Meet the Georgians: Epic Tales from Britain's Wildest Century

`The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you'd be mad not to want to live there yourself' GUARDIAN

Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean
Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept the British at bay
Olaudah Equiano, the former slave whose story shocked the world
Mary Wollstonecraft, the feminist who fought for women's rights
Ladies of Llangollen, the lovers who built paradise in a Welsh valley

`Mad, bad and dangerous to know' is how Lord Byron, the poet who dra...