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Shortlisted for the ALCS Gold Dagger Award for Nonfiction A
brilliant work of historical true crime charting a pivotal event in
the l9th century, the Phoenix Park murders in Dublin, that gripped
the world and forever altered the course of Irish history, from
renowned journalist, former New Yorker London editor, and Costa
Biography Award finalist Julie Kavanagh. Ireland, 1879-1882. After
700 years of British rule, the post-Famine generation of Irish
tenant farmers began to push back against the reigning feudal
system of landownership. The charismatic political leader, Charles
Stewart Parnell, headed up the Land League, a revolutionary
movement that promised to restore land and power to the people
through a series of protests, strikes, and boycotts. After what
became known as the Irish Land War had escalated into nationwide
anarchy, Parnell and two associates were incarcerated without trial
in Kilmainham Gaol. In April 1882, Parnell secretly forged the
Kilmainham Treaty, a pact in which he pledged to work
diplomatically with British Prime Minister William Gladstone for
peace and the eventual independence of Ireland from England. It was
a moment of real hope and a potential turning point in history, one
that Gladstone himself described as "golden." Yet it would be
shattered one sunlit evening, on May 6, l882, as Gladstone's
emissary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, who had arrived that day in
Dublin, and Thomas Burke, the undersecretary for Ireland, were
ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park
in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish
independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction
of republicans armed with specially made surgeon's blades. The
impact of the assassinations was so cataclysmic that it destroyed
the peace pact, almost brought down the government, and set in
motion repercussions that would last long into the twentieth
century. In a story that spans Donegal, Dublin, London, Paris, New
York, Cannes, and Cape Town, Julie Kavanagh traces the crucial
events that came before and after the murders. From Parnell's
passionate affair with an Irish MP's wife, Katharine "Kitty"
O'Shea, which eventually caused his downfall, to Queen Victoria's
prurient obsession with the assassinations; from the investigation
spearheaded by Superintendent John Mallon, the "Irish Sherlock
Holmes," who tirelessly tracked down each member of the
Invincibles, to the eventual betrayal and clandestine escape of
leading Invincible James Carey and his murder on the high seas; The
Irish Assassins brings us intimately into this fascinating story
that shaped Irish politics and engulfed an empire. This is an
unputdownable book from one of our most "compulsively readable"
(Guardian) writers.
Rudolf Nureyev, one of the most iconic dancers of the twentieth
century, had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex
appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same
excitement, for both men and women, on or off the stage.
In this superb biography, Julie Kavanagh deftly brings us through
the professional and personal milestones of Nureyev's life and
career: his education at the Kirov school in Leningrad; his
controversial defection from the USSR in 1961; his long-time affair
with the Danish dancer Erik Bruhn; his legendary partnership with
Margot Fonteyn at the Royal Ballet in London. We see his fiery
collaborations with almost all the major living choreographers
including Ashton, Balanchine, Robbins, Graham, and Taylor. And we
see Nureyev as he reinvigorated the Paris Ballet Opera in the early
1980s before his death from AIDS complications in 1993. Nureyev:
The Life is the most intimate, revealing, and dramatic picture we
have ever had of this dazzling, complex figure.
Sir Frederick Ashton, Britain's greatest choreographer, was a major
figure on the cultural landscape of the twentieth century and his
influence extended far beyond the world of dance. Julie Kavanagh
traces Ashton's progress with a keen and sympathetic sense of both
the man and his milieu. The drama of his professional and private
life - among his close associates were Constant Lambert, Benjamin
Britten, W. B. Yeats, the Sitwells and Cecil Beaton - is skilfully
interwoven with vivid descriptions of the ballets themselves. 'Not
only the best biography of a ballet figure but, far more important,
a Proustian recollection of that glamorous near-mythical time, the
first half of our now setting century.' Gore Vidal
ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2021 'The tale of the
Phoenix Park murders is not unfamiliar, but Kavanagh recounts it
with a great sense of drama... Kavanagh's account reminds me of the
very best of true crime.' The Times (Book of the Week) On a sunlit
evening in l882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief
Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed
to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The
murders were carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of
republicans armed with specially-made surgeon's blades. They ended
what should have been a turning point in Anglo-Irish relations. A
new spirit of goodwill had been burgeoning between Prime Minister
William Gladstone and Ireland's leader Charles Stewart Parnell,
with both men forging in secret a pact to achieve peace and
independence in Ireland - with the newly appointed Cavendish,
Gladstone's protege, to play an instrumental role. The impact of
the Phoenix Park murders was so cataclysmic that it destroyed the
pact, almost brought down the government and set in motion
repercussions that would last long into the twentieth century. In a
story that spans Donegal, Dublin, London, Paris, New York, Cannes
and Cape Town, Julie Kavanagh thrillingly traces the crucial events
that came before and after the murders. From the adulterous affair
that caused Parnell's downfall to Queen Victoria's prurient
obsession with the assassinations and the investigation spearheaded
by the 'Irish Sherlock Holmes', culminating in a murder on the high
seas, The Irish Assassins brings us intimately into this
fascinating story that shaped Irish politics and engulfed an
empire. This is an unputdownable book from one of our most
'compulsively readable' (Guardian) writers.
NOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES, THE WHITE CROW 'A gripping
account of an extraordinary life' Daily Telegraph Born on a train
in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No
other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement - both
on and off stage. Nureyev's achievements and conquests became
legendary: he rose out of Tatar peasant poverty to become the
Kirov's thrilling maverick star; slept with his beloved mentor's
wife; defected to the West in 1961; sparked Rudimania across the
globe; established the most rhapsodic partnership in dance history
with the middle-aged Margot Fonteyn; reinvented male technique;
gatecrashed modern dance; moulded new stars; and staged Russia's
unknown ballet masterpieces in the West. He and his life were
simply astonishing. 'Magnificent, a triumph. Captures every facet
of this extraordinary man' Mail on Sunday 'The definitive study of
a man who, in his combination of aesthetic grace and psychological
grime, can truly be called a sacred monster' Observer 'Undoubtedly
the definitive biography' Sunday Telegraph
ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2021 'The tale of the
Phoenix Park murders is not unfamiliar, but Kavanagh recounts it
with a great sense of drama... Kavanagh's account reminds me of the
very best of true crime.' The Times (Book of the Week) On a sunlit
evening in l882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief
Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed
to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The
murders were carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of
republicans armed with specially-made surgeon's blades. They ended
what should have been a turning point in Anglo-Irish relations. A
new spirit of goodwill had been burgeoning between Prime Minister
William Gladstone and Ireland's leader Charles Stewart Parnell,
with both men forging in secret a pact to achieve peace and
independence in Ireland - with the newly appointed Cavendish,
Gladstone's protege, to play an instrumental role. The impact of
the Phoenix Park murders was so cataclysmic that it destroyed the
pact, almost brought down the government and set in motion
repercussions that would last long into the twentieth century. In a
story that spans Donegal, Dublin, London, Paris, New York, Cannes
and Cape Town, Julie Kavanagh thrillingly traces the crucial events
that came before and after the murders. From the adulterous affair
that caused Parnell's downfall to Queen Victoria's prurient
obsession with the assassinations and the investigation spearheaded
by the 'Irish Sherlock Holmes', culminating in a murder on the high
seas, The Irish Assassins brings us intimately into this
fascinating story that shaped Irish politics and engulfed an
empire. This is an unputdownable book from one of our most
'compulsively readable' (Guardian) writers.
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The Lady of the Camellias (Paperback)
Alexandre Dumas; Introduction by Julie Kavanagh; Translated by Liesl Schillinger
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The landmark novel that inspired both Verdi's opera La Traviata and
the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!, in a sparkling new
translation. One of the greatest love stories of all time, The Lady
of the Camellias recounts the history of Marguerite Gautier, the
most beautiful, brazen, and expensive courtesan in all of Paris.
Known to all as 'the Lady of the Camellias' because she is never
seen without her favourite flowers, she leads a glittering life of
endless parties and aristocratic balls, with the richest men in
France flocking to her boudoir to lay their fortunes at her feet.
But despite having many lovers, she has never really loved - until
she meets Armand Duval, young, handsome and from a lower social
class, and yet hopelessly in love with Marguerite. ALEXANDRE DUMAS
fils (1824-1895) was the son of the famous novelist Alexandre
Dumas. In 1847 he published his first novel, Adventures of Four
Women and a Parrot, followed a year later by The Lady of the
Camellias and ten other novels over the next decade. After the
great success of the dramatic version of The Lady of the Camellias,
he was gradually drawn away from the novel to the stage. In 1874 he
was elected to the French Academy and until his death continued to
produce a long line of successful plays. LIESL SCHILLINGER is a
journalist and literary critic who writes regularly for The New
York Times Book Review and spent many years on the editorial staff
of The New Yorker. JULIE KAVANAGH is the author of The Girl Who
Loved Camellias, a biography of the courtesan who inspired The Lady
of the Camellias. An award-winning biographer of Rudolf Nureyev and
Frederick Ashton, she has been London editor of both Vanity Fair
and The New Yorker. 'One of the greatest love stories of the world'
Henry James 'Anyone who has read an outdated English translation of
this novel; seen the opera it inspired - La Traviata, by Verdi; or
watched the film it inspired - Camille, starring Greta Garbo, might
have missed the audacity, obstinacy, sensuality, and recklessness
of its characters' Liesl Schillinger
This riveting biography brilliantly explores the short, intense,
and passionate life of the country girl from Normandy, who at
thirteen fled her brute of a father to go to Paris. Almost
overnight she became one of the most admired courtesans of the
1840s--the inspiration for Alexandre Dumas "fils"' "The Lady of the
Camellias" and Verdi's "La Traviata." With her aristocratic ways,
elegant clothes and signature camellias, Marie was always a subject
of fascination at the opera and the boulevard cafes. Her death at
twenty-three from tuberculosis created such an outpouring of
sympathy in the press that Charles Dickens, who was in Paris at the
time, was amazed. "Everything is erased in the face of an incident
which is far more important," he wrote, "the romantic death of one
of the glories of the demi-monde, the beautiful, the famous Marie
Duplessis."
Four sweet holiday romances to warm your heart. A collection of our
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A.J. Remington needs a wife to seem more accessible to potential
clients, but love cannot be a part of the equation. Having been
burned, he knows that love is complicated and painful. A.J. is
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has also tasted her share of heartbreak thanks to a failed marriage
and she's determined to avoid that kind of pain,
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consumes them both. Can it be that the perfect woman is standing in
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Valentine's Day: At Christmas, Kara Hayward makes a pact with her
girlfriends. She's going to wear a headband of mistletoe until a
man kisses her. The problem is it's now Valentine's Day. Will Kara
be stuck wearing the headband of shame the rest of the year, or
will she find Mr. Right in a place she never expects? Red Soles in
the Morning, Valentine's Soaring (Story 2 in the Red Soles Series):
In book one of the series, Red Soles at Night, Christmas Delight,
Audrey Wells and Mack Hargrave meet on Christmas under inauspicious
circumstances, when his dog, Winston, knocks her very expensive
shoes into Lake Washington. Disaster quickly turns to attraction
and love, but Mack must return home to Texas. As book two opens,
Audrey's shoes have survived their dunking, but her heart may not
survive Mack's departure. Very much in love, the two are determined
to pursue what they have started, but the very high-powered careers
that force them to live in different states, keep thwarting their
plans to reunite. Finally, in a fit of desperation, and with some
prompting by her girlfriends, Audrey decides a surprise trip to
Texas will be just what they need.Will it be everything she hopes
it will be...or are the cards of separation and mischance still
dealt against them? Jessica's Valentine Diary: Tom is handed a lost
diary and, against his better judgement, he begins to read it. The
deeper he reads, the more he starts to fall in love with the owner,
Jessica and he sets out to find the unknown girl who has stolen his
heart with her words. If Tom finds Jessica can he convince her of
his love? How will she react to the stranger who has read her
deepest secrets? Is there a happy ever after to this story?
Signposts on the Road to Emmaus is a four-session programme which
explores how the Mass is celebrated. The backdrop to each of the
sessions comes from the story in Luke's gospel of the two disciples
who encounter Jesus on the road to Emmaus. Successfully taught
throughout the Kildare & Leighlin Diocese, this programme draws
upon the experience of participants, sacred scripture, liturgical
texts, and invites practical application to local celebrations of
liturgy. This leads to a renewed and deepened understanding of the
Mass and its celebration. It is suitable for anyone who is
interested in finding out more about the Mass. To view the
resources accompanying this title please click here
The sacrament of baptism welcomes a child into the family of God in
a special way. In the course of its celebration those present will
experience a rich tapestry of symbols, actions, gestures, prayers
and the Word of God. This booklet is intended to explain such
symbolism and the meanings behind the various parts of the baptism
ceremony so that all may fully experience the deep meaning of
baptism for the child, the family and the wider Christian
community. Full of helpful reminders and practical tips, this book
will be an invaluable aid to parents, godparents and the whole
family as they prepare for this important day in the life of the
new baby.
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