Captain Fantom
Captain Fantom

Author: Reginald Hill

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2019-12-17

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1504059697

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From an award-winning author, a historical novel inspired by the life of a Croatian mercenary in seventeenth-century England. In the chaotic days of the early 1600s, Carlo Fantom, a Central European who spoke thirteen languages, would gladly accept payment to fight, no matter the country or the cause—battling and brutalizing his victims whether he was on the side of the king or his enemies in the English Civil War, for the Christians against the Turks or the Turks against the Christians. Written in the form of a memoir, this imaginative biographical novel weaves the historical facts that are known about Captain Fantom with a dramatic and action-filled portrayal of his adventures and misadventures, both alone and with his band of warriors, chosen for their military prowess and moral depravity. “Reginald Hill’s stories must certainly be among the best now being written.” —The Times Literary Supplement

The Forging of Fantom
The Forging of Fantom

Author: Reginald Hill

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2019-12-17

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1504059735

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The award-winning author of Captain Fantom returns with the origin story of the notorious seventeenth-century mercenary. Carlo Fantom spoke thirteen languages—a skill that proved useful as he traveled widely to sell his brutal services to any party who would pay him. This novel, written in the form of his personal memoirs, takes readers on a journey to his younger days—from the Croatian farm where he was born and raised to Venice, where he sails to collect a ransom for hostages—and offers both an intriguing look at how his character was formed and an action-packed account of his earliest adventures. “Reginald Hill’s stories must certainly be among the best now being written.” —The Times Literary Supplement

Aubrey's Brief Lives
Aubrey's Brief Lives

Author: John Aubrey

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2016-04-07

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 1473521734

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RUTH SCURR John Aubrey was a modest man, a self-styled antiquarian and the man who invented modern biography. His ‘lives’ of the prominent figures of his generation and the Elizabethan era, including Shakespeare, Milton and Sir Walter Raleigh, have been plundered by historians for centuries for their frankness and fascinating detail. Collected here are all of Aubrey’s biographical writings, a series of unforgettable portraits of the characters of his day, still more alive and kicking than in any conventional work of history.

The Whole Story
The Whole Story

Author: John E. Simkin

Publisher: K. G. Saur

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 1228

ISBN-13:

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This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.

A Dictionary of Writers and their Works
A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

Author: Christopher Riches

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-01-29

Total Pages: 1431

ISBN-13: 019251850X

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Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.

Of Sex and Faerie: further essays on Genre Fiction
Of Sex and Faerie: further essays on Genre Fiction

Author: John Lennard

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1847601731

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Taking up where Of Modern Dragons (2007) left off, these essays continue Lennard's investigation of the praxis of serial reading and the best genre fiction of recent decades, including work by Bill James, Walter Mosley, Lois Mcmaster Bujold, and Ursula K. Le Guin. There are groundbreaking studies of contemporary paranormal romance, and of Hornblower's transition to space, while the final essay deals with the phenomenon and explosive growth of fanfiction, and with the increasingly empowered status of the reader in a digital world. There is an extensive bibliography of genre and critical work, with eight illustrations. John Lennard is Director of Studies at Hughes Hall, Cambridge and has also taught for the Universities of London, Notre Dame, and for the Open University, and was Professor of British & American Literature at the University of the West Indies-Mona, 2004-09. Of Modern Dragons and other essays on genre fiction (2007), is also available from Lulu.