Nick Drake

She is Nefertiti—beautiful and revered. With her husband, Akhenaten, she rules over Egypt, the most affluent, formidable, sophisticated empire in the ancient world. But an epic power struggle is afoot, brought on by the royal couple's inauguration of an enlightened new religion and the construction of a magnificent new capital. The priests are stunned by the abrupt forfeiture of their traditional wealth and influence; the people resent the loss of their gods—and the army is enraged by the growing turbulence around them. Then, just days before the festival that will celebrate the new capital, Nefertiti vanishes. Rahotep, the youngest chief detective in the Thebes division, has earned a reputation for his unorthodox yet effective methods. Entrusted by great Akhenaten himself with a most secret investigation, Rahotep has but ten days to find the missing Queen. If he succeeds, he will bask in the warmth of Akhenaten's favor. But if Rahotep fails, he and his entire family will die.

The Book of the Dead

Nefertiti

Tutankhamun, son of Akhenaten, has inherited an empire that seems to be at the height of its power and international glory. But the young King, just eighteen years old, is faced with the political and personal intrigues and conspiracies of the Court, where his godfather Ay, and the General Horemheb are locked in a bitter struggle for ascendancy. Tutankhamun must steer the empire back from the brink of disaster and dissent to which his father Akhenaten's rule led the Two Lands of Egypt, and re-assert the stability and authority of his famous dynasty. Rahotep, chief detective of the Thebes division, has his own worries - his daughters are growing up in a changing world of danger and instability, while out on the streets of Thebes things are falling apart; poverty and dissent are breaking out into a nightmare of violence, gold and corruption seem all-powerful, and the city's shadowy underworld is itself witnessing mysterious acts of shocking brutality. Yet when he receives a mysterious invitation to the secret halls of the Royal Palace, he cannot refuse. What he finds there, and the quest on which he embarks, will change his life, and put everything he thought he believed, and everything he loves, at risk.

The Book of Shadows

Tutankhamun

A vivid portrait of the English singer-songwriter and musician Nick Drake Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician, known for his acoustic guitar-based songs. Drake released only three complete albums -- Five Leaves Left (1969), Bryter Layter (1970), Pink Moon (1972) -- and was not well known before his death in 1974. Yet he gained a massive posthumous following, inspiring leading musicians such as R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Robert Smith of The Cure and bands such as Coldplay and The Black Crowes. Forty years after Nick's death, Remembered for a While peels back some of the mystery surrounding his life. The book will feature gorgeous color photographs, as well as original letters and interviews with family and friends. As Nick's sister writes in the introduction, Remembered for a While will reveal "the poet, the musician, the friend, the son, the brother, who was also more than all of these together, and as indefinable as the morning mist." At long last, Remembered for a While paints a portrait of a visionary musician who inspired a fanatical following and whose legacy continues to inspire future generations of musicians -- and the lives of his fans.

Remembered for a While

A concluding installment in the trilogy that includes Nefertiti and Tutankhamun finds the young widow of King Tut struggling to maintain power by dispatching loyal chief detective Rahotep to forge a dubious alliance with the militant Hittites. 25,000 first printing.

The Book of Chaos

Egypt

he poems collected in Nick Drake's fourth collection Out of Range explore the strange interconnections and confronting anxieties of the early 21st century - or the Anthropocene. Here are poems about the life stories of incandescent lightbulbs, plastic bottles and mobile phones, and the mystery of the life, death and afterlife of Alan Turing, the inventor of the modern computer. The past echoes in poems about the ancient artists who recorded their presence in cave art, Spanish missionaries thrilled by Aztec ball games, and a story of gay love from the Song dynasty. Above all, the poems seek to tune into what is out of range; the dark matter of mystery, wonder and deep time, out there at the edge of our senses, and at the back of our heads, beyond our control.

Out of Range

Drake's 'From The Word Go' explores the different meanings and implications which are tightly packed into that small word - from departures on journeys in this world and beyond it, through expulsions from homes, places and relationships, to the possibilities of adventure and new discovery.

From the Word Go

Here is an exiled poet in an English seaside asylum, a winter night spent in the spooky penthouse suite of Ceausescu's vanished daughter, and a scientist trying to calculate the heart's square root. Londoner Nick Drake's debut collection portrays and celebrates a richly varied cast of characters. He deserves careful attention as one of the poets likeliest to maintain England's ever-transshifting but still splendid poetic tradition.--Harvard Review

The Man in the White Suit

The poems in The Farewell Glacier grew out of a journey to the High Arctic. In late 2010 Nick Drake sailed around Svalbad, an archipelago of islands 500 miles north of Norway, with Cape Farewell, the arts climate change organisation. It was the end of the Arctic summer. The sun took eight hours to set. When the sky briefly darkened, the Great Bear turned about their heads as it had for Pythias the Greek, the first European known to have explored this far north. Sailing as close as possible to the vast glaciers that dominate the islands, they saw polar bear prints on pieces of pack ice the size of trucks. And they tried to understand the effects of climate change on the ecosystem of this most crucial and magnificent part of the world. Nick Drake's new collection gathers together voices from across the Arctic past - explorers, whalers, mapmakers, scientists, financiers, the famous and the forgotten - as well as attempting to give voice to the confronting mysteries of the high Arctic: the animal spirits, the shape-shifters and the powers of ice and tundra. It looks into the future, to the year 2100, when this glorious winter Eden will have vanished forever. Many of the poems from The Farewell Glacier were included in the ground-breaking High Arctic exhibition, installed at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich from July 2011 to January 2012, which received substantial national publicity, including a feature on BBC Radio 4's Front Row and national press reviews. 'A scintillating collection of poems...;a mastery of form and tone, and a simple, uncontrived unravelling of emotional and psychological complexities...; If you care about words; if you care about the impossibility but the nobility of trying to express the ineffable in language that is accessible but that stuns, then haunts you, buy this book' - Lloyd Rees, Envoi 'Subtle, funny and tremendously moving. He has an eye for the small detail as well as the big picture. These poems brilliantly evoke time and place' - Jackie Kay

The Farewell Glacier

Becky Drake

Multi-generational worship is important for most church leaders, worship teams, and children's workers - but how can you truly engage everyone so that all age worship can thrive in your church? Worship for Everyone offers an inspiring vision crucial for bringing longevity and life to all age worship as well as a practical guide bursting with ideas and resources. Nick and Becky Drake, pioneers in multi-generational worship ministry, provide a theology for bringing all ages together that draws on their years of experience. Alongside this they give advice and tips on running intergenerational worship sessions and dealing with the many challenges that face the church in producing meaningful all age worship. Worship for Everyone contains all the resources pastors, children's workers and church leaders need to run all age worship services. Service plans, talks, recommended songs, Bible readings and more are all included, so you can make your all age worship engaging and significant for every generation. This is a book for anyone with a heart to see new generations engaging with God.

Unlocking the Transforming Power of All-Age Worship

Worship For Everyone

'Probably the most ambitious, generous and thorough volume about a musician to see publication' Mouth Magazine The authorised companion to the music of Nick Drake, compiled, composed and edited by Cally Callomon and Gabrielle Drake, with contributions from Nick's friends, critics, adherents, family, and from Nick Drake himself. Remembered For A While is not a biography. It is, rather, an attempt to cast a few shards of light on Nick Drake the poet, the musician, the singer, the friend, son and brother, who was also more than all of these. We hope it will accompany all those in search of an elusive artist, whose haunting presence defies analysis. The book contains: * In-depth interviews with many of Nick's friends, most notably Paul Wheeler, Nick's close friend from Cambridge days, a singer-songwriter who, of all Nick's friends, perhaps best understood, from personal experience, Nick's journey through musical creation to despair and back again. * A selection of photos from all eras - some never seen before - with reproductions of documents such as the scrapbook Molly Drake kept of her son's press cuttings, and the original and rejected album covers. * Images of Nick's handwritten and typed lyrics, including the lyrics of some songs for which the music has never been found. * Newly commissioned pieces by Nick's friends Jeremy Harmer, Brian Wells, Robin Frederick and the poet Will Stone. Contributions also from the sleeve designer Michael Trevithick, Island Records's Ann Sullivan and the photographer and artist Nigel Waymouth. *Extracts from Nick's letters - part of an extensive correspondence that exists between Nick and his parents, which charts their relationship from the time he first went to boarding school until the time he came home, when his depression had settled upon him and he felt he had nowhere else to go. From this point, Nick's life was documented by his father, Rodney Drake, who kept a detailed diary, as he and his wife Molly struggled to understand their son's state of mind and how to help him. Passages from this poignant record are included. * A short musical guide to each song's key and tuning to accompany the lyrics, together with an explanatory interpretation of Nick's guitar performance, the result of several years close study by singer-songwriter Chris Healey. * A comprehensive guide to all of Nick's live performances. * And a lengthy essay by noted music critic Pete Paphides, which includes interviews with Nick's musical collaborators and friends - his producer Joe Boyd, his recording engineer John Wood and his orchestrator, the late Robert Kirby - as well as descriptions of the recording process of each album.

Durant toute sa vie Nick Drake a produit divers albums d'une beauté étrangement terrifiante et sombre. Avec un peu de recul, ceux-ci ont finalement été reconnus comme étant des accomplissements suprêmes par la scène britannique de folk-rock et tous les auteur/compositeurs de la scène rock. Cette collection unique de 36 chansons contient également des photos rares d'archives et une préface de Robert Kirby, l'orchestrateur et conducteur de Drake.

The Nick Drake Song Collection

Gabrielle Drake

Cally Callomon

El reino de los muertos

Egipto s. XIV a.C., Nefertiti, la reina más carismática de la antigüedad ha desaparecido... ¿Podrá el investigador Rahotep encontrarla antes de que el país se suma en el caos? En el siglo XIV a.C., durante el reinado de Ajnatón y su esposa Nefertiti, la civilización egipcia vive uno de los momentos de mayor esplendor de toda su historia. Una nueva religión se impone: Atón, el dios del sol, es la única divinidad reconocida y el faraón y su esposa, su reencarnación en la tierra. En vísperas de las celebraciones en honor al nuevo dios la reina Nefertiti desaparece. Su búsqueda se encarga a Rahotep, un investigador de Tebas reputado por resolver los casos más complejos. Pero solo dispone de diez días para encontrar a la reina o sufrirá las represalias del faraón. Su investigación le lleva desde la orilla del Nilo hasta los más áridos desiertos, pasando por tumbas prohibidas y las necrópolis más tenebrosas. El éxito le reportará los mayores honores; el fracaso le supondrá el peor de los castigos: la muerte. Con el rigor propio de un historiador y la elegancia y el dinamismo de un novelista de raza, Nick Drake aborda en esta novela uno de los grandes enigmas de la historia: la misteriosa desaparición, que convulsionó a la civilización egipcia, de una reina fascinante y muy poderosa. Reseña: «Un mágico viaje de misterio a través de palacios, secretos paisajes, tumbas y cámaras de tortura.» Evening Standard

El reino de las sombras (Investigador Rai Rahotep 2)

Handel's Messiah is the world's most popular choral work. But its story begins in the unlikely setting of a room above a pub in Chester, when the great composer, detained by bad weather on his way to a season of concerts in Dublin, invites some local choristers to rehearse excerpts. It is not a success. So begins Handel's struggle to stage the premiere of his masterpiece, confronted by seemingly insurmountable challenges, including the tricky librettist Charles Jennens, the actress Susannah Cibber who he trains to sing the most moving arias, and the mysterious Crazy Crow. Nick Drake's divine, musical play premiered at Shakespeare's Globe in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London, in June 2015. All the Angels was revived at same theatre in December 2016.

All the Angels

An Introduction to Nick Drake

Way to Blue

Secretly assigned to solve the disappearance of the enigmatic Egyptian queen, chief detective of ancient Thebes Rai Rahotep finds himself removed from his quaint home village and thrust into a teeming criminal world in which he is a stranger, investigating a case in which his very survival becomes dependent on his success. 25,000 first printing.

Pasadizos oscuros, símbolos amenazantes, venenos letales, crímenes cruentos... Los peores augurios se ciernen sobre el joven faraón Tutankhamón. Un asesino sanguinario amenaza la vida del soberano egipcio y esta depende ahora de la pericia de Rahotep, el investigador del reino. Egipto, año 1.324 a.C. Un joven inválido, con un parecido asombroso al joven faraón Tutankhamón, ha sido asesinado de forma atroz y han hallado su cuerpo maltratado dispuesto según el símbolo egipcio de la muerte. A su vez, una joven prostituta, vestida con las ricas prendas que suelen adornar el cuerpo de la esposa del faraón, ha sido sometida a extraños y mortíferos rituales. Ambas víctimas tienen todos los huesos fracturados. Sea quien sea el despiadado asesino es alguien dotado de una refinada crueldad que pretende atemorizar a los jóvenes faraones. Rahotep, el investigador del reino, es el encargado de esclarecer el caso. Sabe que el criminal pertenece a la nobleza, que domina técnicas de cirugía y que conoce el poder de las sustancias alucinógenas. Rahetep no descansará en su intento de poner a salvo la vida del faraón y el futuro de Egipto. Una emocionante investigación criminal con la que Nick Drake recorre los escabrosos recodos de la mítica Corte del faraón Tutankhamón y nos abre las puertas a un universo lleno de intrigas, oscuridad y terror. La crítica ha dicho... «Nick Drake nos regala la verdadera imagen de una civilización perdida y logra dar vida a Tutankhamón, el fascinante niño rey de destino maldito.» Daily Mail «La oscuridad de la noche y la luz deslumbrante del desierto, efectos inquietantes en la absorbente prosa del autor.» Daily Express

El reino de los muertos (Investigador Rai Rahotep 1)

Tim Hughes

What does it mean to be a worshipper? Together, Tim Hughes and Nick Drake explore who, where, why and how Christians worship, what happens when we do and where the future of worship may take us. With contributions from Graham Kendrick, Lou Fellingham, Kees Kraayenoord, Dr Helen Morris and many more, this book offers a fresh reminder that worship isn't just music and the songs we sing, it is so much more. The Spring Harvest 2021 theme book, Why Worship? will help you reconnect to the purpose and meaning of worship, so that you can grow closer to God individually and as a church community and get the most out of worship. Contributors Tim Hughes, Nick Drake, Dr John Andrews, Dr Helen Morris, Graham Kendrick, Lou Fellingham, Lyn Weston, Kees Kraayenoord, Noel Robinson, Doug Williams, Dr Darell Johnson.

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