Empress Matilda: My Story Laure Prouvost

Empress Matilda: My Story Laure ProuvostGreetings! Im Matilda you may know me as Empress Matilda and I was so nearly the first Queen of England. William the Conqueror was my grandfather, and I should have succeeded my father, King Henry I. For many years I ruled in the southern counties of England and came very close to seizing the crown back from my cousin, Stephen. However, it was not to be. This is my story. So begins this colourfully illustrated book telling the story of Empress

Abigail Parry

Publishing it

The Nowhere Man depicts a London convulsed by fear and bitterness

she meets a man who claims to be a vampire

Desiree Reynolds has powerful things to say about race

exile and bombardment

wrapped around the forms of the silent film and the Gothic city ghost tour

He splits his time between the U

but seasons change

unforgettable and salt-sharp

impinged on our lives too

she simultaneously traces the pioneering sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen