Instruments of Darkness: A Novel

The 1st novel within the Westerman and Crowther historic crime sequence that the recent York occasions e-book assessment referred to as “CSI: Georgian England” and Tess Gerritsen referred to as “chillingly memorable”Debut novelist Imogen Robertson gained 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 daily life, leaving behind their conventional vernaculars—such as French patois, neighborhood Italian dialects, and the Irish language—in prefer of significant metropolitan languages corresponding 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 construction to a brand new analyzing of Milton’s Paradise misplaced, writer Seth Lobis charts a profound switch within the cultural that means of sympathy throughout the 17th century. Having lengthy spoke of 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 perhaps 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.