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Beneath a Steel Sky: Remastered

Games

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When orphaned Robert Foster is seized at gunpoint from the peaceful village he calls home and flown...

Marie Antoinette's Head: The Royal Hairdresser, the Queen, and the Revolution

Will Bashor

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Winner of the Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Scholarship Marie Antoinette has remained atop...

No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine

Steve Jones

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Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the...

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Birdcage Walk

Helen Dunmore | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

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This period drama has a dark, gothic uneasiness to it, but the tightly drawn characters, descriptive backdrop and DunmoreÕs powerful prose keep you reading. Lizzie Fawkes has been raised by a feisty mother, Julia an early advocate of women's rights and her stepfather Augustus who writes rousing political pamphlets. Lizzie has chosen to marry a sober, stoic gentleman, John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who has invested heavily in the construction of a terrace in Bristol and the entire household has moved to the Avon gorge to maintain their supportive, close-knit relationship. As the French Revolution rolls across the Channel, the house full of radicals await news from afar and the disruption echoes through their homes. Secrets and suspicions keep you interested in the story but it's the characters that provide the entertainment and emotional pull.