Bøger af Nick Drake

An official celebration of Nick Drake's life and music.

King Tutankhamun has died without an heir, and the future of Egypt lies in the hands of chief detective Rahotep.Following the death of the boy king, Queen Ankhesenamun has but one hope of keeping her enemies at bay: she must forge an alliance with the Hittites, a new and powerful militant empire that threatens Egypt's supremacy. To this end, she dispatches loyal Rahotep?chief detective of the ancient capital's elite police force?on a clandestine mission to persuade the Hittite king to agree to a marriage between one of his sons and the widowed Queen. With the nefarious General Horemheb poised to use his army to impose martial law on Egypt and a brutal new opium cartel emerging within the criminal underworld, it will fall to Rahotep to prevent the gathering forces of chaos from destroying Egypt's greatest dynasty. But first he must confront his own demons if he is to save his family from the terror that threatens them all.

Young Tutankhamun is ready to claim his birthright?a vast, powerful, and opulent empire troubled by foreign wars, corruption, and court conspiracies. He plans to return tolerance and enlightenment to Egypt. But when horrific ?gifts? begin appearing in the royal palace, he commands Rahotep, chief detective of the Thebes division, to investigate. Rahotep realizes the sinister objects have much in common with a series of cryptically mutilated young murder victims discovered across the city. Rahotep vows to protect the young king from the dark forces that threaten the future of the empire, but what he discovers will put everything he loves in terrible danger.

She is Nefertiti--beautiful and revered. With her husband, Akhenaten, she rules over Egypt, the most affluent, formidable, sophisticated empire in the ancient world. But an epic power struggle is afoot, brought on by the royal couple's inauguration of an enlightened new religion and the construction of a magnificent new capital. The priests are stunned by the abrupt forfeiture of their traditional wealth and influence; the people resent the loss of their gods--and the army is enraged by the growing turbulence around them. Then, just days before the festival that will celebrate the new capital, Nefertiti vanishes.Rahotep, the youngest chief detective in the Thebes division, has earned a reputation for his unorthodox yet effective methods. Entrusted by great Akhenaten himself with a most secret investigation, Rahotep has but ten days to find the missing Queen. If he succeeds, he will bask in the warmth of Akhenaten's favor. But if Rahotep fails, he and his entire family will die.

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Handel's Messiah is the world's most popular choral work. The story begins in the unlikely setting of a room above a pub in Chester, when the great composer, detained by bad weather on his way to a season of concerts in Dublin, invites some local choristers to rehearse excerpts. So begins Handel's struggle to stage the premiere of his masterpiece.

Fourth collection by winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection: poems confronting strange interconnections and anxieties of the early 21st century, tuning into what is out of range in deep time, including many relating to climate change and other environmental concerns.

Perfect for fans of Robert Harris, Wilbur Smith and Bernard Cornwell, this is breathtaking and atmospheric historical historical mystery set in Ancient Egypt from bestselling author Nick Drake.

These brutal acts are destabilizing a ruthless regime already unstable thanks to corruption and the appalling divide between rich and poor. Meanwhile, Tutankhamun, at 18, has inherited an empire that should be at the height of power and glory.

Written by an award-winning author of "The Man in the White Suit", this work explores the different meanings and implications which are packed into that small word - from departures on journeys in this world and beyond it, through expulsions from homes, places and relationships, to the possibilities of adventure and discovery.

Success will bring glory - but if he fails, he and his young family will die... Closely based on historical research, NEFERTITI tells the hidden story of the crimes, mysteries and secrets of the dark game of power played out against the vast panorama of a society in revolution.

Poems inspired by a journey to the High Arctic, calling up voices from across the Arctic past - explorers, whalers, mapmakers, scientists, financiers, the famous and the forgotten - as well as attempting to give voice to the confronting mysteries of the Arctic.

Here is an exiled poet in an English seaside asylum, a winter night spent in the spooky penthouse suite of Ceausescu's vanished daughter, and a scientist trying to calculate the heart's square root. Londoner Nick Drake's debut collection portrays and celebrates a richly varied cast of characters. "He deserves careful attention as one of the poets likeliest to maintain England's ever-transshifting but still splendid poetic tradition."--Harvard Review

Hun bliver kaldt Den Perfekte – den smukkeste kvinde i det gamle Egypten. Sammen med sin mand Akhenaten regerer dronning Nefertiti det mest magtfulde og sofistikerede rige, verden nogensinde har set. Et rige der strækker sig fra Afrika til Mellemøsten.Men en magtkamp truer bag kulisserne, da Nefertiti og Akhenaten indfører en ny oplysende religion og bygger en storslået hovedstad for at hylde solguden. Troen på de gamle guder bliver bandlyst, uroen vokser blandt folket, og præstestyret mister sin fremtrædende position. Gamle alliancer smuldrer, generationer af nedarvet magt og rigdom bliver sat på vippen, og magtbalancen tipper.Og så – bare få dage før den nye by skal fejres med et brag af en fest – forsvinder Nefertiti. Den unge politimand Rai Rahotep får til opgave at efterforske sagen, men han har kun ti dage til at finde dronningen og bringe hende hjem, inden festlighederne kan begynde. Hvis det lykkes, vil han blive belønnet, men hvis han fejler, vil det koste ham dyrt…