![]() ![]() #3 The Last Queen of England: A centuries-old royal conspiracy. #2 To the Grave: A wartime secret with deadly repercussions. #1 In the Blood: A dark secret locked in the past - a family historian trying against the odds to unlock it. Revised edition: This edition of The Last Queen of England includes editorial revisions.įrom the Author: Books in this series. It is the third book in the Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Mystery series but can be enjoyed as a stand-alone story. The Last Queen of England is a racing thriller with a heart-stopping conclusion. ![]() A new killer, bent on restoring what he sees as the true, royal bloodline, is on the loose.as is a Machiavellian heir-hunter who senses that the latest round of murder, kidnapping, and scandal represents an unmissable business opportunity. What to make of the story of five men of science, colleagues of Isaac Newton and Christopher Wren, who were mysteriously hanged for high treason?Īs they edge closer to the truth, Tayte and the professor find that death is once again in season. The disaster saw a loss of life comparable to the Titanic and the Lusitania, and yet her tragedy has been forgotten. ![]() Before long, Tayte and a truth-seeking historian, Professor Jean Summer, find themselves following a corpse-ridden trail that takes them to the Royal Society of London, circa 1708. On a foggy night in 1914, the ocean liner Empress of Ireland sank en route between Canada and England. While on a visit to London, American genealogist Jefferson Tayte’s old friend and colleague dies in his arms. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Upon arriving in Texas, without any clothes or belongings, her father drives her to the home he shares with his new wife. She did this without telling him about her mother’s death or the volleyball scholarship she received, claiming that “he’d done nothing to help, and he shouldn’t get credit” for her success. Beyah is forced to call her dad, who’d recently skipped her graduation, and ask to stay with him until she leaves for college. Heart Bones takes off from the start with the main character, Beyah Grim, discovering her mother’s body in their home following an overdose. I’d read all the big ones: It Ends with Us, November 9, Verity, and Ugly Love before delving into her less popular books. So much so that I’d managed to read seventeen out of the twenty-six books she’s published within her career in five months. There was a time following a stint at summer camp-where I was first introduced to her stories-that her novels were virtually all I wanted to read. ![]() ![]() My favorite author, whose books I will read without fail, is Colleen Hoover. ![]() ![]() ![]() This isn’t a normal book summary: Principles is a tree book, which makes it difficult to summarise. ![]() I've talked in my last post about my personal history with Ray Dalio's Principles - essentially, that I read it during a dark period in University, applied it to my life and found that it changed me forever. Read more about book classifications here. You should read the original book in addition to this summary, as tree books are not easily summarised. This is a summary of a □ tree book, and happens to be part 2 of The Principles Sequence. ![]() ![]() The text resembles a set of directions, with each step wryly presented as a concise sentence and plainly printed in sans serif capital letters. He substitutes talcum powder for flour and paper scraps for mozzarella he notes that pizzas struggle when tickled. ![]() the pizza oven), but when it's time to cut slices (with a karate-chop gesture), ""the pizza runs away and the pizza-maker chases him."" Steig evidently has played pizza before. (They're really checkers.)"" Pizza-Pete bakes on the couch, (a.k.a. ![]() His father notices, and ""he thinks it might cheer Pete up to be made into a pizza."" Pete allows himself to be carried into the kitchen, where he is kneaded and tossed like dough. On a rainy day, title character Pete flops down on the couch in an attitude of despair. ![]() Steig (The Toy Brother) introduces a game guaranteed to produce a good mood. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fifth in line for the British throne, knows how to play the part of an almost royal-but now she's off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk starring in an all-too-convincing death scene. Includes an English Christmas companion, full of holiday recipes, games, and more! ![]() On her second day, another so-called accident results in a death-and there’s yet another on her third, making Georgie wonder if there's something wicked happening in this winter wonderland. The village should be like something out of A Christmas Carol, but as soon as she arrives things take a deadly turn when a neighborhood nuisance falls out of a tree. It seems like a Christmas miracle when she manages to land a position as hostess to a posh holiday party in Tiddleton. While her true love, Darcy O’Mara, is spending his feliz navidad tramping around South America and her mother is holed up in a tiny village called Tiddleton-under-Lovey with droll playwright Noel Coward, Georgie is quite literally stuck at Castle Rannoch thanks to a snowstorm. ![]() In the sixth mystery in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness series, Lady Georgiana Rannoch cannot wait to ring in the New Year-before a Christmas killer wrings another neck… ![]() ![]() ![]() The beautifully crafted plot line kept me guessing at points and I found myself in Sabine's shoes again wondering if she truly was crazy. This was not just a book that I read but pure genius on the page which moved me from feeling unwell to experiencing everything along with Sabine. Sabine's story rocked me to my core and I spent the best part of the final quarter with tears slipping down my cheeks. ![]() Jessica, this is pure literary genius! I have not read something this good in ages and I mean ages. Not feeling well this morning I decided to take a doona day and with nothing to lose I jumped into Between the Lives. ![]() I wasn't sure what I thought when I picked up a trial copy of the first two chapters on my kindle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2007, he co-created the award-winning series Locke & Key with Joe Hill. He earned the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series, Locke & Key, featuring the eye-popping art of Gabriel Rodríguez.īorn in Santiago, Chile, Gabriel Rodríguez began working as an illustrator in the late 90s and in 2002 started drawing books for IDW Publishing, including CSI, George Romero’s Land of the Dead, and Beowulf, amongst others. His book of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, won the Bram Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Full Throttle, The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box, and NOS4A2, recently made into a TV series from AMC. His horror novella In the Tall Grass, co-written with Stephen King, was made into a feature film from Netflix. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jemisin’s writing process often begins with dreams: imagery vivid enough to hang on into wakefulness. ![]() I needed to build a world that would explain her.” That’s a person who has been through so much shit that she has been pushed into becoming a leader. “She was angry in a slow burn, with the kind of anger that is righteous, enough to change a planet. “I need to know how that person became who she is-a woman so angry that she was willing to move mountains,” she told me. Jemisin awoke in a sweat and jotted down what she had seen. Jemisin did not know how she had triggered the woman’s fury, but she believed that, if she did not ameliorate it quickly, the woman would hurl the smoldering massif at her. She was glaring down at Jemisin and radiating anger. Standing before the formation was a black woman in her mid-forties, with dreadlocks, who appeared to be holding the volcano aloft with her mind. “It was a chunk of rock shaped like a volcanic cone-a cone-shaped smoking mountain,” she recalled. In her sleep, she found herself standing in a surreal tableau with a massif floating in the distance. Jemisin, the fantasy and science-fiction author, had a dream that shook her. ![]() ![]() Malcolm put a comforting hand on the creature’s arm. I got the distinct feeling he wanted to come closer to me. The creature looked at me with curious eyes and I heard him whine but it wasn’t like a sound out of pain, more out of yearning. It reminded me of pictures I had seen of the Egyptian god Anubis in my world civilization class except this creature was albino white instead of black. It was taller than Malcolm by two feet with white patchy hair like a mangy dog and a face resembling a greyhound with tall pointy ears. Before I knew it, a creature I couldn’t have made up in my wildest nightmare stood beside Malcolm. I heard what sounded like claws run across the asphalt. He snapped his fingers in the direction of the maintenance building. He slowly started to step back away from me. ![]() “You’re far too rare a creature to simply destroy.” I promise,” he said holding his hands out to the side as if showing me he had nothing up his sleeves. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I knew immediately that she would become the character of James Stack’s sister Aileen. She was sentenced to seven years labour and transported as a convict to Van Diemen’s Land, now known as Tasmania. She also found herself circling the character of another Irish immigrant, a soldier who married one of the Finnegan daughters.Īllan found the process of researching this historical fiction fascinating, and says that “real stories showed themselves like gems in a pond, and where I thought they would add to the story as a whole, I included them.” She cites the detail of “a 12-year-old girl arrested for stealing a handkerchief in Dublin. ![]() Unearthing facts about the murders, Allan learned that the Finnegans were attacked in their sleep, and their bodies buried in the back garden of their cottage in Otahuhu. Beside four member's names are the words 'murdered, The Otahuhu Murders 1865', the murderer's name and the date he was sent to the gallows. The book, released to acclaim in May this year, is based on a dark spot in Allan’s family history.Īt the top of Allan’s family tree are eight members of the Finnegan family: the first of her ancestors to arrive in New Zealand from Ireland. English alumna Rosetta Allan has just published her first novel, Purgatory. ![]() |