From his early days as guitarist with Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders, Roy Wood was always a major figure on the Birmingham music scene. In 1965 he helped to form The Move, who weathered several line-up changes over the next few years while enjoying a spectacular run of hit singles, notably Flowers In The Rain, the first record ever played on Radio 1, and the No. 1 Blackberry Way. Keen to progress beyond the limitations of a conventional group, he became the co-founder and joint leader of the Electric Light Orchestra with Jeff Lynne. Leaving the band in 1972, he formed the very successful...

For most of the sixties, the British music scene was dominated by two bands, The Majors and The Headwinds. After increasing personal and musical differences, towards the end of the decade one member of each band collaborated in forming a new one, Elmore Sounds. This novel tells the story.

Born a princess of Schleswig-Holstein in 1858, Empress Augusta Victoria, known in the family as 'Dona', was marked out from early childhood as a potential bride for Prince William of Prussia. When they married in 1881, everyone expected that she would never concern herself with more than the traditional Prussian princess's interests of Kirche, Kuche, Kinder (church, kitchen, children). Yet within twenty years of his accession as William II, the last German Emperor, she would become in some ways the stronger character and steadying influence her increasingly neurotic and unstable husband...

Princess Helena (1846-1923) was the third daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. A steady, dependable young woman, known as 'Lenchen' within the family, she was particularly 'useful' to her demanding and recently widowed mother, who could not bear to lose her to a marriage which would oblige her to move and live abroad with her husband. In 1866 she married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, a kindly but penniless bachelor fifteen years older than her. Despite the difference in ages, it was the only marriage among the Queen's children in which both partners lived long enough to...

This is a selection of the author's work written over forty years. It includes the Dartmoor Cycle, a sequence of verses reflecting each of the seasons in turn, alongside over a hundred poems inspired by everything from art, music and travel to friendship, love and loss - or life in general.

The DICTIONARY OF ROYAL BIOGRAPHERS brings together short entries on more than 500 authors who have written and published in English on the lives of British and European Kings, Queens, Emperors, Empresses and their families from the Norman conquest and the eleventh century to the present day. Writers from the early nineteenth century onwards are included, as are over thirty monarchs, ex-monarchs, princes and princesses who published their own memoirs. A list of relevant titles with date of first publication follows each entry.