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Books > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours > Family history
In SEVEN WINTERS Elizabeth Brown recalls with endearing candour her family and her Dublin childhood as seen through the eyesof a child who could not read till she was seven and who fed her imagination only on sights and sounds. BOWEN'S COURT describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when the author, the last of the Bowens, was forced to sell the house she loved. With the mastery skill that is also the hallmark of her novels she reviews ten generations of Bowens as representative of a class - the Protestant Irish gentry. Their lives were ones of fanatical commitment to property, lawsuits, formidable matriachs, violent conflicts, hunting, drinking and breeding, self- destructive and self-sustaining fantasies...
'Life After You really is the book with everything. A real 5 star
read.' bestselling author, Claudia Carroll What if the person
you've lost, is the one you need to find? Milly Bryne's world came
crashing down when she lost her beloved Dad and boyfriend in a
matter of weeks. Losing her Dad broke her family. Losing her
soulmate made her give up on life and love. After swerving from
stability to chaos to despair, Milly finally believes she has her
life back on track when the unexpected return of a familiar face to
Dublin throws her life into a spin. Milly is forced to decide if
her new life is the one for her, or if there is another path that
will bring even greater riches of joy, excitement and fun. Life
just isn't worth living if your heart isn't in it? Meaningful and
moving, a beautiful story with life-affirming qualities. Perfect
for fans of Cecelia Ahern and Cathy Kelly. What readers are saying
about Life After You:'Life After You really is the book with
everything. Love, loss, heartbreak, heart mending, friendship,
family and so much more. All told with Sian O'Gorman's
characteristic warmth and with a rich vein of honour running
throughout. I can't tell you the glorious hours I passed in
lockdown, completely gripped by this book. A real 5 star read.'
Claudia Carrol
The ordinary, the bizarre, the chancers, the takers and the history
makers.These are the real-life stories of the Lara and Furtado
families of Georgian England. Immerse yourself in their everyday
lives and discover an elopement that captured the imagination of a
nation, a murder most foul, a miserly gambler, and a father and son
sent to prison at the instigation of their wives. They brushed
shoulders with the Disraelis, the Adams brothers and the Byrons,
leading lives sometimes heart-warming and always fascinating. A gem
of a book for family historians.
The War of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and
1485 four kings lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost
their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and
thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. Yet
almost nothing is known about the thoughts and feelings of the
people who lived through this bloody conflict. Almost nothing, but
not quite. As they made their way in a disintegrating world, a
Norfolk family called the Pastons were writing letters - about
politics, about business, about shopping, about love and about each
other. Using these letters, the oldest surviving family
correspondence in English, Helen Castor traces the extraordinary
history of the Paston family across three generations. Blood &
Roses tells the dramatic, moving and intensely human story of how
one family survived one of the most tempestuous periods in English
history.
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