Robert Nye

• Feb-2004
• / Historical
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Sir Walter Raleigh -- soldier, explorer, adventurer, lover of Queen Elizabeth -- emerges from the pages of history and myth, full-blooded, passionate, and profoundly human. After unjustly languishing for years in the Tower, Raleigh undertakes one fin...

• Feb-2003
• / Historical
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Winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Guardian Fiction PrizeThe most beloved comic figure in English literature decides that history hasn’t done him justice -- it’s time for him to tell the whole unbuttoned story, his way. Irascible and still l...

• Sep-2001
• / General Fiction
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In a fictional memoir written seven years following her famed husband's death, Anne Hathaway recalls her life with William Shakespeare, especially a remarkable week spent in London, in April 1594, in his lodgings over a fishmonger's shop. By the auth...

• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction
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Our guide to the life of the Bard is an actor called Pickleherring, who asserts that as a boy he was an original member of Shakespeare's acting troupe. In an attic above a brothel in Restoration London -- a half century after Shakespeare has departed...

• Sep-1992
• / Literary
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• Dec-1991
• / General Fiction
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A recreation of the Bluebeard story which follows a French Army captain, executed in Brittany in 1440. The list of his crimes include witchcraft, heresy, sacrilege, sorcery, the evocations of demons and the practice of unnatural crime against childre...

• Apr-1982
• / Fantasy
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He comes out of the darkness, moving in on his  victims in deadly silence. When he leaves, a trail  of blood is all that remains. He is a monster,  Grendel, and all who know of him live in fear.   Hrothgar, the...

• Nov-1981
• / General Fiction
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In this rollicking, bawdy extension of the Arthurian legend, Merlin refuses to act out his role as an antichrist and engages, instead, in mischievous, frequently outrageous tricks involving Arthur and his knights...