A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England
Lucy Wooding Bücher
Lucy Woods Schriften befassen sich mit Themen und Erfahrungen, die mit dem Küstenleben verbunden sind. Ihre Prosa zeichnet sich durch eine poetische Sprache und einen starken Sinn für Ort aus, der mit intimen menschlichen Geschichten verwoben ist. Wood erforscht die Komplexität von Beziehungen und den Einfluss der Umwelt auf unser Leben.
Henry VIII
- 374 Seiten
- 14 Lesestunden
This insightful portrait of Henry VIII explores the paradoxes of his character and reign. The new edition incorporates recent research, offering a distinctive interpretation of his complex personality and unique kingship style.
Weathering
- 290 Seiten
- 11 Lesestunden
Nearly eighty, Pearl dies in the remote English valley where she's lived for more than three decades, within a dilapidated house alongside a temperamental river. Her death triggers the return, after a 13-year hiatus, of her daughter Ada, a drifter who comes to scatter her mother's ashes and sell the house. Ada is accompanied by the granddaughter Pearl never met: Pepper. Ada and Pepper find themselves entangled with the life of the valley, each discovering that places can bind us together -- Back cover.
The Sing of the Shore
- 272 Seiten
- 10 Lesestunden
An uncanny, startlingly beautiful story collection steeped in the Cornish landscape, from the award-winning author of Diving Belles and Other Stories and Weathering.
Diving Belles
- 240 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
A luminous, startling and utterly spellbinding debut which introduces a spectacular new voice in contemporary British fiction
The Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
- 112 Seiten
- 4 Lesestunden
The Little Book of Lincolnshire is a compendium of fascinating information about this historic county, past and present.