Bøger af Ronald McGowan

When Dr Morland recommends a warm climate for Mrs Bennet's condition, and news comes from Corfu that Lydia and Wyckham will be in Venice during the summer, the Bennets set off to meet her, accompanied by the Darcys, the Morlands, Young Frank Darcy and Wilhelmina Tilney, Catherine Morland's daughter. Their adventures on the way and back again provide a fitting sequel to 'Our Neighbours' Sport Beyond the Seas.

Mr Bennet of Longbourn relates how, after the marriage of his daughters Elizabeth and Jane, he is persuaded to visit them in Derbyshire and then to go on to Newcastle to visit Lydia and Wickham. While in the North he becomes embroiled in a famous incident of the Napoleonic Wars, and eventually returns home with a revised opinion of most of his children, and a new vision for the future.

This volume completes the story begun in "The Judgement of Paris". Readers will meet the same juvenile delinquent gods and the same heroes obsessed with everyday problems. It all adds up to a humorous retelling of an ancient story that will strike chords with modern readers.

What happened to all the Greek Heroes on their way back from Troy? We all know about Odysseus and Aeneas, but what about Agamemnon, Menelaus, Nestor and so on? Ron McGowan continues his Tale of Troy to see them all home, safely or otherwise.A must for those who have read 'The Judgement of Paris' and 'The Wrath of Achilles'.

Now that she is Miss Dashwood, Margaret, possessed of both sense and sensibility, must carve out her own role in life. Her sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are both happily married and supremely content with their lives, but such a conventional destiny does not appeal to the erstwhile "Terror of the Seas" and while Margaret admits that piracy is no longer a practical option, she determines to seek fame and fortune in her own way. Find out how she does so, and how far she succeeds, in this latest homage to the immortal Jane Austen from the author of "Pride Unprejudiced."

After a chance meeting between Mary Crawford and William Price, now a captain in the Royal Navy, Mary Crawford returns to Mansfield to work her magic again on the Bertram family, now much altered, and to reunite them while war rages in Europe.

This book revisits "Pride and Prejudice" from the point of view of Mr Bennet, and gives us the backstory of how Mr and Mrs Bennet met to produce their family of heroines.

In this light-hearted take on the Tale of Troy, where the gods and goddess have the morals of five-year old hooligans, and the kings and queens worry about their chryselephantine tiling and their new Coptic Solariums, those with the benefit of a Classical education will recognise a mood very similar to Homer's, and those without such an advantage will find many concerns that are still familiar today.

Dannie is a young boy growing up in the impoverished north east of England in the 1960s. He tells the story of a summer that began in hope and ended in tragedy, and changed his life foerever.

This book retells the story of Jane Austen's most popular book from the point of view of one of her least popular characters, Mr. Collins, the comic clergyman from Pride and Prejudice. It is a light-hearted exploration of what might have happened behind the scenes of this famous novel.

In this spirited but faithful sequel to Anthony Trollope's "The Last Chronicle of Barset" we carry on from where the great Victorian novelist so frustratingly left off. We meet all our old favourites again - Archdeacon Grantly, Bishop Proudie, Glendora and Planty Pall, and the Reverend Josiah Crawley among others. But most of all, this is the continuing love story of Johnny Eames, the poor clerk, and Lily Dale, the squire's daughter. Johnny has already proved his love twice, in "The Small House at Allington" and "The Last Chronicle of Barset". Will this be a case of third time lucky?

This book relates the further adventures of Eleanor Tilney after the end of Northanger Abbey, together with the backstory of her love for her anonymous Viscount.

Have you ever wondered exactly what Lydia did in Brighton and London after she left Meryton and before returning as Mrs Wickham?Now is your chance to find out, in this latest from the author of Pride Unprejudiced, More Sport for Our Neighbours and many others.

This book tells the story of how Mr and Mrs Bennet met and produced their family of daughters, each one destined, in her own way, to be a heroine. It also reveals the further adventures of Mary and Kitty after their sisters had left home.

This book sets out to reveal the further adventures of Mr Bennet, of Longbourn, after the marriages of his daughters Elizabeth and Jane to Mr Darcy and Mr Bingley.Inside, the reader will be entertained by full reports of Lizzie's and Jane's weddings, so disappointingly omitted from Miss Austen's accounts, and by the further efforts of Mrs Bennet, Mary and Kitty in the marriage stakes.The scope of these endeavours will now extend to Derbyshire, where Mrs Bennet's reactions to Pemberley may be anticipated, and the Darcy family library may hold treasures for Mr Bennet. Having gone so far north, the Bennet family may even venture to the wilds of Newcastle, where we may expect to encounter more old friends.

Mr Bennet, of Longbourn, records his journey across Europe to visit his daughter Lydia and her husband Wickham in their new home.He also reveals the vital part played by the Bennet family in events which were to redraw the map of the continent.

Now that she is Miss Dashwood, Margaret, the erstwhile "Terror of the Seas" must carve out her own role in life. Her sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are both happily married and supremely content with their roles, but Margaret, while admitting that piracy is no longer a viable option, is determined to do something different, and to seek fame and fortune in her own way. Find out how she succeeds in her ambition, in this latest homage to the inimitable Jane Austen from the author of 'Pride Unprejudiced', 'To Make Sport for our Neighbours', and 'Naples to Northanger'.

Read this book to find out the backstory of Eleanor Tilney and her childhood sweetheart, the viscount she marries at the end of Northanger Abbey. Follow them through their honeymoon in Europe as the Peace of Amiens between England and France breaks down, and they escape back to England in time for Henry and Catherine's wedding.

This light-hearted retelling of the latter part of the story of the Trojan War, with its heroes obsessed with keeping up with the Ionians and where the next payment on the Coptic Solarium is coming from should appeal to modern readers. Its close adherence to the ancient sources should amuse genuine classicists too.