Italian Fever : A Novel

Valerie Martin

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

The Confessions of Edward Day

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Orion Publishing Co

Title: The Ghost of the Mary Celeste Binding: Hardcover Author: ValerieMartin Publisher: NanA.Talese

The Ghost of the Mary Celeste

NanA.Talese

The Ghost of the Mary Celeste: Library Edition

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Salvation : Scenes from the Life of St Francis

Religion & Spirituality

Not Specified

Delicate but provocative exploration of the nature of love from the author of Mary Reilly.

Recent Martyr

MACMILLAN/LONDON

Mary Reilly

Genre Fiction

Orbit & Abacus

Inspired by the great frescoes of St Francis of Assisi, the highly-praised author of PROPERTY has written a new and wholly original biography. Composed in a series of vividly realised 'panels', SALVATION begins with the dying Francesco - and the rivalry for his body among the towns of medieval Italy - and moves back in time toward his mystical conversion. The old friar, exhausted by illness and division among his brotherhood, gives way to the zealous missionary who joins the Fifth Crusade, confident that he can convert Sultan al-Kamil in Egypt. Later, we see the unwashed and innocent revolutionary, unafraid to lecture a pope on Christ's message, and finally the frivolous young Francesco on the deserted road where his encounter with a leper leads him to an ecstatic embrace of God. SALVATION is a window into a medieval world whose physicality and purity have rarely been rendered with such visceral power. Most important, it is a unique, immediate portrait of the great mystic, whose legend has resonated through the centuries in both religious and secular realms.

Salvation : Scenes from the Life of st Francis

ABACUS +

Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New Orleans, but most of all, she longs to be free of the suffocating domestic situation. The tension revolves around Sarah, a slave girl who may have been given to Manon as a wedding present from her aunt, whose young son Walter is living proof of where Manon's husband's inclinations lie. This private drama is being played out against a brooding atmosphere of slave unrest and bloody uprisings. And if the attacks reach Manon's house, no one can be sure which way Sarah will turn ...Beautifully written, Property is an intricately told tale of both individual stories and of a country in a time of change, where ownership is at once everything and nothing, and where belonging, by contrast, is all.

Property (40 Years of Original Writing)

Mary Reilly, a serving maid to Dr. Henry Jekyll, records in her diary her employer's obsession with secret laboratory experiments that culminate in the appearance of a bloodthirsty and seductive stranger. Reprint. Movie tie-in.

Black Swan Corgi

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