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Of Blood Descended - Steven Veerapen - Bog - Birlinn General - Plusbog.dk

Of Blood Descended - Steven Veerapen - Bog - Birlinn General - Plusbog.dk

Discover murder and mayhem in the court of Henry VIIISummer, 1522. In a wave of pomp, Henry VIII''s court welcomes the Imperial emperor Charles V. Anthony Blanke – the son of the king''s late ''black trumpet'', John Blanke – is called to Hampton Court by Cardinal Wolsey who is preparing a gift for the King: a masque of King Arthur and the Black Knight. Anthony is set to take centre stage.Soon, the festive mood sours. Wolsey''s historian is found gruesomely murdered and a reluctant Anthony is charged with investigating the crime. His mission takes him through ancient monastic libraries and the back streets of London and sees him lock horns with secretive monks, historian Polydore Vergil, and a new face at court, Anne Boleyn. Blanke must discover the murderer, secure the great masque, and avoid King Henry''s wrath.''Beautifully written ... a unique tale told in a unique voice'' - S.G. Maclean

DKK 113.00
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Hidden Glasgow - Carol Foreman - Bog - Birlinn General - Plusbog.dk

Hidden Glasgow - Carol Foreman - Bog - Birlinn General - Plusbog.dk

Defining what is hidden in a city is not easy. In some cases, buildings are not open to public view, well off the beaten track, or are simply forgotten amidst the rapidly changing environment of a fast growing city. In other cases, we are looking at the building the wrong way and only seeing one aspect of its past life, and in others we are looking at them from the wrong perspective. A darker side hides things that a city would rather forget.From the golden merchant ship on top of the Merchant''s House, through the abandoned Britannia Panopticon Music Hall on Argyle Street, from the schoolroom in the attic of Trades House to the Lock Hospital for ''dangerous women'', Carol Foreman takes us through the Glasgow we walk through every day and makes us see it with a different eye. From the top of the Tolbooth steeple to the many tunnels and preserved buildings under the ground, she reveals the essence of a great city in all its dimensions and brings to life a Glasgow both hidden and forgotten.

DKK 133.00
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The Soap Man - Roger Hutchinson - Bog - Birlinn General - Plusbog.dk

The Soap Man - Roger Hutchinson - Bog - Birlinn General - Plusbog.dk

In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionise the lives and environments of its 30,000 people, and those of neighbouring Harris, which he shortly added to his estate.For the next five years a state of conflict reigned in the Hebrides. Island seamen and servicemen returned from the war to discover a new landlord whose declared aim was to uproot their identity as independent crofter/fishermen and turn them into tenured wage-owners. They fought back, and this is the story of that fight. The confrontation resulted in riot and land seizure and imprisonment for the islanders and the ultimate defeat for one of the most powerful men of his day.The Soap Man paints a beguiling portrait of the driven figure of Lord Leverhulme, but also looks for the first time at the infantry of his opposition: the men and women of Lewis and Harris who for long hard years fought the law, their landowner, local business opinion and the entire media, to preserve the settled crofting population of their islands.

DKK 141.00
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