Day and a Life, Paperback - Penelope Wilcock

The ninth and final volume in The Hawk and the Dove series, which follows a variety of characters through the monastic day.

Reducere. 14th century Yorkshire: the time of Chaucer. Peregrine, strong and beloved abbot of St Alcuin's monastery, suffers a stroke. Now incapacitated, he ...

Reducere. 14th-century Yorkshire, the time of Chaucer Father Peregrine is appointed Abbot of St. Alcuin's Benedictine abbey. An arrogant, impatient man, a ha...

Many Christians still feel uneasy about the idea that women are equal, preferring to speak of complementary roles, rather than genuine equality. Th...

Get into the heart of Advent with Pen Wilcock and discover what Christmas really means to Jesus as he talks to her about God, the universe and a fe...

The Prix Goncourt-winning noir author is back with a novel that begins with a murdered dog and a missing child in the final days of 1999. The life ...

Reducere. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW' S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle TimesWinner of the Plut...

Settled into the drowsy village life of Laddenham, where she is playing camp follower to her highly successful husband - clever, agnostic and inter...

This is not your usual 'I grew up as a white person in Africa' combined with an 'I worked in a difficult, dangerous place and this is what happened...

Citind aceasta carte vom descoperi misterele tot mai adanci ale spatiului, timpului, energiei, constiintei. Vom explora subiecte fascinante cum ar ...

When psychotherapist Helen Brunswick is murdered in her Park Slope office, the entire city suspects her estranged husband - until the District Atto...

Reducere. One of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history's most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O'Brian's ...

Publisher: Amazon PublishingAuthor(s): Carol WyerNumber of pages: 364Collection: Detective Kate YoungPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 172 x 197 x ...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Penelope F. GudgePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 233 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescoper...

Reducere. Helen of Troy's story is well known. Hers was the "face that launched a thousand ships", started a ten-year war and brought about Troy's destructio...

This is a book of survival and strength against all odds when a young married woman and her husband along with others are shipwrecked at Sandy Hook...

Reducere. We all have as human beings certain deep desires and longings. We want to be seen. We want to be known. We want to be loved for who we really are. ...

Reducere. A new murder case with ties to a convicted serial killer leads Detective Ellie Hatcher into a twisting investigation with explosive and deadly resu...

Reducere. This is a book to introduce you to "God, love, and to encourage you, and give you hope, give you the motivation and inspiration" to accomplish your...

From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life Penelope Lively takes up her key ...

Reducere. What good is it for a man to gain the world but lose his soul? That is the question GANGSTA must answer when he finds himself on the other end of a...

Publisher: ScribnerAuthor(s): Huma AbedinNumber of pages: 544Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 167 x 241 x 43Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmec...

A full year's worth of daily tips, insights, inspiration, habits, tools, and behaviour changes to help you seize the day and figure out what succes...

The Booker-winning author of }Moon Tiger{ contemplates her life through the lens of experiences in the garden, interspersed with an exploration of ...

Reducere. On the occasion of Mozart's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, read Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life, universally hailed as the Mozart biography of...

Reducere. New poetry book from M.S. Penelope Price's book series collection of POETRY IN MOTION (With Rhyme And Reason) LIFE AND LOVE-Volume 3 of 3 (the tril...

Reducere. A deeply intimate psychological portrait of a young woman's tragic childhood, her reinvention as a successful young artist in the literary circles ...

Reducere. No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story--until now. "Many say I was the best g...

The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years is the most complete telling of his life and times to date.

A comprehensive new biography exploring the greatness and limits of the 'Iron Chancellor', Otto von Bismarck: a political genius who remade Europe ...

A source of inspiration for Mike Leigh's MR TURNER, in this blend of biography and art history, the author introduces Turner to a new generation, d...

Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for ten years, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interv...

Publisher: Paul DavidAuthor(s): Paul DavidNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 150 x 210 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

The revealing and deeply moving autobiography of one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century

Translation of: Montaigne: un biographie politique.

Reducere. Since the last full life of G. I. Gurdjieff appeared in 1991, a number of books have corrected received facts and disclosed new information on sele...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Sue PrideauxNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 193 x 138 x 30Cover type: Paperback / ...

Haunted by a mysterious and half remembered event from her early childhood, Marianne's life evolves from her upbringing in Vermont, to her literary...

Reducere. If Sitting Bull is the most famous Indian, Tecumseh is the most revered. He does not stand for one tribe or nation, but for all Native Americans. H...

From the founder of Noughticulture, Rootbound explores how a whole new generation are discovering the power of plants

A beautifully written and moving memoir of one of the great British photographers of the twentieth century. "A moving book, lyrically written, a po...

Reducere. One hundred years ago, Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, for which she won the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911 she won an unprecedented second ...

The first major life of the outstanding British painter - and Jack the Ripper suspect - Walter Sickert (1860-1942), by the highly acclaimed biograp...

Reducere. Combining firsthand scholarship and material drawn from the Jefferson Papers, Willard Sterne Randall calls on his skills as an investigative journa...

An insightful biography of Florence's famous son Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, ...