Mrs Whistler, Plampin Matthew

Автор: Matthew Plampin
Название: The street philosophe
ISBN: 0007272448 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007272440
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 12310.00 T
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Описание: An elegant, powerful novel, set in Victorian England, a time not so different from our own...perfect for fans of THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER and THE SHADOW OF THE WIND Ambitious young journalist Thomas Kitson arrives at the battlefields of the Crimea as the London Courier's man on the ground. It is a dangerous place, full of the worst horrors of war but Kitson is determined to make his mark. Under the tutelage of his hard-bitten Irish boss Cracknell, and assisted by artist Robert Styles, he sets about exposing the incompetence of the army generals.

Two years later, as Sebastopol burns, Thomas returns to England under mysterious circumstances. Desperate to forget the atrocities of the Crimea, he takes a job as a 'street philosopher', a society writer reporting on the gossip of the day. But on the eve of the great Art Treasures Exhibition, as Manchester prepares to welcome Queen Victoria, Thomas's past returns to haunt him in the most horrifying way...

Автор: Plampin Matthew
Название: Illumination
ISBN: 0007413904 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007413904
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Цена: 7910.00 T
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Описание: A powerful story of revolution, love and intense rivalry set in 1870 during the four-month siege of Paris. 1870. All over Paris the lights are going out.

The Prussians are encircling the city and Europe's capital of decadent pleasure and luxury is becoming a prison, its citizens caught between defiance and despair. Desperate times lie ahead as the worst winter for decades sets in and starvation looms. One man seems to shine like a beacon in the shadows.

Jean-Jacques Allix promises to be the leader the people need, to save the city itself. Painter Hannah Pardy, his young English lover, believes in him utterly; taking up arms for his cause, she is drawn into the heart of the battle for Paris. But as the darkness and panic spreads it is harder and harder to see things as they really are, and Hannah struggles to separate love from self-interest and revolutionaries from traitors.

Faced with impossible decisions, Hannah must confront the devastating reality of her beloved Paris to establish what truly matters to her - and what she will do to protect it.

Автор: Matthew Plampin
Название: Devil`s acre
ISBN: 0007273975 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007273973
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: A novel of intrigue, violence and conflicted loyalties from the author of The Street Philosopher.