Instruments of Darkness: A Novel

The 1st novel within the Westerman and Crowther old crime sequence that the hot York occasions booklet evaluate referred to as “CSI: Georgian England” and Tess Gerritsen referred to as “chillingly memorable”Debut novelist Imogen Robertson received the London Telegraph’s First Thousand phrases of a unique festival in 2007 with the hole of tools of Darkness.

Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe

Within the first many years of the 20th century, rural populations all through Europe replaced the language they utilized in lifestyle, leaving behind their conventional vernaculars—such as French patois, neighborhood Italian dialects, and the Irish language—in want of significant metropolitan languages comparable to French, Italian, and English.

The Virtue of Sympathy: Magic, Philosophy, and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England (Yale Studies in English)

Starting with an research of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and development to a brand new studying of Milton’s Paradise misplaced, writer Seth Lobis charts a profound switch within the cultural that means of sympathy through the 17th century. Having lengthy stated magical affinities within the universe, sympathy was once more and more understood to be a strength of connection among humans.

For a Queen's Love: The Stories of the Royal Wives of Philip II (A Novel of the Tudors)

Power-hungry monarch, cold-blooded assassin, obsessive monster—who may love any such man?          Set opposed to the glittering courts of sixteenth-century Europe, the Spain of the scary Inquisition, and the tortured England of Bloody Mary, For a Queen’s Love is the tale of Philip II of Spain—and of the ladies who enjoyed him as a husband and father.