Автор: Kathryn Hughes

This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England’s last great visionary and the first modern.An immensely readable biography of the 19th century writer whose territory comprised nothing less than the entire span of Victorian society. Kathryn Hughes provides a truly nuanced view of Eliot, and is the first to grapple equally with the personal dramas that shaped her personality – particularly her rejection by her brother Isaac…

We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the ultimate book on keeping house.In Victorian England what did every middle-class housewife need to create the perfect home? ‘The Book of Household Management’. ‘Oh, but of course!’ Mrs Beeton would no doubt declare with brisk authority. But Mrs Beeton is not quite the matronly figure that has kept her name resonating 150 years after the…

Mary on pikka aega varjanud saladust. Nelikümmend aastat tagasi tegi ta otsuse, mis muutis tema maailma igaveseks, aga ka tema lähedase elukäiku. Beth otsib vastuseid. Ta pole kunagi oma päritolu teadnud, kuid nüüd on tal vaja tõde, et päästa oma haige lapse elu. Kui Beth leiab ema asjade seast ühe kulunud ajaleheväljalõike, mõistab ta, et tema poja tulevik sõltub tema enese minevikust. Ta peab minema kõige algusesse, et paljastada … saladus. „Saladus” on inglise kirjaniku Kathryn Hughesi teine romaan. 2019. aasta alguses ilmus Varraku ajaviiteromaanide sarjas tema…

Tina Craig täidab võimaluse korral kõik oma tunnid tööga ja on lisaks veel ka vabatahtlik heategevuspoes, et mitte olla oma õnnetus kodus. Kui ta vaatab läbi ühe kantud ülikonna taskuid, satub ta kätte vana kiri, mille ümbrik on pitseeritud ja postmark templita. Tina avab kirja ja loeb seda – otsus, mis muudab ta elu jäädavalt. Billy Stirling teab, et ta on olnud rumal, ent loodab, et asju saab parandada. 4. septembril 1939 istub ta kirjutama kirja, mis peaks muutma ta elu. Seda see teebki … ja palju rohkem, kui ta suudab ette…

A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians, author of The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton and George Eliot: The Last Victorian.Why did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larger than her left?Exactly what made Darwin grow that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after his contemporaries had all retired their razors?Who knew Queen Victoria had a personal hygiene problem as a young woman and the crisis that followed led to a hurried commitment to marry Albert?What…