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Catherine hanley matilda5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Her book Louis: The French Prince Who Invaded England (a biography of Louis VIII of France) was published by Yale University Press in 2016. In addition to fiction, Hanley also began writing popular non-fiction history. The Sins of the Father (2012) which was Editor’s Choice in Historical Novels Review. ![]() The books in the series, all published by The History Press, are: The novels are set against the backdrop of the baronial war in the early 13th century, when the nobles of England rebelled against King John and invited Prince Louis of France to take the throne, before some of them changed their minds following John’s death and the accession of his nine-year-old son Henry III. Īfter leaving academia she started to write historical fiction, and is the author of a series of medieval murder mystery novels featuring Edwin Weaver as the central character. She was as a contributor to the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology (Oxford University Press, 2010). While working as an academic she published a number of articles on medieval warfare and its portrayal in contemporary narrative literature she also wrote War and Combat 1150-1270: The Evidence from Old French Literature which was published by Boydell and Brewer in 2003. She gained a degree and a PhD at the University of Sheffield and was a postdoctoral researcher there on the Partonopeus de Blois project. ![]() Hanley was born in Perth, Western Australia. Catherine Hanley (born 1972) is a writer and researcher specialising in the Middle Ages. ![]()
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The perfume collector reviews5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The other thing that modulates the horrors of The Perfume Collector is a counterbalance of characters and moments that make you smile, especially in the story of Grace Monroe. You can hardly expect to read a book set in 1920s-to-1950s Europe and not be subjected to something nasty. ![]() It’s ghastly in places, but the ghastliness is built into the historical world building such that one generally adjusts and expects it. Streaks of gruesome war recollections, poverty, drug addiction, disturbing treatment and abuse of children, and various bigotry -isms (especially sexism - pointed a-woman’s-place-is-xyz remarks abound on every other page) run through the novel. The pain and sadness of The Perfume Collector is of the grisly kind common in novels set in the first half of the twentieth century. This was far less painful than the steady drip of prosaic heartbreak that was Erica Bauermeister’s The Scent Keeper. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In the second section, Tawwab suggests scenarios in which boundaries need to be set-including with family, work, and social media-and walks the reader through them with examples and stories. She identifies six types of boundaries-physical, sexual, intellectual, emotional, material, and time-and dispenses tips on how to uphold personal limits (such as “I’m more of a handshaker” for those setting a physical boundary) and detect when a boundary might be crossed (such as overly sexual joking being a red flag for “sexual boundary violation”). ![]() The first section explains what boundaries are, how they are crossed, and the short- and long-term implications of consistent boundary violations. Tawwab, a relationship therapist with more than half a million Instagram followers, debuts with a comprehensive guide on how to understand and establish interpersonal boundaries. ![]()
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Tearmoon empire volume 105/21/2023 ![]() ![]()
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Feral vanessa vale5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() If that weren't enough, she also writes under the pen name, Vanessa Dare.She lives in the Wild Wild West where there's an endless source of 'research' material.To learn more about Vanessa Vale:Web site- her on Twitter: up with Facebook: Read more She considers herself to be remarkably normal, exceedingly introverted and fairly vanilla, which does not explain her steamy stories and her fascination with cowboys, preferably more than one at a time. It's pure escapism with quite a few very hot, very alpha cowboys.When she's not writing, Vanessa savors the insanity of raising two boys, is figuring out how many meals she can make with a pressure cooker, and teaches a pretty mean karate class. They're deliciously naughty reads that sometimes push the boundaries of fantasy. They are much more than just sexy historical westerns. ![]() SIGN UP FOR VANESSA'S MAILING LIST FOR LATEST NEWS and get a FREE book!Just copy and paste the following link into your web browser: Today Bestseller of steamy historical westernsWho doesn't love the romance of the old West? Vanessa Vale takes the sensual appeal of rugged cowboys a step further with her bestselling books set in the Montana Territory. ![]()
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Nightmares by jason segel5/21/2023 ![]() And he’s going to need all the help he can get, or it might just be lights-out for Charlie Laird. Nightmares can ruin a good night’s sleep, but when they start slipping out of your dreams and into the waking world - that’s a line that should never be crossed.Īnd when your worst nightmares start to come true.well, that’s something only Charlie can face. What Charlie doesn’t know is that his problems are about to get a whole lot more real. Due from Delacorte on September 9, the novel launches a trilogy based on the first movie. He can’t remember the last time sleeping wasn’t a nightmarish prospect. Segel wrote Nightmares with Kirsten Miller, author of the Kiki Strike and the Eternal Ones series. ![]() He had to move into her purple mansion, which is NOT a place you want to find yourself after dark. ![]()
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Falling angels tracy chevalier summary5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Moved to London after graduating from Oberlin in 1984. Why doesn’t anyone ask that of professional singers, painters, dancers? That year forced me to write all the time and take it seriously. There’s a lot of debate about whether or not you can be taught to write. MA in creative writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1994. No one was surprised that I went there I was made for such a progressive, liberal place. ![]() Montgomery.īA in English, Oberlin College, Ohio, 1984. Book I would have taken to a desert island: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Favorite authors back then: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madeleine L’Engle, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Joan Aiken, Susan Cooper, Lloyd Alexander. Spent a lot of time lying on my bed reading. Father was a photographer for The Washington Post. ![]()
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Coming home pilcher book5/21/2023 ![]() Much like The Shell Seekers, delight fills every page of this epic family saga. In amongst the dog-eared self-help and history books was a well-thumbed copy of Coming Home, and while I had promised myself that I wouldn’t steer from the final ten books I have to tick off the BBC Top 100, I was unable to resist taking it home with me. ![]() I had just finished Crime & Punishment, when, after an early morning yoga class I was meandering home along Hall Street I noticed a box of free books outside one of my favourite bookshops in Sydney – Gertrude & Alice. ![]() I later read The Carousel and September and while I was recommended Coming Home many, many months ago, it was serendipity that finally brought it to my reading pile. ![]() I first came across Rosamunde Pilcher when I read The Shell Seekers as part of my BBC Big Reads challenge – and was instantly swept away by the Cornish tale abundant in charm and nostalgia and beloved by a nation of readers. ![]()
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Ma’am Darling by Craig Brown5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() One Two Three Four joyfully echoes the frenetic hurly-burly of an era. It also tells the bizarre and often unfortunate tales of the disparate and colourful people within their orbit, among them Fred Lennon, Yoko Ono, the Maharishi, Aunt Mimi, Helen Shapiro, the con artist Magic Alex, Phil Spector, their psychedelic dentist John Riley and their failed nemesis, Det Sgt Norman Pilcher.įrom the bestselling author of Ma'am Darling comes a kaleidoscopic mixture of history, etymology, diaries, autobiography, fan letters, essays, parallel lives, party lists, charts, interviews, announcements and stories. One Two Three Four traces the chance fusion of the four key elements that made up The Beatles: fire (John), water (Paul), air (George) and earth (Ringo). ![]() As Queen Elizabeth II observed on her golden wedding anniversary, 'Think what we would have missed if we had never heard The Beatles.' No one has remained unaffected by the music of The Beatles. Successive Prime Ministers sucked up to them. Muhammad Ali called them 'little sissies'. ![]() John Updike compared them to 'the sun coming out on an Easter morning'. Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Awardįrom the award-winning author of Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four. Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2020 Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month for April 2021 ![]()
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The wicked king holly black5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And Jude! She is a heroine to love-brave but pragmatic, utterly human. ![]() Black's world is intoxicating, imbued with a relentless sense of peril that kept me riveted through every chapter of Jude's journey. "Lush, dangerous, a dark jewel of a book. When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished. ![]() Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. The first lesson is to make yourself strong.Īfter the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. About the Book Illustrator taken from title page verso.īook Synopsis The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince - now in paperback! ![]() |