However, as Shardlake interviews the prime suspects and delves deeper into the mysteries of Scarnsea, it soon becomes clear that the case will not be as simple to solve as he had hoped. Desiring a quick, discreet result, he sends his trusted lawyer-detective, Matthew Shardlake, to investigate. If news of the killing were to get out, the consequences could be disastrous. But Cromwell's plot to bring down the abbeys has hit a snag - one of the King's Commissioners has been found brutally murdered in Scarnsea monastery, on the south coast of Kent. Henry VIII has declared himself Supreme Head of the Church and instructed his Chief Minister, Thomas Cromwell, to dissolve England's religious houses and seize their wealth. A thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on CJ Sansom's best-selling Tudor crime novel.
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The language that is used against the Company is similar to what we use now about our fears of the power of Google, Facebook and other companies that transcend sovereign boundaries and wriggle their way out of the laws of sovereign states. The reaction to it was very contemporary. But I was surprised by the outrage it generated back then in Britain. I wasn’t surprised by any of the outrageous things the Company did. It was a challenge to weave a coherent narrative out of this story.ĭid the research and writing spring any surprises on you? So it is different things at different times, morphing into new forms and shapes. But by the end, it has become a sort of public-private partnership that is eventually nationalized and then goes on to become an imperial power. It starts off in the 17th century as a libertarian dream of pure, unbridled capitalism. This book is also the one that took you the longest to complete. And that’s more dangerous than any military. Today, a modern corporation like Google or Facebook doesn’t need to have armies and military regiments like the East India Company did. It is about the potential power of corporations. Just two copies (Bodleian and Liverpool) located in the major UK libraries. Original pictorial stapled wrappers in a design by Ron Turner light wear some creasing lower wrapper a little marked a few minor marks, but otherwise a very good copy. Tubb, subsequent Scion titles under this name all seem to have been written by the indefatigable John Russell Fearn.Ĭrown 8vo (19cm). Although the first two Volsted Gridban novels had been written by E. Strangely dressed stranger comes calling on a cold and wet February night on the outskirts of London – and sits down with a dictionary. on both title-page and final leaf – presumably a reflection of Scion’s internal wrangles and legal difficulties at that time. The half-title has been excised by the publishers and the Scion Distributors imprint pasted over the earlier Scion Ltd. “GRIDBAN, Volsted” – : I CAME – I SAW – I WONDERED. UNITED KINGDOM Tel: (+44)-(0)20-8672-2263ĬLICK ON REFRESH/RELOAD TO ENSURE YOU HAVE THE UPDATED VERSION OF THIS PAGE Thank You for Your Servitude is Mark Leibovich’s unflinching account of the moral rout of a major American political party, tracking the transformation of Rubio, Cruz, Graham, and their ilk into the administration’s chief enablers, and the swamp’s lesser lights into frantic chasers of the grift. Even more, in their outrage: Trump was a menace and an affront to our democracy. In the early months of Trump’s candidacy, the Republican Party’s most important figures, people such as Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham, were united-and loud-in their scorn and contempt. “The new must read summer book.” –Stephanie Ruhleįrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington’s “swamp” into a gold-plated hot tub-and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult. “Really fascinating.There are so many revelations.” –Anderson Cooper “His writing is so damn good.” –John Berman “This is a really funny book.” –Kara Swisher “He’s one of the best chroniclers of politics today.” –Jake Tapper I was relieved that the spirits weren't too scary, and I even felt affectionate about a few of them. I don't usually read paranormal because I'm a scaredy-cat, but I requested this one without realizing there were actual g-g-ghosts. But I did feel like Stainton overused "the ginger" or "his ginger" as a description for Ainsley. I'm sure the author gets tired of differentiating them all the time. The one thing I didn't like: third-person M/M (or F/F) can be confusing to read, because all the pronouns are the same, and sometimes I can't tell who is doing/saying what to whom. Along the way, both men realize how lonely they've been and how much they have in common, and there's an unmistakable attraction between them, but Joachim's career depends on unblemished respectability. In a hilarious case of mistaken identity, Ainsley first tries to seduce the strapping Englishman, but then offers to take Joachim on a tour of nearby haunted places. He needs one more case study, and arrives at the doorstep of Lord Ainsley Graham's Scottish manor house late one night. Joachim Cockburn is nearly finished with his doctorate on delusional thinking. With ghosts, a wounded WWI veteran, and a disgraced academic. This is just your typical 1920s, British, M/M historical romance. Found in the wreckage of a plane crash, he been burned beyond recognition, his whole body black and even the slightest touch painful to him. Hana does not know much about the man for whom she cares. Although the other nurses and patients have left the villa to escape to a safer place, Hana decides to stay in the villa with her patient. As the Germans retreated, they left hidden bombs and mines everywhere, so the landscape is particularly dangerous. The European theater of the war has just ended with the Germans retreating up the Italian countryside. The novel opens with Hana, a young nurse, gardening outside a villa in Italy in 1945. Though there is no single narrator, the story is alternatively seen from the point of view of each of the main characters. The narrative structure intersperses descriptions of present action with thoughts and conversations that offer glimpses of past events and occurrences. In This book, the past and the present are continually intertwined. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War. The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize–winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. ★★’The best piece of fiction I’ve read in years’ Independent on Sunday★★ ★★ WINNER OF THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE★★ That’s great but I also (personally) didn’t feel like they adequately fit the books they represented either. In keeping with the super vague book descriptions that the Mara Dyer trilogy had, you can see that this one doesn’t give much away either. Mara Dyer is the only one he trusts with his secrets and his future.Īnd both are scared that uncovering the truth about themselves will force them apart. The Becoming of Noah Shaw by Michelle HodkinĮveryone thinks seventeen-year-old Noah Shaw has the world on a string. First, let me introduce you… Cover pic from Goodreads Learn more about him, how he thinks, how he really feels for Mara. But I fell in love with Noah Shaw and really wanted to get inside his head. They wanted to stick with the happy ending they received with The Retribution of Mara Dyer and that’s okay. Some weren’t anxious for this trilogy to come out. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. My new favourite!'Ĭeleste, age 13 for .uk - 'An incredible read full of mystery, wonder and adventure.This is now one of my top ten. Katie, age 10 for .uk - 'A brilliant historical detective novel - I read it in one sitting and couldn't put it down! The characters were really believable and the story was so exciting. 'A wonderful book, with a glorious heroine and a true spirit of adventure' - Katherine Rundell, award-winning author of Rooftoppers Title details for The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow by Katherine. WONDER at the daring theft of the priceless CLOCKWORK SPARROW! TREMBLE as the most DASTARDLY criminals in London enact their wicked plans! 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