A study of early efforts to conquer smallpox profiles two eighteenth-century health pioneers who flouted the medical conventions of their era to draw on African folk knowledge and Eastern traditions to protect their children.
Jennifer Lee Carrell Livres
25 mars 1962
Cette auteure s'est retrouvée à écrire des thrillers, un tournant surprenant par rapport à ses rêves d'enfant d'être ballerine ou astronaute. Elle est actuellement plongée dans la fiction historique, s'inspirant d'un tableau renommé. Son engagement avec la littérature s'étend à des critiques de livres méticuleuses, soulignant les œuvres qui résonnent profondément ou qui se rapportent à sa propre écriture. Elle accueille activement les interactions des lecteurs par le biais de son site web et des médias sociaux.
A modern serial killer - hunting an ancient secret. A woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A professor has his throat slashed open on the steps of Washington's Capitol building. A deadly serial killer is on the loose, modelling his murders on Shakespeare's plays. But why is he killing? And how can he be stopped? A gripping, shocking page turner, The Shakespeare Secret masterfully combines modern murder and startling true revelations from the life of Shakespeare. It has been acclaimed as one of the most compulsively readable thrillers of recent years.
The Shakespeare Curse
- 480pages
- 17 heures de lecture
In this gripping tale, director Kate Stanley faces skepticism for staging Macbeth's 400th anniversary. As eerie ritual objects appear and dark magic unfolds, the cast grows uneasy. When a boy linked to the original Lady Macbeth is kidnapped, Kate must unravel Shakespeare's occult clues to save him before opening night.