Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland (McCarthy Patricia)(Paperback)

Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland (McCarthy Patricia)(Paperback)

A deft interweaving of architectural and social history For aristocrats and gentry in 18th-century Ireland, the townhouses and country estates they resided in were carefully constructed to accommodate their cultivated lifestyles. Based on new research from Irish national collections and

Clock Strikes Twelve (Wentworth Patricia)(Paperback / softback)

Classic country house murder mystery set in WWII in stunning new

The Georgian London Town House: Building, Collecting and Display (Retford Kate)(Paperback)

For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the country's favourite national treasures - but most of its visitors know little of Devonshire House, which the

Fingerprint (Wentworth Patricia)(Paperback / softback)

A classic country house murder from one of the Queens of Crime in stunning new retro

Life in Georgian Richmond, North Yorkshire: A Diary & Its Secrets (Hatcher Jane)(Paperback)

The Georgian Era was a period of immense change in Britain, immortalized in the work of writers such as Jane Austen and architects like John Nash. For such an evocative period, the question must be asked: what was life really like? In Life in Georgian Richmond, the authors present a rare

House of Memories (Taylor Alice)(Paperback)

Set in rural Ireland in the early 1960s, a sequel to The Woman of the House and Across the River, House of Memories concludes the story of two neighbouring farms and their feuding families.Following his brutish father's death, young Danny Conway strives to rescue the family farm from ruin. When all

Tom McCarthy: Empty House of the Stare (McCarthy Tom)(Paperback)

The third publication in this series complements an exhibition of contemporary artworks from the 'La Caixa' Collection at Whitechapel Gallery. Here, British novelist and artist Tom McCarthy (born 1969) contributes a new work of fiction in response to the selected works alongside a fully illustrated

Fall of the House of Byron - Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England (Brand Emily)(Paperback / softback)

A thrilling family story of aristocratic decadence and

The Black House (Highsmith Patricia)(Paperback)

Horrific tragedy becomes disturbingly ordinary in The Black House, a masterful collection of short stories, written during a particularly dark time in Patricia Highsmith's life. As readers will discover, the work eerily evokes the warm familiarities of suburban life: the manicured lawns, the white

My Life in Houses (Forster Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

'I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.' So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses she's lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of

Life in Medieval Ireland (Dwyer Finbar)(Paperback)

The history of the Middle Ages in Ireland] is so neglected that the only figure of renown is Strongbow, the man who led the Norman Invasion of Ireland in the twelfth century ... There is little written about the lives of majority of men, who held no title or land, and even less about women

They were counted.The Transylvania Trilogy. Vol 1. (Banffy Miklos)(Pevná vazba)

Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament and the luxury life in Budapest provide the backdrop for this gripping, prescient novel, forming a chilling indictment of upper-class frivolity and political folly, in which good manners cloak indifference and

Ireland Through Birds: Journeys in Search of a Wild Nation (O'Brien Conor)(Paperback)

Twelve birds. One country. A wild Ireland waiting to be discovered. In Ireland Through Birds, Conor O'Brien takes the reader on an ornithological adventure around Ireland in search of twelve of our rarest and most elusive birds. Along the journey the author explores every kind of landscape and

Up and Down Stairs - The History of the Country House Servant (Musson Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

A history that brings to life the real country house

Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process: Practice-Based Skills (McCarthy Veach Patricia)(Paperback)

A fully revised and expanded second edition on facilitating genetic counseling, grounded in the recent ACGC practice-based competenciesUtilizes an active, cooperative approach with multiple clinical case examples and structured activities and written exercises clearly reflecting necessary

Ladies of the Manor: How Wives & Daughters Really Lived in Country House Society Over a Century Ago (Horn Pamela)(Paperback)

The real lives of women in Britain's country

Blackmountain (McDermott Patrick)(Paperback)

Life in rural Ireland in any townland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was far from easy. There were few opportunities for any kind of work outside farming. And few were the farmers who could remunerate anybody to help on the farm.We are in danger of forgetting the struggle these

Country Houses, Castles and Mansions of Northern Ireland (Leslie Rose Jane)(Paperback / softback)

Little House in the Big Woods (Wilder Laura Ingalls)(Paperback)

Based on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in the award-winning Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers. This edition features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams. Little House in the Big

The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England (Vickery Amanda)(Paperback)

What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? In this lively and controversial book, Amanda Vickery invokes women's own accounts of their intimate and their public lives to argue that in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the scope of female experience did not

A Shameful Murder (Harrison Cora)(Paperback)

Ireland, 1923. The country has been torn apart by the War of Independence and is now in the throes of sectarian violence and severe flooding. But Mother Aquinas knows that not all floods cleanse the deeds of humanity . . . When a body washes up at her convent chapel dressed in evening finery, she

Death in Fancy Dress (Gilbert Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

This classic country house mystery, first published in 1933, contrasts the splendours and frivolities of the English upper classes with the sombre overhang of the First World War and the irresistible complications of deadly familial

The O'Conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo - Trollope Anthony - e-kniha

eBook:,I shall never forget my first introduction to country life in Ireland, my first day's hunting there, or the manner in which I passed the evening afterwards. Nor shall I ever cease to be grateful for the hospitality which I received from the O'Conors of Castle Conor. My acquaintance with the

Die Laughing (Dunn Carola)(Paperback / softback)

The 12th novel in the charming Daisy Dalrymple series of 1920's country house murder