Old, ailing Elizabeth I is on the throne – but a rebellion to overthrow her is being plotted by the dashing Earl of Essex. One of the rallying points for the uprising will be the Globe Theatre. When the Queen learns of the plan, the plotters are defeated, and she throws Master Shakespeare`s theatre company into the most putrid prison in the land. Can James, a boy actor, and the bard himself think of a way to earn the Queen`s forgiveness - and be freed?
This new novelization will cover the third season of THE TUDORS, which will follow the king as he weds third queen Jane Seymour (played by Anita Briem) and then Anne of Cleves. The new SHOWTIME dramatic series THE TUDORS, stars Golden Globe (R) - winner Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (Mission: Impossible III, Match Point, Elvis) as a young Henry VIII. Emmy (R) and Golden Globe (R)-nominated actor Sam Neill ( Jurassic Park, Little Fish), Jeremy Northam (CBS` Martin & Lewis, The Net, Gosford Park) and Henry Cavill (Tristan & Isolde) also make up the cast. THE TUDORS will focus on the rarely dramatized, tumultuous early years of King Henry VIII`s nearly 40-year omnipotent reign (1509-1547) of England. In addition to dalliances with famous female...
- From battle and beheadings, to plots and plague, this book tells the story of life in Britain under the Tudors and Stuarts. - Full of intriguing facts, illustrations, detailed reconstructions, paintings and maps. - Includes links to websites to find out more information via the Usborne Quicklinks Website.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-9070-1
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Дата выхода: август 2011
The day Queen Mary Tudor – or ‘Bloody Mary’, as she’s called, because she has anyone who doesn’t go to church burned – came to town was the most terrifying day of young Meg’s life. Everyone wants to impress Her Majesty, and what better way to show their devotion than by burning a witch themselves. But “the witch”, Old Nan is more clever and cunning than the townspeople and in the end, she isn’t the one who sparks the ferocious temper of the frightful
The rotting, naked corpse of a man is found amidst swarms of flies in the living room of a confused woman. Who is he? Why is Michelle Doyce trying to serve him afternoon tea? And how did the dead body find its way into her flat? DCI Karlsson needs an expert to delve inside Michelle`s mind for answers and turns to former colleague, psychiatrist Frieda Klein. Eventually Michelle`s ramblings lead to a vital clue that in turn leads to a possible identity. Robert Poole. Jack of all trades and master conman. The deeper Frieda and Karlsson dig, the more of Poole`s victims they and the more motives they uncover for his murder. But is anyone telling them the truth except for poor, confused Michelle? And when the past returns to haunt Frieda, she...
The unifying premise for this short story collection is the Tuesday Club: six people who meet socially one evening at Jane Marple`s home and then decide to meet regularly each Tuesday night to solve a mystery which a group member must relate.
Tully Makker is a tough young woman who forms an enduring bond with jennifer and Julie, two friends from very different backgrounds. Tully emerges into adulthood, marriage and a career, and then lifes strikes back in the most unexpected way.
ISBN: 0-00-649001-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
In the broom cupboard of a small dwelling called Rose Cottage, stands a house fit for a mouse - well, two mice actually. A house made of pebblestone, with gables on the windows and turrets peeking out of the roof. A house with a ballroom, a billiard room, a banqueting room, a butler`s room and a drawing room. The house belongs to Mr and Mrs Nutmouse, or Tumtum and Nutmeg as they affectionately call each and Nutmeg have a wonderful life but the children who live in Rose Cottage, Arthur and Lucy, are miserable. So, one day Tumtum and Nutmeg decide to cheer them Tumtum repairs the electric heater in the attic where the children sleep and Nutmeg darns the children`s clothes. Arthur and Lucy are delighted and think a Fairy of Sorts is looking...
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3386-6
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: август 2011
Offering a unique perspective on sports, celebrity, and popular culture in the 1920s, this irresistible story is an insightful real-life tale replete with heads of state, irrepressible showmen, mobsters, Hollywood luminaries, and the cream of New York society in the 1920s.
In this third Erast Fandorin mystery, set in 1877, Russia is at war with the Ottoman Empire, and the brilliant detective is searching the Russian army for a Turkish spy. He is followed by a young woman with revolutionary ideals, who has disguised herself as a boy to find her fiancé at the front. Her coldness toward Fandorin, a "lackey of the throne", begins to change as she comes to respect his courage, deductive powers, and piercing gaze. The "Russian Sherlock Holmes" who starred in "The Winter Queen" and "Murder on the Leviathan" returns in this novel by Russian literary phenomenon Boris Akunin.
The Russo-Turkish war is at a critical juncture, and Erast Fandorin, broken-hearted and disillusioned, has gone to the front in an attempt to forget his sorrows. But Fandorin`s efforts to steer clear of trouble are thwarted when he comes to the aid of Varvara Suvorova -a `progressive` Russian woman trying to make her way to the Russian headquarters to join her fiance. Within days, Varvara`s fiance has been accused of treason, a Turkish victory looms on the horizon, and there are rumours of a Turkish spy hiding within their own camp. Our reluctant gentleman sleuth will need to resurrect all of his dormant powers of detection if he is to unmask the "traitor, help the Russians to victory and smooth the path of young love.
