Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is people by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's n0w legendary ball, one family's life will change forever. Facebook: JulianFellowesBelgravia Twitter: @JFBelgravia Pinterest: /Belgravia Instagram: @julianfellowesbelgravia

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia

Preparing to marry heir Charles Broughton, attractive accountant's daughter Edith Lavery makes humorous and astute observations about contemporary England's class system. A first novel by the screenplay writer of Gosford Park. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

Snobs

La novela en la que se basa la exitosa serie de televisión. Por el creador de Downton Abbey. Muy cerca de Buckingham Palace, tras las puertas de las grandes mansiones del Londres victoriano, reinan el escándalo y la intriga. Bienvenidos a Belgravia. La noche del 15 de junio de 1815 la flor y nata de la sociedad británica se reúne en Bruselas para celebrar una fiesta que se convertirá en una de las más trágicas de la historia: el baile de gala de la duquesa de Richmond en honor del duque de Wellington. Al día siguiente, muchos de los apuestos jóvenes que han acudido a la recepción se encontrarán luchando, y muriendo, en el campo de batalla de Waterloo. Para la joven Sophia Trenchard, la bella hija de un próspero comerciante, esta es la noche que lo cambiará todo. Pero solo veinticinco años más tarde, cuando los ambiciosos Trenchard se muden al nuevo barrio de moda en Londres, Belgravia, comenzarán a conocerse las repercusiones de ese momento. Porque en este incipiente mundo, en el que los emergentes nuevos ricos se codean con la más arraigada aristocracia, hay quienes prefieren que los secretos del pasado sigan enterrados... Reseñas: «Simplemente una lectura maravillosa. Un clásico moderno que llenará el hueco que dejó Downton Abbey.» Daily Express «Una trama repleta de sorpresas, diálogos frescos y una ambientación fascinante.» The New York Times «El arranque es estupendo, con un romance que desafía las clases sociales.» Mail on Sunday «Escrita con agilidad, esta novela te hace pasar las páginas a toda velocidad con el suspense de un thriller... Una lectura inteligente y envolvente que refleja de forma brillante unmundo que ya no existe.» Woman & Home «Belgravia es una entretenida y fascinante historia sobre el tema favorito de Fellowes: las clases sociales. Hará las delicias de muchos lectores.» Sunday Times En los blogs... «Su ambientación es espectacular y su prosa directa y sencilla hacen que sea una lectura que se devora en pocos días.» Blog Libros y literatura «Déjate seducir por una propuesta que no te va a defraudar, una historia de enredos, secretos, amor y escándalos que nos va sorprendiendo y manteniendo en vilo a lo largo de toda la lectura. No se puede pedir más.» Blog Me gustan los libros

Belgravia

The most successful British television drama of our time, the multi-award-winning Downton Abbey has become a national phenomenon in the U.S. as well. Created by Julian Fellowes—who received an Academy Award for his screenplay for the acclaimed Robert Altman motion picture, Gosford Park—Downton Abbey features stellar performances, ravishing sets and costumes, and, most importantly, absolutely riveting plots. Now the scripts for the entire first season have been collected in one volume, along with never before seen material, incisive commentary, and color photos that will completely immerse fans in the world of Downton Abbey.

Downton Abbey Script Book Season 1

Brian Lavery

Walter Lord

'There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers.' - Phillip Franklin, White Star Line Vice-PresidentOn April 15th, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest passenger ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives. Walter Lord's classic bestselling history of the voyage, the wreck and the aftermath is a tour de force of detailed investigation and the upstairs/downstairs divide. A Night to Remember provides a vivid, gripping and deeply personal account of the 'unsinkable' Titanic's descent.WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JULIAN FELLOWES

A Night to Remember

Damian Baxter is very, very rich - and he's dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern: who should inherit his fortune... PAST IMPERFECT is the story of a quest. Damian Barker wishes to know if he has a living heir. By the time he married in his late thirties he was sterile (the result of adult mumps), but what about before that unfortunate illness? He was not a virgin. Had he sired a child? A letter from a girlfriend from these times suggests he did. But the letter is anonymous. Damian contacts someone he knew from their days at university. He gives him a list of girls he slept with and sets him a task: find his heir...

Past Imperfect

"The English, of all classes as it happens, are addicted to exclusivity. Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them." In Snobs, Charles, heir to the Marquess of Uckfield, is one of the most eligible young aristocrats in England—at least according to the gossip columns. And when he proposes to Edith Lavery, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed daughter of a moderately successful accountant and social-climbing mother, she accepts. But is she really in love with Charles? Or with his title, position, and all its accompanying advantages? In Past Imperfect, our narrator is summoned to the deathbed of the extravagantly wealthy Damian Baxter—a friend-turned-enemy from their raucus Cambridge days—who begs his old acquaintance for help tracking down the author of an anonymous letter claiming Baxter as the father of her child. The search takes the narrator back to the extraordinary world of swinging London, where aristocratic parents schemed to find suitable matches for their daughters while someone snuck hash into the brownies at a ball at Madame Tussaud's. It was a time when everything seemed to be changing—and not always quite as expected. These two irresistible novels immerse us in a contemporary England governed by secrets, status and upheaval.

Two Novels: Snobs and Past Imperfect

Society Rules

Dancing into Battle

Alexander McCall Smith

Tracy Chevalier

John Banville

Joanna Trollope

Sarah Singleton

Minette Walters

Terry Pratchett

Portraits of Unknown People

Imagined Lives

Family Ties

A Chance Encounter

Snobit

This new title in the NHB Shooting Scripts series includes the complete screenplay, an introduction by director Robert Altman, production notes, stills and the complete film credits.

Gosford Park

Snob

Isabel Colegate

Shooting Party

'There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers.' - Phillip Franklin, White Star Line Vice-President On April 15th, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest passenger ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives. Walter Lord's classic bestselling history of the voyage, the wreck and the aftermath is a tour de force of detailed investigation and the upstairs/downstairs divide. A Night to Remember provides a vivid, gripping and deeply personal account of the 'unsinkable' Titanic's descent. WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JULIAN FELLOWES

The Classic Bestselling Account of the Sinking of the Titanic

Op een steenworp afstand van Buckingham Palace, achter de deuren van Londens meest imposante huizen, hebben schandalen en intriges vrij spel. Welkom in Belgravia... Wat er eerder in belgravia gebeurde Butler Turton verschafte John Bellasis een brief die meer licht op Charles Pope wierp, inclusief zijn adres op het platteland. Oliver onthulde aan zijn vader details over Popes laatste zakelijke betrekkingen. En lady Templemore, die zich stoorde aan het gedrag van haar dochter, stelde een datum voor de bruiloft vast.

Shirley-Anne Lewis

When Doc the bear arrives at the dump from his former home, he isn't sure about what awaits him but his new friends are determined to make his new home a welcoming one.

The Curious Adventures of the Abandoned Toys

From the creator of the Emmy Award-winning Downton Abbey... "Damian Baxter was a friend of mine at Cambridge. We met around the time when I was doing the Season at the end of the Sixties. I introduced him to some of the girls. They took him up, and we ran about together in London for a while...." Nearly forty years later, the narrator hates Damian Baxter and would gladly forget their disastrous last encounter. But if it is pleasant to hear from an old friend, it is more interesting to hear from an old enemy, and so he accepts an invitation from the rich and dying Damian, who begs him to track down the past girlfriend whose anonymous letter claimed he had fathered a child during that ruinous debutante season. The search takes the narrator back to the extraordinary world of swinging London, where aristocratic parents schemed to find suitable matches for their daughters while someone was putting hash in the brownies at a ball at Madame Tussaud's. It was a time when everything seemed to be changing—and it was, but not always quite as expected. Past Imperfect is Julian Fellowes at his best--a novel of secrets, status, and a world in upheaval.

A Novel

Some documents are discovered that threaten the future of more than one family. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized instalments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change for ever... Text only version. Facebook: JulianFellowesBelgravia Twitter: @JFBelgravia Pinterest: /Belgravia Instagram: @julianfellowesbelgravia

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