Sumptuous historical novel from bestselling author of the other boleyn girl and the queen`s fool Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can rely on just one man: her oldest friend, Robert Dudley. It is soon plain that he is more than merely a friend. In a house in the countryside waits a very different woman, Amy Robsart - Robert`s wife. She has no taste for life at court and longs for the day when her husband will return home. She has loved him since she was a girl, but now they are adults she hardly sees him. Meanwhile, the pressure grows for...
ISBN: 978-0-00-714731-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf`s own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel`s disparate cast. A landmark of high modernism and the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf`s novels, To the Lighthouse explores themes of loss, class structure and the question of perception, in a hauntingly beautiful memorial to the lost but not forgotten. Chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.
Terrific, free-standing suel to the historical bestseller Earthly Joys, as John Tradescant, the Younger witnesses the English Civil War and its aftermath from his position as royal gardener. John Tradescant, the Younger has inherited his fathers unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to nurture them. But as gardener to Charles I, he confronts an unbearable dilemma when England descends into Civil War. Fleeing from the chaos, John travels to the Royalist colony of Virginia in America. But, the virgin land is not uninhabited. Johns plant hunting brings him to live with the native people, and he learns to love and respect their way of life just as it is threatened by the colonial settlers. In the new world and the old,...
ISBN: 978-0-00-722848-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2012
This book is from the bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, a reissue of her first novel, which was first published in 1996. This is the compelling story of two women, born four centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them. Ella Turner does her best to fit in to the small, close-knit community of Lisle-sur-Tarn. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and knocks the rust off her high school French. But it is all in vain. Isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, which leads to her encounter with the town`s wolfish librarian. Isabelle du Moulin, known as Le Rousse due to her fiery red hair, is tormented and shunned in the village - suspected of witchcraft and reviled for her...
ISBN: 978-0-00-724146-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
The National Bestseller In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth`s ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. Elizabeth`s excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the...
ISBN: 978-0-7432-6926-1
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster USA
Дата выхода: май 2012
Getting old? Get over it! For too long those in short skirts have been telling us oldies we don`t matter: `you`re out of touch! Get out of the way, grandma! The next generation is coming through`. Well, enough is enough. Because getting old is great. For a start you no longer need to care what anyone thinks. You can let - if you`ve got any left - your hair down. No one will tell you off for grumbling. And no one minds if you forget (or pretend to forget) who you`re talking to. Being rude has never been so easy - or liberating. And that`s not all you can get away with now that you`ve seen it all (and done most of it)... Let Virginia Ironside take you through the top twenty reasons why getting old is good for you - and let the young and...
ISBN: 978-0-14-104371-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
"Visions of Paradise" is a panoply of experiences from the most peripatetic photographers on Earth - the photographers of "National Geographic Magazine". After all the stories and all the journeys, each man and each woman shares with us the place he or she found to be Heaven on Earth. The pictures come from all seven continents, from different times of year, in different climates. The stories are as minute as the glance of an amorous leopard seal before lunch or as vast as the landscape of Iceland during the days of the midnight sun. You will swim with penguins underneath the ice in the Antarctic, rest on a leaf in the Amazon with a dragonfly, and roam the forest floor in Borneo with a recognized scientist. By the end, you will know that...
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0338-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
With bridal magazine covers to her credit, Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera - ready to capture the happy moments she never experienced while growing up. Her father replaced his first family with a second, and now her mother, moving on to yet another man, begs Mac for attention and money. Mac`s foundation is jostled again moments before an important planning meeting when she bumps into the bride-to-be`s brother…an encounter that has them both seeing stars. Carter Maguire is definitely not her type: he`s stable, and he`s safe. He`s even an English teacher at their high school alma mater. There`s something about him that makes Mac think a casual fling is just what she needs to take her mind off dealing with...
Two women, victims of sexual harassment, left the army under dubious circumstances. Both are now dead. Jack Reacher knew them both. A perfect psychological match, he is arrested, but is released when another woman is murdered. Everyone fears a serial killer is on the loose and Reacher finds himself heavily involved in the investigation.
ISBN: 978-0-553-81188-9
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: август 2011
In this book, you will see that there are two main tendencies: designers who embrace the ornamental, and designers who tackle the patterr by imbuirg it with content (as opposed to meaning, as one would nePen to the intrinsic, mystical bearing oP Middle-Eastern patterns, Por example). Sometimes, these terdencies blend, especially in the case oP illustnation-orier-tated designers.
ISBN: 978-84-96774-26-1
Издательство:
Index Book
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Бенджамин Дизраэли - это не только известный английский писатель, представитель "социального романа", но и важный государственный деятель Великобритании XIX века. "Вивиан Грей" - одно из самых читаемых произведений, которое бурно обсуждалось критиками и современниками после выхода книги в свет. Автор демонстрирует большую изобретательность при построении повествования, оригинальность в изложении...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05713-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
`You have a much better life if you wear impressive clothes`, according to Vivienne Westwood. A global icon, Vivienne Westwood`s career has spanned three decades from the early days of punk to the successful establishment of her own fashion house. This book is a study of her work as a ground-breaking fashion designer.
ISBN: 978-1-85177-405-0
Издательство:
V&A Publishing
Дата выхода: август 2011
DRACULA. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality. Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his story not of a monster but of a man and a contradiction. For the one they called `The Devil`s Son` was both tyrant and lawgiver, crusader and mass slaughterer, torturer and hero, lover and murderer. His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever loved and whom he has to sacrifice. His closest comrade and traitor. And his priest, betraying the secrets of the confessional to reveal the mind of the man history would forever remember as Tepes - `The Impaler`. But Vlad`s actions defy such labels. His extraordinary life burns with passion, taking him from his years as hostage to the Turk,...
ISBN: 978-1-4091-0299-1
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
