David Young prende la spesso pomposa e frequentemente sciocca "Controversia sull'autorialità di Shakespeare" e la trasforma in un'avvincente storia poliziesca che tiene incollati alle pagine. Esplora gli angoli e i recessi dei candidati rivali e delle loro pretese in luoghi interessanti e attraverso incontri spesso umoristici. Questa controversia è entrata sottopelle a David Young, che ama e insegna Shakespeare, trasformando questo fastidio in un piacere di lettura da cui si può imparare molto.
More than 150 years later, we still do not know what prompted Captain Briggs, his wife and baby, and the crew of the Mary Celeste to abandon ship mid-ocean, and the speculation continues to this day. Delve into this mysterious case and shed light on possible solutions, credible hoaxes, and tales of other ghost ships.
A third-person historical novel about Christopher Marlowe
A spellbinding literary journey of murder, mayhem, blackmail and infamy. A Hungarian Countess allegedly bathes in the blood of her victims; a pair of female pirates outfight the rest of the crew; a Roman Empress has several senators and members of her family killed so that she can fulfil her sexual desires. These are just four of the thirty-six Wicked Women of Yore who 'star' in these pages. This book explores how women such as Ilsa Koch, the bestial Nazi concentration camp commander, Bonnie (of Bonnie and Clyde), 'Princess Caraboo' and Queen Isabella, the 'She-Wolf of France, ' murdered, conned and blackmailed their way into history and infamy. The author also imagines the conversations they might have had, as he describes the scenes of their crimes. D. Lawrence-Young has written over twenty historical novels. In this companion volume to his Villains of Yore, this book will open your eyes to the fact that the fairer sex was not always so fair in the past. From now on you will look at women, young and old, beautiful and ugly, in a completely new and different light.
Being the ruler of England has always been fraught with danger. In Kill the King! you will see that many people wanted to assassinate you!
A novel, set during the English Civil War, about a beautiful woman who becomes a soldier
Colonel Blood - Soldier, Robber and Trickster has it all: royalty, love- affairs, lusty wenches, war and fighting. But above all, an incredible robbery. This is the life of self-styled 'Colonel' Thomas Blood, the 17th century dashing Anglo-Irish adventurer who achieved fame by (almost) succeeding in stealing the Crown Jewels in 1671.
Take some twenty wicked British villains. Add their dastardly crimes. Then include their miserable backgrounds. Mix in some nefarious conversations and combine all this together to produce an exciting collection of stories: Villains of Yore.
A historical novel about Nelson's mistress Lady Emma Hamilton