Sharon Bennett Connolly FRHistSis the best-selling author of 4 non-fiction history books, includingHeroines of the Medieval WorldandLadies of Magna Carta: Women of Influence in Thirteenth Century England.Her latest book, a biography,King John’s Right-Hand Lady: The Story of Nicholaa de la Ha...
(Nicole Connolly [source]) …and: The places inside matter as much as the ones outside. It is as though in the way places stay with you and that you long for them they become deities—a lot of religions have local deities, presiding spirits, geniuses of the place. You could imagine t...
Vanity Fair,Harper’s Bazaar), but when demand for his Jazz Age cartoons and illustrations fell off in the 1930s, he turned to painting and illustrating children’s books. So it was a surprise to catch this glimpse of Held
1961 had also quietly seen the publication of a small espionage novel, Call for the Dead, by the new author John le Carré. His next spy story, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 2 years later, un-heroic, downbeat and cynical, and an outstanding commercial and critical success, transf...
A number of biographical and historical events provided the motivation for Pirsig to write this intensely autobiographical narrative, most of which are described in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in roughly chronological order: the author's precocious intelligence during his early days as a...
In late July 1962, according to author J. Randy Taraborrelli, Frank Sinatra invited Peter and Patricia Lawford for a weekend visit to his Nevada resort, the Cal-Neva Lodge at Lake Tahoe. Marilyn Monroe, a friend of the Lawfords and also of Frank Sinatra, joined them. The Lawfords and...
Also by Sharon Bennett Connolly: King John’s Right-Hand Lady: The Story of Nicholaa de la Hayeis the story of a truly remarkable lady. Nicholaa de la Haye was the hereditary constable of Lincoln Castle and the first woman in England to be appointed sheriff in her own right. Her streng...
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Also by Sharon Bennett Connolly: King John’s Right-Hand Lady: The Story of Nicholaa de la Hayeis the story of a truly remarkable lady. Nicholaa de la Haye was the hereditary constable of Lincoln Castle and the first woman in England to be appointed sheriff in her own right. Her streng...
A highly excitable Sharon Osbourne decided that the author of an early and less-than-flattering review of one of Elton's records needed his or her nose rubbing in it. "I have heard that that journalist has gone on to a great body of work [sic] for the Angling Times," she sneered. ...