Philippa Gregory

Printsesa-buntarka Florizella virushaje nazustrich novim prigodam, ale tsogo razu zi svojim novojavlenim bratikom, printsom Kur'jerom, jakogo leleka vipadkovo prinis do palatsu jiji batkiv i jakij teper odnogo dnja stane korolem j uspadkuje jiji korolivstvo!Razom iz virnim drugom printsom Bennetom jim utrokh dovedetsja mati spravu z piratami, borotisja z morskim zmijem, a sche poschastit poznajomitisja z milim volokhatim mamontom.To chi zmozhe Florizella dovesti, scho vstanovleni dlja divchat pravila, a dlja khloptsiv - dozvoli, varto porushuvati? I scho printsi ta printsesi, divchata ta khlopchiki mozhut sami obirati, kim voni khochut buti...Dlja ditej molodshogo ta serednogo shkilnogo viku.Perekladach Vira Kuchmenko

Henry VIII's court is a stage for love and treachery, where the weapons of choice are sex, marriage – and the executioner's axe. As Henry's mistress, Mary Boleyn is a pawn in her family's lust for power. Queen Katherine of Aragon hasn't produced a male heir, and Mary's ruthless uncle scents the chance of putting his niece on the throne. But Henry's wandering eye has fallen on another: Mary's headstrong sister, Anne, whose ambition not only threatens to destroy her bond with Mary, but shakes the foundations of Church and State. Based on Philippa Gregory's internationally bestselling novel, The Other Boleyn Girl is a brilliant evocation of intrigue at the Tudor court – a racy and riveting drama of events that changed the course of English history. This stage adaptation by Mike Poulton was premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2024, directed by Lucy Bailey.

"Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain's past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of Britain], with women at its beating heart." --Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets"You've devoured her novels, but now Gregory shows off chops as a historian. . . . An amazing read." --The Los Angeles TimesThe #1 New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opus--a landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history.AN INDIE BESTSELLERDid you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior?These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory's Normal Women. In this ambitious and groundbreaking book, she tells the story of England over 900 years, for the very first time placing women--some fifty per cent of the population--center stage.Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, Gregory trawled through court records, newspapers, and journals to find highwaywomen and beggars, murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. The "normal women" you will meet in these pages went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency, and built ships, corn mills and houses. They committed crimes or treason, worshipped many gods, cooked and nursed, invented things, and rioted. A lot.A landmark work of scholarship and storytelling, Normal Women chronicles centuries of social and cultural change--from 1066 to modern times--powered by the determination, persistence, and effectiveness of women.*INCLUDES ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT AND A FULL-COLOR INSERT*"An expansive, inclusive and elegantly woven nonfiction account of the lives of women in England from the Norman Conquest to the modern day. To describe it as merely a retelling is to undermine a core principle: This is a history of women in England, yes, but it is also a history of England, full stop. . . . At more than 500 pages, with extensive endnotes and a 30-page index, Normal Women is a behemoth you may be inclined to skim, until you realize you're actually luxuriating in every word." --The New York Times

***** FIVE STARS FROM THE INDEPENDENT *****'A brilliant, essential read ... full of surprises' IndependentFROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE'S WORK.

A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023?'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ?‘A lasting work of social history’ THE TIMES ‘A genuinely new history of our nation’ DAN JONES ‘This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history’ SPECTATOR 'Philippa Gregory uses all her bestseller skills to weave a narrative with pace' ANTONIA FRASER FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE’S WORK Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry?That the Peasant’s Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women?Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men but that they’d evolve to become ever more inferior? These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory’s Normal Women. In this ambitious and ground-breaking book, she tells the story of our nation over 900 years, but for the very first time women – some fifty per cent of the population – are no longer invisible in this history of England, but are at its beating heart. Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, Gregory trawled through court records to find highway women, beggars and shepherdesses, through newspapers and diaries to find murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. The ‘normal women’ you will meet in her pages went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency and built ships, corn mills and houses as part of their everyday lives They committed crimes, or treason, worshipped many gods, cooked and nursed, invented things and rioted. A lot. They built our society to be as diverse and varied as the women themselves. They are there in the archives – if you look – and they made our history. ‘You’ll lose count of the number of things you learn about women and their skewed place in history … the book reframes the past … an essential read’ INDEPENDENT, FIVE-STAR REVIEW

1500-talets England präglas av intriger och ond bråd död. När Henrik VIII dör lämnar han efter sig två döttrar, Maria och Elisabeth. Maria ärver tronen och hennes regim går till historien som en tid av religiös fanatism och förföljelse. Men även hennes syster är beredd att gå väldigt långt för att få styra England. Spanska inkvisitionen brände Hannahs mor på bål. Sedan dess är hon på flykt. Hon tror att hon kan leva tryggt i England som under Henrik VIII blivit protestantiskt. Men allt förändras när kungens äldsta dotter blir drottning. När drottning Maria väljer Hannah till sin förtrogna befinner hon sig plötsligt i intrigernas centrum. Snart dras hon in i hemliga planer på att störta drottningen. Mitt i en rasande maktkamp står nu Hannah som tvingas till både lojalitet och svek. PHILIPPA GREGORY är en brittisk författare och historiker. LB Förlag har gett ut fyra av hennes böcker: Tidvatten, Mörka strömmar, Den andra systern Boleyn och I drottningens närhet."En välbalanserad kompott av passion och intriger." Amelia"Gregory är mycket skicklig när det gäller att återskapa en historisk stämning, dofter, miljöer, trovärdiga personer och detaljer." Expressen

The "superb" (People) Fairmile series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue and political upheaval in 17th-century England. It is 1685 and England is on the brink of a renewed civil war. King Charles II has died without an heir and his brother James is to take the throne. But the people are bitterly divided, and many do not welcome the new king or his young queen. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor and her daughter Alys, have been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are life-changing: the family could return to their beloved Tidelands, and Alinor could rule where she was once lower than a servant. Alinor's son is determined to stay clear of the war, but, in order to keep his own secrets in the past, Livia traps him in a plan to create an imposter Prince of Wales--a surrogate baby to the queen. From the last battle in the desolate Somerset Levels to the hidden caves on the slave island of Barbados, this third volume of an epic story follows a family from one end of the empire to another, to find a new dawn in a world which is opening up before them with greater rewards and dangers than ever before.

It is 1685 and England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings with many families bitterly divided. Alinor, now a successful businesswoman, has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save Queen Mary from the coming siege. The rewards are life-changing: the family could return to their beloved Tidelands, and Alinor could rule where she was once lower than a servant.Inspired by news of a rebellion against the Stuart kings, Ned Ferryman returns from America with his Pokanoket servant to join the uprising against roman catholic King James. As Ned swears loyalty to the charismatic Duke of Monmouth, he discovers a new and unexpected loveMeanwhile, Queen Mary summons her friend Livia to a terrified court. Her survival, and that of the Stuart kings, is in the balance, and only a clever and dangerous gamble can save them

V dvortsovykh intrigakh i borbe za vlast net mesta miloserdiju, iskrennej privjazannosti, uzam semejnoj ljubvi. Sestrinskaja nezhnost, kotoraja svjazyvala Annu i Mariju Bolejn, prevraschaetsja v nenavist, kogda oni stanovjatsja sopernitsami v poedinke za blagosklonnost korolja Genrikha VIII. "...Odna sestritsa Bolejn ili drugaja - kakaja raznitsa. Kazhdaja iz nas mozhet stat korolevoj Anglii, a semja... semja nas ni v grosh ne stavit", - s gorechju govorit Anna sestre. Nesmotrja na to, chto odna iz nikh vzojdet na tron, obe oni tolko peshki v igrakh silnykh mira sego. Prineset li pobeditelnitse schaste ljubov monarkha, cheloveka stol zhe moguschestvennogo, skol i zhestokogo, i kakova budet tsena etoj pobedy?

Palace intrigue, defiant heroism, and a long-awaited love fulfilled from New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory in her Fairmile series. It is 1685 and England is on the brink of a renewed civil war. King Charles II has died without an heir and his brother James is to take the throne. But the people are bitterly divided, and many do not welcome the new king or his young queen. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor and her daughter Alys, have been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are life-changing: the family could return to their beloved Tidelands, and Alinor could rule where she was once lower than a servant. Alinor's son is determined to stay clear of the war, but, in order to keep his own secrets in the past, Livia traps him in a plan to create an imposter Prince of Wales--a surrogate baby to the queen. From the last battle in the desolate Somerset Levels to the hidden caves on the slave island of Barbados, this third volume of an epic story follows a family from one end of the empire to another, to find a new dawn in a world which is opening up before them with greater rewards and dangers than ever before.

Palace intrigue, defiant heroism, and a long-awaited love fulfilled from New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory in her Fairmile series. It is 1685 and England is on the brink of a renewed civil war. King Charles II has died without an heir and his brother James is to take the throne. But the people are bitterly divided, and many do not welcome the new king or his young queen. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor and her daughter Alys, have been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are life-changing: the family could return to their beloved Tidelands, and Alinor could rule where she was once lower than a servant. Alinor's son is determined to stay clear of the war, but, in order to keep his own secrets in the past, Livia traps him in a plan to create an imposter Prince of Wales--a surrogate baby to the queen. From the last battle in the desolate Somerset Levels to the hidden caves on the slave island of Barbados, this third volume of an epic story follows a family from one end of the empire to another, to find a new dawn in a world which is opening up before them with greater rewards and dangers than ever before.

Modern klassiker i nyutgåva! Mary Boleyn är bara fjorton år när hon blir kung Henrik VIII:s älskarinna i början på 1500-talet. Hennes familj har sett kungens intresse för dottern och utnyttjar situationen för att skapa sig makt. De tvingar henne i säng med kungen, trots att hon redan är gift med en annan man. Snart är Mary indragen i en farlig och falsk värld. Hovet skimrar av prakt och rikedomar men under ytan utkämpas dödliga intriger. Kungens favoriter får adelstitlar, rikedomar och herresäten och de som faller i onåd döms till döden. När kungens intresse för Mary svalnar tvingas hon stiga åt sidan och se på när systern Anne tar hennes plats. Situationen är outhärdlig och Mary förstår att hon måste ta sitt öde i egna händer. PHILIPPA GREGORY är en brittisk författare och historiker. LB Förlag har tidigare gett ut hennes romaner Tidvatten och Mörka strömmar. Den andra systern Boleyn gavs ut första gången 2001 och har även blivit film med Natalie Portman och Scarlett Johansson i huvudrollerna.

Uppföljaren till hyllade Tidvatten. Det är midsommarafton 1670. En välbärgad man står utanför en lagerlokal i London och väntar på Alinor, kvinnan han svek 21 år tidigare. Han har allt: pengar, egendomar och status men hon har det enda han inte kan köpa för pengar - deras son och hans arvinge. I den nya världen, närmare bestämt New England, drömmer Alinors bror Ned om rättvisa och fred. Den brittiska kungens hämnd sträcker sig över Atlanten och vänder pionjärerna mot varandra och mot de amerikanska urinvånarna. En dag anländer en vacker änka från Venedig och berättar att Alinors son har drunknat. Hon säger att hon behöver deras hjälp. Kvinnan förtrollar Alinors familj med sin sensuella och bekymmerslösa värme och med löften om nya lönsamma affärer. Hon råder dem att sälja vackra statyer av marmor och brons för att elda på begäret hos de rika markägarna. Men det är något med kvinnans berättelse som inte stämmer. Svaren finns på andra sidan de mörka strömmarna i Venedig. PHILIPPA GREGORY är en brittisk författare och historiker. LB Förlag har tidigare gett ut två romaner av henne, Den andra systern Boleyn, som även blivit Hollywoodfilm, och succéromanen Tidvatten. Mörka strömmar är den efterlängtade uppföljaren till Tidvatten."En historisk kärleksroman med extra allt!" Femina"Författaren kan sitt hantverk, och man riktigt ser miljöerna framför sig och känner lukterna från dåtidens London, Venedig och New England. Mörka strömmar är en bladvändare som är svår att lägga ifrån sig." Birgitta Ehn Eliason, BTJ