Joanna Trollope Boeken

Twintig jaar lang had Anna Bouverie, de vrouw van de predikant, God en de parochie op vele manieren gediend. Zij had koekjes gebakken voor de jaarlijkse wedstrijd, kerkblaadjes rondgebracht, het huishouden gedaan en zichzelf en de kinderen in tweedehands kleding gestoken. Wanneer haar echtgenoot zijn promotie misloopt en zich verbitterd in zichzelf terugtrekt, en als het verzet van haar jongste dochter ondraaglijke vormen aanneemt, komt Anna ineens in opstand. Ze neemt een baantje als cassière bij de plaatselijke supermarkt om in ieder geval het gevoel te hebben zelf geld te verdienen. hetgeen in het dorp een schok teweeg brengt. Terwijl zij steeds meer geisoleerd raakt in het dorp én in haar gezin, wordt Anna met toenemende belangstelling gadegeslagen door drie bijzondere mannen, die ieder een rol zullen spelen in haar leven. Joanna Trollope beschrijft de onderstroom en dynamiek binnen een gemeenschap die te maken krijgt met een vrouw die niet in de rol blijft die haar werd toebedacht.

Twee geadopteeerde dertigers met ieder een eigen gezin hebben nog steeds vragen over hun afkomst en gaan op zoek naar hun biologische moeders.

The BP Portrait Award, now in its twenty - fourth year, is one of Britain's most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. Last year more than 255,000 people visited the exhibition, which is based on the competition open to all artists aged eighteen and over from around the world. The catalogue features sixty works from an international list of artists, which together display a diverse range of styles and painterly techniques. It also includes a fascinating essay by bestselling novelist, Joanna Trollope, and interviews with the prizewinners by Richard McClure give further insight into the artists behind the portraits.

Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the unctuous schemer Obadiah Slope.

1988--As the rumblings of dissent and racial resentment began to erupt into a savage war between Boer and Briton, so three young men found their lives drawn together. Matthew Paget, son of an archdeacon, was turbulent, rebellious, and longing for excitement. Throwing away all the privileges that could have been his, he enlisted as a trooper--only to find himself loving the beautiful war-torn country of Africa and finally falling in love with a girl on the enemy side. Will Marriott, his cousin, was an officer who believed in England's greatness and the glory of battle. But as his comrades were maimed and killed, as he himself was wounded, and then betrayed by a one-time friend, so his values began to change. The one thing that never changed was his love for Frances, Matthew Paget's sister. Hendon Bashford was an upstart social climber, a swindler and a cheat. Half English, half Boer, he owed allegiance to no one while creating havoc in the lives of more honourable men. As the passage of war unfolded, so the lives of these three young men, and women they loved, moved towards a tumultuous climax.

On the fifteenth of February, 1879, the day on which Queen Supayalat of Mandalay ordered eighty members of of royal family to be clubbed to death, Maria Beresford celebrated her twenty-first birthday. On that day Maria knew nothing of Mandalay, the fairy-tale City of Gems. The selfish, difficult but heart-stoppingly beautiful daughter of a failed tea-planter in India devoted herself to pleasure. But when her father was sent to Burma, and she had to accompany him, she became embroiled in an exotic world of political intrigue. Her friendship with the Queen - a dangerous and unpredictable figure - and her growing closeness to Archie Tennant, a young man who has come east to seek his fortune after the ruin of his family business, brought her both danger and the key to her destiny.

Follow the fortunes of Becky Sharp, one of English literature’s most colourful heroines, as she uses her wit, charm and ruthless ambition in an attempt to forge a place for herself in high society. With Fact Files on William Thackeray, the Napoleonic Wars, and Young Men in Regency England