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Books > Fiction > True stories > Discovery / historical / scientific
Royal scandal, set against the background of the Jacobean court,
involving love, bribery, poison, treachery and black magic - 'a
hugely enjoyable book' Daily Telegraph 'A gripping detective story
... Wonderfully dramatic ... Probably the juiciest court scandal of
the past 500 years' Daily Mail In the autumn of 1615 the Earl and
Countess of Somerset were detained on suspicion of having murdered
Sir Thomas Overbury. The arrest of these leading court figures
created a sensation. The young and beautiful Countess of Somerset
had already achieved notoriety when she divorced her first husband
in controversial circumstances. The Earl of Somerset was one of the
richest and most powerful men in the kingdom, having risen to
prominence as the male 'favourite' of James I. In a vivid,
enthralling narrative, Anne Somerset unravels these extraordinary
events. It is, at once, a story rich in passion, intrigue and
corruption and a murder mystery - for, despite the guilty verdicts,
there is much about Overbury's death that remains enigmatic. The
Overbury murder case profoundly damaged the monarchy, and
constituted the greatest court scandal in English history. 'This is
a book about murder, witchcraft, adultery, lechery, intrigue and
chicanery among the country's most powerful nobility' Time Out
New York Times bestselling author Charles Graeber tells the astonishing story of the group of scientists working on a code that can enable the human immune system to fight ― and perhaps even cure ― cancer.
For decades, scientists have puzzled over one of medicine’s greatest mysteries: why doesn’t our immune system fight cancer the way it does other diseases? The answer is a series of tricks that cancer has developed to turn off normal immune responses ― tricks that scientists have only recently discovered, and now are learning to defeat. We are in the midst of a revolution in our understanding of cancer and how to beat it.
Groundbreaking, riveting, and expertly told, The Breakthrough is the story of the game-changing and Nobel Prize-winning scientific discoveries that unleash our natural ability to recognise and defeat cancer, as told through the experiences of the patients, physicians, and immunotherapy researchers who are on the front lines. This is the incredible true story of the race to find a cure, and the definitive account of a historic moment in medical science.
Jack Dunn was devastated to discover Dan Brown had stolen the story
from his novel The Vatican Boys to create the international
bestseller The Da Vinci Code. The plagiarism was obvious. There
were hundreds of similarities between the two books, including
characters, settings, plot lines and subject matter. The discovery
changed the course of Jack's life. He began an extraordinary fight
for justice which pushed him to the depths of despair as he tried
to prove his work had been copied by Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Fraud
is Jack's story, his explosive true account of the greatest
literary fraud in history and a book which will change forever the
way the world sees one of the most successful writers of all time.
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