Into the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe, Elizabeth and Essex, the horrific plagues of London and the brutal war in Ireland, strides one Nicholas Cooke, the hero of one of the most engagingly brilliant historical novels to appear in years. A memorable...
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In 1564 a boy was born to a middle-class family in the little town of Stratford.Thirty-four years later he would write Hamlet. In between was his both troubled and carefree childhood, his disastrous forced marriage and his early ...
MANNHEIM 1777. The four Weber sisters, daughters of a musical family, share a crowded, artistic life in a ramshackle house. While their father scrapes by as a music copyist and their mother secretly draws up a list of prospective suitors in the kitch...
Sometimes he dreamt he held her; that he would turn in bed and she would be there. But she was gone and he was old. Nearly seventy. Only cool paint met his fingers. “Ma très chère . . .” Darkness started to fall, dimming the paintings. He felt ...
"The Boy in the Rain transports us to another time and place in this powerful, sensual, and lyrical novel that literally took my breath away -- the love is so visceral, the pain so deep, the beauty so real, and the danger so palpable!" ~NYT bestselle...