The extraordinary life of Grace O'Malley, the world's most famous woman pirate.
Judith Cook Book order
July 9, 1933 – May 12, 2004
Judith Cook was a lecturer in theatre at the University of Exeter. She penned several mystery novels drawing inspiration from the casebooks of Dr. Simon Forman, an Elizabethan physician and astrologer. Through this genre, she explored contemporary social issues and the complexities of the human psyche.
- 2021
- 1999
Das elfte Gebot/Tod einer Zofe/Im Kreis des Wolfs/Der Kapitän - bk505; Verlag "Das Beste"; Jeffrey Archer/Judith Cook/Nicholas Evans/Hinrich Matthiesen; Paperback; 1999
- 1999
Mary Bryant was a Cornish fisherman's daughter turned highway robber, a convict sentenced to death then transported to Australia where she escaped from the penal colony. When recaptured, she returned to London and was finally rescued from Newgate prison by James Boswell.
- 1998
An einem trüben Junimorgen im Jahre 1591 wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau aus der Themse gefischt. Der mit der Obduktion beauftragte Arzt Simon Foreman erkennt in der Frau die Zofe Eliza wieder, die Monate zuvor in seiner Praxis war. Simon stellt nicht nur fest, daß die Tote schwanger war, er findet auch Hinweise darauf, daß Eliza ermordet wurde - eine Entdeckung, die ihn selbst in höchste Lebensgefahr bringt. Nur knapp entgeht er einem ersten heimtückischen Anschlag ...
- 1997
Spannende Biographie einer Strassendiebin aus Cornwall, die Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts für 7 Jahre nach Australien in die Verbannung geschickt wird. Menschenunwürdige Bedingungen in der Strafkolonie Botany Bay veranlassen sie und ihren Mann zur Flucht nach Indonesien. Dort wird sie erneut aufgegriffen und nach England zurückgebracht. Ein bekannter Anwalt erfährt von ihrer Geschichte und erwirkt vor Gericht ihren Freispruch.
- 1992
One of Daphne du Maurier's earliest works was a history of her family, particularly of her grandfather George du Maurier, the Punch cartoonist and author of Trilby, and her father, the actor Gerald. But it was as a popular novelist that she would excel, and by the end of the 1930s Rebecca was a literary phenomenon, translated into 20 languages. married Boy Browning, then the youngest major in the British Army, and soon settled in the Cornish mansion which was featured in Rebecca and around which the plot of The King's General was constructed. Her sense of place and atmosphere and gift of story-telling ensured a succession of bestselling novels such as Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek and My Cousin Rachel. After her husband's death she moved to another mansion which became the setting for The House on the Strand, and became increasingly removed from family and friends until her death. Daphne du Maurier in the 1960s, has studied her novels and adapted The King's General for the theatre.
