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A Mother's Wish
by Dilly CourtSince the untimely death of her husband, young mother Effie Grey has been forced to live on a narrowboat owned by her tyrannical father-in-law Jacob. In spite of her own despair, she is determined to protect her brother Tom and her baby son Georgie from Jacob's bullying ways - for she is all they have in the world. But when Jacob hires villainous Salter and his vile wife Sal to run the barge, Effie's life becomes even more unbearable, and Tom is sent packing without a penny to his name. Forced to live on deck with little to shelter her and Georgie from the elements, tormented by the Salters, Effie is driven to desperation. And stealing Jacob's hidden cache of money she escapes with her son. As she begins her frantic search for Tom, Effie vows that whatever happens she will make a home for little Georgie and keep him safe from harm.
The Orphan's Dream
by Dilly CourtThe heartwarming and nostalgic new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid.Motherless since she was five, Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly, Mirabel finds herself cast out on the street by her ruthless stepmother. She is taken to a place of refuge by charismatic sea captain, Jack Starke. But the safe haven turns out to be a house of ill-repute. Here she becomes a parlour maid and catches the eye of an elderly, retired army officer, Hubert Kettle.Mirabel has fallen in love with Jack Starke but when she hears that his ship has foundered and all were lost, she has little choice but to accept Hubert’s offer of a home and marriage. Although desperately unhappy, Mirabel is determined to make the best of her life. Until she receives unexpected news and her life is thrown into turmoil once more.
A Place Called Home
by Dilly CourtThe wonderfully nostalgic and heartwarming new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid.Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen, Lucy Pocket has spent all her life in the care of her disreputable but charming grandmother, Eva. They dodge from one poor lodging house to another, always in debt and resorting to theft in order to exist. Until her wealthy paternal grandfather buys her from Eva, determined to bring Lucy up to be a lady. When her grandfather dies, his despicable nephew cheats Lucy out of her inheritance, except for a run-down lodging house in Whitechapel, where she is forced to look after his three illegitimate children.Jilted by her would-be fiancé, Lucy is determined to make a life for herself and the children, and to search for her long lost grandmother, creating the family she has always longed for.
Rag-and-Bone Christmas
by Dilly CourtDon’t miss the brand-new festive saga from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!
The Ragged Heiress
by Dilly CourtOn a bitter winter's day, an unnamed girl lies dangerously ill in hospital. When two coarse, rough-speaking individuals come to claim her, she can remember nothing of the events that brought her to her present state, not even her name. According to the men, she is their young sister, Lucy. As her health improves and her memory gradually returns, she realises she's been kidnapped. But she has no means of escaping the hideous confines of the filthy basement room in which they have imprisoned her in.They are hoping to claim her fortune as a ransom - for she is really Lucetta Froy, the daughter of a prosperous importer. Tragically her parents were drowned on the return voyage from Bali when their ship went down, but Lucetta survived as did the two villains. She is unable to prove her identity, especially when her uncle refuses to recognise her and claims her father's business for himself. But despite being virtually destitute, and her spirit almost broken, Lucetta is determined to reclaim what is rightfully hers...
Ragged Rose
by Dilly CourtThe heartwarming new novel from Dilly Court, the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid.
The Reluctant Heiress
by Dilly CourtThe brand-new unforgettable romance saga from the No.1 bestselling author – available to pre-order now!
The River Maid (The River Maid #1)
by Dilly CourtThe first in the stunning River Maid series by Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court
Runaway Widow (The Rockwood Chronicles #3)
by Dilly CourtDon’t miss the third book in the heartwarming six-part series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!
Snow Bride (The Rockwood Chronicles #5)
by Dilly CourtDon’t miss the fifth book in the heartwarming six-part series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!
The Summer Maiden (The River Maid #2)
by Dilly CourtThe second book in the stunning River Maid series from Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court
Sunday’s Child (The Rockwood Chronicles #4)
by Dilly CourtDon’t miss the fourth book in the heartwarming six-part series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!
The Swan Maid
by Dilly CourtThe brand new compelling novel from the Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court.
A Thimble for Christmas
by Dilly CourtDon’t miss the next utterly romantic historical saga from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!
A Village Scandal (The Village Secrets #2)
by Dilly CourtThe second book in the dramatic new Village Secrets trilogy from the Sunday Times bestselling author.
Winter Wedding (The Rockwood Chronicles #2)
by Dilly CourtDon’t miss the brand-new Christmas read from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!
The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955–1985 (Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture)
by Elsa CourtThe American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955–1985 traces the origin of a postmodern iconography of mobile consumption equating roadside America with an authentic experience of the United States through the postwar road narrative, a narrative which, Elsa Court argues, has been shaped by and through white male émigré narratives of the American road, in both literature and visual culture. While stressing that these narratives are limited in their understanding of the processes of exclusion and unequal flux in experiences of modern automobility, the book works through four case studies in the American works of European-born authors Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Frank, Alfred Hitchcock, and Wim Wenders to unveil an early phenomenology of the postwar American highway, one that anticipates the works of late-twentieth-century spatial theorists Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, and Marc Augé and sketches a postmodern aesthetic of western mobility and consumption that has become synonymous with contemporary America.
Post-Traumatic Art in the City: Between War and Cultural Memory in Sarajevo and Beirut (New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts)
by Isabelle de CourtPost-Traumatic Art in the City comprises an original analysis of the nexus of war, art and urban society in two specific contexts: late 20th-century Beirut and Sarajevo. With an emphasis on conceptions of the 'post-traumatic', De le Court explores how cities and art are mutually formative in war and post-war contexts, providing unique insight into the politically and psychologically driven art scenes from within the works of art themselves. Grounded in close analyses and new research, the book makes an important contribution to the fields of art history and trauma studies.
Post-Traumatic Art in the City: Between War and Cultural Memory in Sarajevo and Beirut (New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts)
by Isabelle de CourtPost-Traumatic Art in the City comprises an original analysis of the nexus of war, art and urban society in two specific contexts: late 20th-century Beirut and Sarajevo. With an emphasis on conceptions of the 'post-traumatic', De le Court explores how cities and art are mutually formative in war and post-war contexts, providing unique insight into the politically and psychologically driven art scenes from within the works of art themselves. Grounded in close analyses and new research, the book makes an important contribution to the fields of art history and trauma studies.
Reading the New Testament (New Testament Readings)
by John CourtReading the New Testament is the lead volume to the successful New Testament Readings Series. It analyzes the many ways in which the New Testament can be read and interpreted.Rather than prescribing one 'correct' way of reading, this study offers an overview of and introduction to the most influential theories of recent scholarship, discussing the background against which such theories are developed. It shows the advantages of combining methods of reading, thus stimulating an interaction between various approaches, illustrated by the individual volumes in the series.This is an important addition to New Testament literature, offering the student of religion a comprehensive overview of the methods and approaches used by scholars in the field.
Reading the New Testament (New Testament Readings)
by John CourtReading the New Testament is the lead volume to the successful New Testament Readings Series. It analyzes the many ways in which the New Testament can be read and interpreted.Rather than prescribing one 'correct' way of reading, this study offers an overview of and introduction to the most influential theories of recent scholarship, discussing the background against which such theories are developed. It shows the advantages of combining methods of reading, thus stimulating an interaction between various approaches, illustrated by the individual volumes in the series.This is an important addition to New Testament literature, offering the student of religion a comprehensive overview of the methods and approaches used by scholars in the field.
Approaching the Apocalypse: A Short History of Christian Millenarianism
by John M. CourtPestilence, earthquake and flame; the binding of the great beast and the opening of seven seals: such ideas about divinely-inspired disaster and prophecies of doom have an enduring place in the history of Christian thought. For centuries men and women have made preparations for the imminent end of the world, and for the thousand year reign of Christ and his saints. Inspired principally by the startling texts of the Book of Revelation, Christianity has a rich and varied tradition of looking forward to the purifying fires of Armageddon. But what do recurring motifs like the Rapture, the apocalyptic Four Horsemen, plague, utopias, biblical prophecy and the building of the New Jerusalem really add up to? And how have understandings and interpretations of these patterns differed from century to century? Charting a steady course between the feverish predictions of early Christian heretics like the Montanists, whose leader was considered to be a manifestation of the Holy Spirit, and the febrile outpourings of modern-day, right-wing millennialists such as the Christian Zionists in America, John M Court explores the continuities and differences between their violent visions of cataclysm. His concise history offers an incisive analysis of such significant movements and figures as Joachim of Fiore, the Levellers and Diggers, James Jezreel and his Trumpeters, William Miller and Joanna Southcott, Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses, David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, and modern-day cargo cults and drug cultures. Embracing over two thousand years of intense and fiery admonition, Approaching the Apocalypse offers students of religion, history and politics the definitive handbook to Doomsday.
Henry VIII: History in an Hour
by Simon CourtLove history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.
Pocket Book of Patriots: 100 British Heroes
by George CourtauldThe Pocket Book of Patriotism proved that George Courtauld had a real gift for making history simple. The book became a word-of-mouth bestseller which dominated bookseller lists for many weeks. Now in this book he brings his talents to bear on great British figures. From King Arthur and The Venerable Bede, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Oliver Cromwell, to St Patrick and William Wilberforce, here are 100 patriots of whom, in the author's view, we should be unashamedly proud. Presenting these beacon figures in the form of CVs, the author (himself a headhunter) casts their careers in a new light, highlighting key historical events, milestones in their careers, all reinforced by quotes from the figures themselves, capped by their personal hobbies and interests. Alongside the familiar names like William Caxton, Nelson and Elizabeth I, come those which are perhaps less familiar but no less important - Edward Longshanks, the Hammer of the Scots, and Warwick the Kingmaker; Pelagius and Dr Harvey. The result is a fascinating slice of history which brings key British figures to life in a simple and most accessible way. Anyone who enjoyed The Pocket Book of Patriotism will savour this book.