Titles in the Set :- 

My My!: ABBA Through the Ages

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery UK (9 May 2024)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1398529702

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781398529700

White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves...

Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Murray

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0340794704

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780340794708

Description :- 

 My My!: ABBA Through the Ages

This year is the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo (the song, not the battle) – a seminal moment in pop history which saw Swedish sensation ABBA burst on to the international music scene. How is it that half a century later this seventies Eurovision act is bigger than ever – reaching listeners of all ages and spinning off into musicals, museums and holograms? Giles Smith, writer and music fan, sets out to find out why....

White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves...

very few lived to tell the tale.Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, little known chapter of history. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. As his personal slave, he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of the imperial court, as well as experience the daily terror of a cruel regime.....