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Harvey Nichols
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Remember Henry Harris: Lost Icon of a Revolution: A Story of Hope and Self-Sacrifice in America
A gripping narrative nonfiction account of the forgotten life and legacy of Henry Harris, the first black athlete at Auburn University during the final days of the civil rights movement. A former newspaper reporter, Sam Heys traces Harris's odyssey from living in a converted store in rural Alabama to his suicide six years later.
Sleep, Pale Sister
Readers of Kate Atkinson, Kate Mosse, Stacey Halls and Eve Chase will love this powerful, atmospheric and blackly gothic depiction of Victorian artistic life from international multi-million copy seller Joanne Harris. Death, love, obsession, sex, murder and magic combine to make a compelling and haunting read... 'A hauntingly evocative laudanum-dream of a novel' -- Time Out 'A very compulsive read' -- ***** Reader review 'Tremendous' -- ***** Reader review 'Real gothic page turner' -- ***** Reader review 'A truly dark, ghostly and powerful read' -- ***** Reader review 'The tension is gripping and kept going to the very end. I read it in one sitting!' -- ***** Reader review ********************************************************************************************************** Henry Chester, a domineering and puritanical Victorian artist, is in search of the perfect model. In nine-year-old Effie he finds her. Ten years later, lovely, childlike and sedated, Effie seems the ideal wife. But something inside her is about to awaken. Drawn into a dangerous underworld of prostitution, murder and blackmail, she must finally plan her revenge...
The Thousandth Man
James McGregor Stewart (1889-1955) was perhaps the foremost Canadian corporate lawyer of his day. He was also an appellate counsel, venture capitalist, Conservative Party fundraiser, bibliographer of Rudyard Kipling, and sometime university teacher of classics. A leader of the bar in the inter-war period, he was the first Maritimer to serve as president of the Canadian Bar Association. He distinguished himself mainly in constitutional cases before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. During his career, Stewart was also head of the leading law firm in eastern Canada (now Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales), director and vice-president of the Royal Bank of Canada, and senior counsel to t...
Model Soldiers
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