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Victoria Glendinning

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1995

Electricity

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Who killed Leo Ulm - was it in fact a murder? This novel is a portrait of Leo - academic, TV pundit and globe-trotter - who richly deserves his nemesis. The main theme of the book is Leo's womanizing tendencies and the manner in which he lives off adoration, female dependence and love. Victoria Glendinning is the author of several biographies, including "Elizabeth Bowen - Portrait of a Writer", "Edith Sitwell - A Unicorn Among Lions", "Vita - A Biography of V. Sackville-West" and "Rebecca West - A Life".

Grown Ups

Literature & Fiction

Glendinning

Contemporary

Arena

1st 1998 Weidenfeld &amp; Nicolson edition hardcover fine condition book in fine price clipped condition dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West

Biographies & Memoirs

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

The Butcher's Daughter

Duckworth Overlook

Shortlisted for the WINSTON GRAHAM HISTORICAL FICTION PRIZE 2018 A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR The Butcher s Daughter is the richly atmospheric story of a young woman s struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue and danger during a period of great upheaval: the Tudor era. It is 1535 and Agnes Peppin, daughter of a West Country butcher, leaves her family home in disgrace. Banished and forced to abandon her new-born infant, she appears destined to live out her days cloistered behind the walls of the Shaftesbury Abbey. But as Agnes grapples with the complex rules and hierarchies of her new life, King Henry VIII has proclaimed himself the new head of the Church. Religious houses are being formally suppressed and the great Abbey is no exception to the purge. Agnes journey from the Abbey leads her into strange territory, where her experiences of sexual passion, delusion, shattering grief and grotesque violence come together in an England ruled by the whims of ambitious men and strained by bloody revolts. Free at last to be the master of her own fate, Agnes descends into a world she knows little about, using her wits and testing her moral convictions against her need to survive - by any means necessary... The Butcher s Daughter is a work of dizzying imagination underpinned by years of research from multi-award-winning author Victoria Glendinning. ***PRAISE FOR THE BUTCHER S DAUGHTER*** 'Glendinning writes with a vivid immediacy about a fascinating, dark moment in our island story... a refreshing and original tale.' The Times 'A must for anyone interested in the Tudor period.' Elizabeth Fremantle 'A brave girl, a powerful tale, a world on the brink of change and how the past leaps into life!' Fay Weldon 'A powerful and very immediate picture of another age. It is full of violence and loss, and yet it is also a testament to survival, courage, pity, and the eternal beauty to be found in small things.' Anne Perry 'An immersive, engrossing, and epic journey of a woman s soul, finely researched and beautifully written.' Margaret George, author of The Autobiography of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I 'A beguiling, affecting tale of dissolution and redemption set in a changing and beautifully wrought Tudor landscape. Gloriously authentic and refreshingly unromantic, this one got under my skin.' Jessie Child, historian and author of Henry VIII s Last Victim 'Absorbing and evocative... Glendinning finds the extraordinary in ordinary lives and has brought a turbulent period into vivid, colourful life.' Donna Douglas, author of the Nightingale Girls series 'An absolute pleasure... assured, quietly gripping, surprising and educative, with a terrific central character, it pins down the precarious nature of life in 16th-century England.' Daily Mail 'As the butcher s daughter reflects on all she sees, Glendinning makes this tale exhilarating, lending Agnes a candid, eccentrically lyrical voice.' Jean Zimmerman, New York Times 'The historical detail of the novel is completely believable and meticulously researched. This is an unusual and thought-provoking novel which is recommended particularly for fans of Wolf Hall.' Historical Novel Society 'Through the experiences of Agnes and others, Glendinning thoughtfully explores womanhood s many facets.' Booklist

British & Irish

Duckworth

Sometimes it's impossible to pinpoint the moment it went wrong - for Martagon, it is impossible because there were so many of these moments. He has fallen head over heels in love for the very first time, and he doesn't know how to do it very well. Martagon is an engineer who has made his work his entire life. He is at the forefront of his industry and his career has never been more exciting. His cutting-edge expertise with glass structures has garnered him international praise, but he is ashamed of the personal errors in judgment he has made along the way. Martagon yearns to be simply "a good person" but somehow he keeps getting in his own way. Working on his latest challenge, a new airport in Provence, Martagon meets the love of his life - the beautiful and enigmatic Marina. Martagon's life is thrown completely out of balance by his love for Marina, and he takes risks - both personally and professionally - to be with her. Written with the urgency of new love, and sharp insight into the relationships between men and women, "Flight" is ultimately a story of loss and discovering. Of self-discovery and the need to belong. Of the risks we take and the mistakes we make for passionate love. A story of a man and a woman, and a man and his inspiration. "From the Hardcover edition."

Flight

Scribner

' What each of us would look for in an ideal future biographer is what each of us looks for in an ideal doctor: sympathy, trustfulness and acute powers of diagnosis. All these three qualities are here present. Vita would undoubtedly have shared our approval and gratitude' Sunday Telegraph Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent. Vita documents her extraordinary life, focusing on her relationships with Violet Trefusis, Virginia Woolf, her husband, and her two sons together with her unpublicised love affairs. Vita was determined to be more than just a married woman; her passionate, secretive character, and the strains, mistakes and achievements of her remarkable life makes " Vita" a absorbing and disturbing book.

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Ori

In Victorian England, electricity is the latest scientific marvel, a fireless light that announces a new era. For Charlotte Mortimer, electricity yields something even more powerful. When she weds an ardent young engineer who is commissioned to wire the estate of a country gentleman, Charlotte finds herself in a disorienting world of new ideas and sensations--and a passion that ultimately forces her to forge a life on her own terms.

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Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity

History

Asia

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