![]() ![]() This was a story filled with more magic than one can almost bare. ![]() As she begins to understand why a nation once believed in fairies, will Olivia find a way to believe in herself? Read more As Olivia is drawn into events a century ago, she becomes aware of the past and the present intertwining, blurring her understanding of what is real and what is imagined. One year later… When Olivia Kavanagh finds an old manuscript and a photograph in her late grandfather’s bookshop, she becomes fascinated by the story of the two young girls who mystified the world. ![]() But when the great novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorses the photographs’ authenticity, the girls become a sensation, their discovery offering something to believe in amid a world ravaged by war. The New York Times bestselling author turns the clock back to a time when two young girls convinced the world that fairies really did exist…ġ917: When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, England, announce they have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. ![]()
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Its essential to know before making your purchase. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find. ![]() Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is an exceedingly well-done and riveting account of these gruesome murders. Presented in the fashion of a true crime case His Bloody Project is in fact a fictional, historical and literary ‘mystery’ novel if you will. His Bloody Project is a mesmerising literary thriller set in an unforgiving landscape where the rules can change but justice is absolute. In this compelling and original novel, using the words of the accused, personal testimony, transcripts from the trial and newspaper reports, Graeme MacRae Burnet tells a moving story about the provisional nature of the truth, even when the facts are plain. Was he insane? Or was this the act of a man in possession of his senses? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between the killer and the gallows at Inverness. ![]() And why did he kill his other two victims? After a brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands, a young man by the name of Roderick MacRae is arrested for the crime.Ī memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but the police and the courts must decide what drove him to murder the local village constable. Shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2016. ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly Jane is at the heart of a 200-year-old mystery that still has the power to put lives on the line. ![]() But as she pursues each new lead, death follows hard on her heels. Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham, herself a native of the Lake District, feels compelled to discover once and for all whether the manuscript ever existed-and whether it still exists today. In her latest, The Grave Tattoo, McDermid writes with a serene confidence that allows her to delve deeply into the lives of any number of credible characters, hooking us on their personal. ![]() And once there, what if he could tell his story to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, who turned it into a long narrative poem-a poem that remained hidden lest it expose Wordsworth to the gallows for harboring a fugitive? For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian, made infamous by Mutiny on the Bounty, staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. Bounty.Īfter torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, a long-disregarded old wives' tale takes on a chilling new plausibility. Based on Val McDermid’s best selling novel The Last Temptation, Falls the Shadow sees a confused Tony named as the main suspect when an Experimental Psychologist’s mutilated body is discovered in her hotel room, with Dr Hill’s blood and fingerprints all over the crime scene. In The Grave Tattoo, suspense master Val McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. ![]() ![]() Harry Martinson was born in Jämshög, Sweden on May 6, 1904. This volume is the first complete English language version and received the prestigious American Scandinavian Foundation Award. It has been translated into seven languages and adapted into a popular avant-garde opera. Aniara is a book of prophecy, a panoramic view of humanity's possible fate. ![]() A malfunction knocks the craft off course, taking these would-be Mars colonists on an irreversible journey into deep space. Aniara is the story of a luxurious space ship, loaded with 8,000 evacuees, fleeing an Earth made uninhabitable by Man's technological arrogance. The great Swedish writer Harry Martinson published his masterpiece, Aniara, during the height of the Cold War - right after the Soviet Union announced that it had exploded the hydrogen bomb. ![]() Aniara is the story of a luxurious space ship, loaded with. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The need to outsmart one’s enemy frequently led to ground-breaking innovations during World War II, yet the women who worked at Bletchley have often been overlooked in this story because, with the exception of three or four female cryptanalysts, the vast majority of top-end code-breakers during the war were men. It is a feat perhaps only rivalled by that of Tommy Flowers, the engineer who designed the even more advanced Colossus, the world’s first programmable computer. His outstanding role in the creation of the bombe machine, an electro-mechanical testing device essential for unravelling German Enigma encoded messages, was hugely significant. Britain’s codebreaking operation has been dominated by a male narrative – a star-studded cast of 20th century brain boxes, led by mathematician Alan Turing. ![]() 2019 was the 100th anniversary of GCHQ, once called the Government Code and Cipher School (GC&CS) and the brainchild behind one of World War II’s most famous institutions: Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.ĭuring the war, Bletchley depended on the heft of a predominantly female workforce yet Joan Clarke, the code-breaking fiancée of Alan Turing (immortalised by Keira Knightley in the 2014 film The Imitation Game) is one of Bletchley’s very few famous woman. ![]() ![]() But the tortuous journey started with the anticipated disgust of our neighbours. ![]() ![]() Three decades of acrimony and unhappiness later, Mum and Dad finally got on board with the idea of a gay son, so the story has a happy ending. Instead, she and Dad would have to drive to the next town for the groceries, and this was an awful prospect because people in our town looked down on the next town and thought their shops inferior. ![]() Her second was to declare that, since this devastating revelation, shopping locally would no longer be possible. When I came out in the mid 70s, my mother’s appalled reaction was to ask me how I expected her “ever to face the neighbours again?”. They certainly weren’t up for anything interesting, only in doing what they’d always done getting their children into good schools, spending a fortune relandscaping their quaint gardens, patronising the golf club and supporting the Queen. If they wouldn’t do something, we couldn’t either. Such questions made it clear to me that, on every topic, their neighbourly judgement should be considered trustworthier than our own. “What would the neighbours think?” was a question often posed by one or other of my parents. Growing up in an intensely wooded London suburb, I had a strong suspicion that our neighbours played a big part in the plan for grand conformity. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has teamed up with Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn, and together they are wreaking havoc. ![]() He targets a new thief on the prowl who seems cleverer than most. ![]() Gotham City is ripe for the taking. Meanwhile, Luke Fox wants to prove he has what it takes to help people in his role as Batwing. She quickly discovers that with Batman off on a vital mission, Batwing is left to hold back the tide of notorious criminals. It's time to see how many lives this cat really has. Two years after escaping Gotham City's slums, Selina Kyle returns as the mysterious and wealthy Holly Vanderhees. Maas. When the Bat's away, the Cat will play. The highly anticipated coming-of-age story of kick-ass super hero: CATWOMAN by international bestselling author Sarah J. ![]() ![]() ![]() I do not like Savio's promiscuous behavior especially after the engagement was made official. ![]() ![]() I have very mixed feelings about this story. Savio has to decide how much work he’s willing to invest, because bending the rules in his usual style might not be enough to get the girl that haunts his wet dreams. When she’s promised to another man, Gemma resigns herself to the fact that the man she’s wanted all her life, doesn’t want her badly enough. Gemma Bazzoli has had a crush on Savio from the first moment she came face to face with his arrogant smile, but for him she was always his best friend's annoying little sister-until her hard-earned curves catch even his attention.īut Savio likes it easy, and Gemma is anything but. Settling down is out of the question, no matter how hot a piece of ass waits at the altar. For Savio to get Gemma he’d need to seal the deal and put a ring on her finger. Unfortunately, the hottest girl in Vegas comes with a price Savio isn’t willing to pay. ![]() With his easy-going bad boy attitude, a last name that rules over Las Vegas and a body to die for, girls have always been at Savio’s disposal. Spread their legs without much prompting.Īnd leave as soon as the fun is over. Savio Falcone has a few non-negotiable rules when it comes to girls. ![]() |