Daisy Goodwin: 15 books

« Daisy Goodwin parvient à créer du suspense en donnant vie à Victoria à partir de ses lettres et son journal intime, tout en rendant justice à l’esprit et à l’indépendance qui ont fait de cette reine l’un de nos plus grands monarques. » - The Times « Pétillant et plein de charme......

Victoria van Daisy Goodwin is een verrukkelijke historische roman, gebaseerd op de eigen dagboeken van koningin Victoria. Ook de recente BBC tv-serie Victoria, haar jonge jaren is bedacht en geschreven door Daisy Goodwin.  Victoria van Daisy Goodwin is een verrukkelijke historische roman, gebaseerd...

Now including an excerpt from VICTORIA: A Novel, by Daisy Goodwin, the Creator/Writer of the Masterpiece Presentation on PBS. "Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin's The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Victoria is an absolutely captivating novel of youth, love, and the often painful transition from immaturity to adulthood. Daisy Goodwin breathes new life into Victoria's story, and does so with sensitivity, verve, and wit." – AMANDA FOREMAN Drawing on...

"Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin's The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in the mind." --Allison...

The official companion to the second season of the PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria by award-winning creator and screenwriter Daisy Goodwin. Airing in the Downton Abbey slot on PBS/Masterpiece last January, Victoria captivated millions of viewers, eclipsing Downton's first-season viewership and...

Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as Sisi, is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of...

Toutes les femmes l’envient, tous les hommes la désirent... Cora Cash est belle, pleine d’esprit, et à la tête d’une fortune colossale. Mais sa mère rêve de la seule chose qu’elle ne pourra pas lui acheter en Amérique : un titre de noblesse. Envoyée de l’autre côté de l’Atlantique,...

Découvrez la plus méconnue des aventures amoureuses de Sissi. Élégant et raffiné, le capitaine Bay Middleton est le meilleur cavalier d’Angleterre, mais est dénué de fortune. Jusqu’au jour où il rencontre l’intrépide Charlotte Baird, une riche héritière, qui tombe amoureuse...

Prozac has side effects, drinking gives you hangovers, therapy's expensive. For quick and effective relief -- or at least some literary comfort -- from everyday and exceptional problems, try a poem. Over the ages, people have turned to poets as ambassadors of the emotions, because they give voice...

Nel 1875 Sissi, imperatrice d'Austria, è desiderata da ogni uomo e invidiata da ogni donna. Eppure Sissi, bella, sportiva, colta, ha tutto tranne la felicità. L'etichetta di corte e il suo algido marito, Francesco Giuseppe, la annoiano e frustrano il suo carattere delicato e passionale. Come unico...

Vittoria ha solo diciott’anni quando, nel 1837, la morte dello zio Guglielmo IV la innalza al trono d’Inghilterra. Esce da un’adolescenza malinconica e nei suoi primi giorni da regina viene guardata a vista dalla madre e dall’onnipresente e ambizioso Sir Lord Conroy, che esercita una grossa...

This is an anthology designed to help you get through the stresses of modern life. For rapid and effective relief around the clock, 24-7, without side effects, try a poem -- whatever the time of the day (or night), you can be sure that some poet, past or present, has been there too. To help...

Forget chocolate, exotic lingerie, or marriage counselors -- the only props you'll ever need, whether you are in love or out of it, are the poems in this book. There are verses here to console you when the phone doesn't ring or the divorce papers have been signed, and poems that celebrate the joy...