The remarkable story of Sir Sydney Kentridge QC, the greatest living barrister.
Thomas Grant Livres
Thomas Grant explore les complexités des relations humaines, abordant les thèmes de l'amour et de la trahison à travers des récits captivants. Son style se distingue par une profonde perspicacité psychologique des personnages et des descriptions vivantes des décors. L'œuvre de Grant révèle souvent les paysages émotionnels de ses personnages et leur quête d'identité et de connexion. Ses romans touchent les lecteurs par leur honnêteté et leurs thèmes intemporels.




"He came for me," she said. "All that way on horseback. To Lake Pontchartrain."With these words, whispered from the lips of a frail old woman, begins a search for their meaning that leads to a tale of passion, honor and loss that opens in the Reconstruction South and ends only with a final truth revealed in the years following World War Two.Set largely in the Piedmont region of North and South Carolina, 'Lake Pontchartrain: A Novel of Love and Betrayal' blends memoir with historical fiction to reveal the lives and times of its three principle characters: Eleanor Maitland Forrester, who lived through Civil War and Reconstruction and a life-changing personal tragedy; John Deloach, the man she loves in defiance of social convention; and her companion and former slave, Deecee. Their stories are entwined with that of the narrator himself, who through their lives gains insight into his own.The novel is a love story, a mystery and a compelling account of a cataclysmic time in American history. It is also a personal memoir of the narrator's journey to enlightenment and along the way has something to say about love-both romantic and familial-loyalty, patriotism, war and, finally, honor, an idea far more complex in this story than as a rubric in the Boy Scout oath.
Court Number One
- 352pages
- 13 heures de lecture
'These tales of eleven trials are shocking, squalid, titillating and illuminating: each of them says something fascinating about how our society once was' The Times
Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories
- 432pages
- 16 heures de lecture
Born into the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group, Jeremy Hutchinson served under Lord Mountbatten in the Second World War, and went on to become the greatest criminal barrister of the 1960s, '70s and '80s. His cases of the period changed society for ever and provide a fascinating look into Britain's post-war social, political and cultural history. From the sex and spying scandals which contributed to Harold Macmillan's resignation in 1963 to the fight against the secret state and literary censorship through his defence of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Fanny Hill and Last Tango in Paris, Hutchinson was involved in many of the great trials of the times. He also defended George Blake, Christine Keeler, Great Train Robber Charlie Wilson, art faker Tom Keating and Howard Marks. Case Histories provides entertaining, vivid and revealing insights into what was really going on in those celebrated courtroom dramas that defined an age, as well as painting a picture of a remarkable life.