Earth Memories
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In 1931, after two decades of wandering the world, Llewelyn Powys moved into an isolated cliff-top...
Nature's Great Migrations
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This beautifully illustrated book on the world s most impressive and spectacularmovements of...
The Clan of The Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
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A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until...
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The Animals at Lockwood Manor
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Some secrets are unspoken. Others are unspeakable . . . August 1939. Thirty-year-old Hetty...
No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism
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The first English translation of Guérin's monumental anthology of anarchism, published here in one...
Musical Maryland: A History of Song and Performance from the Colonial Period to the Age of Radio
David K. Hildebrand and Elizabeth M. Schaaf
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In Musical Maryland, the first comprehensive survey of the music emanating from the Old Line State,...
The novel covers the reign of Henry VIII from the point of view of Will Somers, the man who becomes the king's jester or fool. This gives the book a totally different twist and insight from something concentrating on the usual courtly suspects. Will is in the thick of things, with a front row seat in the course of history, if you like, but he's not one of the players in the drama.
The novel is actually written in the first person, and it's very rarely that I like this because in the hands of most authors it is clunky, but here I had to go back and check that this was so, as it seemed so natural.
Obviously, hindsight is a wonderful thing in history and some of the points made are from the point of view of someone with historical hindsight, but there's also a lot of psychological truth in there and you can quite clearly see why characters act the way they do.
Now, my only problem is that MCB was not a writer of authorial afterwords, like many present authors. What I really want to know is how much of the story is true (within the bounds of fictional probability!) and what is fiction/surmise - and what happened to Will Somers next?!
Wolf: Legend, Enemy, Icon
Rebecca L. Grambo and Daniel J. Cox
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A passionate look at one of the most fascinating animals in the world. In this updated and expanded...
Life Of Caesar
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On the 19th August, 14 CE, 767 years after the founding of Rome, nearly exactly 2001 years ago, the...
Flora Britannica: The Definitive New Guide to Britain's Wild Flowers, Plants and Trees
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Flora Britannica covers the native and naturalised plants of England, Scotland and Wales, and, while...