Mr Atkinson's Rum Contract
Author | : Richard Atkinson |
Publisher | : Fourth Estate |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2019-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780007509232 |
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Author | : Richard Atkinson |
Publisher | : Fourth Estate |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2019-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780007509232 |
Author | : Richard Atkinson |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2020-04-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0007509251 |
Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021 ‘Rarely has family history been so vivid’ JENNY UGLOW ‘An extraordinarily original work’ AMANDA FOREMAN
Author | : Alex Renton |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2021-05-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 178689887X |
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'An incredible work of scholarship' Sathnam Sanghera Through the story of his own family’s history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today. Blood Legacy explores what inheritance – political, economic, moral and spiritual – has been passed to the descendants of the slave owners and the descendants of the enslaved. He also asks, crucially, how the former – himself among them – can begin to make reparations for the past.
Author | : Christine Walker |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2020-04-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1469655276 |
Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world. Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large and diverse group of women helped secure English control of Jamaica and, crucially, aided its developing and expanding slave labor regime by acquiring enslaved men, women, and children to protect their own tenuous claims to status and independence. Female colonists employed slaveholding as a means of advancing themselves socially and financially on the island. By owning others, they wielded forms of legal, social, economic, and cultural authority not available to them in Britain. In addition, slaveholding allowed free women of African descent, who were not far removed from slavery themselves, to cultivate, perform, and cement their free status. Alongside their male counterparts, women bought, sold, stole, and punished the people they claimed as property and vociferously defended their rights to do so. As slavery's beneficiaries, these women worked to stabilize and propel this brutal labor regime from its inception.
Author | : Peter Esterhazy |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 882 |
Release | : 2005-03-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0060501081 |
The Esterházys, one of Europe's most prominent aristocratic families, are closely linked to the rise and fall of the Hapsburg Empire. Princes, counts, commanders, diplomats, bishops, and patrons of the arts, revered, respected, and occasionally feared by their contemporaries, their story is as complex as the history of Hungary itself. Celestial Harmonies is the intricate chronicle of this remarkable family, a saga spanning seven centuries of epic conquest, tragedy, triumph, and near annihilation. Told by Péter Esterházy, a scion of this populous clan, Celestial Harmonies is dazzling in scope and profound in implication. It is fiction at its most awe-inspiring. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Author | : Jane Feather |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1995-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0553572482 |
Picking pockets as her only means of survival, Octavia Morgan realizes that she has made a terrible mistake when she targets Lord Nick, the most notorious highwayman in England, who vows to ensnare Octavia's passions.
Author | : Edward Rodolphus Lambert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : Branford (Conn. : Town) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amasa Loring |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Piscataquis County (Me.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christopher McDougall |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2010-12-09 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 184765228X |
A New York Times bestseller 'A sensation ... a rollicking tale well told' - The Times At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe's secrets and then take them on over a course 50 miles long. With incredible energy and smart observation, McDougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an incredible runner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike, and elsewhere, he comes across an incredible cast of characters, including the woman who recently broke the world record for 100 miles and for her encore ran a 2:50 marathon in a bikini, pausing to down a beer at the 20 mile mark.
Author | : Kate Atkinson |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0552779687 |
WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in lifeâe(tm)s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.