Vanora Bennett Bücher

Die Seidenhändlerin Isabel sucht in London Unterstützung beim zukünftigen König Richard III. Sie will die erste Seidenweberei Englands gründen. Aus ihrer geheimen Abmachung wird eine heimliche Liebe… 'Für Fans von Tracy Chevalier und Philippa Gregory.' Eve Magazine

Es ist das Jahr 1526. Der berühmte Maler Hans Holbein kommt nach England, zu Sir Thomas More. Sein Auftrag: ein Portrait Mores im Kreis seiner Familie. Holbein lernt nicht nur den Kanzler Heinrichs VIII. gut kennen, sondern auch Meg, Mores Ziehtochter. Sie, die kluge, medizinkundige junge Frau, fasziniert den ehrgeizigen Maler. Aber auch John Clement, ein Mann mit dunkler, rätselhafter Vergangenheit, wirbt um Megs Gunst. Meg wird einen der beiden Männer heiraten und den anderen lieben. Und nur in Holbeins Gemälde wird das Geheimnis auf immer bewahrt. Mitten in den Umbrüchen der Tudor-Zeit entfaltet sich die Geschichte um zwei der wichtigsten Gemälde Holbeins und das Schicksal einer jungen Frau, die nach der Wahrheit hinter den Bildern sucht.

The Taste of Dreams is both a quest for the romantic Russia of the author’s dreams, and a tale of amazement as she discovers and gets caught up in the new, anarchic Russia emerging from its Soviet constraints. At its heart is the story of caviar—beluga, the rarest type of sturgeon, harvested from the Caspian Sea. It is now an endangered species, and no one knows how to—or wants to—stop the plunder. Intelligent, funny, and enormously engaging, this is a modern tour through the intricacies of the new Russia. Vanora Bennett writes for The Times of London and is a former Moscow correspondent for Reuters and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of Crying Wolf: The Return of War to Chechnya.

A sumptuous wedding feast, two advantageous marriages and a blessing from the golden king

"St. Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of the south to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital city. Welcomed by the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. She feels instantly at home in their bohemian circle, but revolution is in the air, and as society begins to fracture, she is forced to choose between her heart and her head. She loves her brooding cousin, Yasha, but he is wild, destructive and devoted to revolution; Horace Wallick, an Englishman who makes precious Faberge creations, is older and promises security and respectability. And, like many others, she is drawn to the mysterious, charismatic figure beginning to make a name for himself in the city: Rasputin. As the rebellion descends into anarchy and bloodshed, a commission to repair a priceless Stradivarius violin offers Inna a means of escape. But which man will she choose to take with her? And is it already too late? A magical and passionate story steeped in history and intrigue, Vanora Bennett's Midnight in St. Petersburg is an extraordinary novel of music, politics, and the toll that revolution exacts on the human heart"--

The story of a great queen, a woman of enormous courage who made her own rules, and a true survivor. This is the first in a series of late medieval novels by Vanora Bennett, the author of Portrait of an Unknown Woman. 1420, and a young princess is offered in marriage to her country's enemy, her nation's conqueror. She is Catherine of Valois, he is Henry V. She is a princess of the French blood royal, he is the son of the usurper of the English throne. Fresh from battle he claims his bride and the right to the throne of France. Now Catherine must live as queen to a man more comfortable with war than anything else and as the wife of a man determined to destroy her people. Alone and friendless, she finds the only man who can understand what she feels: a young Welshman, Owain Tudor, who is as much adrift among the English as she is. It's a matching of souls but this friendship will turn out to be as dangerous as it is irresistible…