Instruments of Darkness: A Novel

The 1st novel within the Westerman and Crowther historic crime sequence that the recent York occasions ebook assessment referred to as “CSI: Georgian England” and Tess Gerritsen known as “chillingly memorable”Debut novelist Imogen Robertson gained the London Telegraph’s First Thousand phrases of a unique pageant 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 20 th 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 akin 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 interpreting of Milton’s Paradise misplaced, writer Seth Lobis charts a profound swap within the cultural which means of sympathy throughout the 17th century. Having lengthy observed magical affinities within the universe, sympathy used to be 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 well love this sort of man?          Set opposed to the glittering courts of sixteenth-century Europe, the Spain of the feared 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.