Robert Lacey, Author . Free Press $27.50 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3559-4
As a child, Princess Elizabeth longed "to live in the country with lots of horses and dogs." That dream came to a crashing end when her uncle, King Edward VII, followed his heart instead of his head, giving up the throne for an American...
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Robert Lacey, Author . Little, Brown $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-10924-6
Acclaimed historian Lacey's second volume on English history opens in 1348, the year of the Black Plague, which wiped out half of England's five million people, and proceeds through the astonishing scientific discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton...
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Robert Lacey, Author . Little, Brown $23.99 (305p) ISBN 978-0-316-11459-2
The third volume in Lacey's series of edifying and entertaining stories from English history abounds in fascinating profiles. Industrial and agricultural pioneers such as Jethro Tull, James Hargreaves and Isambard Kingdom Brunel abide alongside...
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Robert Lacey, Author . Viking $27.95 (404p) ISBN 978-0-670-02118-5
Lacey (The Kingdom
) delves into the paradoxes in Saudi society—where women are forbidden to drive but are more likely to attend universities than men—and why this nation yielded most of the terrorist team on September 11, Osama bin...
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Robert Lacey, Author Little Brown and Company $17.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-316-51167-4
Although he reveals that Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother regularly indulges in gin and tonic and is Britain's ""oldest ever queen'' at 87, the author of Princess admits he's ``wobbly at the back of the knees'' in her presence and, in that vein,...
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Robert Lacey, Author Little Brown and Company $29.95 (547p) ISBN 978-0-316-51168-1
This biography of the notorious hoodlum by the author of The Kingdom succeeds in deglamorizing a gangland figure around whom all sorts of mythology was created, both during his lifetime and after. A product of the ghetto on Manhattan's Lower East...
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Robert Lacey, Author Putnam Publishing Group $24.95 (463p) ISBN 978-0-399-13872-0
Proper, demure and wholesomely beautiful, Grace Kelly was quite the opposite of what she seemed, according to this seductive biography. Lacey (The Kingdom) writes of ``the eruptions of sexuality that she usually managed to conceal behind her...
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Robert Lacey, Author Berkley Trade Pub $7.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-425-15125-9
Lacey's biography charts Grace Kelly's secret and tempestuous life behind the scenes of her rise to Hollywood stardom and becoming Princess of Monaco. (Jan.)
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Robert Lacey. Harper Perennia, $15.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-212446-3
Veteran royal historian Lacey bases this slim volume—the latest in a slew of books marking Queen Elizabeth’s diamond jubilee—on his acclaimed bestsellers Majesty and Monarch. All three books include numerous off-the-record interviews that Lacey...
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Robert Lacey, Author, Danny Danziger, Joint Author Little Brown and Company $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-316-55840-2
Offering a delightful, often astonishing portrait of everyday life in Anglo-Saxon England in the year 1000, this wonderfully earthy chronicle, while timed for the end of this millennium, distinguishes itself from the sea of millennial titles by...
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Erika Tamar, Author, Robert Lacey, Author Atheneum Books $14.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-689-31789-7
Andy Szabo, the teenage New Yorker featured in It Happened at Cecilia's , returns in this sequel set during his freshman year. Andy starts dating a reserved Vietnamese-American girl, Kim O'Hara, about the time his parents buy a historically choice,...
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