A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England
Lucy Wooding Knihy
Lucy Woodová se zaměřuje na témata a zážitky spojené s pobřežním životem. Její próza se vyznačuje poetickým jazykem a silným smyslem pro místo, které proplétá s intimními lidskými příběhy. Woodová zkoumá složitost mezilidských vztahů a dopad prostředí na naše životy.
Henry VIII
- 374 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
This insightful portrait of Henry VIII explores the paradoxes of his character and reign. The new edition incorporates recent research, offering a distinctive interpretation of his complex personality and unique kingship style.
Weathering
- 290 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
Nearly eighty, Pearl dies in the remote English valley where she's lived for more than three decades, within a dilapidated house alongside a temperamental river. Her death triggers the return, after a 13-year hiatus, of her daughter Ada, a drifter who comes to scatter her mother's ashes and sell the house. Ada is accompanied by the granddaughter Pearl never met: Pepper. Ada and Pepper find themselves entangled with the life of the valley, each discovering that places can bind us together -- Back cover.
The Sing of the Shore
- 272 stránek
- 10 hodin čtení
An uncanny, startlingly beautiful story collection steeped in the Cornish landscape, from the award-winning author of Diving Belles and Other Stories and Weathering.
Diving Belles
- 240 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
A luminous, startling and utterly spellbinding debut which introduces a spectacular new voice in contemporary British fiction
The Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
- 112 stránek
- 4 hodiny čtení
The Little Book of Lincolnshire is a compendium of fascinating information about this historic county, past and present.