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The new historical novel from Philippa Gregory, the Number One bestselling author of Tidelands and Dark Tides. In a divided country, power and loyalty conquer all It is 1685 and England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings with many families bitterly divided. Alinor, now a successful businesswoman, has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save Queen Mary from the coming siege. The rewards are life-changing: the family could return to their beloved Tidelands, and Alinor could rule where she was once lower than a servant. Inspired by news of a rebellion against the Stuart kings, Ned Ferryman returns from America with his Pokanoket servant to join the uprising against roman catholic King James. As Ned swears loyalty to the charismatic Duke of Monmouth, he discovers a new and unexpected love Meanwhile, Queen Mary summons her friend Livia to a terrified court. Her survival, and that of the Stuart kings, is in the balance, and only a clever and dangerous gamble can save them A compelling and powerful story of political intrigue and personal ambition, set between the palaces of London, the tidelands of Fowlmire and the shores of Barbados. Praise for Dawnlands: This sprawling, epic addition to the series will delight Gregorys many fans'' The Times Fast-paced, gripping and meticulously researched, the latest novel from Philippa Gregory is historical fiction at its bestFew authors bring history to life like Philippa Gregory and her vivid descriptions of 17th century life give readers a ringside seat at the action'' Daily Express ''Spellbinding Womans Own I love falling into a Philippa Gregory novel, her vibrant take on historical events always brings past eras aliveThis has drama aplenty with the fear of execution for treason, deportation, and imposter Princes, the rewards and dangers presented are colossal and exciting. This epic story follows a family from one end of the old empire to another, as they try to find a place in a new world'' Adele Parks, Platinum Magazine Praise for Tidelands and Dark Tides: ''Gregory is an experienced storyteller and doesnt let you down. Tidelands is a gripping and intelligent portrait of a woman fighting to survive in a hostile world'' THE TIMES The first in a planned series . . . The author crafts her material with effortless ease. Her grasp of social mores is brilliant, the love story rings true and the research is, as ever, of the highest calibre'' Elizabeth Buchan, Daily Mail Vivid and beguiling Philippa Gregory at her best woman&home ''A compelling novel that shines a light on the struggles of 17th century women'' Daily Mirror ''The novel''s power lies in Gregory''s evocative portrayal of the tidelands and the everyday lives of those who are bound to them'' Sunday Express ''Philippa Gregory returns with an English Civil War novel that excels in everything she does best. Historical events are written with breathless immediacy, keeping the reader enthralled even if they know the outcome. She pays close attention to the plight of women in the past, so often unchanged despite men''s wars, and gives them a voice . . . Fans will not be disappointed'' Alys Key, The i ''Shines a light on the struggles of 17th century women . . . If this novel is the first sign of what''s to come then readers are in for a treat'' Emma Lee-Potter, Daily Express
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NORMAL WOMEN - 900 YEARS OF MAKING HISTORY
Philippa Gregory
- William Collins
- 26 Septembre 2024
- 9780008601690
A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
''A lasting work of social history'' THE TIMES
''A genuinely new history of our nation'' DAN JONES
''This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history'' SPECTATOR
FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE''S WORK
Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry?
That the Peasant''s Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women?
Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men but that they''d evolve to become ever more inferior?
These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory''s Normal Women. In this ambitious and ground-breaking book, she tells the story of our nation over 900 years, but for the very first time women - some fifty per cent of the population - are no longer invisible in this history of England, but are at its beating heart.
Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, Gregory trawled through court records to find highway women, beggars and shepherdesses, through newspapers and diaries to find murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. The ''normal women'' you will meet in her pages went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency and built ships, corn mills and houses as part of their everyday lives They committed crimes, or treason, worshipped many gods, cooked and nursed, invented things and rioted. A lot. They built our society to be as diverse and varied as the women themselves. They are there in the archives - if you look - and they made our history.
''You''ll lose count of the number of things you learn about women and their skewed place in history as you read Philippa Gregory''s stunning Normal Women ... the book reframes the past ... an essential read'' INDEPENDENT, FIVE-STAR REVIEW -
" À travers le regard de Margaret, Philippa Gregory nous montre la transformation d'Henri VIII en un tyran despotique. Une héroi?ne d'exception. Une autrice au sommet de sa forme. " Sunday Express Angleterre, 1499. Après la décapitation de son frère sur ordre d'Henri VII, Margaret Plantagenêt se retrouve l'une des dernières héritières de la maison d'York. Un nom dangereux à porter depuis que les Tudors se sont emparés du trône...
Pour assurer sa sécurité, elle épouse Richard Pole, un cousin du roi. À la mort de celui-ci, veuve et sans ressources, elle ne doit son salut qu'à l'arrivée à la cour de la future souveraine, Catherine d'Aragon.
Désormais comtesse de Salisbury, Margaret devient première dame de compagnie de la reine. Au point de susciter des jalousies.
Philippa Gregory ressuscite avec maestria les heures les plus sombres de la royauté anglaise, où complots et trahisons se règlent souvent dans le sang... -
THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . Midsummers Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life. Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinors ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands. The unmissable read for Summer 2019. Praise for Philippa Gregory: Popular historical fiction at its finest, immaculately researched and superbly told The Times ''Philippa Gregory is truly the mistress of the historical novel. It would be hard to make history more entertaining, lively or engaging'' Sunday Express Gregory has popularised Tudor history perhaps more than any other living fiction writer . . . All of her books feature strong, complex women, doing their best to improve their lives in worlds dominated by men Sunday Times '' Immaculate research, pacy narratives and a stubborn insistence that history is not only about men . . . a powerful reminder of how precarious the lives of the Tudor women could be'' Daily Mail
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One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history.
We have fallen into the belief that women were absent from great events, and ineffectual in normal times.
Through a radical reframing of the conventional eras of our history, Normal Women will tell the story of our nation - not with the rise and fall of Kings and the occasional Queen - but through social and cultural transition, showing the agency, persistence and effectiveness of women in society.
Through the stories of the soldiers, guild widows, highwaywomen, pirates, miners and ship owners, international traders, theatre runners and ''female husbands'' Normal Women will redefine ''normal'' female behaviour to include heroism, rebellion, crime, treason, money-making, jousting and sainthood. And much rioting.
Philippa Gregory has been working on this book for over ten years. It is the work of a lifetime from one of our greatest historical storytellers. -
The second novel in the bestselling Wideacre Trilogy, a compulsive drama set in the eighteenth century. By Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin''s Lover.The Wideacre estate is bankrupt, the villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin.But in the Dower House two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry. Only one can be the favoured child. Only one can inherit the magical understanding between the land and the Lacey family that can make the Sussex village grow green again. Only one can be Beatrice Lacey''s true heir.Sweeping, passionate, unique: ''The Favoured Child'' is the second novel in Philippa Gregory''s bestselling trilogy which began with ''Wideacre'' and concluded with ''Meridon''.
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When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined - with Margaret's younger sister Mary - to a sisterhood unique in all the world. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland and France, and the three queens find themselves set against each other.
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Deus soeurs pour un Roi Tome 2
Philippa Gregory
- A Vue D'Oeil
- Police 16/17
- 18 Février 2009
- 9782846664660
« Je serai sombre, française, à la mode et difficile ; vous serez douce, ouverte, anglaise et belle. Quel homme pourrait nous résister ? » Tels sont les premiers mots prononcés par Anne Boleyn à l'endroit de sa soeur Marie quand elle la rejoint, en 1522, à la cour d'Angleterre. Introduite au palais de Westminster, à l'âge de 14 ans, Marie Boleyn séduit le roi Henri VIII auquel elle donnera deux enfants. D'abord éblouie par le souverain, elle comprend qu'elle sert d'appât au milieu des complots dynastiques. Quand l'intérêt du roi pour elle s'émousse, Anne est chargée de le séduire à son tour.
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Number One bestselling author Philippa Gregory''s new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice and New England. Midsummer Eve, 1670. A turbulent time to seek the truth . . . A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he failed twenty-one years before. He has everything to offer: money, land, status. He believes she has the only thing he cannot buy: his son and heir. Meanwhile in New England, Alinors brother Ned cannot find justice in the New World, as the Kings revenge stretches across the Atlantic and turns the pioneers against each other and against the American Indians. Then, a beautiful widow, Livia, arrives from Venice. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and has come with the news that Alinors son Rob has drowned in the dark tides of the lagoon. But is this true or could this woman be an imposter . . . ? From London to New England and Venice, the dark tides always rise, and with them come secrets and enemies . . . A gripping read spanning London, Venice and New England, all beautifully observed by Gregory Woman & Home Praise for Tidelands, the first in the Fairmile series: A gripping and intelligent portrait of a woman fighting to survive in a hostile world The Times The first in a planned series . . . The author crafts her material with effortless ease. Her grasp of social mores is brilliant, the love story rings true and the research is, as ever, of the highest calibre Elizabeth Buchan, Daily Mail Vivid and beguiling Philippa Gregory at her best W oman & Home A compelling novel that shines a light on the struggles of 17th century women Daily Mirror The novel''s power lies in Gregory''s evocative portrayal of the tidelands and the everyday lives of those who are bound to them Sunday Express Philippa Gregory returns with an English Civil War novel that excels in everything she does best. Historical events are written with breathless immediacy, keeping the reader enthralled even if they know the outcome Alys Key , The i If this novel is the first sign of what''s to come then readers are in for a treat Emma Lee-Potter, Daily Express
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