Katie Hickmans Schriften erforschen Themen wie Reisen, Kultur und menschliche Verbindungen. Ihre Prosa zeichnet sich durch lebendige Ortsbeschreibungen und tiefe Einblicke in das Seelenleben ihrer Charaktere aus. Sie verwebt meisterhaft persönliche Erfahrungen mit breiteren gesellschaftlichen Beobachtungen und bietet den Lesern eine fesselnde und nachdenkliche Reise. Hickmans Werk lädt zur Kontemplation über die Komplexität der Welt und unseren Platz darin ein.
The extraordinary, dramatic story of the women of the American west: the women who crossed the plains and the mountains in covered wagons, the indigenous women living on the land, the women who came to work in the gold mining cities. Brave hearted women - an amazing cast of characters brought to life by this wonderful storyteller
An extraordinary and illuminating book that tells the incredible stories of the first British women to set foot in India - 250 years before the Raj.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a haunting, magical story set in 17th century London, perfect for fans of Jessie Burton and Elif Shafak1611. Celia Lamprey looks out across the rooftops of Aleppo for the last time. After ten years living in the Orient, she and her husband, Paul Pindar, are setting sail for England - taking with them the legendary diamond, the Sultan's Blue, despite the curse that surrounds it. They arrive to find a country much changed; Bishopsgate, once surrounded by fields, is now a muddy thoroughfare choked with carriages - from which carpenters, gardeners and footmen descend, summoned to restore Pindar's great house to its former splendour. But all is not as it seems. Celia is frail, and the marriage childless. Between the couple lies a great, unspoken darkness. Now, as they await the arrival of Celia's friend Annetta from Venice, another woman, the alluring widow Frances Sydenham, becomes increasingly indispensable to the running of the household - and the happiness of its inhabitants.But who is this strange woman, and what are her real motives?Vividly evoking Jacobean society, The House at Bishopsgate is a sumptuous, richly woven story of marital secrets and sexual jealousy, from a master of historical fiction.
Seit ihrer dramatischen Flucht aus den Fängen der Sklavenhändler hält sich die junge Annetta im noblen Frauenkonvent von Venedig versteckt. Sie weiß nicht, ob ihre Freundin Celia den Peinigern ebenfalls entkommen konnte. Ob sie überhaupt noch am Leben ist? Da begegnet Annetta dem attraktiven Kaufmann John. Er weiß mehr über ihre Vergangenheit, als ihr lieb ist, und verspricht ihr, bei der Suche nach der verschwundenen Freundin zu helfen. Dabei verliebt er sich unsterblich in die schöne Nonne.
Oxford, Biblioteca di Bodlean, 2007. Elizabeth Staveley non crede ai suoi occhi quando, tra le pagine di un antico libro di astronomia, scopre il frammento di una pergamena vecchia di quattrocento anni. Ha il colore dell'ambra ed è fragile come una foglia d'autunno. Racconta una storia proibita. Una storia rimasta nascosta per secoli che conduce nei quartieri segreti di Istanbul... Costantinopoli (antica Istanbul), 1599. Inglesi, francesi e veneziani competono tra di loro per rafforzare le relazioni diplomatiche e commerciali con il nuovo sultano dell'impero ottomano, Paul Pindar è un ricco mercante, in missione a Costantinopoli per conto della Regina d'Inghilterra. Ha il compito di portare al sultano un magnifico regalo, uno splendido orologio musicale. Ma mentre procedono i negoziati, la sua attenzione viene attirata da una voce sempre più insistente...
Im 16. Jahrhundert wird Celia Lamprey von Piraten gefangen und in den Harem des türkischen Sultans verkauft. 400 Jahre später entdeckt eine junge Historikerin das Fragment der Lebensgeschichte von Celia. Dank ihrer Forschungen wird das Rätsel um Celias Schicksal gelöst.
This title tells of the extraordinary lives and times of a small group of women who, during the course of the 19th century, rose from impoverished obscurity to become some of the most powerful, independent and wealthy women the world had ever seen. These were women who took control of their lives - and those of other people - and made the world do their will.
‘Irresistible…history at its most human. Elegant and addictively readable.’ William Dalrymple
Accompanying their spouses in the most extraordinary, tough, sometimes terrifying circumstances, this book is an account of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the foreign service. Women who struggled to bring their civilization with them. The book is illustrated with archive material, extracts from original letters between the women and their families at home, maps to show the routes they travelled and the places they were posted to and pictures of ephemera to evoke the lives they led. The chapters getting there; the posting; private life; embassy life; public life; and social life.
An account of Katie Hickman's extraordinary year spent amidst the faded glamour of a Mexican travelling circus. Katie Hickman went to Mexico looking for magic. She found it in the circus - big top, clowns, elephant and all - where cheap, torn materials are transformed for a night into glittering illusion. Gradually adjusting to the harsh ways of the circus's nomadic lifestyle she soon became absorbed into this hypnotic new world. At first, as a foreigner, she was on the outskirts, but she soon became La Gringa Estrella, a performer in her own right and adopted sister to the Bell's family.