in the shadow of history agnes maillot

From 1926 onward, Sinn Féin, which had been instrumental in the revolutionary period of 1919⠓23, faded into oblivion as a result of its intransigent and doctrinaire stance. This book unravels a chapter of history that has not been dealt with in detail until now. -- .

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I was at one of those periods in youth--vacant, without any particular love object--when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere. In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, the second volume of Proust s In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), is a novel of exploration and (self-) discovery, continuing the story of the narrator s youth and adolescence. From the enclosed spaces of the fin-de-siècle social world that revolves around Madame Swann, we move to the fictional town of Balbec on the Normandy coast, a place where the social classes intermingle with mutual fascination. Against the ever-changing backdrop of the sea--a constant reminder of beauty, mutability, and the vastness of the world beyond individual human affairs--the narrator encounters individuals who will shape his experience and indelibly colour his outlook on that world. He finds a friend in the aristocratic Robert de Saint-Loup and is perplexed by his enigmatic uncle the Baron de Charlus; he finds a tutelary figure in Elstir, the gifted, idiosyncratic painter; and in Albertine he comes to recognise the blossoming girl who will become the love--and the bane--of his life. The novel provides a breath-taking illumination of what it is to encounter beauty and to seek to understand our relation to it, in people, in experiences, in art, or the landscape around us. An exploration of the thrills of infatuation, the fallibility of perception, and how desire builds and ebbs, the narrative prepares readers for the love affair that will define the narrator s future existence and shape the volumes of In Search of Lost Time to come.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is a masterful and moving account of the events and aftermath of that tragic day.Spiegelman and his family bore witness to the attacks in their lower Manhattan neighborhood: his teenage daughter had started school directly below the towers days earlier, and they had lived in the area for years. But the horrors they survived that morning were only the beginning for Spiegelman, as his anguish was quickly displaced by fury at the U.S. government, which shamelessly co-opted the events for its own preconceived agenda.He responded in the way he knows best. In an oversized, two-page-spread format that echoes the scale of the earliest newspaper comics (which Spiegelman says brought him solace after the attacks), he relates his experience of the national tragedy in drawings and text that convey-with his singular artistry and his characteristic provocation, outrage, and wit-the unfathomable enormity of the event itself, the obvious and insidious effects it had on his life, and the extraordinary, often hidden changes that have been enacted in the name of post-9/11 national security and that have begun to undermine the very foundation of American democracy.

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From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world s emperorsFor millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their authority. They operated beyond normal human constraint and indeed often claimed a superhuman or divine authority. In practice they ran the gamut from being some of the most remarkable men who ever lived, to being some of the worst and least remarkable.Dominic Lieven s marvellous new book, In the Shadow of the Gods, is the first to grapple seriously with this extraordinary phenomenon. Across the world peoples, willingly or unwillingly, fell into orbit around figures who reshaped or destroyed entire societies, imposed religions and invaded rivals. Lieven describes the anatomy of imperial monarchy and the principles by which it functioned. He compares the great emperors of antiquity, the caliphs and the warrior-emperors of the steppe before he turns to the Habsburg, Russian, Ottoman, Mughal and Chinese emperors, packing the book with extraordinary stories, astute observations and a sense of both delight and horror at these individuals antics. The entire breadth of extreme human behaviour is here - from warlords to patrons of the arts, from political genius to feeble incapacity and pathological violence.As one of the great experts both on empires and on Russian history, Lieven is brilliantly qualified to write a book that brings to life a system of rule that dominated most of human history, as well as some of history s grandest and most dismaying figures.

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A drawn and handwritten work of non-fiction about the medium of photography, the photography world, and how the invention of photography influenced people s thinking and behavior. It explores topics such as the camera s wormhole-like capabilities, why being photographed causes stage fright, how the present is becoming a stage for the future, analog vs. digital photography, the relationship between the photographer and the photograph, and how we are losing the possibility of gaining an authentic memory of a moment from a photographic attempt to conserve it. A funny and delicate philosophical survival kit for a better understanding of the influential, omnipresent shadow of photography.” -Joan Fontcuberta This work by Magda Stanová is a visual essay, not only because she works with numerous photographic reproductions (famous as well as completely private ones), but also and perhaps primarily because of how she thoughtfully contrasts technical perfection with simple drawings which eliminate everything accessory and show only what is essential, though not in the way a chart does, since even the drawings come alive here and lead their own cheerful life.” -Miroslav Petříček Magda Stanová is a multi-disciplinary artist and a senior lecturer at the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. She is the author of Algorithms in Art (2016) and a co-author of The Pedestrian s Venice (2017).

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER A stunning blockbuster Robert Fisk A brilliant tour de force of revisionist scholarship and thrilling storytelling Simon Sebag Montefiore A compelling detective story of the highest order Sunday Times Tom Holland has an enviable gift for summoning up the colour, the individuals and animation of the past IndependentIn the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two venerable empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on and one had vanished forever, while the other seemed almost finished. Ruling in their place were the Arabs: an upheaval so profound that it spelt, in effect, the end of the ancient world. In the Shadow of the Sword explores how this came about. Spanning from Constantinople to the Arabian desert, and starring some of the most remarkable rulers who ever lived, he tells a story vivid with drama, horror, and startling achievement.

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In the Shadow of the Empress is the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, the only woman to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor general of the Austrian Netherlands; spirited Maria Carolina, the resolute queen of Naples; and the youngest, Marie Antoinette, the glamorous, tragic queen of France, perhaps the most famous princess in history. Unfolding against an irresistible backdrop of courts from Vienna to Versailles, this epic history of Maria Theresa and her daughters is a tour de force of desire, adventure, ambition, treachery, sorrow and glory.

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Longlisted for the Women s Prize for Non-Fiction Code Dependent is the intimate investigation of AI that we ve been waiting for, and it arrives not a moment too soon. - Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Murgia combines her deep experience of the last decade in technology with incredible storytelling and the result is a nuanced, thoughtful and very accessible picture of a world deeply affected by AI. - Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of SohoWhat does it mean to be human in a world that is rapidly changing thanks to the development of artificial intelligence, of automated decision-making that both draws on and influences our behaviour?Through the voices of ordinary people in places far removed from Silicon Valley, Code Dependent explores the impact of a set of powerful, flawed, and often exploitative technologies on individuals, communities, and our wider society. Madhumita Murgia, AI Editor at the FT, exposes how AI can strip away our collective and individual sense of agency - and shatter our illusion of free will.AI is already changing what it means to be human, in ways large and small. In this compelling work, Murgia reveals what could happen if we fail to reclaim our humanity. Brilliant story telling. Books about AI often put the tech centre stage but Murgia makes you, the human, the hero and sadly often the victim in this fascinating collection of stories about the impact of code on our future. - Marcus du Sautoy, author of The Creativity Code

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An untried acolyte desperate to speak with the orisha she worships accidentally reignites a cosmic war. The fate of her gods - and of her world - now lies in her inexperienced hands. Perfect for fans of N. K. Jemisin, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Daughters of Nri, and Godkiller. Ashake is an acolyte in the temple of Ifa, yearning for the day she is made a priest and sent out into the world to serve the orisha.But of all the acolytes, she is the only one the orisha refuse to speak to. For years she has watched from the sidelines as peer after peer passes her by and ascends to full priesthood. Desperate, Ashake attempts to summon and trap an orisha-any orisha.Instead, she experiences a vision so terrible it draws the attention of a powerful enemy sect and thrusts Ashake into the center of a centuries-old war that will shatter the very foundations of her world.

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Alistair Greenwood, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, hosts a luncheon at his faultless 17th Century home. Its perfection is marred by the incompatibility of the guests and the arrogance of the host. Gillian Adams, an American scholar revisiting the university while on sabbatical from Vancouver, finds it distasteful, but she s truly appalled when the eminent Greenwood is gunned down the next day while listening to her lecture. Involved as a witness, she s also hooked into the case by her friendship with Edward Gisborne of the Yard, who had come to hear her and remains to capture Greenwood s killer. This debut novel, first published in 1983, is polished in its plotting and its prose and beautifully depicts Cambridge, doing for that ancient seat of learning what Dorothy L. Sayers did long ago for Oxford in Gaudy Night.

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If all the world s a stage, Jacci will play her part. She only hopes her story does not turn out to be a tragedy.In 1881, Jacci Reed is only five years old when a man attempts to kidnap her from the steamboat her mother, Irena, works on. Badly wounded during the confrontation, Irena takes Jacci aboard the Kingston Floating Palace, a showboat tied up beside them. There, Jacci s actor grandfather tends to her mother, and Jacci gets a first taste of the life she will come to lead.Fifteen years later, Jacci is an actress aboard that same showboat and largely contented with her adopted family of actors, singers, and dancers. Especially Gabe, who has always supported her, and the gruff grandfather she has come to know and love. Jacci s mother has been gone for years, but the memory of the altercation that ultimately took her life--and the cryptic things Jacci has overheard about her past--is always there, lurking in the back of her mind.When someone on the showboat tries to kill Jacci, it s clear her questions demand answers. But secrets have a way of staying in the shadows . . . and the answers she craves will not come easily. Gabhart delivers an atmospheric romance set on an 1890s showboat with plenty of secrets below deck. --Publishers Weekly Gabhart s masterful storytelling glows with personality and page-turning surprises. --Booklist

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Unlock a magic that could save the world ... or destroy it. From bestselling, award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave comes an epic new fantasy: This tale of adventure and magic is as brave as it is exciting Independent Destined to be a classic Garth Nix A stunning adventure Cressida Cowell Pure joy to read Jasbinder BilanWhen her sister vanishes after a mysterious earthquake, Ysolda sets off on a rescue mission. But these are dangerous times, and soon she is forced to strike a deadly bargain with the wolf queen herself. Join Ysolda and her loyal sea hawk as they embark on an epic quest to save her sister and unlock the earth s most powerful magic ... From the author of The Girl of Ink and Stars, Julia and the Shark and The Mercies, the Geomancer trilogy is a new modern classic for readers young and old.Kiran Millwood Hargrave is winner of the Wainwright Prize, the Waterstones Book Prize, and the British Book Awards Children s Book of the Year.*Kiran Millwood Hargrave was a top 5 bestseller in the UK Nielsen Bookscan chart, 18 February 2025

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Unlock a magic that could save the world ... or destroy it. From bestselling, award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave comes an epic new fantasy: This tale of adventure and magic is as brave as it is exciting Independent Destined to be a classic Garth Nix A stunning adventure Cressida Cowell Pure joy to read Jasbinder BilanWhen her sister vanishes after a mysterious earthquake, Ysolda sets off on a rescue mission. But these are dangerous times, and soon she is forced to strike a deadly bargain with the wolf queen herself. Join Ysolda and her loyal sea hawk as they embark on an epic quest to save her sister and unlock the earth s most powerful magic ... From the author of The Girl of Ink and Stars, Julia and the Shark and The Mercies, the Geomancer trilogy is a new modern classic for readers young and old.Kiran Millwood Hargrave is winner of the Wainwright Prize, the Waterstones Book Prize, and the British Book Awards Children s Book of the Year.*Kiran Millwood Hargrave was a top 5 bestseller in the UK Nielsen Bookscan chart, 18 February 2025

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Kniha - autor Alex Ross, 784 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics?an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal creations as The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal were models of formal daring, mythmaking, erotic freedom, and mystical speculation. A mighty procession of artists, including Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Paul Cézanne, Isadora Duncan, and Luis Bunuel, felt his impact. Anarchists, occultists, feminists, and gay-rights pioneers saw him as a kindred spirit. Then Adolf...

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Now in her 90s, Olga Henderson lives a quiet life in Eastbourne. In February 1942, aged 10, she was living in Singapore when the city fell to the Japanese Imperial Army. Sent to the notorious Changi Prison and subjected to unimaginable cruelty, this is the harrowing story of her life as a prisoner of war and how she survived against all the odds.

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The third volume in a series of comic cartoons starring the Calvin and Hobbes pair.Calvin, cheeky, hyperactive and mischievous, and Hobbes, his cuddly toy tiger who, as far as Calvin is concerned is very much alive and kicking, are two of the most loveable and hilarious characters to grace the comic strip in years. Sit back and enjoy . . .

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The first biography of Zelia Nuttall (1857â “1933), a pioneering Mexican-American anthropologist whose work on Aztec cosmology and mastery of ancient codices helped shape our understanding of pre-Columbian Mexico. Grindle captures the appeal and contradictions of this trailblazing woman, who brought a new rigor to the study of ancient civilizations.

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The extraordinary story of St. Paulâ ™s Churchyardâ ”the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium

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Provides an assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves who were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment.

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When his master disappears and a slave called Tog arrives witha secret message, Cadmus is swept up on a quest that leads to EmperorNero and his crazed determination to possess the Golden Fleeceof Greek mythology. The journey will push him to the edge ofthe Roman Empire - and reveal unexpected truths about himself ...

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1883. Agrigento, Sicily. A city of spires and now broken hopes and bodies...With the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe has vanished.His only chance of rescue lies in a fabled second orsine - long-hidden, thought lost - which might not even exist.But when a body is discovered in the shadow of Cairndale, Charlie and the Talents realize there is even more at stake than they d feared. For a new drughr has arisen, ferocious, horned, seemingly able to move in their world at will - and it is not alone. A malevolent figure, known only as the Abbess, desires the dust for her own ends.And deep in the world of the dead, a terrible evil stirs - an evil which the corrupted dust just might hold the secret to reviving, or destroying forever.So the dark journey begun in Ordinary Monsters surges forward, from the sinister underworld of the London exiles, to the roar of the streetmarkets in nineteenth-century Alexandria, to the sunlit silences of the Dalmatian coast. Against bone witches, mud glyphics, and a house of twilight that exists in a netherworld all its own, the Talents must work together - if they are to have any hope of staving off the world of the dead, and saving their long-lost friend.A breathtaking sequel to Ordinary Monsters, delving even deeper into the rich worldbuilding and darkly sparkling tale of The Talents.

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In the shadow of the Great Depression and Jim Crow south of the 1930s, an impoverished white family escapes - with the help of Black sharecroppers - from a vengeful Mississippi plantation overseer intent on lynching them. Arriving in California to start a new life, Barney and Lula Stovall are haunted by the past, the children they ve left behind, and the daughter they cannot love or protect. Orphans of the Living follows the peripatetic life of the Stovall family, woven from four parallel stories: Barney and Lula Stovall, and two of their nine children, Glen and Nora Mae. Their California sojourn - from their hardscrabble dairy farm, to the brig at the San Francisco Presidio, to the building of the Golden Gate Bridge - lead them on paths toward each other and forgiveness. But redemption doesn t come to them all.

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A spellbinding concoction of crime, history and horror, perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Jonathan Creek A hugely entertaining Victorian mystery NEW YORK TIMES I enjoyed this - properly creepy and Gothic IAN RANKIN_______New Year s Day, 1889.In Edinburgh s lunatic asylum, a patient escapes as a nurse lays dying. Leading the manhunt are legendary local Detective Nine-Nails McGray and Londoner-in-exile Inspector Ian Frey. Before the murder, the suspect was heard in whispered conversation with a fellow patient - a girl who had been mute for years.What made her suddenly break her silence? And why won t she talk again? Could the rumours about black magic be more than superstition?McGray and Frey track a devious psychopath far beyond their jurisdiction, through the worst blizzard in living memory, into the shadow of Pendle Hill - home of the Lancashire witches - where unimaginable danger awaits . . ._______Praise for The Strings of Murder: This is wonderful. A brilliant, moving, clever, lyrical book - I loved it Manda Scott One of the best debuts so far this year - a brilliant mix of horror, history, and humour. Genuinely riveting with plenty of twists, this will keep you turning the pages. It s clever, occasionally frightening and superbly written. Everything you need in a mystery thriller Crime Review

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Oroku Karai takes center stage in this action-packed battle for control of the Foot Clan.Karai has spent her life in the shadow of men: first her father, then her grandfather, Oroku Saki, the so-called Shredder. But no more. Now the Foot Clan is hers to command, and she has grand designs on seeing her clan reach its full potential. Karai has learned that Saki shared mystical secrets with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles—secrets meant only for those loyal to the Foot. As she and those loyal to her set out to master the ancient way of the ninja, she’ll discover that she’s not the only one who lays claim to the Foot Clan’s destiny.Erik Burnham and Mateus Santolouco told The Secret History of the Foot Clan. Now they return to lay out the future!

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From Sunday Times bestseller Anne Oâ ™Brien . . .To those around her she was a loyal subject. In her heart she was a traitor.1399: Englandâ ™s crown is under threat. King Richard II holds onto his power by an ever-weakening thread, with exiled Henry of Lancaster back to reclaim his place on the throne.For Elizabeth Mortimer, there is only one rightful King â “ her eight-year-old nephew, Edmund. Only he can guarantee her fortunes, and protect her familyâ ™s rule over the precious Northern lands bordering Scotland.But many, including Elizabethâ ™s husband, do not want another child-King. Elizabeth must hide her true ambitions in Court, and go against her husbandâ ™s wishes to help build a rebel army.To question her loyalty to the King places Elizabeth in the shadow of the axe.To concede would curdle her Plantagenet blood.This is one womanâ ™s quest to turn history on its head.â ˜Oâ ™Brien is now approaching Philippa Gregory statusâ ™ Readerâ ™s Digestâ ˜Oâ ™Brien is a terrific storytellerâ ™ Daily Telegraphâ ˜Oâ ™Brien cleverly intertwines the personal and politicalâ ™ The TimesPraise for Queen of the North:â ˜Once more Anne Oâ ™Brien takes her readers on an emotional rollercoaster rideâ ¦Elizabeth Mortimerâ ™s story joins the growing list of female lives Anne has gloriously rescued from historyâ ™s recycling skipâ ™ Joanna Hicksonâ ˜Enthralling â ¦ with masterful skill Anne O Brien takes the reader on an action packed journey back to the tumultuous and uncertain days of the fifteenth century. A medieval masterpieceâ ™ Nicola Tallisâ ˜With Anne Oâ ™Brienâ ™s trademark attention to period detail, itâ ™s a fascinating readâ ™ Womanâ ™s Weeklyâ ˜Imaginative, rich in detail and immaculately researchedâ ™ Lancashire Post

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A DAZZLING DEBUT SARAH WINMAN FOR FANS OF ELENA FERRANTE...STUNNING WOMAN S WEEKLY VIVID AND AUTHENTIC WASHINGTON POST NAOMI KRUPITSKY S WORDS SING...I COULDN T PUT IT DOWN JOANNA GLEN GRIPPING...A TENSE, NUANCED DEBUT PLATINUM VIVIDLY-DRAWN...BEAUTIFUL. I LOVED IT! CHRISTINA SWEENEY-BAIRD *A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick* *Book of the Month club* *One of Cosmopolitan s Best Historical Fiction of 2021* *One of PopSugar s Best New Books of 2021* ________________________________________________________ A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself. Two daughters.Two families. One inescapable fate. Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed.Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends since birth, they live in the shadow of their fathers unspoken community: the Family. Sunday dinners gather them each week to feast, discuss business, and renew the intoxicating bond borne of blood and love.But the disappearance of Antonia s father drives a whisper-thin wedge between the girls as they grow into women, wives, mothers, and leaders. And as they push against the boundaries of society s expectations and fight to preserve their complex but life-sustaining friendship, one fateful night their loyalty to each other and the Family will be tested. Only one of them can pull the trigger before it s too late.For fans of Elena Ferrante and Maggie O Farrell, The Family introduces a stunning new voice in literary fiction. A tense, engrossing novel Booklist, starred review A riveting story powerful in its realism Diane Chamberlain, author of Big Lies in a Small Town A tremendous debut Fiona Davis, author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue Loyalty, love, loss and redemption take this well told tale to a searing conclusion Adriana Trigiani Krupitsky beautifully captures Sofia and Antonia s day-to-day lives under never-ending tension Publishers Weekly Fast-paced and readable Kirkus Reviews A nuanced evocation of lifelong female friendship in all its shifting, messy, gorgeous complexity Whitney Scharer, author of The Age of Light Lyrical, gripping, and richly evocative Christina Schwarz, author of Drowning Ruth and Bonnie Sweeping and consuming Susie Orman Schnall, author of We Came Here to Shine A powerful story of friendship and loyalty...exquisite Jennifer S. Brown, author of Modern Girls

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STRIKING, ETHEREAL AND TRANSCENDENT NEW YORK TIMES THIS BOOK WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS BRYN GREENWOODNo heart is safe on the savage side.Arcade and Daffodil are twin sisters born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an imaginative world of their own, nurtured by their grandmother s stories. But no matter how hard they try, Arc and Daffy can t escape the generational ghosts that haunt their family. And so, left to fend for themselves in the shadow of their rural Ohio town, the two sisters cling tight to one another.Years later, a local woman is discovered dead in the river. Soon, more bodies are left floating in the water, and as the killer circles ever closer, Arc s promise to keep her sister safe becomes increasingly desperate - and the powerful riptide of the savage side more difficult to survive.Drawing from the true story of women killed in Chillicothe, Ohio, acclaimed novelist and poet Tiffany McDaniel offers a moving literary testament and fearless elegy for missing women everywhere.

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A rare writer with the courage to tell Britain some home truths about itself and where it s headed. A much needed book . - Ian Dunt What Britain needs at the moment is not to be talked up or talked down, but simply a sense of itself that s underpinned by clarity and honesty... This is exactly what Michael Peel provides in this persuasive, good-humoured book. - Jonathan Coe A wake-up call for those still under the illusion that Great Britain plc punches above its weight . - Chris Mullin, author of A Very British Coup Entertaining and smart. - Geoff Norcott Michael Peel is a top class thinker and writer. This is a necessary book as well as an extremely entertaining one. - Simon Kuper Sharp, witty and eye-opening. As Peel convincingly argues, we can do so much better. - Matthew Parker, author of One Fine Day: Britain s Empire On the BrinkUPDATED EDITION FOLLOWING 2024 ELECTIONHow do you see Britain? That might depend on your point of view, and as long time British foreign correspondent, Michael Peel has come to understand, it can look very different from outside.It s tempting to think of the UK as a fundamentally stable and successful nation. But events of the past few years, from Brexit to exposés of imperial history, have begun to spark fierce public debates about whether that is true. Is Britain, just a marginal northern European island nation, marked by injustices, corruption and with a bloody history of slavery, repression and looting? And yet UK politics, media, and public opinion live constantly in the shadow of old myths, Second World War era nostalgia, and a belief in supposedly core British values of tolerance, decency and fair play. British politicians regularly exploit a damaging complacency that holds that everything will turn out okay, because, in Britain, it always does.In WHAT EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT BRITAIN, Michael Peel digs into the national consciousness with the perspective of distance to pull apart the ways in which we British have become unmoored from crucial truths about ourselves. He shows us that from many perspectives we are no different from other countries whose own national delusions have seen them succumb to abuses of power, increased poverty and divisive conflict.The battle over Britain s narrative is the struggle for its future and its place in the world. So, how do we escape the trick mirror - and see ourselves as we really are?

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From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe-Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France-and their efforts to rule amid the scandal, intrigue, tragedy, and violence of their era.When they married Emperors Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, respectively, Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France became two of the most famous women on the planet. Not only were they both young and beautiful-becoming cultural and fashion icons of their time-but they played a pivotal role in ruling their realms during a tempestuous era characterized by unprecedented political and technological change.Fearless, adventurous, and independent, Elisabeth and Eugénie represented a new kind of empress-one who rebelled against tradition and anticipated and embraced modern values. Yet both women endured hardship in their private and public lives. Elisabeth was plagued by a mother-in-law who snatched her infant children away and undermined her authority at court. Eugénie s husband was an infamous philanderer who could not match the military prowess of his namesake. Between them, Elisabeth and Eugénie were personally involved in every major international confrontation in their turbulent century, which witnessed thrilling technological advances, as well as revolutions, assassinations, and wars.With her characteristic in-depth research and jump-off-the-page writing, Nancy Goldstone brings to life these two remarkable women, as Europe goes through the convulsions that led up to the international landscape we recognize today.

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**Selected as a book of summer 2025 by the Guardian, Daily Mail, Sunday Times and i paper**Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambitionâ ˜An absolute delight â ¦ Funny, moving, filthy and original â ¦ A frontrunner for historical fiction book of the yearâ ™ The Timesâ ˜A bold and brilliant comedy of royal intrigueâ ™ Guardian, Book of the dayâ ˜A vivid, transporting feat of imaginationâ ™ Maggie Shipsteadâ ˜Witty, poignant, wildly engaging, and with a huge heart - I loved itâ ™ Sarah Watersâ ˜Brilliantly buoyant, clever, funny, original, vivid, wittyâ ™ Joanna Quinnâ ˜The Pretender has everything: history richly drawn, amazing characterisation, humour, wit, vigour and braveryâ ™ Emma Stonexâ ˜Funny and devastating. I m having a fantastic time reading itâ ™ Yael van der Wouden________________________________________Kill the pretender. Do not let it be known that there was a pretender to kill.The year is 1483 and England is in peril. The much-despised Richard III is not long for the throne, and the man who will become Henry VII stands poised to snatch the crown for himself. But for twelve-year-old John Collan, living in a remote village with his widowed father, these matters seem far away.But history has other plans for John.Stolen from his family, exiled â “ first to Oxford, then to Burgundy, and then Ireland â “ and apprenticed to a series of unscrupulous political operators, he finds himself groomed for power; not as John Collan, but as Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick â “ and rightful heir to the throne.Far from home at the Irish court, preparing for a war that will see him become king or die trying, John has just his wits â “ and the slippery counsel of his hostâ ™s daughter, the unconventional Joan â “ to navigate the choppy waters ahead.Seething with revenge and machination, sparkling with wit and humanity, and roaring with adventure and bravado, The Pretender is the captivating true story of a young man tossed into the chaos of history as it happens. â ˜Wickedly funnyâ ¦ A work of genius, a wellspring of laughter and sorrow, a feat of time travel, and a feast of language Karen Russellâ ˜Raw, beautiful and true ... I loved itâ ™ Leah Redmond Changâ ˜An absolute thumper â ¦ Funny and filthy and brave and brilliantâ ™ Marianne Levyâ ˜Superb, exhilarating and heartbreakingâ ™ Linda Porterâ ˜I couldn t put it downâ ™ Tracy Borman

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Featuring 50 profiles and select B W illustrated portraits, Heroes of Queer Myth Legend is a celebration of gay gods and goddesses, sapphic sirens, misunderstood mermen, and lesbians of legend. Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate. Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus Achilles (explored in Madeleine Miller #39;s bestseller Song of Achilles), join the cult of Antinous (inspiration for Oscar Wilde), get down with pansexual god Set in Egyptian myth, and fall for Zimbabwe #39;s trans God Mawi. And from modern pop-culture, through Dan Jones #39;s witty, upbeat style, learn more about 90s fan obsessions Xena: Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Neil Gaiman #39;s American Gods and the BBC #39;s Doctor Who.Heroes of Queer Myth Legend brings to life characters who are romantic, brave, mysterious, and always fantastical. It is a magnificent celebration of queerness through the ages in all its legendary glory.

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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA Wickedly readable . . . every woman instinctively wants to read her NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A tale of dramatic longings . . . unexpected and fun MARGARET DRABBLE***It was Charles who called us the parasites . . .No one would choose the Delaneys as their ideal guests. Vain Maria, capricious Niall and self-sacrificing Celia have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents, ferried around Europe from one performance to the next. But beneath the glittering surface of their own artistic careers, old loyalties, rivalries and secrets still bind the half-siblings together - at the expense of all outsiders.A razor-sharp portrait of a family - and the world of the theatre - The Parasites weaves together humour, poignancy and darkness in one of du Maurier s most personal novels. One of the last century s most original literary talents DAILY TELEGRAPH Somehow more personal than Daphne du Maurier s other novels KIRKUS REVIEWS

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In the shadow of World War Two, love blossoms—but at a devastating cost. Corfu, 1943 Under German occupation, the once-idyllic island of Corfu has been reduced to hardship and fear. For Alexia, survival is all that matters—until she stumbles upon Frank, a man hiding in an olive grove. He claims to be neither a soldier nor a British spy, but a war artist in desperate need of her help.Risking her life, Alexia hides Frank from the Nazis, knowing that every day brings danger closer. As their bond deepens, love begins to bloom amidst the shadows of war. But Frank harbors secrets of his own, and when the truth comes to light, Alexia is faced with an unthinkable choice—a choice that will test her loyalty, her courage, and the very limits of her heart.Edinburgh, 2010 Decades later, Rob discovers a mysterious photograph among his late mother’s belongings. Determined to uncover its story, he sets out on a journey that leads him to the sunlit olive groves of Corfu. As Rob pieces together the fragments of Alexia and Frank’s story, he discovers that the sacrifices of the past echo into the present, reshaping everything he thought he knew about his family—and himself.As the truth is revealed, Rob uncovers an extraordinary tale of love, betrayal, and unimaginable bravery.Where the Sky Falls is part of Dougie McHale’s Hellenic Collection. Set against the breathtaking backdrop of wartime Corfu and the lingering shadows of its past, Where the Sky Falls is a poignant exploration of the sacrifices we make for love and the hope that bridges generations. ___________________________________________________________________Praise for The Hellenic Collection: ? ? ? ? ? So descriptive you feel like you re there.? ? ? ? ? A very well written insight into how WW2 affected Greece.? ? ? ? ? I couldn t wait to read what was happening next.? ? ? ? ? I loved the story telling, even through the awful terrors of the dreadful war.? ? ? ? ? I loved every minute of reading it and didn t want the story to end.? ? ? ? ? He paints a vivid picture of war-torn Greece, the people caught in the melee. And yet, still, in all that misery and desperation, he’s added textures of love and hope.

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This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life THE TIMES A brilliant, bloody account of England s most dramatic century . . . Thrilling TELEGRAPHâ ˜The most entertaining general history of seventeenth-century England I have readâ ™ TOM HOLLANDThe seventeenth century began as the English found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and ended in the shadow of a Dutch invasion. Midway through, society collapsed into a civil war, followed by army coup and regicide. For a short time â “ for the only time in history â “ England was a republic. In coffee shops and alehouses, ordinary people fizzed with ideas that were angry, populist and almost impossible to control.Despite these radical changes, few today fully understand the story of this revolutionary age. Leaders like Oliver Cromwell, Charles II and William of Orange have been reduced to caricatures, while major turning points like the Civil War and the Glorious Revolution are shrouded in myth. Yet, as Jonathan Healey argues, the period has never been more relevant. From raw politics to religious divisions, civil wars to witch trials, plague to press freedoms, The Blazing World tells the story of this strange but fascinating century in exuberant, panoramic detail.

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Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie reflects on life as a touring musician in the shadow of his life changing Parkinson⠙s diagnosis.⠜One of the year s most extraordinary music memoirs. Currie s dry humour and novelists ear for turn of phrase elevate the book into a minor masterpiece 4.5/5⠝ Classic PopIt⠙s 2022 and we join Justin at the doctor⠙s office, looking down the barrel of a Parkinson⠙s diagnosis. After concerned fans noticed a tremor in his hand, Currie sought the medical advice which led him to the discovery that would throw his future into uncertainty. The immediate fallout of his diagnosis is laid bare in Currie⠙s candid, stream of consciousness voice. A voice that is also by turns poetic, self-deprecating and darkly humorous across a series of diary entries that capture Justin⠙s innermost feelings ⠔ part travelogue, part confessional. Following a coming to terms with the situation whilst on tour in the U.S, the second half of the story joins Currie in 2024, supporting Simple Minds on tour with Del Amitri. Anger, heartbreak and a looming sense of finality concoct a terse relationship between what once was and what may never be. Yet, page after page, what prevails is the achingly perfect timing of his acerbic wit.The Tremolo Diaries is a beautiful and unique meditation on illness and aging. It is a twilight years reflection on band life in the 21st Century. It⠙s a travelogue around the world⠙s art galleries, parks, bars and sites of natural beauty. And most importantly, it is about love and friendship, adversity and courage, life and loss.In a first-of-its-kind exploration of Parkinson⠙s by a multi-platinum selling musician, The Tremolo Diaries looks the dramatic irony of Currie⠙s affliction in the eye, puts down the guitar, and returns the needle to the start of the song.

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Learn all about knights and castles in this spooky history-themed instalment of DK Books new educational fiction series for children aged 7 to 9 years old.Meet the Secret Explorers - a band of brainiac kids from all around the world, here to take young readers on a series of fact-filled fictional adventures! Each with their own specialty, from outer space to dinosaurs, these young globetrotters will teach kids that learning can be fun, encouraging them to become experts in something they love. In this fun, fact-filled children s book, Kiki the engineering explorer and Gustavo the history expert get caught up in a spooky time travel mystery when a ghostly figure shows up at a medieval castle and terrifies the crowds!This epic adventure is packed with: -Fun facts and illustrations about exciting prehistoric animals-Simple and informative diagrams telling kids all they need to know about castles and knights-Quizzes, mission notes, and a glossary of words with definitionsWith a gripping narrative that keeps kids engaged, The Secret Explorers and the Haunted Castle by SJ King is the perfect gift for children who are into all things history. It s written for children aged 7-9 years, with lots of information about medieval knights, castles and ghosts, to give them an exciting introduction into the world of history. At the end of this fictional book, you ll find Kiki s Mission Notes which is a summary of all the scientific facts and discoveries made throughout the story. With fun illustrations, quizzes, and a vocabulary list, the educational value of this book is outstanding and great for a classroom read!Never miss a mission! A total of nine different books, The Secret Explorer series is both educational and imaginative, combining exciting stories with real-life facts. Embark on another space mission adventure in The Secret Explorers and the Comet Collision. Travel back in time to save a dinosaur egg from destruction in The Secret Explorers and the Jurassic Rescue. Take part in a volcano rescue in The Secret Explorers and the Smoking Volcano. Then travel to the arctic for a rescue mission in Secret Explorers and the Missing Scientist.Whatever your preferred topic, there s a mission waiting for you!

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This complex memoir shows what it was like growing up in the shadow of a literary father and a neglectful mother, getting thrown out of boarding school after being seduced by a teacher, and all of the later-life consequences that ensue.In 1982, Erika Schickel was expelled from her East Coast prep school for sleeping with a teacher. She was that girl—rebellious, precocious, and macking for love. Seduced, caught, and then whisked away in the night to avoid scandal, Schickel’s provocative, searing, and darkly funny memoir, The Big Hurt, explores the question, How did that girl turn out?Schickel came of age in the 1970s, the progeny of two writers: Richard Schickel, the prominent film critic for TIME magazine, and Julia Whedon, a melancholy mid-list novelist. In the wake of her parents’ ugly divorce, Erika was packed off to a bohemian boarding school in the Berkshires.The Big Hurt tells two coming-of-age stories: one of a lost girl in a predatory world, and the other of that girl grown up, who in reckoning with her past ends up recreating it with a notorious LA crime novelist, blowing up her marriage and casting herself into the second exile of her life.The Big Hurt looks at a legacy of shame handed down through a maternal bloodline and the cost of epigenetic trauma. It shines a light on the haute culture of 1970s Manhattan that made girls grow up too fast. It looks at the long shadow cast by great, monstrously self-absorbed literary lives and the ways in which women pin themselves like beautiful butterflies to the spreading board of male ego.

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Love in War is a love story of its time. Joanna and Johnnie were born in South London in the shadow of the Great War and were still growing up when the narrative begins in 1936 during Hitlerâ ™s rise in Nazi Germany. It ends ten years later in 1946, when Johnnie is demobilised. Despite the committed intensity of the five-year relationship, they spent only forty-nine days together. Thus, Love in War is more about managing life apart than being together. The story moves between London and Berlin (where Joanna visits in 1938 and her dear schoolfriend, Ursula lives out the war) and the horrific theatres of war in North Africa and Southern Italy, which have disastrous effects on Johnnie and render him almost unrecognisable on his return to England after the war. As the story closes, it is evident that there are no winners, just losers. Perhaps it is love that emerges as the only victor. The future is uncertain for all concerned. They have almost nothing to show for the last five years; just time lost. There remains a rather modest ray of hope â “ as Johnnie says at the end, â ˜but we are alive.â ™

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A riveting murder mystery wrapped in a twisty conspiracy, set in a vivid fantasy world terrorized by eldritch monsters FONDA LEE A twisty detective story, a weird fantasy, a thrilling adventure MAX GLADSTONEIn the second adventure in the Shadow of the Leviathan series, the eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant bio-punk fantasy-mystery.An impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air - abducted from his quarters in a building whose entrances and exits are all sealed.The brilliant and mercurial investigator, Ana Dolabra, and her assistant Dinios Kol have been called in to crack the case.Before long, Ana discovers that they re actually investigating a murder. Worse, the adversary seems to be able to pass through warded doors like a ghost, and can predict every one of Ana s moves as though they can see the future.Ana s solved impossible cases before. But this time, with the stakes higher than ever and the investigators seemingly a step behind their adversary at every turn, has Ana finally met an enemy she can t defeat?READERS LOVE THE SHADOW OF THE LEVIATHAN SERIES Dinios kol my disastrous bisexual son is back!! and hes sleep deprived!! he s vomiting!!! he s yearning!!! he s slowly losing his marbles!! he s in severe debt!! he s in way over his head!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Robert Jackson Bennett does it again with A Drop of Corruption, the kind of fantasy-mystery that grips you from the first page and refuses to let go ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You can always count on RJB to write a stunningly original work of fantasy that s precisely and cunningly crafted to leave its reader feeling bereft and abandoned and craving a sequel like an ember craves air. This was so good. 10/10. Would read again in a heartbeat ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It s like knives out but if knives out was set in a fantasy world and benoit blanc was an old woman who had hired the most disaster bisexual to be her eyes and ears ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A murder investigation. No, a coming-of-age. No, a political fantasy. No, a murder investigation. No... well, I don t want to spoil it. Let me just say that I found it rather delightful how my expectations were simultaneously met and thwarted ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Watson and Holmes but fantasy . . . if Watson is aware that Holmes is a complete crazy person and is a bit terrified of him (actually, her) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ AUTHORS LOVE THE SERIES Original, imaginative, and suspenseful, The Tainted Cup superbly blends mystery and fantasy. I couldn t put it down. Give me more of this world and these characters ASAP! Meg Gardiner Part Sherlock Holmes murder mystery, part Through the Looking-Glass, The Tainted Cup is one of the wildest, most original stories I ve ever had the privilege to explore. This is a book that has planted roots in my head for the rest of my life. Wesley Chu A riveting murder mystery wrapped in a twisty conspiracy, set in a vivid fantasy world terrorized by eldritch monsters . . . Fonda Lee I loved this. A twisty detective story, a weird fantasy, a thrilling adventure-The Tainted Cup is a masterstroke. I want Bennett to write a dozen of these, and send them to me yesterday Max Gladstone The Tainted Cup is a true fantasy mystery, with a leading duo who stand with Holmes and Watson among the greats. And Bennett sets it all in a squishy, fascinating, biopunk world I m dying to find out more about. Bring on the next one! Django Wexler A classic murder mystery set against dazzling world-building and sly social commentary. Robert Jackson Bennett doesn t miss James L. Sutter

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This is a book about silences. And land. Renowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal memory and distant landscapes: childhood in England in the shadow of the Second World War, the Derbyshire hills, a kibbutz in Israel and the deep Canadian Arctic. Growing up on the outskirts of Sheffield, Hugh Brody ate roast beef and Yorkshire pudding but was always given to understand that the real, the perfect food came from his motherâ ™s home, Vienna. He attended Hebrew classes three times each week but was sent off to a Church of England boarding school. Conflicted and bewildered, he sought places to which he could escape â “ but everywhere he discovered deep and troubling silences.He takes us on his first journeys to the Arctic, a world so far removed from anything he had known as to be a chance to learn, all over again, what it can mean to be alive. As he reveals, the realities of the far north were a joy, but even there he found abuses of the people and the land â “ and voices that were deeply silenced by the forces of colonialism.In these landscapes, human well-being appears to be both possible and impossible. Yet in memory, in the land, in the defiance of silence, Hugh Brody sees a profound humanity â “ as well as hope.

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1883. Agrigento, Sicily. A city of spires and now broken hopes and bodies…With the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe has vanished. His only chance of rescue lies in a fabled second orsine – long-hidden, thought lost - which might not even exist.But when a body is discovered in the shadow of Cairndale, Charlie and the Talents realize there is even more at stake than they d feared. For a new drughr has arisen, ferocious, horned, seemingly able to move in their world at will – and it is not alone. A malevolent figure, known only as the Abbess, desires the dust for her own ends. And deep in the world of the dead, a terrible evil stirs - an evil which the corrupted dust just might hold the secret to reviving, or destroying forever.So the dark journey begun in Ordinary Monsters surges forward, from the sinister underworld of the London exiles, to the roar of the streetmarkets in nineteenth-century Alexandria, to the sunlit silences of the Dalmatian coast. Against bone witches, mud glyphics, and a house of twilight that exists in a netherworld all its own, the Talents must work together - if they are to have any hope of staving off the world of the dead, and saving their long-lost friend.

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**Selected as a book of summer 2025 by the Guardian, Daily Mail, Sunday Times and i paper**Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambitionâ ˜An absolute delight â ¦ Funny, moving, filthy and original â ¦ A frontrunner for historical fiction book of the yearâ ™ The Timesâ ˜A bold and brilliant comedy of royal intrigueâ ™ Guardian, Book of the dayâ ˜A vivid, transporting feat of imaginationâ ™ Maggie Shipsteadâ ˜Witty, poignant, wildly engaging, and with a huge heart - I loved itâ ™ Sarah Watersâ ˜Brilliantly buoyant, clever, funny, original, vivid, wittyâ ™ Joanna Quinnâ ˜The Pretender has everything: history richly drawn, amazing characterisation, humour, wit, vigour and braveryâ ™ Emma Stonexâ ˜Funny and devastating. I m having a fantastic time reading itâ ™ Yael van der Wouden________________________________________Kill the pretender. Do not let it be known that there was a pretender to kill.The year is 1483 and England is in peril. The much-despised Richard III is not long for the throne, and the man who will become Henry VII stands poised to snatch the crown for himself. But for twelve-year-old John Collan, living in a remote village with his widowed father, these matters seem far away.But history has other plans for John.Stolen from his family, exiled â “ first to Oxford, then to Burgundy, and then Ireland â “ and apprenticed to a series of unscrupulous political operators, he finds himself groomed for power; not as John Collan, but as Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick â “ and rightful heir to the throne.Far from home at the Irish court, preparing for a war that will see him become king or die trying, John has just his wits â “ and the slippery counsel of his hostâ ™s daughter, the unconventional Joan â “ to navigate the choppy waters ahead.Seething with revenge and machination, sparkling with wit and humanity, and roaring with adventure and bravado, The Pretender is the captivating true story of a young man tossed into the chaos of history as it happens. â ˜Wickedly funnyâ ¦ A work of genius, a wellspring of laughter and sorrow, a feat of time travel, and a feast of language Karen Russellâ ˜Raw, beautiful and true ... I loved itâ ™ Leah Redmond Changâ ˜An absolute thumper â ¦ Funny and filthy and brave and brilliantâ ™ Marianne Levyâ ˜Superb, exhilarating and heartbreakingâ ™ Linda Porterâ ˜I couldn t put it downâ ™ Tracy Borman

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The fourth book in Chris Scullionâ ™s critically acclaimed series of video game encyclopedias, _The N64 Encyclopedia_ is dedicated to the Nintendo 64, one of the most well-loved games consoles ever released. Although the Nintendo 64 didnâ ™t sell as well as some of Nintendoâ ™s other systems, and although it struggled in the shadow of the bold newcomer that was the Sony PlayStation, everyone who owned an N64 was in love with it and the four-player multiplayer it provided as standard. Despite its relatively small library, the Nintendo 64 had a healthy number of groundbreaking titles that would revolutionise the way we played video games. The likes of Super Mario 64, GoldenEye 007, Mario Kart 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remain iconic in the eyes of video game fans 25 years down the line. This book naturally contains those games, but it also contains every other game released for the system, no matter how obscure. It also covers every game released in Japan, including those for the ill-fated Nintendo 64DD add-on which never left the country. With over 400 games covered, screenshots for every title and a light-hearted writing style designed to make reading it a fun experience, _The N64 Encyclopedia_ is the definitive guide to a truly revolutionary gaming system.

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Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has failed. He is shocked to learn that the Yoshino House is empty apart from a single chair, stood facing the north light of nearby Mount Asama.How can he live with the rejection of the work he had put his heart and soul into, the dream house he would have loved to own himself? Aose determines that he must discover the truth behind this cruel and inexplicable dismissal of the Yoshino house and in doing so will find out a truth that goes back to the core of who he is. Plotted with the subtlety of his bestselling masterpiece Six Four, The North Light is Yokoyama at his elusive, tantalising and surprising best.

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‘Sharing food is one of the purest human acts Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci’s life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between scene rehearsals and costume fittings, to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime. Now, in What I Ate In One Year Tucci records twelve months of eating, in restaurants, kitchens, film sets, press junkets, at home and abroad, with friends, with family, with strangers, and occasionally just by himself. Ranging from the mouth-wateringly memorable, to the comfortingly domestic, to the infuriatingly inedible, the meals memorialised in this diary are a prism for him to reflect on the ways his life, and his family, are constantly evolving.Through food he marks - and mourns - the passing of time, the loss of loved ones, and steels himself for what is to come. Whether it’s duck a l’orange eaten with fellow actors and cooked by singing Carmelite nuns, steaks barbequed at a gathering with friends, or meatballs made by his mother and son and shared at the table with three generations of his family, these meals give shape and add emotional richness to his days.

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redy built a wall against suffering in their hearts... At the dark heart of the Holocaust, there was a wooden hut whose walls were painted with cartoons; a place where children sang, staged plays and wrote poetry. Safely inside, but still in the shadow of the chimneys, they were given better food, kept free of vermin, and were even taught meditation to imagine full stomachs and a day without fear.The man who became their guiding light was a young Jewish prisoner named Fredy Hirsch. But being a teacher in such a brutal concentration camp was no mean feat. Whether it was begging the SS for better provisions, or hiding his homosexuality from his persecutors, he risked his life every day for one thing: to protect the children from the mortal danger they all faced.But time is running out for Fredy and the hundreds of children in his care. Can he find a way to teach them the one lesson they really need to know: how to survive?

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In the shadow of a war that rages through Europe, brothers Calum and Neil work to gather pine cones in the grounds of a Scottish estate. When Calum releases two mutilated rabbits from a snare, he comes face to face with Duror, the gamekeeper. In retaliation, in the depths of the wood, Duror lays a trap for the cone-gatherers.Neil prophesises that forces of evil will encroach upon the harmony of their lives. It is a prophesy that comes true when Duror commits an act so brutal it destroys all sense of humanity in the once thriving wood. Powerful and unforgettable, Robin Jenkins masterpiece is a haunting story of love and violence, and an investigation of class-conflict, war and envy.

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A luminous new translation of one of the greatest poets in Chinese historyLi Qingzhao is justly celebrated for her place in Chinese literary history. She was a poet with a wry, unsentimental style and a rich sense of melody. Her ci â “ lyrics that were originally set to music â “ are glorious in their depth and genius, spare and arresting on the line. They evoke with rare immediacy the haunting beauty of country life during the Song dynasty; the unseen, restive labour of the poet; and Li Qingzhaoâ ™s bracing take on what it means to create art as a woman in the shadow of exile, war, imprisonment, and an unwelcoming literary establishment. In Wendy Chenâ ™s splendid new translation, each poem is as sharp and fresh as the edge of a new spring leaf. These richly textured bolts of melody are masterpieces of verse, as resonant and bracing today as they were in the eleventh century; and they underscore Li Qingzhao status as a necessary and iconic literary figure.

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Discover 50 groundbreaking female photographers and how to incorporate their styles and techniques into your own photography. Often in the shadow of their male counterparts, these inspirational women developed new techniques, created their own signature styles and captured everything from war to fashion. From early pioneers to contemporary leaders, they paved the way for generations to come and continue to do so, inspiring them to pick up a camera and decide what type of photographer they want to be. Featuring masters of the medium, such as Anna Atkins, Imogen Cunningham, Nadine Ijewere, Lee Miller, Shirin Neshat, Lorna Simpson, Cindy Sherman, Zanele Muholi and Ingrid Pollard, this book is beautifully illustrated with full-color images of the photographers and their work. It tells the story of these groundbreaking women, how they changed the way we see the world today and helped shape the future of photography. It also provides expert advice on how you can celebrate these trailblazers in your own photography. Follow the instructions to master their techniques and recreate their styles in your own work.

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In 111 Places in Buffalo That You Must Not Miss, author Brian Hayden reveals the lesser-known stories, off-the-beaten path locales, and hidden gems that make Buffalo and nearby Niagara Falls extraordinary. Journey through the region and explore century-old ethnic clubs, neighbourhood taverns with incredible wings, a hiking trail in the shadow of a collapsed power plant, possible buried treasure in the Niagara River and the small town that invented the kazoo.Find out why Irish Civil War Veterans launched an invasion on Canada from Buffalo, how the manuscript of a Mark Twain masterpiece ended up in a downtown library, and where you can see a ⠜stunter⠙s row⠝ of daredevils buried together in a Niagara Falls Cemetery. Shop for unique finds in the city⠙s last ⠜junk shop,⠝ browse for produce grown by recently resettled refugees at an urban farm, and play Buffalo Gay Bingo in an Amvets Hall. Discover the places and people who have called this region home for centuries ⠓ and the new arrivals from around the world who have infused New York⠙s second largest city with new life. Experience the Buffalo and Niagara Falls that even locals might not know about ⠓ and come away with a renewed appreciation for this historic and inspiring region.

Objev podobné jako 111 Places in Buffalo That You Must Not Miss - Brian Hayden