ANDREW TAYLOR

Mientras los grandes exploradores llegaban con asombrosas y extravagantes historias del Nuevo Mundo, los estudiosos batallaban con el problema de representar los territorios descubiertos en una simple hoja de papel. Estaba en juego la vida de miles de navegantes y las riquezas de las naciones. Hubo que esperar hasta el siglo XVI, epoca de gran agitacion intelectual, para que un hombre encontrara la solucion: la proyeccion Mercator, que sigue siendo en nuestros dias la manera como se representa el mundo. En esta apasionante biografia, Andrew Taylor relata como Gerard Mercator se convirtio en uno de los pensadores mas destacados de esta turbulenta epoca. Fue encarcelado por la Inquisicion y amenazado de muerte y torturas. Sin embargo su trabajo fue reconocido por emperadores, principes y eruditos. Este libro es una cautivadora aproximacion a la cartografia, una fascinante conjuncion entre ciencia y arte, asi como la vida de un hombre valiente que dio forma a nuestro mundo, sin haber embarcado nunca.

¿TE PERSIGUEN LOS FANTASMAS? Hay cosas que siempre escapan a la razón del más escéptico…1786, Cambridge. Tras afirmar que había visto merodeando por el College de Jerusalén al fantasma de Sylvia Whic

*WINNER of the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award 2013* 'Andrew Taylor wrote superb historical fiction long before Hilary Mantel was popular' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of THE AMERICAN BOY comes a new historical thriller set during the American War of Independence. 'This is the story of a woman and a city. I saw the city first, shimmering from afar like the new Jerusalem in the setting sun. It was Sunday, 2nd August 1778.' Edward Savill, a London clerk from the American Department, is assigned to New York to investigate the claims of dispossessed loyalists caught on the wrong side of the American War of Independence. Surrounded by its enemies, British Manhattan is a melting pot of soldiers, profiteers, double agents and a swelling tide of refugees seeking justice from the Crown. Savill lodges with the respected Wintour family: the old Judge, his ailing wife and their enigmatic daughter-in-law Arabella. The family lives in limbo, praying for the safe return of Jack Wintour, Arabella's husband, who is missing behind rebel lines. The discovery of a body in the notorious slums of Canvas Town thrusts Savill into a murder inquiry. But in the escalating violence of a desperate city, why does one death matter? Because the secret this killing hides could be the key to power for whoever uncovers it...

It's 1934, and the decaying North London cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square is an unlikely place of refuge for aristocratic Lydia Langstone. But as she flees her abusive marriage there is only one person she can turn to - the genteelly derelict Captain Ingleby-Lewis, currently lodging at no.7. However, unbeknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts 7 Bleeding Heart Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the lodging house and who vanished four years earlier? Why is a seedy plain-clothes policeman obsessively watching the square? What is making struggling journalist Rory Wentwood so desperate to contact Miss Penhow? And why are parcels smelling of rotting meat being sent to Joseph Serridge, the last person to see Miss Penhow alive . . . ?

Clásico de detective inspector en Thorn Hill en Lydmouth en la que él mismo bajo sospecha de asesinato y tiene un siglo de inundaciones secretos siniestros de todo tipo de delincuencia fördert.Stunning surgieron con un fuerte elenco de personajes por el reconocido autor Andrew Taylor.

Todas las épocas de la Historia han estado dominadas por los intentos de grupos étnicos y nacionales de asentar su poder y dominar a otras entidades más débiles, ya sea por razones de engrandecimiento territorial o cultural, ambicion material e incluso obsesiones individuales. Algunos imperios, como el Tercer Reich de Hitler, se derrumban con asombrosa rapidez; otros, como los imperios coloniales frances y britanico, crecen poco a poco a lo largo de los siglos, pero solo para terminar cayendo con mayor rapidez de laque tuvo su expansion. Andrew Taylor analiza 25 de esos imperios repartidos a lo largo de toda la Historia y el planeta. Proporciona claras descripciones de todos; explica las estructuras de poder y los valores sociales y culturales subyacentes en cada uno de ellos, y estudia las razones de su ascenso y las de su desaparicion. Apogeo y caida de los grandes imperios tambien trata algunos temas recurrentes en la historia de los mismos: el modo en que se colapsan las estructuras imperiales, su dependencia de lideres poderosos y el modo en que se enfrentan al problema surgido por los diferentes pueblos y religiones que engloban sus fronteras. Pero, sobre todo, Andrew Taylor explica el modo en que los diferentes imperios ?sacudieron el mundo?: durante el siglo XIII, el Imperio mongol de Gengis Khan hizo temblar de miedo a Europa, mientras que los efectos politicos y culturales de los imperios romano y britanico todavia estan presentes en la actualidad.

Andrew Taylor From the stone tablet to the Web, the material, underlying arrangement of information, and ideologies (the way the arrangement of information shapes or reflects cultural systems) of the printed page have been a crucial determinant of human culture, according to editors Stoicheff (English, U. of Saskatchewan, Canada) and Taylor (English, U. of Ottawa, Canada). They present contributions that approach the page in a diversity of ways, most of which owe their methodological and theoretical approaches to recent studies on the relationships between the book and political, cultural, literary, and economic power

The last person James wants to meet again is Lily. But now she's dying of cancer, and he is wholly unprepared for what she has to tell him. Twenty-four years ago, James was just a teenager when he and Lily stepmother of his best friend Carlo had their brief affair. Yet Lily has one more secret to reveal.

A man's past crashes into his present, with deadly results . . .bIn the late 1970s James Reed spent all his school holidays at the sprawling country home of Humphrey and Lily Murthington. They were wonderful days of freedom and excitement. But then something chilling happened that turned James s teenage years upside down . . . Twenty-four years later, out of the blue, James is summoned to Lily Murthington's bedside. She is dying and has some devastating news. For Lily was James s first lover, and now she tells him that he fathered a child. Not only that, their daughter Kate is on the run for murder. James s stable, middle-class life is about to be turned upside down once more. And a secret far more sinister than a long-lost child is about to bubble to the surface . . .

From the bestselling author of The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times best-seller and a Richard & Judy Book Club choice, comes another gripping historical crime novel

Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold A Times Historical Crime Novel of the year

As Lydia Langstone flees her abusive marriage there is only one person she can turn to - the genteelly derelict Captain Ingleby-Lewis, currently lodging at no 7. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the house and who vanished four years earlier? Why is a seedy plain-clothes policeman obsessively watching the square?

You can run from a guilty conscience, but you can't hide... James wasn't much more than a child when he had an affair with Lily. And now, twenty-four years later, Lily confesses to James that their affair led to a daughter, Kate. And Kate desperately needs her father's help: she's wanted for murder. But there is no room for murder in James's life. He has a wife, a good job, a nice house in the country... As Kate comes crashing into his world, so she lights the fuse under his ordered life. Because James has also been keeping a secret - a very dark and deadly one...

From the No.1 bestselling author of The Last Protector and The Ashes of London comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood and Cat Lovett during the time of King Charles II. Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold! A Times Best Paperback of 2022 Two young girls plot a murder by witchcraft. Soon afterwards a government clerk dies painfully in mysterious circumstances.His colleague James Marwood is asked to investigate - but the task brings unexpected dangers. Meanwhile, architect Cat Hakesby is working for a merchant who lives on Slaughter Street, where the air smells of blood and a captive Barbary lion prowls the stables. Then a prestigious new commission arrives.

From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London. The first of an exciting new series of novels. A CITY IN FLAMES London, 1666. As the Great Fire consumes everything in its path, the body of a man is found in the ruins of St Paul's Cathedral - stabbed in the neck, thumbs tied behind his back. A WOMAN ON THE RUN The son of a traitor, James Marwood is forced to hunt the killer through the city's devastated streets. There he encounters a determined young woman who will stop at nothing to secure her freedom. A KILLER SEEKING REVENGE When a second murder victim is discovered in the Fleet Ditch, Marwood is drawn into the political and religious intrigue of Westminster - and across the path of a killer with nothing to lose...