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Люси Джейго — новинки
- 8 изданий на 2 языках
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Сеть для мелкой рыбки Люси Джейго
ISBN: 978-5-907500-14-3 Год издания: 2022 Издательство: Аркадия Язык: Русский Лондон начала XVII века. Юная аристократка Фрэнсис Говард, супруга жестокого графа Эссекского, красива, знатна и богата, но глубоко несчастна в браке. Случай сводит ее с дерзкой женой врача Энн Тёрнер, и две женщины неожиданно сближаются, поверяя друг другу сокровенные мечты: Фрэнсис жаждет вырваться из ловушки постылого брака и воссоединиться с возлюбленным, а недавно овдовевшая Энн бьется изо всех сил, чтобы прокормить детей. Так рождается отчаянный план, способный изменить их судьбу, однако плести интриги при дворе Стюарта — дело опасное, и одна ошибка может стоить жизни. -
A Net for Small Fishes Люси Джейго
ISBN: 9781526616654 Год издания: 2021 Издательство: Bloomsbury Frances Howard has beauty and a powerful family – and is the most unhappy creature in the world.
Anne Turner has wit and talent – but no stage on which to display them. Little stands between her and the abyss of destitution.
When these two very different women meet in strange circumstances, a powerful friendship is sparked. Frankie sweeps Anne into a world of splendour that exceeds all she imagined: a Court whose foreign king is a stranger to his own subjects; where ancient families fight for power, and where the sovereign's favourite may rise and rise – so long as he remains in favour.
Anne and Frankie dare to seek a little happiness for themselves in this extravagant, savage hunting ground. But as they gain notice, they also gain enemies; what began as a search for love and safety leads to desperate acts that could cost them everything.
Based on the true scandal that rocked the court of James I, A Net for Small Fishes is the most gripping novel you'll read this year: an exhilarating dive into the pitch-dark waters of the Jacobean court. -
A Net for Small Fishes Люси Джейго
ISBN: 9781526616616 Год издания: 2021 Издательство: Bloomsbury Язык: Английский A GUARDIAN SUMMER READING PICK
'Sumptuous … If you're feeling bereft after finishing The Mirror and the Light, let Jago transport you to the Jacobean court' Telegraph
'A bravura historical debut … a gloriously immersive escape' Guardian
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A Net for Small Fishes Люси Джейго
ISBN: 978-1526616623 Год издания: 2021 Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Frances Howard has beauty and a powerful family - and is the most unhappy creature in the world.
Anne Turner has wit and talent - but no stage on which to display them. Little stands between her and the abyss of destitution.
When these two very different women meet in the strangest of circumstances, a powerful friendship is sparked. Frankie sweeps Anne into a world of splendour that exceeds all she imagined: a Court whose foreign king is a stranger to his own subjects; where ancient families fight for power, and where the sovereign's favourite may rise and rise - so long as he remains in favour.
With the marriage of their talents, Anne and Frankie enter this extravagant, savage hunting ground, seeking a little happiness for themselves. But as they gain notice, they also gain enemies; what began as a search for love and safety leads to desperate acts that could cost them everything. -
Montacute House Люси Джейго
ISBN: 9780747597957 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Bloomsbury Язык: Английский Cess works caring for the chickens at Montacute House but on her thirteenth birthday everything changes. She finds a precious locket hidden in the chicken coop and is convinced someone has placed it there for her to find. But the day is overshadowed by fear as a boy's body is found by the river, and then when William disappears, Cess is accused by the villagers of bewitching her best friend.
Cess is determined to find William and prov -
Montacute House Люси Джейго
ISBN: 9781408803776 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC At first a boy’s body is discovered, then John, Cess’s best friend, disappears . . . What is the mystery behind these sinister events?
Cess works caring for the chickens at Montacute House but on her thirteenth birthday everything changes. She finds a precious locket hidden in the chicken coop and is convinced someone has placed it there for her to find. But the day is overshadowed by fear as a boy’s body is found by the river, and then John disappears. Cess is determined to find him but is soon embroiled in a plot that threatens her world and forces her to draw on powers she never knew she possessed, powers that will place her life in danger if they are discovered by the villagers. Witchcraft, politics and religious ambition combine in this gripping and wonderfully realised novel set in the Somerset of the 1500s. -
Regency House Party Люси Джейго
ISBN: 978-0316726580 Год издания: 2004 Издательство: Sphere Язык: Английский Tying in with the 8-part prime time Channel 4 series, REGENCY HOUSE PARTY will follow 5 men and 5 women as they meet, flirt and court within the same strict protocols as Jane Austen's heroes and heroines, e.g. all women must be chaperoned, a woman should never encourage a man, a man should never touch a young lady, etc. Each participant will be designated a role and an income, which will dictate their social standing - although at any point this could change and one of the poorer guests could inherit a fortune, or a rich one suffer a crippling debt - and each chapter of the book will focus on a particular character or couple. The…
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The Northern Lights Люси Джейго
ISBN: 978-0375708824 Год издания: 2001 Издательство: Knopf Throughout the ages, the lights of the aurora borealis were believed to be messengers of gods, signs of apocalypse, or souls of the dead; even the most sophisticated scientists misapprehended their cause. Now Lucy Jago tells the story of the science--and the romance--behind the Northern Lights as she traces the grand adventure of the life of the visionary Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland.
At the age of thirty-one, Birkeland set out on a lifelong, increasingly compulsive quest to discover the origins of the aurora borealis. He traveled across some of the most forbidding landscapes on Earth, from the ice mountains of Norway to the deserts of Africa, against a backdrop of war and political upheaval. Along the way, Birkeland made some remarkable discoveries and inventions, such as the idea of hearing aids for deaf patients; of making caviar from cod roe; and of using the force of cathode rays to propel rockets. No country's armed forces ever adopted his electromagnetic cannon, but the technology has since been adapted and extended to make "railguns" (electromagnetic mass accelerators) for the American Strategic Defense Initiative--the so-called "Star Wars" Defense.
Ultimately, Kristian Birkeland's obsession with the workings of the cosmos cost him his health, his happiness, and his sanity--perhaps even his life. He spent his final days in exile in Egypt, and died in 1917 in Japan, under suspicious circumstances, his groundbreaking theories unheralded; he was cheated of the Nobel Prize by a rival. But now Birkeland?s ideas are considered to have been prophetic, and they have furthered our understanding not only of the Northern Lights but also of electromagnetism, comets, and the sun.
Exhaustively researched and thrillingly told, the previously unknown story of Kristian Birkeland is an enthralling--and enlightening--saga.