hair flop! Gerard Butler, 53, sports an unflattering blond hairpiece as he films new crime thriller In The Hand Of Dante in Rome This is war as it should be, passionate, brutal, bloody and chaotic, all described in luscious, evocative prose. Gerard DeGroot, Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR Inside the house were several hundred soldiers and numerous women and children. Ms Childs reconstructs their suffering—near-starvation, filthy water, a smallpox outbreak—with startling immediacy using first-hand accounts, letters, memoirs and reports in the viciously partisan press. The book is raucous with opinion, as a civil-war history should be. One heroic royal sortie from Oxford, accomplished with dazzling courage and cunning, brought respite. But it proved brief. Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen's daughter Sami Sheen, 19, wears only white lace lingerie for Halloween as she poses with a friendAmong them was the governor of the garrison, Marmaduke Rawdon, who adopted a stoat as his personal badge. Stoats are ferocious predators but it was also believed that a stoat would rather die than besmirch its beautiful white fur. Drawing on unpublished manuscripts and the voices of dozens of soldiers and civilians, award-winning historian Jessie Childs weaves a thrilling tale of war and peace, terror and faith, savagery and civilization. How do you explain bad news to your child? A psychotherapist reveals his 5 tips for helping them understand (and what to NEVER say)

The Siege of Basing Malcolm Gaskill · Marquess Untrussed: The Siege of Basing

Rawdon with an infantry regiment he has financed, is asked by the King to defend Basing House, near Basingstoke in Berkshire, which is owned by the Roman Catholic Marquess of Winchester (as a peer, he is called by his title, Winchester, rather than by his surname). Winchester already has a militia guarding the house, which is supplemented by more Roman Catholics,and local conscripts. If these are just words to you, reading this book will help them come alive. As well as the strongly Catholic lord of this particular manor, accustomed to playing chess with the King, we meet a wide range of people who simply wanted to live their lives.

Superbly researched…Though nonfiction, the book does more than any text I’ve ever read (or film I’ve watched) to capture what it is to be trapped, under fire, and in constant danger. Superb. On Oct. 14, 1645, at the height of the English Civil War between Charles I and his defiant Parliament, Gen. Oliver Cromwell unleashed a brigade of the New Model Army against the most notorious remaining royalist outpost. For more than two years, Basing House—a sprawling estate in Hampshire, 55 miles southwest of London—had been held for the king despite repeated efforts to subdue its garrison. Now, at last, the strongpoint was stormed, and all inside were slaughtered or captured. By the summer of 1645, Basing House had resisted two years of besiegement. But the Parliamentarians were relentless in their determination to take the Royalist stronghold and mounted a third siege. By then religious tensions in the mansion had mounted: the Marquis, a Catholic, had petitioned King Charles to remove all Anglicans from his property, including Marmaduke Rawdon, who had played a critical role in Basing’s defence during the first two sieges. Rawdon departed with his regiment as a result, leaving a significantly reduced garrison. Travis Barker LEAKS name of the son he is expecting with wife Kourtney Kardashian... and reveals the due date too (it's sooner than you think) Compelling…makes a single house, raided several times across a few years, stand for the whole of England’s civil war. Prospect BOOKS OF THE YEAR