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William Morris: A Life for Our Time

William Morris: A Life for Our Time

Fiona MacCarthy

Fiona MacCarthy's skilful drawing together of these disparate elements makes for a comprehensive and compelling biography.
Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes

Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes

Fiona MacCarthy

Fiona MacCarthy traces the stories of the girls who curtseyed that year, and shows how their lives were to open out in often very unexpected ways - as Britain itself changed irreversibly during the 1960s, and the certainties of the old ...
Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy, 1860-1960

Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy, 1860-1960

Fiona MacCarthy

In this fascinating book, Fiona MacCarthy examines Morris's vision of a society in which art could flourish, and how this idea resonated over the ensuing century.
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the ...

The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the ...

Fiona MacCarthy

In Fiona MacCarthy’s riveting account, Burne-Jones’s exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, ...
Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern

Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern

Fiona MacCarthy

The book features essays by renowned commentators on Modern British design including Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, London, and cultural historian and widely published writer on design, Fiona MacCarthy.
Eric Gill

Eric Gill

Fiona MacCarthy

Eric Gill was perhaps the greatest English artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a typographer and lettercutter of genius and a master in the art of sculpture and wood-engraving.
William Morris: A Life for Our Time

William Morris: A Life for Our Time

Fiona MacCarthy

This biography looks at the life and work of one of the greatest English designers of all time, who was also internationally renowned as a founder of the socialist movement and ranked as a poet together with Tennyson and Browning.
Byron: Life and Legend

Byron: Life and Legend

Fiona MacCarthy

Vere Foster, 1898 'a cursed' Bto Francis Hodgson,13 October 1811 Byron's readership see William StClair, 'The Impact of Byron's Writings:An Evaluative Approach'. Byron: Augustan andRomantic, ed. Andrew Rutherford,1990 'loaded with' ...
Gabriel West: Still the One

Gabriel West: Still the One

Fiona Brand

Fiona Brand. Gabriel West: Still the One FIONA BRAND Books by Fiona Brand Silhouette Intimate Moments Cullen's Bride #914. Gabriel West: Still the One FIONA BRAND.
The pronunciation of French

The pronunciation of French

Peter Arthur Desmond MacCarthy

Peter Arthur Desmond MacCarthy. The Pronunciation of French The Pronunciation of French PETER/MacCARTHY London Oxford University Press 1975.
The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths: Fiona Griffiths Crime ...

The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths: Fiona Griffiths Crime ...

Harry Bingham

This is definitely one my favourite thriller series' Audrey, Top 500 Reviewer Fans of Angela Marsons, Peter James and Ann Cleeves will be gripped by the other titles in the Fiona Griffiths mystery series: 1. Talking to the Dead 2.
Talking to the Dead: Fiona Griffiths Crime Thriller Series

Talking to the Dead: Fiona Griffiths Crime Thriller Series

Harry Bingham

Praise for the Fiona Griffiths mystery series: 'I have to say that in a lifetime of reading crime fiction I have never come across anyone quite like Fiona Griffiths . . . Read this book. Enjoy every syllable.
The pronunciation of German

The pronunciation of German

Peter Arthur Desmond MacCarthy

Peter Arthur Desmond MacCarthy. succeeding syllables up to the end of the group. Instead, if left to their own devices they will tend to pronounce the last salient on a low pitch and rise slightly from it, giving the low rise that is common in  ...
Fiona's Luck

Fiona's Luck

Teresa Bateman

A clever woman named Fiona must pass the leprechaun king's tests when she tries to get back all the luck he has locked away from humans.
The Address: A Novel

The Address: A Novel

Fiona Davis

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER Fiona Davis, author of The Dollhouse, returns with a compelling novel about the thin lines between love and loss, success and ruin, passion and madness, all hidden behind the walls of The Dakota—New York City’s ...
Fiona the Flower Girl

Fiona the Flower Girl

Carley Roney

Fiona is excited when she finds out that she is to be a flower girl in her aunt's wedding; includes tips for parents on how to prepare girls for the big day.
Fiona Hall: Big Game Hunting

Fiona Hall: Big Game Hunting

Kendrah Morgan

Exhibition catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of the work of artist Fiona Hall at Heide Museum of Modern Art.
The Widow

The Widow

Fiona Barton

Du Maurier's REBECCA meets WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN and GONE GIRL in this intimate tale of a terrible crime. 'The ultimate psychological thriller' Lisa Gardner Fiona Barton's tantalising new thriller, THE CHILD, is available to buy now.
Fiona Silk Mysteries 2-Book Bundle: Lament for a Lounge ...

Fiona Silk Mysteries 2-Book Bundle: Lament for a Lounge ...

Mary Jane Maffini

Flashbulbs went off in my face as soon as I opened the door. I did my damnedest toslamitbefore the trioof reportersreached my frontsteps. “Ms. Silk, howdoesit feel. ..? Ms.Silk, have you any comment...? Fiona, can wegeta shot ofthe fourposter?
The Dollhouse: A Novel

The Dollhouse: A Novel

Fiona Davis

“Rich both in twists and period detail, this tale of big-city ambition is impossible to put down.”—People Fiona Davis's stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City's glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women, ...
The Good Pub Guide 2013

The Good Pub Guide 2013

Alisdair Aird

Alisdair Aird, Fiona Stapley. The Good Pub Guide 2013 Edited by Alisdair Aird and Fiona Stapley Managing Editor:Karen Fick Associate Editor: Patrick Stapley Editorial Assistance: Fiona Wright Introduction At last the pub tide is turning.
The Long, Long Life of Trees

The Long, Long Life of Trees

Fiona Stafford

In this beautifully illustrated volume Fiona Stafford offers intimate, detailed explorations of seventeen common trees, from ash and apple to pine, oak, cypress, and willow.

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