Flesh and Blood

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REAY TANNAHILL

Historical Study & Educational Resources

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Food in History

Science & Math

Agricultural Sciences

STEIN AND DAY.

A Dark & Distant Shore

Dell Publishing Company

The World, the Flesh and the Devil

Leaving her home in the sunbleached courts ofAvignon, gently nurtured, seventeen-year-old Ninian rides into the darkness and strife ofScotland to marry a stranger. Her path crosses that of Gavin Cameron of Kinveil, priest and Chancellor of Scotland. Laconic, ambitious and handsome, he is the one man the Stewart king dares to trust, the one man strong enough to save the kingdom from the civil war planned by the charming, implacable Archdeacon Columba Crozier and his bastard sun, Adam de Verne. Tied by blood on one side and by an overwhelming -- and forbidden -- love on the other, Ninian, growing from her careless girlhood into a beautiful woman and an artist of brilliance and power, is precipitated into violence and tragedy, in which she, too, has a vital part to play.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Headline Paperbacks

Passing Glory

When Matt Briton, aged four, disgraced himself at Queen Victoria's funeral, the repercussions echoed down fifty years and across two world wars. Matt, returning a war hero in 1918, rejects both his family and its traditions for a risky future in flying, just as Jenny Jardine, his brother's shy, pretty young widow, turns from the great country house of Provost Charters to the triumphs and traumas of the Clyde shipyard on which the family's fortunes depend. The result is a long, bitter conflict with remote, supercilious Paul Britton, his capricious and beautiful Russian wife Natasha, and Olympian cousin Howard -- a conflict played out under the shadow of an old tragedy. Rich in drama, laced with intrigue and secrets, Passing Glory is the enthralling story of how one family came to terms with the unquiet world during the five decades of peace and war that separated the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901 from the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953. Winner of the RNA Novel of the Year Award.

Two women, born to different worlds, tied unknowingly by blood -- and locked in bitter rivalry for theHighland estate, and the man they both lay claim to! Sophie -- wilful, entrancing toast of exotic Hong Kong blissfully immune to the deceitful deals, clash of cultures, and growing menace of the opium trade that threaten her beloved city. Rachel -- subtle and stubborn, plucked from the slums of Victorian London to a new life and status in the remote Scottishcastle ofJuran -- then faced with the loss of what has become her obsession. Ranier Blake -- clever, manipulative banker with interests inScotland andHong Kong -- and in both women. And Blake alone knows the tangled history of Rachel, Sophie and Juran! From vivid Hong Kong toScotland's stormy west coast, the two women play out their passions against a background of intrigue and violence. But only one can win what they both so desire!

In Still and Stormy Waters

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

Headline Book Publishing

Sex in History

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Return of the Stranger

Tassie Smith's childhood is violently disrupted when a stranger appears on her mother Grace's, doorstep claiming to have inherited the family house and fortuneIt emerges that he is Tassie's long-lost brother, and, after a tricky start, shesoon begins to hero-worship him. But as her life unfolds it becomes apparent that there is very much more to brother Max than meets the eye, and that he has some powerful enemies - not least the man with whom Tassie herself falls in loveReay Tannahill uses wonderful period detail to evoke the Highlands, Glasgow and turn-of-the-century office life in London in this splendid story of family passion and skulduggery.

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Fatal Majesty is the story of Mary, Queen of Scots--but this is no conventional retelling of a fascinating yet familiar tale. Returning from the sophisticated court of France to take up her throne in a cold and backward Scotland, eighteen-year-old Mary found herself trapped in a web of ambitions and intrigues--those of her self-righteous brother, James, whose ambition was to rule in her place; of her brilliant secretary of state, Lethington, dedicated to placing the Stewarts on the throne of England; and of Elizabeth I, dazzling and unscrupulous, who feared Mary as a threat not only to her crown but to her life.
 The intrigues of the men closest to Mary were to be responsible for shaping not only her tragedy but also their own. Yet the secretary stabbed to death at her feet, the murder of her husband, her marriage to his murderer, and even her own end on the headsman's block were not disparate events in an era of easy violence, but episodes in a grand, sometimes terrifying, and ultimately successful design.
 Reay Tannahill's masterful control of characterization, pace, and plot combine to deliver a tragic romantic saga with all the complexities of a major political thriller.

Fatal Majesty : A Novel of Mary, Queen of Scots

Biographies & Memoirs

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