BOOK - THE LADY OF THE RIVERS - HARDBACK - NEW $9 The Lady of the Rivers By Philippa Gregory Historical Fiction Hardcover 2011 512 pages Simon & Schuster Ltd 153mm x 234mm Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house-hold for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjous close friend and a Lancaster supporter, until the day that her daughter Elizabeth Woodville fell in love and married the rival king Edward IV. Of all the little-known but important women of the period, her dramatic story is the most neglected. With her links to Melusina, and to the founder of the house of Luxembourg, together with her reputation for making magic, she is the most haunting of heroines. BOOK - THE WOMEN OF THE COUSINS WAR ... - HARDBACK - NEW 9 The Women Of The Cousins War: The Duchess, The Queen And The Kings Mother By Philippa Gregory Hardback 2011 400 pages Publisher Simon & Schuster Ltd 153mm x 234mm Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen (2009), Margaret Beaufort, The Red Queen (2010), and Jacquetta, Lady Rivers, The Rivers Woman (2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa Gregorys Cousins War series, and of the three biographical essays in this book. Philippa Gregory and two historians, leading experts in their field who helped Philippa to research the novels, tell the extraordinary true stories of the life of these women who until now have been largely forgotten by history, their background and times, highlighting questions which are raised in the fiction and illuminating the novels. With a foreword by Philippa Gregory, in which Philippa writes revealingly about the differences between history and fiction and examines the gaps in the historical record and beautifully illustrated with rare portraits. BOOK - INHERITED BY AMANDA CURTIN - NEW $2 A dancer in a wheelchair. A collector of corks. One woman seduced by a mountain and another by Freddo Frogs. A man who hears his dead wife’s voice. A poet whose voice has disappeared. A photographer distilling grief in his lens. A sound designer stealing the sound of a room. These are stories concerned with the gifts and burdens we inherit from those we love and from the world at large; and what we, in turn, leave behind. Families, relationships, memory, secrets, memorialisation, creativity, collecting, ageing and obsession all weave themselves through these nineteen short gems. 227 pages Paperback UWA Press New KINGS MEADOWS
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