Antonia - Libros y biografía

The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians.Antonia Fraser's magical memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and '40s, but its real concern is with her...

With uncompromising clarity, in her careful, delicate prose, antonia White looks at the pains and joys of growing up, of falling in and out of love, the borderlands between love and loneliness, sanity...

When Clara returns home from the convent of her childhood to begin life at a local girls' school, she is at a loss: although she has comparative freedom, she misses the discipline the nuns imposed and...

Ethan is an exceptionally gifted young boy, obsessed with physics and astronomy. His single mother Claire is fiercely protective of her brilliant, vulnerable son. But she can't shield him forever from...

'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined young girl and an authoritarian regime is both perceptive and painfully emotional, convincing...

The two-year revolution that totally changed how Britain is governed.Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser's new book brilliantly evokes one year of pre-Victorian political and social history...

Nine ebooks from the bestselling historian Antonia Fraser, shedding light on some of the most fascinating and controversial people and events of European history.MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTSMary, Queen of Scots...

WINNER OF THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2014.Longlisted for the John Creasey Dagger Award for best debut crime novel of 2014.London, 1727 - and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games,...

'In a tale that more than matches its predecessors for pace and atmosphere, Hawkins is forced into confrontation with a psychopathic killer...hugely enjoyable' The Sunday Times'You will burn.'Late spring,...

London, 1728. A young, well-dressed man is driven through streets of jeering onlookers to the gallows at Tyburn. They call him a murderer. But Tom Hawkins is innocent and somehow he has to prove it, before...

For readers of On Trails, this is an incisive, utterly engaging exploration of walking: how it is fundamental to our being human, how we've designed it out of our lives, and how it is essential that we...

Cet ouvrage aborde la question des traits positifs et des ressources psychologiques  (intelligence émotionnelle, empathie, estime de soi, optimisme...), un sujet central dans le champ de la psychologie...

Platon pourrait-il être considéré comme le précurseur de la grammaire philosophique — cette discipline à laquelle la philosophie analytique a donné ses titres de noblesse ? Cette question, reprise à partir...

'One of the must-reads of the year.' Manda Scott I am Somerled. The summer warrior. What am I, if not a warrior? In twelfth-century Scotland, far removed from the courtly manners of the Lowland, the...

[Senior's] vivid characters [capture] this chaotic era with a lively sense of how it must have felt to those living through it - The TimesA court without a kingdom, a kingdom without a king... England,...

Après avoir rejeté un prétendant indésirable, Joanne est envoyée par son père chez une tante dans l’espoir que l’exil la convaincra d’accepter cette proposition. À Trerice, cependant, Joanne trouve des...

Everyone is interested in making money from the internet, and this book shows you how. Making Money Online takes you step by step through the process of building an online profile, finding fans, creating...

'This groundbreaking study provides a much-needed  philosophical framework for those practising mindfulness  as well as a call to recover the pragmatic and therapeutic dimensions of philosophy.' - Stephen...

In this important new work, the author analyses the contributions that our Ministers for Education made to the Irish education system between the years 1919 and 1999. Covering the social, economic and...

One of Lady Antonia Fraser's gripping Jemima Shore mysteries, set in a secluded nunnery.'I lit the candle and began rather gingerly to climb up the ladder. Then I heard a distinct sound above my head....

In The Bush Agenda, Antonia Juhasz exposes a radical corporate globalization agenda that has been refined by leading members and allies of the Bush administration over decades and reached its fullest,...

Sixteen-year-old April Smith is an everyday high school student living in Wisconsin, USA, whose utterly ordinary life takes a drastic turn at the sound of voices in the night. April is compelled to follow...

- wundervolles Mutmachbuch zum Vorlesen (ab 5 J.) - liebevoll gezeichnete Bilder - verständliche Sprache Der sechsjährige Ole wurde mit Hilfe eines Samenspenders gezeugt und lebt mit seinen beiden Mamas...

Welcome to London, but not as you know it. Oxford Street burned for three weeks; Regent's Park has been bombed; the British Museum is occupied by those with nowhere else to go.Lalla has grown up sheltered...

Ein Aussiedlerhof in der Holsteinischen Schweiz. Schutzpolizistin Franziska Wilde und Karo, die Besitzerin des Hofes, stehen am Fenster und blicken hinaus auf einen Windpark. Karos Sohn Jan wird verdächtigt,...

Nele Peters aus Bad Segeberg kehrt von einer Party am Kalkberg nicht nach Hause zurück. Kriminalkommissar Steffen Hinrichs hat einen mörderischen Verdacht: Sie nennen ihn Walker. Alles, was sie von ihm...

A razor-sharp and achingly funny memoir of the men and movies that shaped one woman’s life… A unique memoir, ‘Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers’ is the story of how a young female...

'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals' Sunday TimesCAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who wanted...

Though he is the youngest son of a royal duke, Etan is a scholar at heart, happiest in a library surrounded by his books. He contentedly juggles his work for the prince's government with his studies of...

Voici le récit de la passion totale (sentimentale, physique, intellectuelle, politique) que suscita chez Walter Benjamin une femme b eaucoup plus connue et libre que lui à l’époque, mais rendue invisible...