![]() This spellbinding novel explores the life she lived. Jane was driven by the strength of her faith and a belief that she might do some good in a wicked world. In doing so, can she expose a gentler side to the brutal King? JANE SEYMOUR THE THIRD OF HENRY'S QUEENS HER STORY Acclaimed, bestselling historian Alison Weir draws on new research for her captivating novel, which paints a compelling portrait of Jane and casts fresh light on both traditional and modern perceptions of her. This new Queen must therefore step out from the shadows cast by Katherine and Anne. She has witnessed at first hand how courtly play can quickly turn to danger and knows she must bear a son. ![]() Eleven days after the death of Anne Boleyn, Jane is dressing for her wedding to the King. 'This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction' The Times THE WOMAN HAUNTED BY THE FATE OF HER PREDECESSOR. ![]() ![]() Essential reading for fans of Philippa Gregory and Elizabeth Chadwick. ![]() 'This brilliant book is a bombshell! Jane Seymour the shy mouse type? Think again!' Kate Williams Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession, draws an enthralling portrait of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third queen, as you've never seen her before. ![]()
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The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. Please expect a shipping cost adjustment. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It begins in the early days of Kerouac and Cassady's friendship, when the former was a struggling author trying to make his way with his first novel, and goes on to the explosive success of On the Road and Ginsberg's Howl, the flowering of the 'Beat generation', and the social revolution of the 1960s which saw Kerouac and Cassady - by then famed as driver of Ken Kesey's legendary Merry Pranksters 'bus' taken up as founding fathers of the emerging worldwide hippy movement. Carolyn Cassady's book spans one of the most vital areas in twentieth-century literature and culture. Written by the woman who loved them both - as wife of Cassady, lover of Kerouac - it is the remarkable record of marriage to the man whose exploits, as Dean Moriarty in On the Road, caught the imagination of a generation and fired the Beat movement. ![]() Off the Road tells the intimate story of two of the most famous, and yet enigmatic, figures in modern literature - Jack Kerouac and his friend, travelling companion and hero, Neal Cassady. Carolyn Cassady Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg, 1991 1990 Penguin Books, New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They talk in turn about those early years and how they came to join the band that would make them known around the world as John, Paul, George and Ringo. Snapshots from their family collections take us back to the days when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Richard Starkey were just boys growing up in Liverpool. What a book The Beatles Anthology is! Each page is brimming with personal stories and rare vintage images. Furthermore, The Beatles have opened their personal and management archives specifically for this project, allowing the unprecedented release of photographs which they took along their ride to fame, as well as fascinating documents and memorabilia from their homes and offices. Together with Yoko Ono Lennon, they have also made available the full transcripts (including all the outtakes) of the television and video series The Beatles Anthology. Through painstaking compilation of sources worldwide, John Lennon's words are equally represented in this remarkable volume. We are confident that you will agree.This extraordinary project has been made possible because Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have agreed to tell their combined story especially for this book. Overall condition is Sealed and never opened. ![]() This is the perfect gift for any Beatles fan, and we are close to the holidays so now is the time to get a hold of this fine book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cole is fantastic story, especially impressive since it’s told in few words! I never, ever could have predicted where the story would have gone and was completely shocked! And there was literally only one typo which is insane compared to every other story in this anthology! 5 STARS ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️ Worst of all was the ending which was extremely anti-climactic, especially since the first 99% of the story had been so good. There were sentences written in both past and present tense (“which means for all intents and purposes, I wanted Dalton.”), incorrect use of semicolons, comma rules omitted, etc. However, I was disappointed that it wasn’t proofread. I was immediately pulled into the short, innovative story. Blake, so I was eager to read something by her. 3 STARS ⭐️⭐️⭐️ĬHAMPAGNE DREAMS by Zoe Blake. It’s a fun read, but it is definitely not a good example of how incredibly talented Bene truly is. GOOD BOY by Jennifer Bene it’s definitely dark and the gang bang scenes very descriptive, yet there are a ton of proofreading mistakes. Stories not yet reviewed below will be added soon. ![]() Individual reviews for story listed below. ![]() ![]() Cate Kennedy's poignant short stories find the beauty and tragedy in illness and mortality, life and love.Ĭate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People's Choice Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2010. And in 'Ashes', a son accompanies his mother on a journey to scatter his father's remains, while lifelong resentments simmer in the background. In 'Cross - Country', a jilted lover manages to misinterpret her ex's new life. In 'Laminex and Mirrors', a young woman working as a cleaner in a hospital helps an elderly patient defy doctor's orders. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again takes ordinary lives and dissects their ironies, injustices, and pleasures with her humane eye and wry sense of humour. ![]() From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. ![]() ![]() His mother is dead, and his father, Marcus, is known as the most powerful and the smartest Blood Witch in the world. The 17-year-old protagonist, Nathan, is half Fairborn and half Blood, or a Half Code. ![]() ![]() There are two primary types of witches: Blood Witches (generally oppressed and written off as evil) and Fairborn Witches (the main population). Half Bad is set in modern-day Europe, mainly in Britain, where witches and humans (fains) live together. On 3 March 2014, the book set the Guinness World Record as the 'Most Translated Book by a Debut Author, Pre-publication', having sold in 45 languages prior to its UK publication by Penguin books. Half Bad is a 2014 young adult fantasy novel written by English author Sally Green that won the 2015 Waterstones Teen Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Branford Boase Award. Children and Young Adult Literature portal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has contributed comic strips to Doctor Who Adventures.īetween 20, Robson was the producer of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield range of products, and has contributed four audio plays to the series. His Doctor Who work includes the BBC 7 radio plays Phobos, Human Resources and Grand Theft Cosmos, the CD releases Memory Lane, The Condemned, The Raincloud Man and The Eight Truths, and several short stories for Big Finish's Doctor Who anthologies, Short Trips. It starred Katherine Parkinson and Julian Rhind-Tutt. The pilot episode of his sitcom Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 5th July 2012. Since then his work has featured on That Mitchell and Webb Sound, Tilt, Play and Record, Newsjack, Recorded For Training Purposes and The Headset Set. Robson's comedy writing career began in 2008 with material for Look Away Now. ![]() He is married to a female academic and lives in Lancaster. He has written books, comics and short stories, and has worked as a freelance journalist for various science fiction magazines. Eddie Robson is a comedy and science fiction writer best known for his sitcom Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully and his work on a variety of spin-offs from the BBC Television series Doctor Who. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() was sent for before her trial, thus preempting the verdict. ![]() "She wasn't executed where people think she was, she wasn't imprisoned where people think she was, she's not buried where people think she was," Weir says. "All these revelations came toward the end of my research, and it was one excitement after another, basically - as far as an historian is concerned." "I was quite astonished," she tells NPR's Guy Raz. A history book written with all the intrigue and tension of a novel, Weir's just-published The Lady in the Tower is what the author calls "a forensic investigation" of the queen's last four monthsĪnd what the investigation turned up surprised Weir. It was in part the inexorability of that judgment that made historian Alison Weir want to take a closer look at Anne Boleyn's story. She was executed nonetheless, on and 11 days later the king married Jane Seymour, the third of his six wives. A few days before she was beheaded for plotting to kill her husband, King Henry VIII of England, the fallen queen stood before her accusers and essentially accused them of railroading her. Right up until the very end, Anne Boleyn professed her innocence. The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn ![]() ![]() ![]() I suppose a bird or two may have been crying then as they were a little later, but there was not a light nor a sign of anything human being within a hundred miles. In a semicircle the shore rose black, towering at either horn (and especially on the south) into high dark cliffs. The sea was as flat and calm as you can ever get on an Atlantic coast-a glassy surface, but always a gentle regular bursting of foam upon the beach. The segment of a waning moon was just rising, but the sky was covered with clouds, except right overhead where a bevy of stars twinkled, and it was a dim though not a dark night. The war might have been waging on another planet. If any one had been watching the bay that August night (which, fortunately for us, there was not), they would have seen up till an hour after midnight as lonely and peaceful a scene as if it had been some inlet in Greenland. ![]() LIEUTENANT VON BELKE'S NARRATIVE CONCLUDED. LIEUTENANT VON BELKE'S NARRATIVE RESUMED. William Blackwood & Sons' Popular New Books. LIEUTENANT VON BELKE'S NARRATIVE CONCLUDED ![]() THE NARRATIVE OF LIEUTENANT VON BELKE (OF THE GERMAN NAVY) ![]() |