![]() ![]() ![]() Though often considered the least political of the six novels, it is a highly revealing study of Victorian Britain, its colonial activities in Ireland and India, its veneration of wealth, and its pervasive dishonesty. The Eustace Diamonds (1873) belongs to Trollope's Palliser series. Read more American and her unhappy niece, a shady radical peer, and a brutal aristocrat are only some of the characters in this, one of Trollope's most engaging novels: part sensation fiction, part detective story, part political satire, and part ironic romance. A pompous Under-Secretary of State, an exploitative and acquisitive. Her cousin Frank, Tory MP and struggling barrister, loyally assists her, to the distress of his fiancée, Lucy Morris. Her determination to hold on to the Eustace family's diamond necklace in the face of legal harassment by her brother-in-law's solicitor entangles her in a series of crimes - apparent and real - and contrived love-affairs. Clean copy with minor shelf wear 'She liked lies.To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the lessons which she had learned, a necessity in a woman' Lizzie Eustace is young, beautiful, and widowed. Hugely engaging, the novel is also a highly revealing study of Victorian Britain. ![]() Lizzie Eustace's determination to hold on to a fabulous diamond necklace entangles her in a web of deceit that involves her cousin and his fiancee in a story that is part sensation fiction, part detective novel, part political satire and part romance. Description for The Eustace Diamonds Paperback. ![]()
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Villanelle is the title character in Luke Jennings' four-segment novella series (2014–2016), whose compilation forms his 2018 novel Codename Villanelle. Their mutually obsessive relationship is the main focus of both the novels and the TV series. She is a psychopathic assassin who works for a crime syndicate called The Twelve, and the archenemy of British intelligence agent Eve Polastri. Villanelle, birth name Oxana Vorontsova or Oksana Astankova is a fictional character in Luke Jennings' novel Codename Villanelle (2018), its sequels Killing Eve: No Tomorrow (2019) and Killing Eve: Die For Me (2020), and the BBC America television series adaptation Killing Eve (2018–2022) in which she is portrayed by English actress Jodie Comer. Oxana Vorontsova (in Codename Villanelle) Phoebe Waller-Bridge ( Killing Eve television series) ![]() Luke Jennings ( Codename Villanelle novel) ![]() ![]() ![]() The Leftovers, which debuts as a 10-episode series on HBO Canada Sunday evening, features an ensemble cast that includes Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Liv Tyler and Christopher Eccleston. I think people like to go to dark places." "There's a feeling that people don't like to go to dark places, but if you take a look at what shows people like, they're pretty dark places. ![]() The dark new cable series falls into a realm of a "dystopian, futuristic, post-apocalyptic, but with a twist," Perrotta told CBC News. Set three years after millions of people around the globe vanished into thin air, TV's new drama The Leftovers touches down on a small town grappling with the consequences of the mysterious event.Įxecutive produced by novelist and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Tom Perrotta ( Little Children, Election), based on his bestselling novel of the same name, The Leftovers explores how the Christian Rapture-like "Departure" affects the residents of the fictional town of Mapleton, N.Y. ![]() ![]() From 2009-2017, Ben served as a Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama. He is currently a contributor for NBC News and MSNBC co-host of Pod Save the World a senior advisor to former President Barack Obama and chair of National Security Action, which he co-founded with Jake Sullivan in 2018. At the same time, Rhodes learns from the stories of a diverse set of characters-from Barack Obama himself to Cuban rebels to a rising generation of international leaders-that looking squarely at where America has gone wrong makes clear how essential it is to fight for what America is supposed to be, for our own country and the entire world.Ībout the author: Ben Rhodes is a writer, political commentator, and national security analyst. In his travels, Ben Rhodes comes to realize how much America’s fingerprints are on a world we helped to shape, through our post–Cold War embrace of unbridled capitalism and our post-9/11 nationalism and militarism our mania for technology and social media and the racism that fueled the backlash to America’s first Black president. Presented in partnership with the Center for Effective GovernmentĪbout the book: Part memoir and part reportage, After the Fall is a hugely ambitious work of discovery. Ben Rhodes will discuss After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made. He will be joined in conversation by William Howell. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paper Princess ended off will Ella catching Reed in bed with Brooke. ![]() (This sounds alarmingly like my review for Paper Princess, I see a pattern here.) This book brought me out of my reading slump, but now I can only sit in shock. More Info: Kindle edition, 370 pages, published on July 25, 2016 You can contact them at their shared inbox: new adult, romance, contemporary, young adult (recommended 17+). Their greatest love (after their families and pets, of course)? Coming up with fun–and sometimes crazy–ideas. It’s like nothing Reed has ever dealt with before, and if he’s going to win back his princess, he’ll need to prove himself Royally worthy.Ībout the Author: Erin Watt is the brainchild of two bestselling authors linked together through their love of great books and an addiction to writing. She says they’ll only destroy each other. But when one foolish mistake drives her out of Reed’s arms and brings chaos to the Royal household, Reed’s entire world begins to fall apart around him.Įlla doesn’t want him anymore. What started off as burning resentment and the need to make his father’s new ward suffer turned into something else entirely-keep Ella close. ![]() ![]() The girls at his elite prep school line up to date him, the guys want to be him, but Reed never gave a damn about anyone but his family until Ella Harper walked into his life. Reed Royal has it all-looks, status, money. Broken Prince(The Royals, Book 2) by Erin Wattįrom wharf fights and school brawls to crumbling lives inside glittery mansions, one guy tries to save himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() The task of the second novel in a trilogy is an unenviable one. The Rosewater Insurrection (2019) now takes forward the story. It also introduced onto the stage a memorable cast of characters-from government agents to “sensitives” who had special access to the alien-created xenosphere, allowing them telepathic abilities and a (limited) look into the future-as they all struggled to come to terms with the alien presence in their midst. ![]() Set in mid-twenty-first century Nigeria this, the first book of the Wormwood Trilogy, introduced the multiform alien Wormwood, with its magical healing and restorative powers, the dome within which it housed itself, and the city of Rosewater that sprung up around it. ![]() In Rosewater (2016), Tade Thompson initiated us into the world of Wormwood. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe.
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