Reay Tannahill

The greatest prize and the most deadly - the crown of England Reay Tannahill's enthralling novel is a family saga in the grand tradition, a tale of brother against brother, cousin against cousin, of love, hate and intrigue, of women inescapably entangled in the fates of their men, and of a mystery that has exercised people's minds for more than five hundred years. At the heart of it all is the complex human being known to history as Richard III, a king whose reign is darkened by the murder of the young Princes in the Tower, but who also found a touching love with the woman he married, and possessed immense courage. Here, brought vividly to life in this most moving novel, is a man who inspired loyalty and hatred in almost equal measure, until at last the implacable enmity of one woman brought about his downfall.

The Seventh Son

Surveys the evolution of man's diverse gastronomic habits, customs, and traditions against their cultural and historical background

Food in History

Sex in History

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A history of the cannibal complex

Flesh and blood

In fifteenth-century Scotland, Bishop Gavin Cameron of Kinveil, the chancellor of Scotland, is determined to stop Archdeacon Columba Crozier's plot to destroy the king

The World, the Flesh, and the Devil

'An ancient brooding castle... a dispossessed child... a lifelong passion for one errant man... wars, crises and feuds... ' WASHINGTON POST. Reay Tannahill's great bestseller is the story of an extraordinary woman's determination to win back her birthright - the remote and beautiful West Highland castle of Kinveil - sold by her father to a Glasgow merchant when she was seven years old. It is also the intricate picture of a family in the heyday of the British Empire, an epic story spanning almost a hundred years and stretching from Edinburgh to the Crimea, from an expanding America to the India of the Raj.

A Dark and Distant Shore

A long, cool and entertaining look at sexual attitudes, customs and practices in all the world's major civilizations past and present. Drawing on art, architecture, literature and theology, as well as a whole alphabet of scientific disciplines, the author places that great imperative of humanity - the sex drive - in its widest historical perspective. More than a history of sex alone it is a history of relationships between the sexes and a history of how sex and sexuality have influenced the whole course of human development.

The Fine Art of Food

Tassie Smith's childhood is violently disrupted when a stranger appears on her mother Grace's, doorstep claiming to have inherited the family house and fortuneIt emerges that he is Tassie's long-lost brother, and, after a tricky start, shesoon begins to hero-worship him. But as her life unfolds it becomes apparent that there is very much more to brother Max than meets the eye, and that he has some powerful enemies - not least the man with whom Tassie herself falls in loveReay Tannahill uses wonderful period detail to evoke the Highlands, Glasgow and turn-of-the-century office life in London in this splendid story of family passion and skulduggery.

Return of the Stranger

Two women, born to different worlds, tied unknowingly by blood - and locked in bitter rivalry for the Highland estate, and the man they both lay claim to... Sophie - wilful, entrancing toast of exotic Hong Kong blissfully immune to the deceitful deals, clash of cultures, and growing menace of the opium trade that threaten her beloved city. Rachel - subtle and stubborn, plucked from the slums of Victorian London to a new life and status in the remote Scottish castle of Juran - then faced with the loss of what has become her obsession. Ranier Blake - clever, manipulative banker with interests in Scotland and Hong Kong - and in both women. And Blake alone knows the tangled history of Rachel, Sophie and Juran... From vivid Hong Kong to Scotland's stormy west coast, the two women play out their passions against a background of intrigue and violence. But only one can win what they both so desire...

In Still and Stormy Waters

Brought up in France, Mary returned to Scotland as a widow at eighteen to take up her throne. Beautiful, clever, with immense personal charm, she was totally unprepared for the brutal realities of ruling a country just emerging from civil war. In an era when religion and politics were one and the same, the inevitable clash between Catholic queen and Protestant subjects was intensified by the most bitter personal rivalries, and Mary found herself in ever-increasing danger: from the fearsome John Knox, who preached damnation to queens and death to Catholics; from her sanctimonious and ambitious brother; from her brilliant secretary of state; and from Elizabeth I, dazzling and unscrupulous, who feared Mary as a threat to her own throne ...

Fatal Majesty

Thāb ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd

الجزء الأول

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Is cannibalism the oldest taboo in the world? By no means. Man has been eating his fellow man for over half a million years, and only in the last two thousand has the practice ceased to be respectable. The author, after many encounters (in the literary sense) with cannibalism while researching, has written the first book in English to cover every aspect of the subject.

A History of the Cannibal Complex

Flesh and Blood

Sex in History X10 S/W Whs

Presenting a history of cannibalism, this text shows how in primitive times, human game was treated just as any other, and both the prophet Muhammed and Richard the Lionheart consumed the bodies of their enemies. Also covered are modern-day cannibals such as Chikatilo and Hannibal Lecter.

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