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  In Search of Mary Seacole - The...

  Helen Rappaport

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  From New York Times bestselling author Helen Rappaport comes a superb and revealing biography of Mary Seacole that is testament to her remarkable achievements and corrective to the myths that have grown around her. 
  Raised in Jamaica, Mary Seacole first came to England in the 1850s after working in Panama. She wanted to volunteer as a nurse and aide during the Crimean War. When her services were rejected, she financed her own expedition to Balaclava, where her reputation for her nursing—and for her compassion—became almost legendary. 
  Popularly known as “Mother Seacole,” she was the most famous Black celebrity of her generation—an extraordinary achievement in Victorian Britain. She regularly mixed with illustrious royal and military patrons, and they, along with grateful war veterans, helped her recover financially when she faced bankruptcy. However, after her death in 1881, she was largely forgotten. 
  More recently, her profile has been revived and her reputation lionized, with a statue of her standing outside St. Thomas’s Hospital in London and her portrait—rediscovered by the author—now on display in the National Portrait Gallery. 
  This book is the fruit of almost twenty years of research and reveals the truth about Seacole’s personal life, her “rivalry” with Florence Nightingale, and other misconceptions. 
  Vivid and moving, In Search of Mary Seacole shows that reality is often more remarkable and more dramatic than the legend.

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  Virginia Giuffre Fight for...

  Steve B. Davis

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  In the spring of 2000, a sixteen-year-old girl carrying a mop at a Palm Beach private club was noticed by a well-dressed woman across a courtyard. That five-minute conversation changed everything. 
  Virginia Roberts Giuffre was recruited into one of the most protected sex trafficking operations in American history — a network built by financier Jeffrey Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell, sustained by extreme wealth, and shielded by the most powerful social connections money could assemble. Presidents. Princes. Nobel laureates. Billionaires. Their names were in the flight logs. Their numbers were in the address book. For years, none of it mattered. 
  This is the story of what happened inside that network, how it survived for decades behind closed gates and sealed courtrooms, and how one woman — threatened, litigated, and dismissed at every turn — refused to allow the people responsible to outlast her silence. 
  Drawing entirely from court records, federal indictments, sworn depositions, and verified investigative journalism, this book documents the full arc of Virginia Giuffre's life — from a fractured childhood to a global trafficking operation, through twenty years of institutional failure, partial reckoning, and the incomplete justice that followed.

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  Literary exchange during...

  Sergej Harlamov, Maja Klarić,...

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  This e-book is part of the Ulysses' Shelter project started in 2017 with the objective to build a network of exchange literary residencies aimed at young writers and literary translators. The second stage of Ulysses' Shelter is once again being co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, and coordinated by Croatian publishing house and literary agency Sandorf, with four partners, Literature Across Frontiers and Wales Literature Exchange in Wales, Krokodil in Serbia, Thraka in Greece and Slovene Writers' Association in Slovenia. 
  
  This e-book represents a cross-section of external and internal events from each young literary creator in the months between August 2020 and the end of 2020. It consists of five chapters, each offering a unique insight into the artists' lives, thinking and fears in the last quarter of 2020, that is, in the year Covid-19 was born.
  
  At the end of the book, there is a short reflection by the young literary creators on the guest performances carried out in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Then there is a short presentation of all the literary correspondents.

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  David and Solomon: The History...

  Charles River Editors

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  Despite its short lifespan, the United Kingdom of Israel left a legacy that reverberates throughout the world today. The Israelites developed a religion that would influence three of the world’s monotheist religions – Christianity, Islam, and Judaism – and their governments and armies would play a major role in the geopolitics of the Iron Age in the ancient Near East. The Old Testament of the Bible provides the chronological outline to examine the history of the kingdom of Israel, but historiographical and archaeological sources from throughout the Near East corroborate many of those accounts and add details and context to the overall picture. The picture that emerges of the kingdom of Israel is often more complex than most expect. 
  From a literary and historical, critical perspective, however, the accounts of David's rise preserved in the Deuteronomistic History serve a decidedly apologetic and propagandistic function. Their main goal was to legitimize a man who, in historical terms, appeared to be usurping the throne, and since he did not have any claim to Saul's dynastic lineage, David's direct election by Yahweh provided the sole unassailable justification for his right to rule, shielding him from the serious accusation that he had seized the throne through illegal and opportunistic means. It is within this carefully constructed apologetic framework that the celebrated figure of the “shepherd” takes on its full meaning.  
  Similarly, David's son, King Solomon, is one of the most famous men in the Bible, but also one of the most elusive historical figures. He is credited with supervising the construction of the first Temple in Jerusalem, and excavations and archaeologists continue to dig in an effort to find it in places that are now religiously sensitive for Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Information about King Solomon comes almost exclusively from the Book of Kings, occasionally supplemented by additional material found in the Book of Chronicles.

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  Caterpillars - From their pens...

  E F Benson

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  Edward Frederic Benson was born in Berkshire, England on 24th July 1867. 
  Educated at Marlborough and Kings College Cambridge he began his career as a writer at an early age and was published whilst still studying. 
  Benson was also a gifted athlete and represented his country at figure skating. 
  His career was prodigious and widely acknowledged.  Perhaps he is best known for his collection of novels about ‘Mapp & Lucia’ which have proved very popular throughout the decades.   
  Benson was also well regarded as a writer of ghost stories—‘spook stories’ in the then vernacular—as well as biographies.  His ghost and supernatural fiction covered a range of subjects but all were exceptionally well-written, drenched in atmosphere, riven with chills and have stood the test of popularity over the decades as testament to his literary talents.  
  Benson was never married and practised his homosexuality discreetly. 
  E F Benson died on 29th February 1940 at University College Hospital, London of throat cancer.  He was 72.

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  The Athiest's Mass - From their...

  Honoré de Balzac

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  Honoré de Balzac was born on the 20th May, 1799 in the French city of Tours into an upper middle class family.  
  At birth Balzac was wet-nursed and often then schooled away from home by parents who seemed remote.  So difficult was life that at 15 he attempted suicide. The family’s intention was for him to have a career in law but Balzac preferred literature.  An avid reader, he began writing but his early attempts showed little promise.  
  He thereafter settled in Paris and began to publish anonymously across political, philosophical, and historical novels. 
  In 1825, Balzac purchased a printing house.  He was soon bankrupt and forced to return to writing in order to reduce his debts.  But his literary fortunes had changed, and his writing was now to achieve considerable success.  He was accepted among the city’s literary élites and its salons and would play an important role in establishing the copyright law in France.  
  Balzac often worked on more than one project at a time and in his magnus opus ‘The Human Comedy’ all types of texts were collected to offer a rare narrative of different classes and social stereotypes of society.  For many Balzac is considered the father of French realism, yet his works also cover philosophical and psychological questions.  His writing was a fundamental source of inspiration for many distinguished and later writers such as Flaubert, Zola and Proust.  
  Balzac also tried his hand at magazine publication with ‘La Chronique de Paris’ and ‘La Revue Parisienne.’  Although he was partnered with others such as Victor Hugo, it was another complete financial failure.  
  As a committed Catholic, Balzac’s stories also dealt with themes of mysticism, esotericism and spirituality, as well as universality and humanism.  
  In politics, he was a staunch defender of the French Crown but unlike his contemporaries he was not an implacable enemy of the republicans.  He often presented disagreements between royalists and republicans as a tolerable difference in political opinion.  
  Despite many relationships Balzac married only towards the end of his life and it was in 1833 that he met the Polish Countess Hanska, who only became his wife 17 years later after an extensive relationship by correspondence and, by then, his health was ruinously bad.  
  Honoré de Balzac died on 18th August 1850 in Paris.  He was 51.

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