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Julia Baird

    March 5, 1947

    Julia Baird is a journalist and broadcaster whose work delves into social issues, historical events, and the female perspective. She is known for her insightful analytical style, skillfully weaving together personal narratives with broader societal questions. Baird's writing is highly regarded for its depth and its capacity to stimulate thoughtful discussion among readers.

    Julia Baird
    Queen Victoria
    Bright Shining
    Phosphorescence
    Imagine This
    Bright Shining
    Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
    • The race to the crown -- The birth of "pocket Hercules"--The lonely, naughty princess -- An impossible, strange madness -- "Awful scenes in the house"--Becoming queen: "I shall not fail" -- The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights" -- Learning to rule -- A scandal in the palace -- Virago in love -- The bride: "I never, never spent such an evening" -- Only the husband, not the master -- The palace intruders -- King to all intents: "like a vulture into his prey" -- Perfect, awful, spotless prosperity -- Annus Mirabilis: the revolutionary year -- What Albert did: the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The Crimea: 'This unsatisfactory war' -- London boils over -- Royal parents: "everything passes so quickly!" -- "Who will call me Victoria now?" -- "The whole house seems like Pompeii." -- Resuscitating the widow at Windsor -- The queen's stallion -- The faery queen awakes -- Enough to kill any man -- Two ironclads colliding: the queen and Mr. Gladstone -- The monarch in a bonnet -- The "poor munshi" -- The diamond empire -- The end of the Victorian Age - "The streets were indeed a strange sight

      Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
    • Bright Shining

      How Grace Changes Everything

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Longlisted for the 2024 Indie Book Awards, this title showcases a compelling narrative that captivates readers with its unique themes and character development. It explores profound human experiences, intertwining emotional depth with engaging storytelling. The author's distinctive voice and innovative approach invite readers to reflect on the intricacies of life, making it a noteworthy addition to contemporary literature.

      Bright Shining
    • Imagine This

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
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      The honest and revealing story of John Lennon's childhood by his sister Julia.

      Imagine This
    • A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. Over the last decade, we have become better at knowing what brings us contentment, well-being and joy. We know, for example, that there are a few core truths to science of happiness. We know that being kind and altruistic makes us happy, that turning off devices, talking to people, forging relationships, living with meaning and delving into the concerns of others offer our best chance at achieving happiness. But how do we retain happiness? It often slips out of our hands as quickly as we find it. So, when we are exposed to, or learn, good things, how do we continue to burn with them? And more than that, when our world goes dark, when we're overwhelmed by illness or heartbreak, loss or pain, how do we survive, stay alive or even bloom? In the muck and grit of a daily existence full of disappointments and a disturbing lack of control over many of the things that matter most - finite relationships, fragile health, fraying economies, a planet in peril - how do we find, nurture and carry our own inner, living light - a light to ward off the darkness? Absorbing, achingly beautiful, inspiring and deeply moving, Julia Baird has written exactly the book we need for these times.

      Phosphorescence
    • Bright Shining

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human grace.Grace is both mysterious and hard to define. It can be found, in part, when we create ways to find meaning and dignity in connection with each other, building on our shared humanity, being kinder, bigger, better with each other. If, in its crudest interpretation, karma is getting what you deserve, then grace is the forgiving the unforgivable, favouring the undeserving, loving the unlovable.But we live in an era where grace is an increasingly rare currency. The silos we consume information in are dotting the media landscape like skyscrapers, and the growing distrust in media, politicians and public figures, have in some ways choked our ability to cut each other slack, to allow each other to stumble, to forgive one another.So what does grace look like in our world, and how do we recognise it, nurture it in ourselves, and express it, even in the darkest of times?From award-winning journalist Julia Baird, author of the acclaimed national bestseller Phosphorescence , comes Bright Shining , a luminously beautiful, deeply insightful and most timely exploration of grace.

      Bright Shining
    • Queen Victoria

      Das kühne Leben einer außergewöhnlichen Frau

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      Queen Victoria, oft als prüde und zurückgezogen wahrgenommen, war in Wirklichkeit eine komplexe Monarchin, die nicht den bürgerlichen Konventionen des viktorianischen Zeitalters entsprach. Julia Baird präsentiert in dieser Biografie das bewegte Leben einer Frau, die sich mit zeitlosen Herausforderungen auseinandersetzte: der Balance zwischen Arbeit und Familie, Kindererziehung, Ehekrisen, Verlustängsten und Selbstzweifeln. Victoria, die mit 18 Jahren den Thron bestieg und mit 20 Prinz Albert heiratete, war eine mächtige Königin und die berühmteste berufstätige Mutter ihrer Zeit, die neun Kinder hatte und als „Großmutter Europas“ bekannt wurde. Sie nutzte ihre Macht, überschritt gesellschaftliche Grenzen und äußerte offen ihre Meinung. Nach Alberts Tod entwickelte sie eine enge Beziehung zu ihrem Diener John Brown. Baird nutzt neues Material aus den Royal Archives, um die Geschichte von Frauen in Machtpositionen zu beleuchten und die Mythen um Victoria zu durchdringen. Diese Erzählung bietet einen persönlichen Blick auf die Frau hinter der Königin, zeigt ihre Hingabe, Trauer und den Umgang mit ihrer Macht und Größe.

      Queen Victoria
    • Wie können wir Hoffnung schöpfen und Kraft finden, wenn wir mit Krankheit, Kummer, Schmerz oder Tod konfrontiert sind? Diese Frage beschäftigt auch Julia Baird, als sie schwer an Krebs erkrankt. Im Phänomen der Phosphoreszenz findet sie schließlich die geeignete Metapher für das, was uns in dunklen Stunden Licht bringt: So, wie es die Phosphoreszenz Glühwürmchen, Quallen und sogar ganzen Ozeanen ermöglicht, aus sich selbst heraus zu leuchten, können auch wir Menschen unsere eigene Phosphoreszenz erschaffen. Baird schreibt über die Dinge, die ihren Weg erhellten und ihr zu Resilienz verhalfen: die Kraft der Natur, Freundschaft, ihr Glaube, die Akzeptanz des eigenen Scheiterns, die Abkehr von Perfektionsgedanken, die beruhigende Kraft des Alltäglichen. Sie verwebt ihre eigene mit Geschichten darüber, wie andere Menschen in schwierigen Zeiten Zuversicht finden, und ermutigt die Leserinnen und Leser dazu, ihr inneres Glück, ihr inneres Leuchten (wieder) zu entdecken.

      Phosphoreszenz - Was dir in dunklen Zeiten Halt gibt
    • Knížka, kterou napsala Lennonova starší sestra společně s velkým fandou Beatles Geoffreyem Giulianim. Základ této publikace tedy tvoří vylíčení společného dětství autorky s Johnem, 60.léta v Liverpoolu, rodinné vztahy a počátky vzniku skupiny Beatles. Požehnání této knize dal i Paul McCartney, který napsal pár slov na úvod.

      John Lennon - můj bratr