Nick Drake Livres

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Written by an award-winning author of The Man in the White Suit, this work explores the different meanings and implications which are packed into that small word - from departures on journeys in this world and beyond it, through expulsions from homes, places and relationships, to the possibilities of adventure and discovery.

Poems inspired by a journey to the High Arctic, calling up voices from across the Arctic past - explorers, whalers, mapmakers, scientists, financiers, the famous and the forgotten - as well as attempting to give voice to the confronting mysteries of the Arctic.

Egypt, 1320 BC The future of Egypt lies in the hands of chief detective Rahotep. Sent on a clandestine mission, he crosses enemy empires and rogue states to deliver a top-secret letter, from the Queen to her arch-enemy, the King of the Hittites. But he also has a personal motive driving him on, and personal demons he must face.

Here is an exiled poet in an English seaside asylum, a winter night spent in the spooky penthouse suite of Ceausescu's vanished daughter, and a scientist trying to calculate the heart's square root. Londoner Nick Drake's debut collection portrays and celebrates a richly varied cast of characters. "He deserves careful attention as one of the poets likeliest to maintain England's ever-transshifting but still splendid poetic tradition."--Harvard Review

Young Tutankhamun is ready to claim his birthright—a vast, powerful, and opulent empire troubled by foreign wars, corruption, and court conspiracies. He plans to return tolerance and enlightenment to Egypt. But when horrific “gifts” begin appearing in the royal palace, he commands Rahotep, chief detective of the Thebes division, to investigate. Rahotep realizes the sinister objects have much in common with a series of cryptically mutilated young murder victims discovered across the city. Rahotep vows to protect the young king from the dark forces that threaten the future of the empire, but what he discovers will put everything he loves in terrible danger.

She is Nefertiti—beautiful and revered. With her husband, Akhenaten, she rules over Egypt, the most affluent, formidable, sophisticated empire in the ancient world. But an epic power struggle is afoot, brought on by the royal couple's inauguration of an enlightened new religion and the construction of a magnificent new capital. The priests are stunned by the abrupt forfeiture of their traditional wealth and influence; the people resent the loss of their gods—and the army is enraged by the growing turbulence around them. Then, just days before the festival that will celebrate the new capital, Nefertiti vanishes. Rahotep, the youngest chief detective in the Thebes division, has earned a reputation for his unorthodox yet effective methods. Entrusted by great Akhenaten himself with a most secret investigation, Rahotep has but ten days to find the missing Queen. If he succeeds, he will bask in the warmth of Akhenaten's favor. But if Rahotep fails, he and his entire family will die.

Handel's Messiah is the world's most popular choral work. The story begins in the unlikely setting of a room above a pub in Chester, when the great composer, detained by bad weather on his way to a season of concerts in Dublin, invites some local choristers to rehearse excerpts. So begins Handel's struggle to stage the premiere of his masterpiece.

Nick Drake won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection with The Man in the White Suit in 1999. Out of Range is his fourth collection, following From the Word Go (2007) and The Farewell Glacier (2012).

Královna Nefertiti patří nesporně k nejpozoruhodnějším osobnostem starověké historie. Neochvějně stála po boku svého podivínského manžela Achnatona, dala mu šest dcer a podařilo se jí dosáhnout postavení, o němž se jiným královským manželkám ani nesnilo. Přesto o ní není od dvanáctého roku Achnatonovy vlády nikde ani zmínka. Zemřela, nebo upadla v nemilost? Uchýlila se do ústraní, nebo se pod jiným jménem zmocnila vlády? Tato historická záhada je dodnes předmětem četných diskusí i lákavou výzvou pro umělce - a neodolal jí ani britský básník, scénárista a především mimořádně talentovaný vypravěč Nick Drake. Příběhem plným nečekaných zvratů a tajemných intrik provede čtenáře mladý thébský vyšetřovatel Rahotep. Pověst výjimečně schopného strážce zákona mu zajistí pozvání ke královskému dvoru, kde mu Achnaton svěří delikátní poslání: Rahotep musí najít Nefertiti dříve, než její zmizení nenapravitelně poškodí křehkou mocenskou rovnováhu v zemi. Pokud Rahotep do deseti dnů královnu přivede, získá nehynoucí slávu. Neuspěje-li čeká jej i jeho rodinu smrt. Schopnému vyšetřovateli proto nezbývá, než splnit faraonův úkol, byť by se měl za královnou vydat do přízračných útrob Města mrtvých.