![]() ![]() ![]() Bringing together a wealth of evidence drawn from court records, literary sources, and books of advice, Hanawalt weaves a rich tapestry of the life of London youth during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Now, in Growing Up in Medieval London, Hanawalt again reveals the larger, fuller, more dramatic life of the common people, in this instance, the lives of children in London. David Levine, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Hanawalt's book "as stimulating for the questions it asks as for the answers it provides" and he concluded that "one comes away from this stimulating book with the same sense of wonder that Thomas Hardy's Angel Clare felt 'The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.'" When Barbara Hanawalt's acclaimed history The Ties That Bound first appeared, it was hailed for its unprecedented research and vivid re-creation of medieval life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Even though it contains many depressing moments – the writing, characters, atmosphere, plot complexity and level of depth in this novel are utterly spectacular. One of the first things that I will say about this novel is that it is a masterpiece. But, in addition to looking for Keith, Lucy also decides to investigate Karen’s past in order to work out who killed her and prevent Keith from falling under suspicion. ![]() ![]() The local police, especially their dog handler Julian ( a solitary man, tormented by guilt over a car crash that claimed his cousin’s life when he was younger), look into the case. It quickly becomes apparent that Keith has run away with the baby. Both Keith and Karen’s baby daughter are missing. She is Lucy’s neighbour, although they only talk to each other occasionally. So, she fled New York with the baby, a suitcase full of cash and a fake ID that she got made along the way. One of those women is a former New Yorker called Lucy Rosen, whose twelve-year old son Keith seems to be both the local school bully and a criminal-in-training.Īnother of those women is Karen, who used to be called Bethany until she realised that her husband was going to get custody of her daughter. This town is also a place where divorced women from across America sometimes find themselves living after they’ve left. A town where there is a heatwave every May and strange things happen. “Turtle Moon” takes place in the Florida town of Verity. ![]() This is the 2002 Vintage (UK) paperback edition of “Turtle Moon” that I read. ![]() ![]() But when Jackson is found dead in his home, the victim of an apparent suicide, Tennyson can’t resist prying into the football star’s death- especially if it means answering the question that divided a nation: Did T. Tennyson politely turns Jackson down to pursue his acting career and personal life. Jackson to his door, asking for protection when he is threatened with death after acquittal for murder. His reputation brings football superstar T. In the Night of the Heat picks up where Casanegra left off, after Tennyson has solved the murder of rapper Afrodite. Award-winning actor and author Blair Underwood rejoins forces with two popular writers to deliver the second installment-now in paperback-in their stunning and provocative Tennyson Hardwick chronicles.įor the first time since their breakout debut, Casanegra, the powerful trio of Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, and Steven Barnes teams up to bring readers back into the sexy and entertaining world of struggling actor and gigolo-turned-sleuth Tennyson Hardwick. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is music your first love? Where does the writing fit in? Y ou worked in the industry for many years and it features in your books – Meredith, in The Last Stage, is a former 80s’ indie musician in hiding. ![]() LS: We know music’s really important to you. It was such a novelty to see a band like that, plus some excellent local bands, on stage just a 15-minute walk from my house – and all free, even better! LV: Thank you – yes, it was a really fun day, the Kaiser Chiefs played in Salisbury as part of the Armed Forces Day celebrations the other week. You were watching the Kaiser Chiefs, weren’t you? What a great photo! Thanks for taking it. We loved, loved, loved, loved it and so, of course, are beside ourselves that The Last Stage, Louise’s new novel, is out this month. Louise is the author of 13 books, including The Old You (2018), published by indie press Orenda Books to huge critical acclaim. ![]() Today, we’re delighted to have wonderful Louise Voss with us in The Literary Lounge, talking all things music and writerly. Meet Louise Voss: The Literary Lounge Q&A ![]() ![]() Along with that, I couldn't help but wonder why prisoners should get conjugal visits, and get to spend nearly 2 days in a trailer with someone and the opportunity to create children. My feeling is that if you're considering doing this, you have issues. I think a big problem I had and this is, I'm sure, prejudice on my part, is that I couldn't get past the fact that this woman married a convicted murderer serving time. Every time I picked up this book I felt as though I were sinking into the depths of melancholy. I think books can create an atmosphere as you read them, one of terror or suspense, one of laughter or sadness. ![]() This part is bookended with sections that I would describe as lyrical and poetic, yet also melodramatic and repetitive. This part was more about how she dealt with everyday life and frustrations, her struggle with depression, and her struggle with an abusive relationship. ![]() I enjoyed the middle section of this book the most. Something Like Beautiful deals primarily with her journey as a single mother but she muses on a variety of topics. Bandele wrote about this part of her life in her memoir The Prisoner's Wife which I have not read. ![]() A little bit about Bandlele - she married a convicted murderer who was incarcerated at the time after meeting him through a college program. This book, not quite 200 pages long, took me ages to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Triggers: contains mentions of depression, suicidal ideation and PTSD recovery. ![]() HEARTSCAPE is a heartfelt MM friends-to-lovers romance in the True North world, with a brooding bartender, a rugged outdoorsman, sweet angst and lots of Shipley cider. Is it wrong to hope we can heal each other? Or will one of us die trying? The last thing I want is to screw this up. But I’ve got a pile of baggage and I don’t want to be a burden on anyone let alone a man who seems to have enough demons of his own. Having Jax in my home makes my chest warm. I don’t know if it’s his melodic Cornish accent, or his ocean blue eyes, or the rock-hard body with the mysterious scars, but I get the feeling whatever happened to him runs far deeper than those wounds. When a mutual friend calls in a favor, the sexy newcomer winds up crashing on my couch. I just focus on getting through each shift until the night a beautiful stranger appears, looking as lost and damaged as I feel. I’m not the obvious choice to run Burlington’s coolest wine bar-quiet, brooding, clueless about tannin content, and always one wrong turn away from another downward spiral.īut no one seems to mind that I’m a wreck. ![]() Previous books in the series: Featherbed (Annabeth Albert) SYNOPSISįrom award-winning author Garrett Leigh comes a gorgeous new romance in the True North world! Think: great food, burly men and good times. ![]() ![]() The Palace said that more than 2,200 people are expected to attend the ceremony this weekend, reduced from the over 8,000 guests representing 129 nations for Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953. ![]() Other guests will include members of the Royal family, as well as international representatives from 203 countries, including approximately 100 Heads of State, alongside hundreds of community and charity champions. The award-winning presenters will attend the service alongside Edward Enninful, the editor of British Vogue, who is a global ambassador of the King’s longtime charity and a friend of the Duchess of Sussex. ![]() ![]() Ant and Dec will attend the King’s Coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey as goodwill ambassadors for the Prince’s Trust, Buckingham Palace has announced. ![]() ![]() ![]() With all of the curiosity and flair that drives her broadcasting, Ziya Tong reveals to us this hidden world, and takes us on a journey to examine ten of humanity's biggest blind spots. These animals live in the same world we do, but they see something quite different when they look around. We are blind in comparison to the X-rays that peer through skin, the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with artificial intelligence.Īnd we are blind compared to the animals that can see in infrared, or ultraviolet, or in 360-degree vision. Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. From one of the world's most engaging science journalists, a groundbreaking and wonder-filled look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected and sometimes dangerous ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was sympathetic to a fault, but it was not sympathy that made me so. Everybody around me was a failure, or if not a failure, ridiculous. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for. Even as a child, when I lacked for nothing, I wanted to die: I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. There was nothing I wished to do which I could just as well not do. In everything I quickly saw the opposite, the contradiction, and between the real and the unreal the irony, the paradox. ![]() In the substrata, where the moon shone steady and opaque, it was smooth and fecundating above it was a jangle and a discord. From the beginning it was never anything but chaos: it was a fluid which enveloped me, which I breathed in through the gills. Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. ![]() |