LIBROS DEL AUTOR: monica kendall

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  • Make me thy lyre
    Monica Kendall
    Flora spotted a large handwritten sign perched against a shrub with two long arrows. Above the left arrow was written ’BRIDGE’, above the other arrow was, in smaller capital letters, ’ABSOLUTELY NOTHING’.Set largely in 1970s Oxford and USA, Make me thy lyre is a Bildungsroman with humour, Shakespeare, art, poetry, death and loss. It is framed by a prologue and epilogue set fift...
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  • North Wales - Intended as a Guide to Future Tourists
    Monica Kendall
    In July 1798, a Cambridge student set out on a botanical tour and wrote the first guidebook to North Wales. Wearing spectacles and carrying a rucksack, Yorkshire-born William Bingley made notes, sketched and looked for rare plants. He befriended a Welshman with whom he made the first recorded rock climb in Britain on the north flank of Snowdon. Three years later they climbed th...
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  • Miss Cavell Was Shot
    Monica Kendall
    In August 1914, thirteen-year-old Amy was trapped on the Belgian seacoast as war was declared with Germany, alone with her younger brothers. British, resilient and feisty, she got back to occupied Brussels and began her war diaries. Amy knew Nurse Cavell and Ada Bodart, members of the secret network to get Allied soldiers across the frontier. She writes of zeppelins, food short...
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    23,44 €