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A House in Corfu by Emma Tennant
Category: Travel
Tells the story of one of the most beautiful places on earth - still astonishingly unspoilt - on the west coast of Corfu. In the early 1960s, Emma Tennant's parents spotted a magical bay from a cruise and decided to build a house there. Paperback (B-Format)
A House in Corfu: A Family's Sojourn in Greece by Emma Tennant
Category: Travel
This book is the story of Emma Tennant's parent's house, Rovinia, set above the bay in Corfu where legend has it Ulysses was shipwrecked and found by Nausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous. It is also the story of people like Maria, a miraculous cook and the presiding spirit of the house, and her husband, ...Show more
Adele by Emma Tennant
Category: Fiction
I loved to be tomorrow,walking always a few feet behind today.Little did I know then the cruel pantomime I wouldbe coerced into making come true.The daughter of a celebrated Parisian actress, Ad?le is a homesick, forlorn eight-year-old when first brought to Thornfield Hall by Edward Fairfax Rochester, h ...Show more
Confessions of a Sugar Mummy by Emma Tennant
Category: Biography
What do older women want? And older than what, anyway? Love, flattery, an end to baby-sitting, a night out without falling asleep in the soup? Or the very last chance of gratifying desire, of finding a soul-mate, even if it means paying over the odds...? It's awful, really to admit to some of the stupid ...Show more
Diana: The Ghost Biography by Emma Tennant
Category: Fiction
When Prince Harry arrives at Balmoral to convalesce after a bungee-jumping accident in Bali, he is accompanied by Sister Julia, a plain looking nurse who dotes on her charge. Julia's behavior provokes instant dislike and suspicion in two senior royal servants, the formidable housekeeper Janet MacDuff an ...Show more
Felony by Emma Tennant
Category: Fiction
Tells the story of the literary treachery that took place at No 43 via Romana, Florence, where Claire Clairmont, once lover of Lord Byron and mother of his daughter Allegra, lived until her death in 1879. This is also the story on Henry Jame's novel "The Aspern Papers", which is based on that household ...Show more
Felony - The Private History of the Aspern Papers by Emma Tennant
Category: Fiction
Felony is the story of the literary treachery that took place at no. 43 via Romana, Florence, where Claire Clairmont, once lover of Lord Byron and mother of his daughter Allegra, lived until her death in 1879. It is also the story of Henry James's brilliant novella The Aspern Papers, which is based on t ...Show more
Sylvia and Ted by Tennant, Emma
Category: Fiction
A fictional re-creation of the turbulent courtship, marriage, and separation of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In intense, dramatic prose, Emma Tennant unfolds a story of passion, conflict, and betrayal. Creating a series of unforgettable images she reconstructs the twentieth century's most famous l ...Show more
The Autobiography of the Queen by Emma Tennant
Category: Fiction
On a dull morning in September at her Scottish castle Balmoral, The Queen was packing an overnight bag. She had never done this for herself before, and after negotiating the luggage store-room (which she had never visited before) she felt too much attention would be drawn if she was seen dragging a heav ...Show more
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