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Gregory Philippa
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Virgin Earth
Автор: Gregory Philippa Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20092009-02-13
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Terrific, free-standing suel to the historical bestseller Earthly Joys, as John Tradescant, the Younger witnesses the English Civil War and its aftermath from his position as royal gardener. John Tradescant, the Younger has inherited his fathers unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to nurture them. But as gardener to Charles I, he confronts an unbearable dilemma when England descends into Civil War. Fleeing from the chaos, John travels to the Royalist colony of Virginia in America. But, the virgin land is not uninhabited. Johns plant hunting brings him to live with the native people, and he learns to love and respect their way of life just as it is threatened by the colonial settlers. In the new world and the old, the established order is breaking down and every family has to find its own way of surviving. For the Tradescants, through the upheavals of the Commonwealth and the Restoration, this means consolidating their reputations as the greatest gardeners in the country.
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Virgin’s Lover
Автор: Gregory Philippa Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20082006-06-28
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Sumptuous historical novel set in the court of Elizabeth I, from Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can rely on just one man: her oldest friend, Robert Dudley. It is soon plain that he is more than merely a friend. In a house in the countryside waits a very different woman, Amy Robsart — Robert's wife. She has no taste for life at court and longs for the day when her husband will return home. She has loved him since she was a girl, but now they are adults she hardly sees him. Meanwhile, the pressure grows for Elizabeth to marry, for it is unthinkable that a queen should rule on her own. Elizabeth's preference is clear, but he is unavailable. But what if the unthinkable were to happen... Philippa Gregory blends passion, personalities and politics in this stunning novel of the Tudor court and a country divided.
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Wideacre
Автор: Gregory Philippa Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20082008-10-17
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Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. But, as a woman of the 18th century, she has no right of inheritance. Corrupted by a world that mistreats women, she sets out to corrupt others. She believes that the only way to achieve control over Wideacre is through a series of crimes.
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Boleyn Inheritance
Автор: Gregory Philippa Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2007 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092008-12-07
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From the bestselling author of «The Other Boleyn Girl» comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII, and the one woman who destroyed two of his queens.
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Earthly Joys
Автор: Gregory Philippa Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20082009-04-19
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This is a tremendous historical novel of the early 1600s, as seen through the eyes of John Tradescant, gardener to the great men of the age. A traveller in a time of discovery, the greatest gardening pioneer of his day, yet a man of humble birth: John Tradescants story is a mirror to the extraordinary age in which he lives. As gardener and confidante to Sir Robert Cecil, Tradescant is well placed to observe the social and political changes that are about to sweep through the kingdom. While his master conjures intrigues at Court, Tradescant designs for him the magnificent garden at Hatfield, scouring the known world for ever more wonderful plants: new varieties of fruit and flower, the first horse chestnuts to be cultivated in England, even larches from Russia. Moving to the household of tflamboyant Duke of Buckingham, Tradescant witnesses at first hand the growing division between Parliament and the people; and the most loyal of servants must find a way to become an independent squire.
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