![]() ![]() Maisie’s investigation leads her from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld’s most powerful men, in a case that serves as a reminder of the inextricable link between money and war. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public, and the threat of invasion rises, another young man beloved by Maisie makes a terrible decision that will change his life forever. Maisie Dobbs-one of the most complex and admirable characters in contemporary fiction ( Richmond Times Dispatch)-faces danger and intrigue on the home front during World War II.ĭuring the months following Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. ![]() ![]() Finalist for the Inaugural Sue Grafton Memorial Award ![]()
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It was a time of experimentation in literature, marked by less conformist style and greater individuality. ![]() This term, devised after the ‘Romantic poets’, like Keats, Byron and Wordsworth, had died, describes broadly the period from about 1770 to 1830. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor was the only way to implement that aggressive thrust and that the Japanese had learned the effectiveness of surprise attack 36 years before at Port Arthur in destroying the Russian navy in the Russo-Japanese War without formally declaring war-was the sheer fact of Western racism. turned off the spigot due to the empire’s unwillingness to withdraw from Manchuria that knocking out the U.S. ![]() However, undermining the overt motivation-that the Japanese desperately needed oil after the U.S. ![]() Indeed, as the author authoritatively shows in a narrative that is fluid and only occasionally overwrought, there were numerous indications early on that Japan was planning an aggressive thrust into the South Pacific to seize crucial natural resources from the Dutch East Indies, Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore. 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In July 1956, Stevens receives a letter from a former coworker named Miss Kenton. Following Lord Darlington’s death, he works for an American businessman, Mr. He spent most of his life in service to a British aristocrat named Lord Darlington, for whom he worked as a butler for more than 30 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() This means that returns are only accepted if the product arrives damaged or faulty, or develops a fault due to poor manufacturing or printing processes. To find out what services are available to your destination, along with estimated delivery times, please see the delivery estimate section aboveĮvery marketplace purchase is produced to order, and as such, is classed as a personalised product in the same manner as a card or notebook from our personalised card or personalised notebook collections. We utilise a variety of couriers for our international deliveries and, where possible, opt for final mile carriers with the highest service level in each country. 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She harbors an intense hatred and total distrust of all children for unknown reasons, and thinks nothing of literally hurling them vast distances or confining those who dare to oppose her into a medieval torture-device that resembles an iron maiden called the Chokey. ![]() ![]() Her full name is Agatha Trunchbull, and she is forty-eight years old, 5'7" (one-hundred and seventy centimeters) in height, and about one-hundred and ninety-five pounds (eighty-eight kilograms) in weight, black hair and bluish-green eyes. In the film adaptation of the musical, she was portrayed by Dame Emma Thompson, who also played Lesa in Hoodwinked!, Karen Eiffel in Stranger Than Fiction, The Woman in Lutins, Sarafine Duchannes in The Caster Chronicles, The Yeti Elder in Missing Link and Baroness von Hellman in Cruella.In the musical adaptation, she is portrayed by Bertie Carvel.In the 1996 film adaptation, she was portrayed by Pam Ferris, who also played Marge Dursley in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. ![]() ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. 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For twenty-two years ago, he turned away the woman he loved, and she took her life in sorrow. ![]() Built by a 1700s land baron to contain the madness and depravity of his eldest son, the house is plagued by shadows of the past and the lingering taint of bloodshed. SYNOPSIS: When David Caine, a celebrated skeptic of the supernatural, is invited by an old friend to spend a month in “the most haunted house in Virginia,” he believes the case will be like any other. 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