Product Description: This is the frank and honest story of the Thornton family and their confectionery business. It's the story of the building of one of Britain's premier brands by a family that was frequently at war: the battles of generations and sibling rivalry...read more

Product Description: Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, more famously known as Bess of Hardwick, was born c. 1527 and became one of the most influential women of the age. Married and widowed four times, she was an astute businesswoman who succeeded in amassing a huge personal fortune and extensive estates...read more

Product Description: “A compendium of domestic interiors from 1620 to 1920....This indulgence-of-a-book is one you’ll hoard and pore over for weeks....From New York to France to Denmark and Poland... paintings, diagrams and sketches illustrate the arrangement of furniture, prominent architectural details, favorite loose furnishings and prevailing moods of each design era...read more

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Product Description: When Sir John Soane's house in Lincoln's Inn Fields was presented to the nation as a museum in 1837, it contained a remarkable collection of objects and works of art which had been amassed over his lifetime from his travels and his friends and contacts...read more

On the morning of her birthday, Helen--with the help of her curious kitten--follows a series of clues from door to door and finds a special birthday surprise