Rumors are rife that he murdered his mad wife, so his choices for a suitable bride are limited. The problem is, Society has dubbed him The Dastardly Duke. Dominic Winters, the widowed Duke of Dartmoor, needs a wife-someone who will provide him with an heir and help him to manage his spitfire adolescent daughter. As long as she can avoid her high-handed aunts schemes to marry her off. Who knows, perhaps she can court the interest of a wealthy patron for her school. When Artemis is unexpectedly called upon by a dear friend, a fellow Byronic Book Club member, to navigate her first London Season, she comes at once. About the Book Artemis Jones-respectable finishing-school teacher by day and Gothic romance writer by night-has never lost sight of her real dream: to open her own academic ladies college.
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Settling in the Lake District, he spent the late 1920s as a foreign correspondent and highly-respected angling columnist for the Manchester Guardian. He knew many of the leading Bolsheviks, including Lenin, Radek, Trotsky and the latter's secretary, Evgenia Shvelpina. Ransome married Evgenia and returned to England in 1924. His family spent their summers at Nibthwaite, to the south of Coniston Water. In 1902, Ransome abandoned a chemistry degree to become a publisher's office boy in London.Īn interest in folklore, together with a desire to escape an unhappy first marriage, led Ransome to St Petersburg, where he was ideally placed to observe and report on the Russian Revolution. Swallows and Amazons From the publishers website: For anyone who loves sailing and adventure, Arthur Ransomes classic Swallows and Amazons series stands. Arthur Michell Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and educated in Windermere and Rugby. I am in the middle of the road on this one. Could the key to the case be right there-in black and white? As Bruce starts to investigate, what he discovers between the lines is more shocking than any of Nelson’s plot twists-and far more dangerous. And somewhere on Nelson’s computer is the manuscript of his new novel. Bruce begins to wonder if the shady characters in Nelson’s novels might be more real than fictional. Who would want Nelson dead? The local police are overwhelmed in the aftermath of the storm and ill equipped to handle the case. But the nature of Nelson’s injuries suggests that the storm wasn’t the cause of his death: He has suffered several suspicious blows to the head. One of the apparent victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce’s and an author of thrillers. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are leveled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives. Florida’s governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce decides to stay and ride out the storm. Just as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen-even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime. In some ways, it is an advantage not knowing the language, as it has always pulled me to find people who are really close to the experiences of those I wrote about.Ī You make it sound as if I’ve got a scoop. But having lived here for 25 years and having made friends around the country makes it easier. Q Does being a successful author make the job of finding translators, interpreters and leads – the entire network – easier?Ī No. Not only did I have translators but also people who were close to the contexts and experiences of these people as well. Do you speak Urdu or Hindi?Ī I’ve been learning Hindi for the last 25 years, but it is still not as good as it should be. Q Some of your most noted work has dealt with the Mughal era. I’m quite sure no one in this country can speak all the eight languages in this book. Do you understand these languages?Ī With each one of the stories, I had someone to speak the language and also an interpreter. Q Your book has people from diverse states in India. We go to the UK, Australia and some other countries. The book launch is tied with the music programme of these artistes. We’re planning to hold a cultural event where the bauls of Bengal and the other artistes who I write about perform while I go launching my book. Q What happens to the subjects you depict in Nine Lives, now that your book on them is done?Ī Well, I’m on a world tour with some of them. A bad review is like a slap on the face, says William Dalrymple on the release of his latest book, Nine Lives In 1869, he published a two-part article with his ideas about reforming American higher education in The Atlantic Monthly, catching the attention of Harvard businessmen trying to pull the university out of a crisis of short-term presidents and languishing curriculum. Returning home in 1865, Eliot accepted an appointment as professor of analytical chemistry at the newly-founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But his particular concern was with the relation between education and economic growth. He took an interest in every aspect of institutional operation, from curriculum and methods of instruction, to physical arrangements and custodial services. Eliot left Harvard in 1863 and traveled in Europe for nearly two years, studying the educational systems of the Old World. Eliot graduated from Harvard in 1853, and was appointed tutor in mathematics in 1854, before becoming assistant professor of mathematics and chemistry. Charles William Eliot (1834–1926) served as president of Harvard University for 40 years, helping to shape the struggling provincial college into a premier American research university. This might be the first book I have read starring a transgender main character, written by a transgender/transmasculine author. Now Mark has to decide if he can actually stay on the sidelines, or if it’s time to make some noise. When the school chooses to punish Mark’s friend, one of the football players uses the incident to spew hateful rhetoric in the race for student body president. All he has to do is stay quiet and blend in.īut when a younger kid Mark knows strikes back at the football players who bully him for being gay, Mark knows he’s supposed to stay quiet, but he doesn’t feel good about it. And he’s passing no one seems to have any idea that Mark is transgender. The deal with the congressman was that Mark would cut ties with his old life and stay under the radar in exchange for this move. But he can’t join Junior Statesmen of America at his new school because someone might recognize him. Mark is in the International Baccalaureate program, and he’s obsessive about political science. In fact, only two kids at his school even know Mark started life as Madison Tegan. But she and Mark could move 40 miles away where Mark has the freedom to transition out of the public eye. The deal was they’d officially, publicly, stay married. Mark and his mother are living in Santa Julia, away from his congressman father. But even while they struggle to keep their bond hidden from the living world, a frightening spirit is doing everything in his power to destroy their new-found happiness and drag Amelia back into the ghost world. Yet in an unforgettable moment of connection, she helps him survive.Īmelia and Joshua grow ever closer as they begin to uncover the strange circumstances of her death and the secrets of the dark river that held her captive for so long. As a ghost, she can do nothing but will him to live. All of this changes when she tries to rescue a boy, Joshua, from drowning in her river. With no recollection of her past life - or her actual death - she's trapped alone in a nightmarish existence. This debut paranormal romance will leave you breathless.ĭrifting in the dark waters of a mysterious river, the only thing Amelia knows for sure is that she's dead. 'A tender and poignant love story with a ghostly twist.' Becca Fitzpatrick, bestselling author of Hush, Hush Beautiful elegiac love story that crosses the divide between the living and the dead, in a powerful vision of longing and loss. The mathematics support for students has also been significantly expanded, with the addition of new Chemist's toolkit boxes, which provide useful reminders of essential mathematical concepts and techniques. The extensive learning support provided throughout Atkins' Physical Chemistry now includes new checklists of key concepts at the end of each topic, to reinforce the main take-home messages in each section. This restructuring increases the digestibility of the text for students, while making it more flexible for lecturers to teach from. Material within chapters has been radically reorganised into discrete topics, to give the text an inviting modular feel. The exceptional quality of previous editions has been built upon to make the tenth edition of Atkins' Physical Chemistry even more closely suited to the needs of both lecturers and students. |