The isles (basingstoke:macmillan,2,000) but also many more dealing with detailed topics such as the life of hirler or the sexual antice of eighteenth-century noblewomen,the theme of both stella tillyard's aristocrats (london:vintage;1999) ang amanda foveman's georgiana (london: flamingo,1999) here too there is ablend of authority and documentation on the one hand and a strong authorial voice on the other-a mix which scems to attract the publlc to history as never before.