Just Another Sunday: a Novel by Elizabeth Good (29 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The captivating new Tudor novel from Alison Weir, Sunday Times bestselling author of Six Tudor Queens. 'Alison Weir gives us her most compelling heroine yet. This is where the story of the Tudors begins' Tracy Borman 'History has the best stories and they should all be told like this' Conn Iggulden 'A stunning read, and the perfect piece of historical fiction' Reader review 'This is novel that captured my imagination, educated me and emotionally moved me' Reader review --- A princess born into a war between two families. Firstborn of the royal House of York, Elizabeth dreams of wearing a crown. But in England, queens do not rule. When her beloved father, King Edward, dies suddenly, his brother seizes power. Two young princes disappear into the Tower. Yet another claimant seeks the crown, the upstart heir of the rival House of Lancaster. Marriage to this Henry Tudor would unite their warring families - and help Elizabeth to the throne she knows is hers by right. A glorious new age awaits. Now Elizabeth must choose her allies wisely as she fights to become mother and queen of a great new dynasty. Elizabeth of York. The first Tudor queen. Her story. --- READERS FELL IN LOVE WITH ELIZABETH OF YORK. 'I found her an inspirational woman, full of strength.I truly adored this book' 'She becomes the matriarch of the Tudor destiny after a series of intrigue, conflict, and most likely murder. a brilliant read' 'Alison Weir's writing just makes history that bit more exciting and accessible' 'It was refreshing to read such a detailed and informative book of an almost forgotten Queen' 'An amazing read as expected from Alison Weir, she breathes life into Elizabeth and those around her'. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. An instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DYLAN THOMAS AWARD 'A package of dynamite' Stephen King Powerful, compulsive, brilliant Marian Keyes An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacher ALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTER Vanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now thirty-two and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017, the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student. Vanessa is horrified by this news, because she is quite certain that the relationship she had with Strane wasn't abuse. It was love. She's sure of that. Forced to rethink her past, to revisit everything that happened, Vanessa has to redefine the great love story of her life her great sexual awakening as rape. Now she must deal with the possibility that she might be a victim, and just one of many. Nuanced, uncomfortable, bold and powerful, My Dark Vanessa goes straight to the heart of some of the most complex issues of our age. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 'A detailed and convincing portrait of an extraordinary life. this series is a serious achievement' THE TIMES 'This brilliant series has brought Henry VIII's six wives to life as never before. This novel will enthral and inspire, just as much as it will break your heart' TRACY BORMAN Alison Weir, historian and author of the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling SIX TUDOR QUEENS series, recounts the story of Henry VIII's last wife - Katharine Parr, the queen who survived him. --- A WOMAN TORN BETWEEN LOVE AND DUTY. Two husbands dead, a boy and a sick man. Now Katharine is free to make her own choice. The ageing King's eye falls upon her. She cannot refuse him. or betray that she wanted another. She becomes Henry's sixth wife - a queen and trusted friend. But Katharine is hiding another secret in her heart, a deeply held faith that could see her burn. KATHARINE PARR. HENRY'S FINAL QUEEN. HER STORY. Renowned, bestselling historian Alison Weir reveals a warm, clever woman of great fortitude who rose boldly to every turn her life took. 'Katharine Parr deserves better than to be known just as Henry VIII's sixth wife - the one who survived. And there's no-one better placed than Alison Weir to restore her to her rightful place' SARAH GRISTWOOD 'The conversations are sparkling, gripping and word-perfect. As King Henry ages, the machinations of his vicious court are never far away' HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY 'For the first time I felt as though, thanks to Alison's skilful writing and storytelling, I came to "know" Katharine' NICOLA TALLIS 'A tour de force. If you think you know everything about Henry VIII's last queen, you're in for a wonderful treat - you don't!' SUSAN RONALD 'An absorbing and fascinating read, meticulously researched as is always the case with Alison's work, and she really made Katharine live' SARAH RAYNE --- PRAISE FOR THE SIX TUDOR QUEENS SERIES: 'Weir is excellent on the little details that bring a world to life' Guardian 'Profoundly moving. lingers long after the last page' Elizabeth Fremantle 'Well researched and engrossing' Good Housekeeping 'Utterly gripping and endlessly surprising' Tracy Borman 'Hugely enjoyable . . . Alison Weir knows her subject and has a knack for the telling and textural detail' Daily Mail. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. An instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DYLAN THOMAS AWARD 'A package of dynamite' Stephen King Powerful, compulsive, brilliant Marian Keyes An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacher ALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTER Vanessa Wye was fifteen years old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now thirty-two and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017, the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student. Vanessa is horrified by this news, because she is quite certain that the relationship she had with Strane wasn't abuse. It was love. She's sure of that. Forced to rethink her past, to revisit everything that happened, Vanessa has to redefine the great love story of her life her great sexual awakening as rape. Now she must deal with the possibility that she might be a victim, and just one of many. Nuanced, uncomfortable, bold and powerful, My Dark Vanessa goes straight to the heart of some of the most complex issues of our age. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The world's climate is in crisis and New Zealand is being divided and reshaped by privileged immigrant wealthugees. Thirty-something Alice has a near-genius IQ and lives at home with her mother with whom she communicates by Morse code. Alice's imaginary friend, Simp, has shown up, with a running commentary on her failings. 'I mean, can you even calculate the square root of 762 anymore?' The last time Simp was here was when Alice was seven, on the night a fire burned down the family home. Now Simp seems to be plotting something. When Alice meets a wealthugee named Pablo, she thinks she's found a way out of her dull existence. But then she meets Pablo's teenage daughter, Erika an actual genius full of terrifying ambition. She's a Killer is the story of a brilliant and stubborn slacker who is drawn into radical action. It's about what happens when we refuse to face our most demanding problems, told by a woman who is a strange and calculating force of chaos. 'Brilliant.' -Greg Fleming, NZ Listener 'Gripping dystopia, incredible sense of humour, super accomplished' -Claire Mabey, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 'A claustrophobic eco-thriller with a gloriously unreliable narrator, She's a Killer is tense and sharp, and feels unnervingly prescient.' Brannavan Gnanalingam 'Equipped with an exhilaratingly badly-behaved protagonist, She's a Killer builds from a slice of very strange life into a thriller by way of a succession of stunning comic set pieces. You'll laugh-a lot. And then you'll cry and be really surprised about it since you were laughing so much.' Elizabeth Knox 'The novel's sense of humour it's full of sharp one-liners and witty writing doesn't detract from the seriousness of the subject underpinning the narrative, making She's a Killer a great read for those who like a bit of edge to their literary fiction.' -Books & Publishing 'Readers looking just for a good story will find it here, but readers interested in the complexities of the mind with also find that here. I recently had the pleasure of dubbing another author's work as compulsive reading. I do the same for She's a Killer.' -Nicholas Reid, Reid's Reader Kirsten McDougall's previous novels are Tess (2017), longlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards, and shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award, and The Invisible Rider (2012). Her stories and nonfiction have appeared in Landfall, Sport and Tell You What: Great New Zealand Non-fiction 2016, and her story 'Walking Day' won the 2021 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition. She was the recipient of the 2013 Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary, and a Michael King Writers Centre residency in 2019. She lives in Wellington. Shes a Killer is the story of a brilliant and stubborn slacker who is drawn into radical action. Its about what happens when we refuse to face our most demanding problems, told by a woman who is a strange and calculating force of chaos. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 'A detailed and convincing portrait of an extraordinary life. this series is a serious achievement' THE TIMES'This brilliant series has brought Henry VIII's six wives to life as never before. This novel will enthral and inspire, just as much as it will break your heart' TRACY BORMANAlison Weir, historian and author of the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling SIX TUDOR QUEENS series, recounts the story of Henry VIII's last wife - Katharine Parr, the queen who survived him.---A WOMAN TORN BETWEEN LOVE AND DUTY.Two husbands dead, a boy and a sick man. And now Katharine is free to make her own choice. The ageing King's eye falls upon her. She cannot refuse him. or betray that she wanted another. She becomes the sixth wife - a queen and a friend. Henry loves and trusts her. But Katharine is hiding another secret in her heart, a deeply held faith that could see her burn.KATHARINE PARR. HENRY'S FINAL QUEEN. HER STORY.Renowned, bestselling historian Alison Weir reveals a warm, clever woman of great fortitude who rose boldly to every turn her life took.'Katharine Parr deserves better than to be known just as Henry VIII's sixth wife - the one who survived. And there's no-one better placed than Alison Weir to restore her to her rightful place' SARAH GRISTWOOD'The conversations are sparkling, gripping and word-perfect. As King Henry ages, the machinations of his vicious court are never far away' HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY'For the first time I felt as though, thanks to Alison's skilful writing and storytelling, I came to "know" Katharine' NICOLA TALLIS'A tour de force. If you think you know everything about Henry VIII's last queen, you're in for a wonderful treat - you don't!' SUSAN RONALD'An absorbing and fascinating read, meticulously researched as is always the case with Alison's work, and she really made Katharine live' SARAH RAYNE---PRAISE FOR THE SIX TUDOR QUEENS SERIES:'Weir is excellent on the little details that bring a world to life' Guardian'Profoundly moving. lingers long after the last page' Elizabeth Fremantle'Well researched and engrossing' Good Housekeeping'Utterly gripping and endlessly surprising' Tracy Borman 'Hugely enjoyable . . . Alison Weir knows her subject and has a knack for the telling and textural detail' Daily Mail The stunning final novel in the highly acclaimed SIX TUDOR QUEENS series by historian and Sunday Times bestselling author, Alison Weir. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trina Dalziel/Meiklejohn (illustrator). First Thus 3rd Printing. Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Discolouration Where Sticker Was Once Affixed; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. LOVE LESSONS FROM A-Z. Elizabeth Noble, No. 1 bestselling author of The Reading Group. SYNOPSIS: A is for Affection - between childhood best friends; between their parents; between brothers and sisters. B is for Brokenhearted - Natalie when the boyfriend who was meant to propose dumps her just before Christmas. Her mother when she realises what her life has come to. Lucy, as she thinks of ending one relationship, and maybe beginning another. C is for Chemistry - could Natalie and Tom have it (and what does it actually mean anyway)? Number One bestselling author Elizabeth Noble's new novel is a tender, funny tale of love in all its guises. Elizabeth Noble lives in Guildford, Surrey, with her husband and two daughters. Both her earlier novels, The Reading Group and The Tenko Club, were Sunday Times bestsellers, with The Reading Group reaching Number One. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -When a moment changes everything, how do you live the rest of your life GO AS A RIVER is the powerful and emotional Sunday Times bestselling novel which you'll never forget.___________'A sweeping story of survival and becoming' Women's Prize for Fiction'Spellbinding' The Times'Beautiful' Daily Mail1940s Colorado: Teenage Victoria Nash is the sole surviving woman in a family of troubled men. She spends her days running the household on her family's peach farm.Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past. Displaced from his tribal land, he wants to believe one place is just like another.When Victoria and Wil meet on a street corner, their unexpected connection ignites both passion and danger, revelations and secrets.But when tragedy strikes, Victoria is propelled away from the only home she has ever known and towards a reckoning with loss, hope, and her own untapped strength. Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary existence, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life for ever.Go as a River is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story and a drama of enthralling power.__________What readers are saying:'An incredible read. Emotional heartbreaking, but very 'real' Five stars \*\*\*\*\*'Oh, how i loved this book. Going to be Christmas presents for all my family' Five stars \*\*\*\*\*'After reading non-stop all night, i'm feeling very emotional, still' Five stars \*\*\*\*\*'From the moment i started reading, i found it very hard to put down' Five stars \*\*\*\*\*________________ 314 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -When a moment changes everything, how do you live the rest of your life GO AS A RIVER is the powerful and emotional Sunday Times bestselling novel which you'll never forget.___________'A sweeping story of survival and becoming' Women's Prize for Fiction'Spellbinding' The Times'Beautiful' Daily Mail1940s Colorado: Teenage Victoria Nash is the sole surviving woman in a family of troubled men. She spends her days running the household on her family's peach farm.Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past. Displaced from his tribal land, he wants to believe one place is just like another.When Victoria and Wil meet on a street corner, their unexpected connection ignites both passion and danger, revelations and secrets.After tragedy strikes, Victoria is propelled away from the only home she has ever known and towards a reckoning with loss, hope, and her own untapped strength. Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary existence, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life for ever.Go as a River is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story and a drama of enthralling power.__________What readers are saying:'An incredible read. Emotional heartbreaking, but very 'real' Five stars \*\*\*\*\*'Oh, how i loved this book. Going to be Christmas presents for all my family' Five stars \*\*\*\*\*'After reading non-stop all night, i'm feeling very emotional, still' Five stars \*\*\*\*\*'From the moment i started reading, i found it very hard to put down' Five stars \*\*\*\*\*________________ 320 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, auf Lager - 'A story of life, love and hope - the perfect antidote to today's world. Phenomenal'CLARE MACKINTOSHThe incredible, life-affirming new novel by the author of the Richard & Judy Book Club Bestseller A Boy Made of Blocks.Tom, devoted single father to Hannah, is the manager of a tiny local theatre. On each of her birthdays, its colourful cast of part-time actors have staged a fantastical production just for her - a day of wonder. However hard life gets, all Tom wants to do is make every moment magical for her. Now, as Hannah begins to spread her wings, the theatre comes under threat of closure and the two could lose one another. But maybe, just maybe, one final day of magic might just save them both.A story about finding joy in everyday life, Days of Wonder is the most beautiful and uplifting novel you'll read all year.'Days of Wonder is a heartwarming and magical story. A wonderful read' LIBBY PAGE, AUTHOR OF THE LIDO'So powerful, yet incredibly gentle and poignant. Utterly and completely beautiful' JOANNA CANNON'Utterly enchanting . . . a truly beautiful story' RUTH HOGAN'This is the most emotionally powerful book we've read all year' HEAT'Tugs at your heart' DAILY MAIL'Fans of Jojo Moyes' Me Before You will love Days of Wonder. Made me laugh and cry in turn' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'A lovely, funny and very moving novel' SUN'It's a long time since a book made me laugh out loud and cry so much' TRACY REES'A beautiful read' CLOSER'The publishing sensation of the year' MAIL ON SUNDAY ON A BOY MADE OF BLOCKS'An uplifting read, full of humour and heart' SUNDAY MIRRORREADERS LOVE DAYS OF WONDER:'Beautiful. Powerful. Emotional. Heartwarming. Bold. Touching. Heartbreaking. Wonderful. Outstanding. Brave. A must buy. A must read' BETWEEN THE PAGES BOOK CLUB'I didn't think Keith's novel A Boy Made of Blocks could be topped, but he's done it' GOODREADS REVIEWER'This is a truly wonderful story, and I recommend it to anyone with a heart - broken or otherwise' GOODREADS REVIEWER'I can't stress how amazing this book is. I truly believe that 2018's must-read novel has arrived'WHISPERING STORIES'Catapulted itself into my top five reads of all time' GOODREADS REVIEWER'Brilliantly done and backed up with a cast of lovely characters. I adore this book' GOODREADS REVIEWER'Just wonderful, a delicately finished story full of joy, loyalty, heartache and love' GOODREADS REVIEWER'Keith Stuart is fast emerging as one of the UK's great emotive writers when it comes to finding the beauty in everyday life' BEN VEAL WRITES 480 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'This brilliant series has brought Henry VIII's six wives to life as never before. This novel will enthral and inspire, just as much as it will break your heart' TRACY BORMAN'Katharine Parr deserves better than to be known just as Henry VIII's sixth wife - the one who survived. And there's no-one better placed than Alison Weir to restore her to her rightful place' SARAH GRISTWOODAlison Weir, historian and author of the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling SIX TUDOR QUEENS series, recounts the story of Henry VIII's last wife - Katharine Parr, the queen who survived him.---A WOMAN TORN BETWEEN LOVE AND DUTY.Two husbands dead, a boy and a sick man. And now Katharine is free to make her own choice.The ageing King's eye falls upon her. She cannot refuse him. or betray that she wanted another.She becomes the sixth wife - a queen and a friend. Henry loves and trusts her. But Katharine is hiding another secret in her heart, a deeply held faith that could see her burn.KATHARINE PARR. HENRY'S FINAL QUEEN. HER STORY.Renowned, bestselling historian Alison Weir reveals a warm, clever woman of great fortitude who rose boldly to every turn her life took.'For the first time I felt as though, thanks to Alison's skilful writing and storytelling, I came to 'know' Katharine' NICOLA TALLIS'A tour de force. If you think you know everything about Henry VIII's last queen, you're in for a wonderful treat - you don't!' SUSAN RONALD'An absorbing and fascinating read, meticulously researched as is always the case with Alison's work, and she really made Katharine live' SARAH RAYNE---PRAISE FOR THE SIX TUDOR QUEENS SERIES:'Weir is excellent on the little details that bring a world to life' Guardian'Profoundly moving. lingers long after the last page' Elizabeth Fremantle'Well researched and engrossing' Good Housekeeping'Utterly gripping and endlessly surprising' Tracy Borman'Hugely enjoyable . . . Alison Weir knows her subject and has a knack for the telling and textural detail' Daily Mail.

First UK edition, first printing. Elizabeth Jane Howard's copy. Original black cloth lettered in silver to the spine, in the Eric Ayers designed dustwrapper. A good copy, the binding square and firm. Spine tips are rubbed and nicked, with a short tear to the cloth at the lower edge of the front hinge. The pink top-stain is a little dusty. With the posthumous Ex-Libris stamp, dated 2015, of the English novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, the book clearly well-read, with a number of dog-ear creases to corners and marks to pages. A handful of passages are marked by Howard in the margin of the text. There are also two brief annotations. Complete with the dustwrapper, rubbed and nicked to spine tips and corners, with a handful of short closed tears to edges. ` Nabokov completed 'Lolita' in December of 1953; it had taken five years to write. He predicted that the novel's content would cause trouble and indeed the novel was rejected by every UK and US publisher who looked at it. Nabokov eventually placed it with Maurice Girodias' Olympia Press in Paris (Samuel Beckett had recently published 'Watt' with Girodias). Published in September 1955, across a pair of the distinctive green Olympia paperbacks, 'Lolita' received little attention until Graham Greene singled out the novel in the Sunday Times as one of the three best books of 1955. Owing to subsequent legal wranglings, however, 'Lolita' waited until 1958 for its first US publication (it was an immediate bestseller, for all the wrong reasons), and another year before appearing in the UK. This copy of the first UK edition is from the library of the English novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014), whose fourth novel, 'The Sea Change' (a very different kind of book) was published earlier the same year. Artemis Cooper, in her biography of Howard, notes that she "had the satisfaction of being listed as one of the Sunday Times's Outstanding Books for November", joining John Braine's 'The Vodi', John Hersey's 'The War Lover' and 'Lolita', with Laurie Lee's 'Cider with Rosie' (Lee was a former lover) in the non-fiction category. Howard clearly read 'Lolita' carefully, with pen in hand. A handful of sentences are marked with lines and ticks, the passages singled out characterised by their distinctly Nabokovian use of far-flung similitude (two examples: "I felt a Dostoevskian grin dawning [.] like a distant and terrible sun", p. 70; "It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed", p. 138). At the top of p. 110, Howard comments, gnomically, "Can't construct, is all", her own awkward construction neatly pressing home the point; and, on p. 158, where Humbert writes of sitting "with a dummy book or a bag of bonbons, or both, or nothing but my tingling glands, and watch her gambol, rubber-capped, bepearled, smoothly tanned, as glad as an ad, in her trim-fitted satin pants and shirred bra. Pubescent sweetheart!", a swift line and economical "uh uh" are written in the margin. It was three years later, in 1962, as director of the Cheltenham literary festival that Howard first met Kingsley Amis (he had been invited to discuss sex and censorship in literature, of all things, with Carson McCullers and Joseph Heller). The immediate attraction was "powerful enough to end both their [existing] marriages", leading to their own marriage in 1965. Amis had written one of the most interesting of the UK reviews of Lolita for the Spectator in 1959. He disliked (and misunderstood) the book, while acknowledging and avoiding the common error of reading the novel as being in any way salacious. "It is encouraging to see all this concern for a book of serious literary pretension", he wrote, "even if some of the concern, while serious enough, is not literary in the way we ordinarily think of it. One would be even more encouraged if the book in question were not so thoroughly bad in both senses: bad as a work of art, that is, and morally bad though certainly not obscene or pornographic." Perhaps ironically, it was Kingsley's son Martin, who was famously taken in hand by Howard as a disaffected teenager, nurturing him to become a keen reader and first-class Oxford graduate (recounted in Amis' memoir, 'Experience' [1999]), who later wrote some of the most sensitive and penetrating criticism of 'Lolita'. Could the young Amis have read this particular (and clearly well-read) copy? (Artemis Cooper, 'Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence', [London: 2016]; Janet Watts, 'Elizabeth Jane Howard Obituary', [Guardian: 2 January, 2014]; the UK first of 'Lolita' is omitted by Andrew Field in his Nabokov bibliography). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.