Philippa is a member of the Society of Authors and in 2016, was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Historical Fiction Award by the Historical Writers’ Association. She is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff and an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck University of London. She holds honorary degrees from Teesside University and the University of Sussex. Now a recognised authority on women’s history, Philippa graduated from the University of Sussex and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent and was made Alumna of the Year in 2009. Her flair for blending history and imagination developed into a signature style and Philippa went on to write many bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl and The White Queen. She wrote her first ever novel, Wideacre, when she was completing her PhD in eighteenth-century literature and it sold worldwide, heralding a new era for historical fiction. Philippa Gregory is one of the world’s foremost historical novelists.
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For instance, in Mrs McGinty's Dead, Mrs Oliver talks of having made the blowpipe a foot long (30 cm) in one of her novels, whereas the actual length is something like four-and-a-half feet ( 1 + 1⁄ 2 yards (140 cm)) – the same mistake Christie made in Death in the Clouds. The self-caricature has also been used to discuss Christie's own follies in her earlier novels. In many of her appearances, Oliver – and her feelings toward Hjerson – reflect Agatha Christie's own frustrations as an author, particularly with the Belgian Hercule Poirot (an example of self-insertion). Since she knows nothing of Finland, Oliver frequently laments Hjerson's existence. In the books, Oliver's most famous works are those featuring her vegetarian Finnish detective Sven Hjerson. She is particularly fond of apples, which becomes a plot point in the novel Hallowe'en Party. She often claims to be endowed with particular "feminine intuition", but it usually leads her astray. 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Daugherty gave his own answer in 1940, when his book “Daniel Boone” won the John Newbery medal for the year's, most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. “Why, exactly, an artist of this quality could not go on to have a career comparable to those of the European artists Of his generation-why he got sidetracked in a career of illustration-is another issue.” Daugherty's paintings since 1915 were exhibited in New York in 1971, Hilton Kramer, New York Times art critic, wrote that he was “one of those painters who somehow gleaned the essence of the modernist principle at the trans‐Atlantic distance.” Daugherty, who also won distinction as a writer and illustrator of children's books on American historical themes, was 84 years old and lived on Broad Street here. Daugherty, an early nonobjective artist of the synchromist school, which structured paintings by means of flat planes And disks of brilliant color, died today in Boston nursing home. The Apothecary Rose marks the arrival of a bold and quick witted detective in this expertly detailed, engrossing tale of medieval life and death. But is this lovely woman a murderess? and what links the Wiltons to bumbling Brother Wulfstan, ascetic Archdeacon Anselm and his weaselly agent Potter Digby, and the ragged midwife Magda the Riverwoman? Answers as slippery as the frozen cobblestones draw Owen into a dangerous drama of old scandals and tragedies, obsession and unholy love… Masquerading as an apprentice to Apothecary Nicholas Wilton, whose shop dispensed the fatal potion, Owen’s dark curls, leather eyepatch and gold earring intrigue Wilton’s wife. Suspicious, the Archbishop sends for Owen Archer, a Welshman with the charm of the devil, who’s lost one eye to the wars in France and must make a new career as an honest spy. Once the king’s captain of archers, now he must penetrate a poisoner’s secrets…Ĭhristmastide, 1363 and, at an abbey in York, two pilgrims die mysteriously dead of an herbal remedy. That aesthetic can be found throughout the book, including the four new stories that are available in this new and improved version from the good folks at Sinister Grin Press. This connective tissue, in which a deranged local television employee takes over the station and fills the place with blood and the airwaves with horror movies as a kid witnesses everything on his television, helps to bring together a collection of tales that pay homage to the horror movies of the 1980s. The reader gets tales from both authors, but there is also a larger narrative that serves as both framework for all the madness and cohesive tissue between the stories. 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As a young man, he studied Slavic and romance languages at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his honors degree in 1922. The Nabokov household was trilingual, and as a child Nabokov was already reading Wells, Poe, Browning, Keats, Flaubert, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, alongside the popular entertainments of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne. Four years later he was shot and killed at a political rally in Berlin while trying to shield the speaker from right-wing assassins. In 1919, following the Bolshevik revolution, he took his family into exile. The Nabokovs were known for their high culture and commitment to public service, and the elder Nabokov was an outspoken opponent of antisemitism and one of the leaders of the opposition party, the Kadets. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, in St. Between anomalous frogs, a homicidal ex-boyfriend, and Patrick's own hangups, Whiskey's going to need all of his patience and Patrick's going to need to find the best of himself before these two men ever see clear water. But Whiskey, who works with real freaks of nature, thinks all Patrick needs is a little help to see the absolute beauty inside his spastic self, and Whiskey is all about volunteering. Patrick needs to get his life together-and Whiskey wants to help-but Patrick is not entirely convinced it's doable. When the worst day of Patrick's life ends with Whiskey saving it, Patrick and Whiskey find themselves sharing company and an impossibly small berth on the world's tackiest houseboat. Meet Wes "Whiskey" Keenan: he's a field biologist wondering if it's time to settle down. Patrick's been trying desperately to transform himself, and the results have been so spectacular, they've almost killed him. Meet Patrick Cleary: party boy, loser, and spaz. |