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Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher by Laura Beatty
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A strange, wild, brilliant personal journey - across land and through time - in which Laura Beatty travels back two thousand years to rescue from obscurity Aristotle's friend and Chaucer's inspiration, the forgotten philosopher who grandfathered botany and the English novel. Standing on the deck of a f ...Show more
Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher by Laura Beatty
Category: Reference
Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care? Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he invented Botany. The character of the Wife of Bath is his invention, the Canterbury Tales as a whole, perhaps, the product of his inspiration. When Linnaeus w ...Show more
Lost Property by Laura Beatty
Category: Fiction
'Clever, brave and urgent. I thought about Lost Property for days after I finished it.' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall Reviews for Laura Beatty:'Beatty makes you feel the layers of history existing' The Times'Beatty is a writer of extraordinary power' Literary Review'Exceptional talent' Guardian In ...Show more
Lost Property by Laura Beatty
Category: Fiction
'Clever, brave and urgent. I thought about Lost Property for days after I finished it.' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall'Fascinating and eloquent discussion of nationalism, art and conflict, leavened with wry humour.' Mail on Sunday____________________In the middle of her life, a writer finds herself in ...Show more
Who was... Anne Boleyn : The Queen who lost her head by Laura Beatty
Category: Children's
The wife who lost her headAnne Boleyn was beautiful, gifted and clever. As a teenager, when she arrived at the English court after completing her education in France, she soon caught the eye of King Henry VIII. Henry wooed Anne with passionate love letters, and finally, after a great struggle, was allow ...Show more
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