Claire Tomalin's multi-award-winning story of the life of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens is a remarkable work of biography and historical revisionism that returns the neglected actress to her rightful place in history as well as providing a compelling and truthful portrait of the great Victorian novelist
Winter approaches Westeros like an angry beast
The free companion website contains interactive activities linked to the Dialogue Zone of the book
including: * why the Fertile Crescent was the birthplace of wine * how the expansion of the Roman Empire resulted in the first wine connoisseurs * the myths of the Phoenician
Eamon de Valera is the most remarkable man in the history of modern Ireland
Michael Edwards: Raymond Mason [1994] hardback Condition:New Claire Tomalin's multi-award-winning story ofRaymond Mason, the English sculptor and painter born in 1922, has lived and worked in Paris since 1946. A close friend of Giacometti, Balthus and Bacon, he has established an international reputation chiefly through a number of monumental works in Paris, Montreal, New York, Washington, and his home town of Birmingham. Although his large retrospectives in Britain and in France attracted record breaking attendances, the fact of living abroad, and of