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In The Path Of The Storm
In The Path Of The Storm
Nov 27, 2024 1:53 AM

Author:Colin Dann

In The Path Of The Storm

'I mean to be not only the leadero f the deer herd but Lord of the Reserve. So you must stay in your corner of the Park, all of you... otherwise you'll be permitted here no longer.'

Trey, the new leader of the deer herd of White Deer Park, has decided that there is no room for the smaller animals in the reserve.

The future looks very bleak for Badger, Adder, Owl and the others - and then the night of the great storm brings more danger . . .

Reviews

Heather's sweeping and engaging history of the making of Christendom over a thousand years is full of reinterpretations and new insights... his approach makes for a startlingly fresh look at a familiar story, a non-triumphalist history of the triumph of Christianity, and his book is all the more powerful for it.

—— Jane Shaw , Financial Times

Heather casts his eye across the whole medieval period as he unfolds a fascinating story about a religion in a surprisingly precarious position.

—— Dan Jones , Sunday Times

It is more pressing than ever to understand how exactly Christianity came to dominate in Europe. Heather's account cuts through the myth of an innately Christian, culturally monolithic Europe... [and] sheds light on the mechanics of state coercion and intermittent violence which led to the birth of Christendom. It's no light reading - but there's enough drama to make it a page-turner.

—— Eleanor Myerson , Spectator

A brilliant exercise in disenchantment ... superb storytelling ... Heather more than delivers. While Christendom is fabulously rich in telling detail, Heather is always mindful of the big picture. The book is at once captivating and profound.

—— Costica Bradatan , Literary Review

One of the many delights of this weighty book is the abundance of little-heard but illuminating and intriguing stories that he weaves into the narrative to show how Christianity endlessly reinvented itself to maintain a winning formula .... the tale of how Christianity, from unlikely beginnings, became one of the great mass-member institutions of the world is expertly and entertainingly told.

—— Peter Stanford , Daily Telegraph

Sacred Nature... is a spiritual time capsule of the post-Christian soul in crisis, a lamentation in the key of Greta Thunberg, with undertones of Carl Jung

—— Wall Street Journal

This is a beautiful book, very well written and very inspiring for religious believers and those who do not share such religious faith. But it is much more than that: it presents and defends a thesis which the author puts at the centre of a program to restore the lost harmony with nature

—— Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology

de Lisle turns her attention to [Charles I's] wife, Henrietta Maria, similarly shading with nuance a character who can sometimes be reduced to primary-colour simplicity

—— History Today

A glorious resurrection of one of the most misrepresented queens of England . . . finally, thanks to Leanda de Lisle's meticulous research, she has a biography worthy of her fascinating life

—— AMANDA FOREMAN, author of A World on Fire

Henrietta Maria's remarkable life is recounted with gusto in this sharp, sparky book... it makes vivid use of recent work on her court and queenship, brings people and personalities to the fore and will be a particular delight to those new to the period

—— ANNA KEAY , Spectator

Leanda de Lisle has brilliantly overturned nearly four centuries of misogynistic, religiously bigoted and politically motivated myths about Henrietta Maria, who now emerges as a fascinating, fearless, but ill-fated woman, wife and mother. This is revisionist history at its absolute best

—— ANDREW ROBERTS, author of George III: The Life of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch

A formidable historian

—— ALLAN MALLINSON , Country Life

With supreme skill and style, Leanda de Lisle provides not only a welcome revision of Henrietta Maria's reputation, but also a revival of her fierce energy and a reanimation of the entire age. A superb and vital biography

—— JESSIE CHILDS, author of The Siege of Loyalty House

A captivating, richly detailed historical tale that shines a light on the hidden genius of an extraordinary woman

—— Woman's Own

This is popular history of the finest kind, vivid, immediate, well researched and telling a compelling story. It is also serves the first duty of biography, by making its subject more wholly understandable than before

—— RONALD HUTTON, author of The Witch

Leanda de Lisle's beautifully written and endlessly fascinating new biography of Henrietta Maria brings one of the 17th century's most misunderstood women to glorious life . . . This salutary and important book restores her to her rightful place as one of the most important figures of her time

—— ALEXANDER LARMAN, author of The Crown in Crisis

If the Stuarts are having their time in the sun at last, then Leanda de Lisle is one of the reasons they are. Masterful and pleasurable about a transformative century and a neglected, underestimated woman's role in it -- what more can one want from history?

—— SARAH FRASER, author of The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart

A fascinating book about a fascinating woman -- Henrietta Maria's story deserves to be better known, and this book brings her completely alive

—— FRANCES QUINN, author of The Smallest Man

Henietta Maria's perspective allows this book to become something much more than mere analysis of politics and war. De Lisle understands that history is a story of people; she possesses a visceral understanding of the emotions that swirled inside Henrietta Maria

—— The Times, *Book of the Week*

[A] thrilling story... a revisionist life of one of the most compelling and controversial women in British history... a book, like a life, should be measured against its own mission. And in this - to tell the story of Henrietta Maria's extraordinary life from her own perspective - Leanda de Lisle triumphs where her subject could not

—— The Critic

Lucid, entertaining and combative revisionist biography

—— Paul Lay, author of Providence Lost

A triumph of a book which will revise opinion of this 'reviled' queen

—— Annie Whitehead, author of Women in Power

Thanks to Leanda de Lisle's new biography, Henrietta Maria can finally answer the charges laid against her. In debunking and deconstructing these myths de Lisle gives an account of the politics of the time

—— Times Literary Supplement

The much-maligned Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, is thrillingly reassessed in de Lisle’s lyrical biography

—— Daily Telegraph

Harrowing but excruciatingly funny

—— New Statesman, *Books of the Year*

[A] blazing debut... Electric from page one

—— Sunday Times, *Books of the Year*

Scabrously funny... Were his account a novel, you might accuse it of being too far-fetched

—— Guardian, *Books of the Year*

His remarkable, funny, arrestingly well-written memoir brings to mind Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels, but is also entirely, exhilaratingly its own thing

—— The Times

Original Sins is a memoir that reads like a novel; a brilliant one. Matt Rowland Hill's struggle to overcome the perfect storm of his upbringing and addiction makes for a great story, but it's the blend of artistry, wit and skilfully timed stabs of brutality that make it such a vivid and thrilling experience. It's not that I didn't want to put the book down, more that it wouldn't release me from its grip

—— Chris Power

Brilliant... lively, engaging and extremely well written - scrupulously, painfully honest... sharply funny

—— Pandora Sykes, Substack

Daniel Hawksford provides a richly textured narration, conveying the absurdities of Hill's evangelical upbringing and the agony and chaos of his addiction... Original Sins is full of moments of dark farce

—— Guardian
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