Lucy Wooding Libri

A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England

This insightful portrait of Henry VIII explores the paradoxes of his character and reign. The new edition incorporates recent research, offering a distinctive interpretation of his complex personality and unique kingship style.

Nearly eighty, Pearl dies in the remote English valley where she's lived for more than three decades, within a dilapidated house alongside a temperamental river. Her death triggers the return, after a 13-year hiatus, of her daughter Ada, a drifter who comes to scatter her mother's ashes and sell the house. Ada is accompanied by the granddaughter Pearl never met: Pepper. Ada and Pepper find themselves entangled with the life of the valley, each discovering that places can bind us together -- Back cover.

An uncanny, startlingly beautiful story collection steeped in the Cornish landscape, from the award-winning author of Diving Belles and Other Stories and Weathering.

A luminous, startling and utterly spellbinding debut which introduces a spectacular new voice in contemporary British fiction

The Little Book of Lincolnshire is a compendium of fascinating information about this historic county, past and present.