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Lillie Langtry

Biographies & Memoirs

Laura Beatty

Arts & Literature

Vintage

Darkling

Two women, in two different centuries, both under siege: the brilliant second novel from the acclaimed author of Pollard.      'Pull yourself together, girl…’.'     Mia Morgan, in the middle of her life, is a woman under siege. By the difficult relationship with her blind and aging father; memories of her late lover, John, thirty years her senior; and a dark family secret that still threatens to surface.      She is also accused of living in the past. Alone in the London flat she once shared with John, her days are spent researching the life of a dead woman. This woman is Lady Brilliana Harley, who during the English Civil War, in the absence of her husband and sons, defended her home Brampton Bryan Castle during a prolonged siege by Royalist troops.      Who was this woman of strength and mettle? As Mia delves into the letters and private prayers of Brilliana’'s life, she seeks to understand a person and a time that, despite being centuries old, holds a mirror to her own age and reflects herself back at her.     Darkling is a bold and revolutionary undertaking: brilliantly weaving original seventeenth-century documents into a modern storyline. Laura Beatty beautifully captures a strong sense of place and Englishness, and shows how the boundary line between the past and present can often be unbearably thin.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

<p>A strange, wild, brilliant personal journey - across land and through time - in which Laura Beatty travels back two thousand years to rescue from obscurity Aristotle's friend and Chaucer's inspiration, the forgotten philosopher who grandfathered botany and the English novel.<br />
Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?\nOnce, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he invented Botany. The character of the Wife of Bath is his invention, the Canterbury Tales as a whole, perhaps, the product of his inspiration. When Linnaeus was developing our modern system of plant taxonomy, it was Theophrastus' work on plants that he used as a basis. So how could one man do so much and still sink almost without a trace?\nThis is the story of a journey to find him and bring him back from oblivion. Looking for Theophrastus, in all the places he must have walked and lived, it tells how he and Aristotle, his friend and tutor, broke with the philosophical conventions of the Academy and left on their own adventure; of how together they invented what we now take for granted as the Natural Sciences; how, not content with that, they made the great experiment of applying philosophy directly to the practicalities of government through the tutoring of Alexander the Great; how they were disappointed and how, in the end, they returned to Athens and founded the famous Lyceum.\nAgainst the dramatic context of his time - the end of democracy in Athens and the rise of Alexander the Great; the great battles and vast territorial expansion that followed; the flowering of the philosophy schools on which so much of our culture and thinking is founded - and on, following his cultural legacy through to the modern day, it explores how we perceive, understand and, most importantly, how we relate to the world around us, questioning what we lose from our way of living when we forget those ancients who first taught us how to see.</p>

Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher

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History & Criticism

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Anne Boleyn was beautiful, gifted and clever. As a teenager, when she arrived at the English court after completing her education in France, she soon caught the eye of King Henry VIII. Henry wooed Anne with passionate love letters and finally, after a great struggle, was allowed to marry her, having secured a divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Love soon turned sour however, as Anne realised that all her husband wanted from her was a son and heir. The birth of Elizabeth, the future queen, in 1533, was a disaster and the consequences for Anne were deadly.

Anne Boleyn (History Files)

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Anne Boleyn (Who Was...?)

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