Elizabeth Jenkins

The magnetic Evelyn Gresham, fifty-two, is a KC of considerable distinction. He has everything life could offer - a gracious riverside house in Berkshire, a beautiful grey-eyed wife Imogen, devoted to him and to their eleven-year-old son, a replica of his father. Their nearest neighbour is Blanche Silcox, a plain, tweed-wearing woman of fifty who rides, shoots, fishes, and drives a Rolls Royce - in every way the opposite of the domestic, loving Imogen. Their world is conventional country life at its most idyllic: how can its gentle surfaces be disturbed?

The Tortoise and the Hare

Harriet

Hilary Mantel

In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair. Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife of distinguished barrister Evelyn Gresham, is facing the greatest challenge of her married life. Their neighbour Blanche Silcox, competent, middle-aged and ungainly - the very opposite of Imogen - seems to be vying for Evelyn's attention. And to Imogen's increasing disbelief, she may be succeeding. 'A subtle and beautiful book ... Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style. There is plenty of life in the modern novel, plenty of authors who will shock and amaze you - but who will put on the page a beautiful sentence, a sentence you will want to read twice?' Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times

Elizabeth Jenkins was one of the pioneers of the 'reportage' novel and the only surviving founding member of the Jane Austen Society. She recounts in this text, the story of its beginnings and describes her life in literary London.

A Memoir

The View from Downshire Hill

For anyone who wants to experience something like a devoted fairytale Princess in real life, you have found your prize. This book sincerely and clearly tells the story by narrative and brilliant pictures of the memorable lifestyle and qualities of Diana, Princess of Wales. It is a welcomed companion for those who love joy, beauty and responsibility and serves as a valuable reference facilitated by its comprehensive index. Laying the foundation for Diana's interest in the welfare of people and her early personal interests and hobbies, we go on a narrated and pictorial journey into the main events of her life, her expressions, and the charisma that she gave to the world, including charity and humanitarian experiences, fashions, jewelry, and hats worn, and notably her fashion taste evolved over the years as she appeared always magnificently beautiful.

With Regal Pictures and Index

The Classic Biography of Diana, Princess of Wales

Elizabeth Jenkins illuminates in great detail the personal and private life of Elizabeth 1. Was she bald? What precisely was her sex-life? What were her emotional attachments?No other biography provides such a personal study of the Queen and her court - their daily lives, concerns, topics of conversation, meals, living conditions, travels, successes and failures - but it also places them firmly within the historical context of 16th Century Britain. An authoritative history of the period enlightened by a through understanding of Elizabethan society and an intimate portrait of the Queen.

Elizabeth the Great

"[Elizabeth Jenkins] combines familiar materials with some that are little known in such a way that the reader feels he is learning for the first time what these people were really like. Dr. A.L. Rowse, one of the foremost living scholars of the Elizabethan Age, who contributes a new introduction to this special edition, has elsewhere called Miss Jenkins' book 'quite the most perceptive book about Elizabeth that I have ever read.'"--Editors' Preface

The Mystery of King Arthur

Catalina Martínez Muñoz

Imogen Gresham gradually learns that by living through her husband and son, and becoming more and more submissive, she has only earned her family's contempt

Jason Wilcox

Brian C. Kersh

Transformational leadership can be complex, difficult, demanding, and stressful. It is not surprising that there are so many books, programs, trainings, consultants, and coaches that exist to help leaders develop leadership and management skills. Leaders play an important role in employee satisfaction and ultimately the success or failure of an organization. Communication is at the heart of all leadership skills, and it is frequently an area of focus by consultants and trainers. As Kotter, a New York Times bestselling author and retired Harvard Business School professor, explained, "What leaders really do is prepare organizations for change and help them cope as they struggle through it." Our book, Motivational Interviewing for Leadership: MI-LEAD, provides a roadmap for leaders to become Transformational Leaders. It provides concrete, person-focused tools that help to address ambivalence and engagement both on an individual level and at a group level. These tools are an effective approach to developing skills as a transformational leader, one who can communicate well, enhance engagement, respond effectively to ambivalence and discord, and lead through change.

Mi-lead

Motivational Interviewing for Leadership

Edward V and Richard, Duke of York

The Princes in the Tower

A landmark look at one the most heartrending, tragic acts in British history: the murder of two defenseless young princes in the Tower of London by their uncle, King Richard III. Written by the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Great, it uses contemporary scientific research to examine what really happened. Was Richard a cold-blooded, villainous killer? How did political events of the time affect the king's behavior? Truly compelling.

The author explores the mystery that surrounds the famous King Arthur.

"An acknowledged triumph of literary insight, Elizabeth Jenkins' life of Jane Austen has been for many years a favorite portrait of this remarkable woman. At the same time it is an absorbing evocation of social life amongst the country gentry of Georgian England. This is the world of Jane's small circle of friends and her large and affectionate family - the world she depicted so brilliantly in her novels. Elizabeth Jenkins, herself a distinguished novelist, shows how Jane Austen's life in Hampshire, Bath and London was reflected in her novels ; and by drawing on the writer's sparkling correspondence with her sister, on family reminiscences and on the novels themselves, she builds up a sensitive picture of Jane Austen's emotional and creative life. In doing so she shows how her great gifts developed from the early novels to the remarkable achievements of her maturity: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion."--Back cover.

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