'Helen Carr is a really exciting new talent in the world of history writing, whose work strikes a perfect balance between lucidity and scholarship. Publisher: Oneworld Publications ISBN: 9780861543182 Number of pages: 304 Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 23 mm MEDIA REVIEWS this blessed plot').Īn engrossing drama of political machinations, violence, romance and tragedy played out at the cusp of a new era. inspiring Shakespeare to characterise Gaunt in Richard II, in giving the most beautiful oration on England ('this sceptred isle. Helen Carr paints a complex portrait of a man who held the levers of power on the English and European stage, passionately upheld chivalric values, patronised early religious reform and supported a renaissance in art and literature in England. His character and motivations have been hotly disputed: supposed usurper of Richard II's crown and a focus of hatred throughout the latter part of the fourteenth century, culminating in the dramatic Peasants' Revolt and the torching of his home, the Savoy Palace. John of Gaunt was son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the forefather of the Tudors.
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Friends I can’t trust and boys that would only piss me off. “You know, I think I might have to thank Jared for saving me from all this drama over the years. This is how bullies are made I thought, but it still felt good to lash out, and I didn’t want to stop. I was f**king mad, and I wanted her to feel as bad as me. I knew she didn’t want to hurt me, but I just couldn’t listen to it. He has also written a volume of autobiography, The Day Gone By.Richard Adams lives in the south of England with his wife Elizabeth, who is an expert on English ceramic history, and has two grown-up daughters, Juliet and Rosamond. He wrote the poetry for The Tyger Voyage, illustrated by Nicola Bayley, and The Ship's Cat, illustrated by Alan Aldridge, and edited an anthology of modern poetry entitled Occasional Poets. He also collaborated on Nature through the Seasons and Nature Day and Night (with Max Hooper and David A. His subsequent novels are The Plague Dogs (1977), The Girl in the Swing (1980), Maia (1984) and Traveller (1988), and his other books include The Iron Wolf and Other Stories, The Bureaucats, A Nature Diary and, in collaboration with Ronald Lockley, Voyage through the Antarctic. Watership Down was awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian award for children's fiction for 1972.In 1974 he retired from the Civil Service to devote himself to writing, and in that year he published Shardik, his second novel. In the mid-sixties he completed his first novel, Watership Down, the story of which he originally told to his children to while away a long car journey. He served in the Second World War and in 1948 joined the Civil Service. Richard Adams was born in Berkshire in 1920 and studied history at Bradfield and Worcester College, Oxford. |