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
- 2006
Keeper's Gold
- 331 pages
- 12 hours of reading
The third title in the John Latymer mystery seriesJohn Latymer is feeling distinctly low. On holiday in Cornwall, Latymer's mood is not improved by the news that a TV crew is filming nearby. Keeper's Tump, a legendary prehistoric barrow, is to be the subject of a televized archaeological dig. Latymer's professional curiosity is aroused, however, when a body is found near the barrow, and the local museum curator goes missing . . .
- 2004
Best selling biography of Grace O'Malley, infamous Irish Chieftain, pirate, trader and seafarer.
- 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.
- 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.
