Through study and application Jack Rosenblum intends to become a very English gentleman. He is compiling a list, a comprehensive guide to the manners, customs and habits of this country. In a final attempt to finish his list he moves, with his reluctant wife, to the English countryside where they embark on an impossible task.
Through study and application Jack Rosenblum intends to become a very English gentleman. He is compiling a list, a comprehensive guide to the manners,...
In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlour-maid, she knows nothing about England, except that she won't like it. As servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn, Elise wears her mother's pearls beneath her uniform, and causes outrage by dancing with a boy called Kit. But war is coming and the world is changing. And Elise must change with it. At Tyneford she learns that you can be more than one person. And that you can love more than once.
In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlour-maid, ...
At thirty a woman has a directness in her eye. Juliet Montague did anyhow. She knew exactly what she wanted. She wanted to buy a refrigerator. But in a rash moment, Juliet commissions a portrait of herself instead. She has been closeted by her conservative Jewish community for too long, ever since her husband disappeared. Now she is ready to be seen. So begins the journey of a suburban wife and mother into the heart of '60s London and its thriving art world, where she proves an astute spotter of talent. Yet she remains an outsider: drawn to a reclusive artist who never leaves Dorset and...
At thirty a woman has a directness in her eye. Juliet Montague did anyhow. She knew exactly what she wanted. She wanted to buy a refrigerator. But in ...
By the author of Mr Rosenblum's List, this is a captivating tale of passion and music, ancient songs and nostalgia, of the ties that bind and the ones we are prepared to sever.
By the author of Mr Rosenblum's List, this is a captivating tale of passion and music, ancient songs and nostalgia, of the ties that bind and the ones...
Mona Lisa se stala nejslavnějším obrazem všech dob, její tajemný úsměv je opředený tajemstvím a vyvolává spoustu otázek. V originálním pojetí britské spisovatelky Natashy Solomons přináší odpovědi obraz sám. Mona Lisa se zrodí díky tahům štětce Leonarda da Vinciho. Malíř záhy uslyší její hlas a vznikne láskyplné pouto trvající až do smrti velkého mistra. Mona Lisa prožívá s Leonardem jeho úspěchy i neúspěchy a vytvoří si zvláštní vztah ke svému předobrazu, k Moně del Giocondě, ale také k Salaimu, Leonardovu učedníkovi a milenci....
Mona Lisa se stala nejslavnějším obrazem všech dob, její tajemný úsměv je opředený tajemstvím a vyvolává spoustu otázek. V originálním...
