Bøger af Michael January

"WINNER OF 2023 SILVER AWARD BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR BIOGRAPHY FROM HISTORICAL FICTION COMPANY""WINNER OF 2023 HONORABLE MENTION YOUNG ADULT FROM READERS' FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS""FINALIST 2023 PAGER TURNER AWARDS"¿The true adventure of young King Edward III. In The Boy King's Tale, two entwined love stories, young and old, lead to betrayal, murder and the near overthrow of a kingdom in this extraordinary tale of the early days of England's Edward III. Crowned at thirteen when his father was deposed and murdered by his mother and her lover, the young king must come of age in the dark and twisted labyrinth of medieval politics, with the future in the balance on one fateful night when rescue or death was held on the turn of a confession to a faceless monk. Told by English court poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, as one of his tales, on the day death bells toll from the steeples of Westminster.Young Edward is kept separated from his father by his mother Queen Isabella, daughter of the King of France, who now hates her husband because he has abandoned her bed for a series of male "favorites". Roger Mortimer, a charismatic Lord of England who has declared himself to be the Earl of March, guarding the border with Wales, is being held in the Tower of London and scheduled to lose his head. Isabella, secretly in love with him, helps him escape to France where they raise an army, cross the channel and defeat her husband, having him murdered in his prison cell, and putting her teenage son on the throne so they can jointly rule by a council they control. When the boy king leads an army to war, he meets teenage Philippa of Hainaut, who will be the love of his life against the forces fighting against him, and he must outwit his enemies to make it so, but his temper and will leads him deeper into the traps set for him when his uncle's execution is engineered. In jealousy and blame, he believes his mother's lies that Philippa has been unfaithful, leading to one fateful night, on the eve of his turning 18, when Parliament is on the verge of granting him full rights. Mortimer plans to murder him, the same as his father, and his young wife as well to put their infant son on the throne and rule as a dictator. Edward discovers the plot, but can he save his bride Philippa and himself locked without friends in Nottingham Castle, facing a knife's edge moment that will change England forever? A celebration of young love and a boy seeking a father, who takes one as a friend who would betray his trust, and must realize the truth before his fate is sealed.*Contains some mild sexual situations, Medieval execution descriptions, and warfare violence.

The real love story of Frankenstein! In 1814, 16-year-old Mary Godwin fell in love with the 22-year-old married poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and in spite of the condemnation of their families and society, ran away to Paris, taking Mary's 15-year-old step-sister Claire with them, chased by the law and Mary's hated stepmother. Two teenage girls and the romantic poet of "free love" would walk across France, ravaged by war in the defeat of Napoleon, to Switzerland and up the Rhine River to a castle called Frankenstein, on an intimate journey of love, sexual awakening, and self-discovery, and find the real inspiration for the most famous name in literature. In this recently discovered secret autobiography, Mary Shelley reveals the intimate truth of that trip, the story of a rivalry between two sisters and the origins of her famous book. In her published diary, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote of where they went and what they saw, but never until now has been revealed the intimate secrets of where inspiration arose. Released from a promise to keep portions of the journey secret, Mary Shelley lays her soul bare in the intimacy of love, loss, and betrayal, the search for a mother's validation, and inspiration as a woman artist discovering her voice.

An epic romance adventure in the years leading up to WWII. Two friends at Princeton University in 1935, an American and a German, who fly in the Thomson Trophy Air Races, both love the same girl. She marries the German and moves to the Ruhr Valley, while they become fighter aces on opposite sides in the Battle of Britain.