Katie Hickman se ve své tvorbě zabývá cestováním, kulturou a mezilidskými vztahy. Její psaní vyniká detailními popisy prostředí a hlubokým vhledem do psychologie postav. Čtenáři ocení její schopnost propojit osobní zkušenosti s širšími společenskými tématy. Díla Hickmanové nabízejí poutavé a reflexivní čtení.
The extraordinary, dramatic story of the women of the American west: the women who crossed the plains and the mountains in covered wagons, the indigenous women living on the land, the women who came to work in the gold mining cities. Brave hearted women - an amazing cast of characters brought to life by this wonderful storyteller
An account of Katie Hickman's extraordinary year spent amidst the faded glamour of a Mexican travelling circus. Katie Hickman went to Mexico looking for magic. She found it in the circus - big top, clowns, elephant and all - where cheap, torn materials are transformed for a night into glittering illusion. Gradually adjusting to the harsh ways of the circus's nomadic lifestyle she soon became absorbed into this hypnotic new world. At first, as a foreigner, she was on the outskirts, but she soon became La Gringa Estrella, a performer in her own right and adopted sister to the Bell's family.
Katie Hickman, author of the best–selling Daughters of Britannia, offers a captivating record of her travels through the forbidden Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
An extraordinary and illuminating book that tells the incredible stories of the first British women to set foot in India - 250 years before the Raj.
"The reverse of stuffy" is how one British reviewer characterized Katie Hickman's portrait of English diplomatic wives. Unstuffy it is. Hickman, whose writing is graceful and sprightly, describes the unusual and often difficult lives of Foreign Service spouses. Tracking these feisty transplants from the 17th century to the present, she shows how these very significant others coped with everything from tropical epidemics to kidnappings to small household budgets. Warm-weather reading.
This title tells of the extraordinary lives and times of a small group of women who, during the course of the 19th century, rose from impoverished obscurity to become some of the most powerful, independent and wealthy women the world had ever seen. These were women who took control of their lives - and those of other people - and made the world do their will.
Wonderfully sinister ... Hickman is a born storyteller. Hugely enjoyable The Times
A tale of ancient alliances and intrigues, of forbidden love and dangerous secrets
In a small town on the Italian coast, a mysterious woman washes ashore. She is crippled, mute, and clutches a bundle to her chest-a baby the townspeople insist is a real-life mermaid. It can only bring bad luck; they pay a troupe of acrobats to carry mother and child away. In the bustling trade center of Venice, merchant Paul Pindar is the subject of his colleagues' concern. Since his return from Constantinople, they have found him changed; raging over the loss of his beloved, Celia, he has gambled away his fortune at the gaming tables. But when a priceless blue diamond surfaces in the city, Pindar recognizes the opportunity to regain everything he has lost-including, perhaps, the woman he loves. A celebrated writer of history and travel books, Katie Hickman has always been a master of evoking time and place. With The Pindar Diamond, her follow-up to The Aviary Gate, she brings early-seventeenth-century Italy vividly to life, and also demonstrates her maturity as a novelist. A tale of love and avarice, with a touch of the mystical, The Pindar Diamond is rich with historical detail, and unfolds with urgency and grace. It is accomplished, wholly satisfying historical fiction.
