John Guy

La vida de María Estuardo (1542-1587, hija de Jaime V y María de Guisa, estuvo marcada desde el principio por una tenaz y despiadada lucha por el poder que creía merecer legítimamente. Acusada de participar en el asesinato de su primer marido, lord Darnley, y obligada a abdicar como reina de Escocia, se refugio en la corte de Inglaterra, donde intento hacer prevalecer sus derechos al trono frente a Isabel I. Desde las laberinticas tramas urdidas por la nobleza escocesa para ampliar sus cotas de poder, hasta los esfuerzos de los nismtros de Isabel I para deslegitimar sus aspiraciones al trono ingles y su posterior ejecucion, John Guy ofrece al lector un brillante recorrido por la trayectoria de una mujer fascinante, misteriosa y enigmatica, al tiempo que refuta muchos de los topicos que se han vertido sobre ella. Su ejecucion, unico desenlace posible de una vida como la suya, desencadeno una guerra abierta entre Inglaterra y España. La nueva y escrupulosa lectura de las celebres Cartas Casket permite a John Guy esclarecer los entresijos del asesinato de lord Darnley, dignos de la mas intensa novela negra. Esta obra obtuvo el premio Whitbread.

A TLS TIMES PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever In many places where once we had speculation we now have certainty This book is at once an education and a joy to read LITERARY REVIEW Combines meticulously researched history and contemporary voices with narrative flair SUNDAY TIMES Anne Boleyn comes alive in this impressive study Moves and informs THE TIMES The most cogent narrative reading of the evidence to date SPECTATORThe story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is one of the most remarkable in history a long courtship followed by a shotgun wedding and then a coronation ending just short of three years later when a husband s passion turned to such hatred that he simply wanted his wife gone In Hunting the Falcon John Guy and Julia Fox examine the most recent archival discoveries and peel back layers of historical myth to present Anne and Henry in startlingly new ways They show how Anne and Henry s relationship was tied almost completely to the major events of international politics at one of the great turning points of European history and dispel any assumptions that a sixteenth century woman even a que

Photographer Steve McCurry has beautifully and evocatively photographed the temples of Angkor in Cambodia, among the world's most impressive monuments. Over one hundred of his images of the site are collected in this, which documents a magical world of carved Gods, weathered masonry, tangled vegetation and orange-robed monks.