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Beautiful Star & Other Stories

Swanston Andrew
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780995751033
Publisert
2018-01-11
Utgiver
Vendor
The Dome Press
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Swanston Andrew

Om bidragsyterne

Andrew Swanston read law at Cambridge University before entering the book trade, becoming a director of Waterstones and chairman of Methven's. He is the author of the Thomas Hill novels, set during the English Civil War, and his new series for Bantam began with Impericum in 2017. He lives in Surrey.

Beautiful Star & Other Stories

Swanston Andrew
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
Swanston Andrew
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
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`Colourful and gripping historical novel' i-Newspaper; `Beautifully done. All the sights, sounds and smells of Elizabethan England are there' Historical Novel Review; `Wonderful - rich, deep, intelligent and thoughtful, with clearly drawn characters and exactly the right amount of suspense' M.C. Scott; `The plot canters along from the very first page ... I cannot wait for the next one' Madhatter

History is brought alive by the people it affects, rather than those who created it. In Beautiful Star & other stories we meet Eilmer, a monk in 1010 with Icarus-like dreams; Charles II, hiding in 1651, and befriended by a small boy; the trial of Jane Wenham, the Witch of Walkern, seen through the eyes of her grand-daughter. This is a moving and affecting journey through time, bringing a new perspective to the defence of Corfe Castle, the battle of Waterloo, the siege of Toulon and, in the title story, the devastating dangers of a fisherman's life in 1875.
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A thoughtful and moving journey through time, voiced by ordinary people caught up in major historical events from an eleventh-century monk with Icarus-like ambition, to a nineteeth-century community devastated by tragedy at sea. This is history recounted from the inside and freshly brought alive.
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`Colourful and gripping historical novel' i-Newspaper; `Beautifully done. All the sights, sounds and smells of Elizabethan England are there' Historical Novel Review; `Wonderful - rich, deep, intelligent and thoughtful, with clearly drawn characters and exactly the right amount of suspense' M.C. Scott; `The plot canters along from the very first page ... I cannot wait for the next one' Madhatter

History is brought alive by the people it affects, rather than those who created it. In Beautiful Star & other stories we meet Eilmer, a monk in 1010 with Icarus-like dreams; Charles II, hiding in 1651, and befriended by a small boy; the trial of Jane Wenham, the Witch of Walkern, seen through the eyes of her grand-daughter. This is a moving and affecting journey through time, bringing a new perspective to the defence of Corfe Castle, the battle of Waterloo, the siege of Toulon and, in the title story, the devastating dangers of a fisherman's life in 1875.
Les mer
A thoughtful and moving journey through time, voiced by ordinary people caught up in major historical events from an eleventh-century monk with Icarus-like ambition, to a nineteeth-century community devastated by tragedy at sea. This is history recounted from the inside and freshly brought alive.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780995751033
Publisert
2018-01-11
Utgiver
Vendor
The Dome Press
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Swanston Andrew

Om bidragsyterne

Andrew Swanston read law at Cambridge University before entering the book trade, becoming a director of Waterstones and chairman of Methven's. He is the author of the Thomas Hill novels, set during the English Civil War, and his new series for Bantam began with Impericum in 2017. He lives in Surrey.

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