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Suffer the Little Children
ISBN: 9780993237201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Elizabethan London, no child is safe. Children are misused and exploited by parents, masters, strangers, and society at large. Even the children of the rich are in danger. When a five-year-old heiress to great estates is kidnapped, Christoval Alvarez, the players of James Burbage's company, and a disreputable group of child beggars all become involved in the search. At Seething Lane, matters are approaching a crisis. Sir Francis Walsingham is dying and, as Thomas Phelippes struggles to hold the intelligence service together, he receives information that another attack on the Queen is...
In Elizabethan London, no child is safe. Children are misused and exploited by parents, masters, strangers, and society at large. Even the children of...
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68,25 zł |
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The Enterprise of England
ISBN: 9780992822859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Facing the threat of King Philip's Enterprise of England - Spanish invasion and annexation of the country - Sir Francis Walsingham's secret service spreads a network of agents across Europe. After caring for hundreds of maimed and wounded soldiers returning from the fall of Sluys, young physician and code-breaker Christoval Alvarez is sent on two dangerous missions to Amsterdam, where, amongst the friendly Hollanders, treason and treachery lurks. Christoval's ship, sailing home, plays its part in the great sea battle in which the small and inexperienced English navy must confront the most...
Facing the threat of King Philip's Enterprise of England - Spanish invasion and annexation of the country - Sir Francis Walsingham's secret service sp...
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68,25 zł |
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The Anniversary
ISBN: 9780992822811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is June 11th 1994 in the depths of Herefordshire and Natasha Devereux's family and two hundred guests gather together to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of St Martins. From the vision of one woman who fled Bolshevik Russia and opened her doors to artists, musicians, writers, and refugees from war-torn Europe, it has become a sanctuary for generations of her family. Over the course of one day they face marital crisis, impending birth, teenage trauma, a father's roving eye, momentous news from the past, communal financial crisis, and a lost love from the summer of 1957.
It is June 11th 1994 in the depths of Herefordshire and Natasha Devereux's family and two hundred guests gather together to celebrate the fiftieth ann...
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68,25 zł |
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The Novice's Tale
ISBN: 9780993237256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When the novice Emma Thorgold goes missing from Godstow Abbey in the summer of 1353, the hunt is on throughout the Oxfordshire countryside. Bookseller Nicholas Elyot and scholar Jordain Brinkylsworth are anxious to help the girl, but her stepfather has other intentions. Why is he so determined to shut her away for life? Or worse? And will she be found unharmed?
When the novice Emma Thorgold goes missing from Godstow Abbey in the summer of 1353, the hunt is on throughout the Oxfordshire countryside. Bookseller...
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68,25 zł |
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The Portuguese Affair
ISBN: 9780992822866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The year after defeating the Spanish Armada, England retaliates. The expedition to Portugal sets out to destroy what remains of Spain's Atlantic fleet, drive the Spanish out of Portugal, put the claimant Dom Antonio of Aviz on the throne, and seize the Azores. But from the time the English fleet, led by Drake and Norreys, reaches Plymouth, things start to go wrong. Christoval Alvarez, sent to carry out two missions by Walsingham, has a more important private plan in mind. Are any members of the family still alive? And what will become of the disaster-ridden expedition?
The year after defeating the Spanish Armada, England retaliates. The expedition to Portugal sets out to destroy what remains of Spain's Atlantic fleet...
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68,25 zł |
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The Travellers
ISBN: 9780992822828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sofia Niklai, a reclusive exile, and Kate Milburn, locked in a stifling marriage, form a tentative friendship on a windswept beach in Northumbria. While Sofia forces herself to confront her father's diaries, Kate must face half-remembered shadows from her childhood. Together they make an impulsive journey to Hungary, Sofia's homeland. It is a journey from which neither can return unaltered. Their meeting in Hungary with Istvan Rudnay, also marked by the dark experiences of his youth, leads them to a discovery of the warmth and love so lacking in their own lives, whilst he in turn comes to a...
Sofia Niklai, a reclusive exile, and Kate Milburn, locked in a stifling marriage, form a tentative friendship on a windswept beach in Northumbria. Whi...
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68,25 zł |
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The Merchant's Tale
ISBN: 9780993237294 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Oxford, Autumn 1353 St Frideswide's Fair is a great annual event in Oxford, bringing together merchants and buyers from all over England and Wales, and from as far away as Flanders and France. Yet the earnings from the fair, granted to the Priory of St Frideswide centuries before, are resented by the town, and resentment can turn to violence. Under the unscrupulous Prior de Hungerford, even more trouble is brewing. Nicholas Elyot is warned by intelligencer Alice Walsea that attendance at the fair may be used for something more sinister, and not all French merchants may be innocent. When a...
Oxford, Autumn 1353 St Frideswide's Fair is a great annual event in Oxford, bringing together merchants and buyers from all over England and Wales, an...
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68,25 zł |
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The Play's the Thing
ISBN: 9780993237249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Kit Alvarez returns from Muscovy, it is to discover that her post as physician at St Thomas's hospital has been given to another. Trying to eke out the small income she earns from some of Dr Nunez's private patients, she undertakes paid work as a copyist with James Burbage's company. But the players' companies find themselves under threat. Two of Burbage's men are murdered. One of Henslowe's men is attacked. And two important new plays go missing, one by Will Shakespeare and one by Christopher Marlowe. Are the thefts merely the work of a jealous unlicensed company? Or is there a...
When Kit Alvarez returns from Muscovy, it is to discover that her post as physician at St Thomas's hospital has been given to another. Trying to eke o...
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68,25 zł |
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The Troubadour's Tale
ISBN: 9781999927417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,25 zł |
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The Bookseller's Tale
ISBN: 9780993237263 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Oxford, Spring 1353. When young bookseller Nicholas Elyot discovers the body of student William Farringdon floating in the river Cherwell, it looks like a drowning. Soon, however, Nicholas finds evidence of murder. Who could have wanted to kill this promising student? As Nicholas and his scholar friend Jordain try to unravel what lies behind William's death, they learn that he was innocently caught up in a criminal plot. When their investigations begin to involve town, university, and abbey, Nicholas takes a risky gamble - and puts his family in terrible danger.
Oxford, Spring 1353. When young bookseller Nicholas Elyot discovers the body of student William Farringdon floating in the river Cherwell, it looks li...
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68,25 zł |
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Betrayal
ISBN: 9780993237218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1648, the coldest year in living memory, Mercy Bennington and her neighbours struggle to rebuild their lives after the disastrous man-made flood, but the mysterious speculators are still bent on seizing their lands. The local magnate promises to help, but does nothing. Mercy's brother Tom, crippled in the earlier attacks on the Fens, returns to Gray's Inn in London, but his legal studies are not his only goal. Somewhere in London there must exist a copy of the ancient charter granting ownership of the common land to the fenlanders, provided that Tom can find it before his enemies have the...
In 1648, the coldest year in living memory, Mercy Bennington and her neighbours struggle to rebuild their lives after the disastrous man-made flood, b...
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68,25 zł |
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A Running Tide
ISBN: 9780992822873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Tirza Libby, a respected and successful war photographer, tries to escape her past by retreating to a remote Scottish island. But even thousands of miles and four decades cannot erase the memories of a childhood summer in Maine: a community profoundly altered by war, a family thrown into conflict, and the British airman who changed all their lives. This is the story of that fateful summer. Only by revisiting Maine can Tirza solve the mysteries of that past and complete her journey of self-discovery. In its lyrical portrayal of a courageous but fragile way of life, A Running Tide gathers in...
Tirza Libby, a respected and successful war photographer, tries to escape her past by retreating to a remote Scottish island. But even thousands of mi...
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72,81 zł |
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The Stonemason's Tale
ISBN: 9781999927424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,25 zł |
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That Time May Cease
ISBN: 9780993237270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When the violent arrest of an innocent apprentice sparks a riot in Southwark during the summer of 1592, more lies behind it than a simple grievance. Increasing poverty, vagrancy, and crime in a restless London compel a nervous Privy Council to close the playhouses, forcing Lord Strange's Men to go on tour, while hostility to foreign refugees, aggravated by Marlowe's play, The Jew of Malta, adds to the danger on the streets for Strangers like Kit Alvarez. Other dangers are more subtle. The ensnaring of young men by illegal loan sharks and the circulation of damning accusations, both public and...
When the violent arrest of an innocent apprentice sparks a riot in Southwark during the summer of 1592, more lies behind it than a simple grievance. I...
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68,25 zł |
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Bartholomew Fair
ISBN: 9780992822880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Bartholomew Fair, London's largest public festival, is threatened in 1589 by five hundred armed soldiers dismissed from service without pay, the authorities act swiftly and decisively to prevent trouble. Yet other trouble is brewing. Young physician and code-breaker Christoval Alvarez stumbles upon a sinister troupe of Italian puppeteers bent on making mischief, but it soon becomes apparent that more than mischief is in the air. Sir Francis Walsingham's agents are baffled by the ill-assorted conspirators, including one of their own men. Time is running out, and a missing cache of...
When Bartholomew Fair, London's largest public festival, is threatened in 1589 by five hundred armed soldiers dismissed from service without pay, the ...
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68,25 zł |
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The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez
ISBN: 9780992822835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is the year 1586. England is awash with traitors, plotting to assassinate the Queen and bring about a foreign invasion. The young physician Christoval Alvarez, a refugee from the horrors of the Portuguese Inquisition, is coerced into becoming a code-breaker and agent in Sir Francis Walsingham's secret service. In the race to thwart the plot, who will triumph - the ruthless conspirators or the equally ruthless State?
It is the year 1586. England is awash with traitors, plotting to assassinate the Queen and bring about a foreign invasion. The young physician Christo...
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68,07 zł |
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The Lopez Affair
ISBN: 9781999927400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,25 zł |
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The Huntsman's Tale
ISBN: 9780993237287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Oxford, Late Summer 1353. On hearing that his cousin is short-handed for the harvest, Nicholas Elyot takes a group of friends back to the family farm to help. When a deer hunt in Wychwood ends in tragedy, suspicion is directed toward the huntsman, a boyhood friend of Nicholas. Yet the victim has made many other enemies, any one of whom could have shot the fatal arrow. Can Nicholas uncover the real killer before it is too late?
Oxford, Late Summer 1353. On hearing that his cousin is short-handed for the harvest, Nicholas Elyot takes a group of friends back to the family farm ...
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68,25 zł |
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Moncreiff: The Life and Career of James Wellwood Moncreiff, 1811-1895, 1st Baron Moncreiff of Tullibole
ISBN: 9780993237225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. James Wellwood Moncreiff (1811-1895), 1st Baron Moncreiff of Tullibole, was a man of many talents. An outstanding lawyer, he took a leading part in some of the most high profile cases of the century - defending the Scottish Chartist leaders against a charge of sedition in 1848, prosecuting Madeleine Smith for the murder of L'Angelier in 1857, and supporting Theresa Longworth in her long and very public campaign to have her marriage to Major Charles Yelverton legally recognised. Together with other members of his family he was centrally involved in the events which led ultimately to the...
James Wellwood Moncreiff (1811-1895), 1st Baron Moncreiff of Tullibole, was a man of many talents. An outstanding lawyer, he took a leading part in so...
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91,02 zł |
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The Bookseller's Tale: A totally gripping historical crime thriller
ISBN: 9781804361023 / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,68 zł |
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