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Николас Шекспир
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man
ISBN: 9780063012240 Год издания: 2023 Издательство: Harper Язык: Английский Аннотация
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than anything he wrote. Ian's childhood with his gifted brother Peter and his extraordinary mother set the pattern for his ambition to be “the complete man,” and he would strive for the means to achieve this “completeness'”all his life. Only a thriller writer for his last twelve years, his dramatic personal life and impressive career in Naval Intelligence put him at the heart of critical moments in world history, while also providing rich inspiration for his fiction. Exceptionally well connected, and widely travelled, from the United States and Soviet Russia to his beloved Jamaica, Ian had access to the most powerful political figures at a time of profound change. Nicholas Shakespeare is one of the most gifted biographers working today. His talent for uncovering material that casts new light on his subjects is fully evident in this masterful, definitive biography. His unprecedented access to the Fleming archive and his nose for a story make this a fresh and eye-opening picture of the man and his famous creation. -
Николас Шекспир
Stories from Other Places
ISBN: 9781784701017 Год издания: 2022 Издательство: Vintage Books Аннотация
Nicholas Shakespeare’s collected stories take us around the globe and into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face.
The opening novella, ‘Oddfellows’, tells the little-known history of the only enemy attack on Australian soil during the Great War, when, in January 1915, the outback town of Broken Hill was rocked by horrifying events.
From this dramatic First World War encounter, we are taken to the faded glamour of 1960s Bombay, to a Bolivian mining town in 1908 where civic folly is running amok, and to an Argentinian farm presided over by a former air stewardess and her husband.
Across ocean and continents, these are stories of connection and disconnection, misunderstanding and missed opportunities, identity and displacement. -
Николас Шекспир
The Sandpit
ISBN: 9781787301764 Год издания: 2020 Язык: Английский Аннотация
Who do you trust with a secret that could save the world - or destroy it?
'A remarkable contemporary thriller - with shades of Graham Greene and Le Carré about it...Brilliantly observed, captivatingly written, grippingly narrated - a triumph' William Boyd
When John Dyer returns to Oxford from Brazil with his young son, he doesn't expect to find them both in danger. His time living on the edge as a foreign correspondent in Rio is over.
Yet the rainy st -
Николас Шекспир
Priscilla: The Hidden Life ...
ISBN: 0062297031 Год издания: 2014 Издательство: Harper Язык: Английский Аннотация
A transcendent work of narrative nonfiction in the vein of The Hare with Amber Eyes-at once a stunning story of detection, a loving portrait of a flawed women trying to survive in terrible times, and a spellbinding slice of history
"A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a family heroine, now a study in female wiles of survival, now a portrait of one very ordinary person's frailty in the face of terrible odds."-John le Carré
When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a trunk full of his late aunt's personal belongings, he was unaware of where this discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden past. The glamorous, mysterious figure he remembered from his childhood was very different from the morally ambiguous young woman who emerged from the trove of love letters, journals and photographs, surrounded by suitors and living the precarious existence of a British citizen in a country controlled by the enemy.
As a young boy, Shakespeare had always believed that his aunt was a member of the Resistance and had been tortured by the Germans. The truth turned out to be far more complicated. -
Shakespeare, Nicholas
Priscilla
ISBN: 9780099555667 Год издания: 2014 Язык: Английский Аннотация
The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a French aristocrat. But the arrival of the Nazi tanks signalled the end of life as a Vicomtesse, and the beginning of a precarious existence under German Occupation. Over half a century later, her nephew, Nicholas Shakespeare, found a box of Priscilla's notebooks and journals. He began investigating the rumours that she had escaped a prisoner-of-war camp and fought for the Resistance - and he finally unearthed the truth behind suspicions of disreputable love affairs and far darker secrets. -
Николас Шекспир
Priscilla
ISBN: 9781846554834 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Harvill Secker Язык: Английский Аннотация
The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.
'A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a family heroine, now a study in female wiles of survival, now a portrait of one very ordinary person's frailty in the face of terrible odds.' John le Carré
When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a box of documents belonging to his late aunt he was completely unaware of where this discovery would take him. The Priscilla he remembered was very different from the glamorous, morally ambiguous young woman who emerged from the many love letters and journals, surrounded by suitors and living the dangerous existence of a British woman in a country controlled by the enemy. He had heard rumours that Priscilla had fought in the Resistance, but the truth turned out to be far more complicated.
As he investigated his aunt's life, dark secrets emerged. Nicholas discovered the answer to the questions he'd been puzzling over: what caused the breakdown of Priscilla's marriage to a French aristocrat? Why had she been interned in a prisoner-of-war camp and how had she escaped? And who was the 'Otto' she was having a relationship with as Paris was liberated?
Priscilla's story shows us the precariousness of life in occupied France, when loyalties were compromised and life could change in an instant. It gives us an intimate insight into women's lives in times of conflict and asks us to consider what we might do to survive in similar circumstances. -
Shakespeare, Nicholas
Inheritance
ISBN: 9780099540465 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Vintage Books Язык: Английский Аннотация
What would you do if you suddenly and unexpectedly inherited ?17million? This is what happens to Andy Larkham, recently jilted lover, and resentfully underpaid publishing minion. Arriving late to the funeral of his favourite schoolteacher, he ends up in the wrong chapel with one other mourner, too embarrassed to leave. Pressured to sign the register, little does he realise what effect that signature will have upon his life. The extraordinary story that follows tells of one man's failed love, the temptations of unanticipated wealth, the secrets of damaged families and the price of being true to oneself. It is a romance for our times. -
Shakespeare, Nicholas
Secrets of the Sea
ISBN: 9780099507772 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Vintage Язык: Английский Аннотация
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Shakespeare, Nicholas
Dancer Upstairs
ISBN: 9780099466567 Год издания: 2009 Язык: Английский Аннотация
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Николас Шекспир
High Flyer
ISBN: 9780099466185 Год издания: 2009 Язык: Английский Аннотация
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