Jonathan Buckley is een romanschrijver wiens werk de complexiteit van identiteit en herinnering onderzoekt. Zijn verhalen duiken vaak in personages die worstelen met hun verleden, betekenis zoeken in het heden en nadenken over de toekomst. Buckley's proza kenmerkt zich door precieze taal en beeldende beelden, die lezers meeslepen in rijk gedetailleerde werelden. Hij creëert verhalen die resoneren met een diep begrip van de menselijke ervaring, waardoor ze zowel tot nadenken stemmen als emotioneel boeien.
This guide to Venice gives background information on everything from the city's great monuments to the latest plans for its future. There is advice on where to stay and eat, as well as coverage of the city's art, history and culture.
Venice received around 3.16 million visitors in 2014 (Source: http: //blog.euromonitor.com), Easy to use, inspirational and pocket-sized, not to mention topical - includes features on the recent polls in favour of Veneto independence and the controversy surrounding the disastrous Canal Grande bridge designed by Santago Calatrava, With handy pull-out map, tailored itineraries and tips on how to escape the crowds, Rough Guides was the No.3 travel publisher in 2014, worth over £3 million (Nielsen Bookscan, 2014)
With reviews of the best places to eat, drink and stay, to suit all budgets, this guide has accounts of sights from hill-town frescos and churches to the sulphur baths of Bagno Vignoni and Carrarra's marble quarries. It has tips on activities from the Siena Palio to the Gubbio candle race.
Text and photographs portray the life of Ernest Hemingway from birth to death, with many photographs published here for the first time.
The new, full-colour Rough Guide to Tuscany and Umbria is the ultimate travel guide to some of Europe's most popular tourist destinations. Covering the region more comprehensively than any other guide, it's packed with up-to-date and expert information on all the attractions, from the great museums of Florence and Siena to the tiny rural hill-towns, as well as guiding you to the best of the beaches, forests, mountains and vineyard-clad hills. It also it gives you the lowdown on the best hotels and restaurants for all budgets, and illuminates the sights with background information on history, folklore, art, architecture and festivals. Dozens of photographs and easy-to-use colour maps complete a guide that has long been established as the best you can buy. Make the most of your time on Earth™ with The Rough Guide to Tuscany and Umbria.
Following in the wake of his highly praised first two books, Jonathan Buckley’s ‘Ghost MacIndoe’ is a bold and ambitious novel that focuses on the life of Alexander MacIndoe, a self-centred man who is characterised only by his physical beauty and a complete lack of will.Jonathan Buckley’s third novel opens with Alexander MacIndoe’s earliest a February morning in 1944, in the aftermath of the second wave of German air-raids. Set mainly in London and Brighton, Ghost MacIndoe is the story of the next fifty-four years of Alexander’s life. We meet his glamorous mother and his father, a pioneering plastic surgeon; a traumatised war veteran called Mr Beckwith with whom Alexander works for several years as a gardener and, most important of all, the orphaned Megan Beckwith, whose relationship with Alexander crystallises into a romance in the 1970s. In the wake of his highly praised first two novels, Jonathan Buckley’s third miraculously brings into being one simple life and the last sixty years of English history.
David's introspective journey begins after a solitary New Year's Eve, ignited by memories of his former lover, Imogen. As a curator at the quirky Sanderson-Perceval Museum, he finds beauty in the unconventional and forgotten. His journal, a tapestry of thoughts and reflections, defies linear storytelling, weaving together past relationships, musings on female saints, and the history of medicine. This narrative captures the essence of a man grappling with loss, nostalgia, and the allure of the nonutilitarian in a richly textured exploration of life.
A deeply resonant novel about mortality and love.
A travel guide for visitors on a short break or travelers who want quick information. Focuses on cities, islands and resort regions. This volume covers Florence.
