From the September 2025 Issue Never Complain, Never Explain Queen Elizabeth II: A Concise Biography of an Exceptional Sovereign By David Cannadine LR
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@Lit_Review ·With over seven hundred novels to her name, Barbara Cartland could count Princess Diana and Colonel Gaddafi among her fans.
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@Tom__Egerton ·Sunak at 10: The Last Conservative Prime Minister? by Anthony Seldon & Tom Egerton - great review by @ProfTimBale
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Tim Bale: ‘Can’t You Do It?’ - Sunak at 10: The Last Conservative Prime Minister? by Anthony Seldon & Tom Egerton
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