Jude Morgan

A historical work based on the lives of Keats, Shelley, and Lord Byron is set against a background of the Napoleonic Wars and is told from the viewpoints of the women who loved them, from the scandalous Lady Caroline Lamb and the scorned Fanny Brawne to the author Mary Shelley and Byron's half-sister, Augusta Leigh. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

A Novel of the Romantic Poets

Passion

As a young woman, clever, self-reliant Lydia Templeton scandalised society by rejecting Lewis Durrant, the county's most eligible bachelor. Ten years later, Lydia has no regrets and, having concluded that matters of the heart need no longer trouble her, she is quite happy to remain unwed. But others still seek Lydia's advice on their love lives, and when her godmother implores her to take her young ward Phoebe's search for a suitor in hand, it's hard to refuse. In truth, the prospect fills Lydia with horror (especially as she must go to Bath of all places to do it), but poor Phoebe, having managed to promise herself to two men at once, rather needs her help. However, finding a solution to Phoebe's dilemma proves far trickier than anyone imagined. As affairs become increasingly tangled, Phoebe more muddled and Lydia's exasperation grows, the confirmed spinster finds that her own heart is not quite the closed book she thought it was...

An Accomplished Woman

A sumptuously detailed imagining of the private world of the master bard chronicles the transformation of an unwilling craftsman and resentful son into a husband, father and genius playwright in Renaissance London. By the author of Passion. 25,000 first printing.

The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

A historical novel by the author of An Accomplished Woman fleshes out the haunting darkness and brilliant light that filled the hearts and encompassed the lives of the Bronte sisters. Original.

A Novel of the Brontës

Charlotte and Emily

From an obscure country parsonage came the most extraordinary family of the nineteenth century. The Bronte sisters created a world in which we still live - the intense, passionate world of JANE EYRE and WUTHERING HEIGHTS; and the phenomenon of this strange explosion of genius remains as baffling now as it was to their Victorian contemporaries. In this panoramic novel we see with new insight the members of a uniquely close-knit family whose tight bonds are the instruments of both triumph and tragedy. Emily, the solitary who turns from the world to the greater temptations of the imagination: Anne, gentle and loyal, under whose quietude lies the harshest perception of the stifling life forced upon her: Branwell, the mercurial and self-destructive brother, meant to be king, unable to be a prince: and the brilliant, uncompromising, tormented Charlotte, longing for both love and independence, who establishes the family's name and learns its price.

The Taste of Sorrow

When her profligate father loses his fortune, Caroline agrees with his scheme to set her up as the companion of a wealthy and powerful society matron and use her beauty and intelligence to attract the attentions of Regency society's most eligible men.

A Novel

Indiscretion

Rejecting an unwanted suitor and opening the family's Devonshire estate to her fashionable cousins after the death of her straitlaced father, Valentine is seduced by the intrigues and scandals of Regency London and begins to wonder if her newfound freedom is as exciting as she imagined. By the author of Passion. 25,000 first printing.

A Little Folly

A Ruling Passion

Restored to the British throne in 1660 after years of exile, Charles II began a reign famous for dramatic events (the Plague, the Great Fire, the Dutch Wars), the flowering of science and the arts, and for notorious sexual liaisons. With a bevy of mistresses and flamboyantly addicted to high living, the Merry Monarch successfully presided over 'Merry Olde England' in an age of intrigue and religious dissent. When his tolerance extended to acknowledging his illegitimate son at court, James's life changed out of all recognition. This is the story of a remarkable man, and the spectacular upheavals and reverses of the time, told through the eyes of his illegitimate son, James, Duke of Monmouth.

The King's Touch

Originally published: Great Britain: Headline Review, 2012.

The greatest writer of them all, brought to glorious life. How well do you know the man you love? How much do you think you know about Shakespeare? What if they were one and the same? He is an ordinary man: unwilling craftsman, ambitious actor, resentful son, almost good-enough husband. And he is also a genius. The story of how a glove-maker from Warwickshire became the greatest writer of them all is vaguely known to most of us, but it would take an exceptional modern novelist to bring him to life. And now at last Jude Morgan, acclaimed author of Passion and The Taste of Sorrow, has taken Shakespeare's life, and created a masterpiece.

Years after scandalizing Regency society by rejecting the county's most eligible bachelor, Lydia Templeton reluctantly agrees to assist a young woman in making a suitable match, an endeavor that proves challenging when her charge proves difficult to manage.

„Cei mai multi dintre noi au de spus o singura poveste. Asta nu inseamna ca ni se intampla un singur lucru in viata – se petrec nenumarate intamplari pe care le transformam in nenumarate povesti. Insa una singura conteaza cu adevarat pe una singura merita pana la urma s-o spui. Ceea ce urmeaza e povestea mea.“ Julian Barnes O vara din anii ’60 undeva la sud de Londra. Cand se intoarce de la facultate Paul ii face pe plac mamei si se duce la tenis. Acolo e Susan: calda increzatoare ironica sotie si mama a doi copii. Evident iubirea lor este unica si irepetabila. Peste zeci de ani el priveste inapoi la povestea lor si la esecul ei stiind ca memoria ne joaca feste si ne surprinde. „Un roman profund emotionant si o analiza a suferintei din iubire (...). Revizitand fluxul si refluxul unei pasiuni Julian Barnes pune in lumina legatura dintre un om batran si propriul lui sine.“ Publishers Weekly

Viața secretă a lui William Shakespeare - Editura Nemira

For Peter Fox, being a bowling alley proprietor was a calling. Right from the beginning, the Upstate New York village of Koopersville embraced Peter’s glistening new bowling alley with its modern automatic pinsetters, and Koopersville Bowl quickly became the heart and soul of the village. Peter’s dream business opened in 1962, and year after year, the bowling alley was the place where the trials and tribulations of growing up in a small New England town were transformed into the dreams and hopes of the future. Anything was possible at Koopersville Bowl. But one day Peter Fox died, and the village stopped breathing. The moral fabric of the entire community broke, yet Peter’s extended family tried to adjust to their loss. As Peter’s eldest son, Paul Fox knew it was his duty to help his mother carry on; what’s more, it was what his father would have wanted. And that’s exactly what he did. Even so, sometimes unexpected things do happen. In the game of bowling there is only one way to salvage your score, and that is to throw strikes. Perfect games are hard to come by. But in life, as Paul soon finds out, there are always new beginnings, new games to be played, and old memories that can never be taken away.

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