Bøger af Kathryn Hughes

Many of you have seen movie versions of war, but have you ever asked yourself what it was really like to be a fighting soldier in the Vietnam War? In Fate Unknown, the author, a member of the famed 101st Airborne Division takes the readers to the battlefield, with boots on the ground, as he candidly shares many of his personal experiences of his 1966 tour. He also reveals insightful accounts from fellow soldiers of different ranks, as they saw and lived through it. Situations and battles come into sharp focus through the eyes and ears of those whose lives were changed forever by their tour in Vietnam. This is a compelling, insightful and nonfictional account of a combat tour. So lace up your jungle boots and live the battle as experienced by an airborne infantry unit during the Vietnam War. You will gain a true understanding of combat and probably change your outlook of war.

In Catland, Kathryn Hughes chronicles the cat craze of the early twentieth century through the life and career of Louis Wain. Wain's anthropomorphic drawings of cats in top hats falling in love, sipping champagne, golfing, driving cars, and piloting planes are some of the most instantly recognizable images from the era. His round-faced fluffy characters established the prototype for the modern cat, which cat "fanciers" were busily trying to achieve using their newfound knowledge of the latest scientific breeding techniques. Despite being a household name, Wain endured multiple bankruptcies and mental breakdowns, spending his last fifteen years in an asylum, drawing abstract and multicolored felines. But it was his ubiquitous anthropomorphic cats that helped usher the formerly reviled creatures into homes across Europe--

In Victorian England there was only one fail-safe authority on matters ranging from fashion to puddings to scullery maids: Beeton's Book of Household Management. In this delightful, superbly researched biography, award-winning historian Kathryn Hughes pulls back the lace curtains to reveal the woman behind the book--Mrs. Beeton, the first domestic diva of the modern age--and explores the life of the book itself. Isabella Beeton was a twenty-one-year-old newlywed with only six months' experience running her own home when--coaxed by her husband, a struggling publisher--she began to compile her book of recipes and domestic advice. The aspiring mother hardly suspected that her name would become synonymous with housewifery for generations. Nor would the women who turned to the book for guidance ever have guessed that its author lived in a simple house in the suburbs with a single maid-of-all-work instead of presiding over a well-run estate. Isabella would die at twenty-eight, shortly after the book's publication, never knowing the extent of her legacy. As her survivors faced bankruptcy, sexual scandal and a bitter family feud that lasted more than a century, Mrs. Beeton's book became an institution. For an exploding population of the newly affluent, it prescribed not only how to cook and clean but ways to cope with the social flux of the emerging consumer culture: how to plan a party for ten, whip up a hair pomade or calculate how much money was needed to permit the hiring of a footman. In the twentieth century, Mrs. Beeton would be accused of plagiarism, blamed for the dire state of British cookery and used to market everything from biscuits to meat pies. This elegant, revelatory portrait of a lady journalist, as she lived and as she existed in the minds of her readers, is also a vivid picture of Victorian home life and its attendant anxieties, nostalgia, and aspirations--not so different from those felt in America today.

A heartbreakingly beautiful novel, The Memory Box unlocks an unforgettable epic story of love and war, from the million-copy-selling author of The Letter, Kathryn Hughes.

A woman searches for her missing mother in this captivating story of love, heartbreak and forgiveness from the bestselling author Kathryn Hughes.

Mary gemmer på en hemmelighed. For fyrre år siden, traf hun et valg som ændrede hendes verden, og påvirkede én hun elsker. Beth leder efter svar. Hun har aldrig kendt sandheden om sine forældre, men at finde den kunne redde hendes syge barns liv. Da Beth finder et falmet avisudklip blandt sin mors ting, forstår hun at nøglen til sit barns fremtid, ligger i hendes egen fortid. Tre forskellige historier væves sammen i et fascinerende og overraskende net, der præsenterer et originalt persongalleri, ægte kærlighed, og dybt bevægende skæbner. Det Hun Skjulte er en fortælling om udødelig kærlighed, fra en mand til en kvinde, fra en forælder til et barn, og alt hvad mennesker vil gøre for at beskytte dem de elsker. Denne varme og opløftende historie, er en perfekt læseoplevelse for alle fans af Nicholas Sparks' The Notebook, og Jojo Moyes bøger.

The discovery of an old suitcase in an abandoned lunatic asylum unlocks a forgotten story of tragedy, lost love and a devastating wrong waiting to be put right, from the #1 bestselling author of The Letter and The Secret

The Kindle bestselling author returns with her second novel, The Secret - a beautiful, tearjerking novel which will be cherished by all those thousands of readers who lost their hearts to The Letter.

The No. 1 Kindle bestseller and word-of-mouth sensation guaranteed to break your heart. If you love Lesley Pearse and Susan Lewis, you will love Kathryn Hughes.

'Intriguing, gleefully contentious and - appropriately enough - fizzing with life, Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while' John Preston, Daily Mail A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians.

Explores what the life of the home schoolroom was actually like. Drawing on original diaries and a variety of sources, the author describes why the period 1840-80 was the classic age of the governess. She examines their numbers, recruitment, teaching methods, social position and prospects.