The House At Bishopsgate

Author : Katie Hickman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 160819759X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House at Bishopsgate written by Katie Hickman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting, magical story of a cursed gem and the people who suffer in its wake, set in seventeenth-century London. Most men of stature wouldn't marry their betrothed after she'd been kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery in the harem of the Great Turk, but Paul Pindar, wealthy merchant and former ambassador to Constantinople, is not most men. When Paul and Celia, finally reunited, return to London in 1611, his house at Bishopsgate has stood empty for nearly a decade. A phalanx of carpenters, upholsterers, and gardeners have been summoned to restore it to its former glory. But all is not as it seems. Celia is frail, and their marriage, despite her longing, is childless. Traumatized by her experiences, she is unprepared for English society and the duties of managing a house with a full staff. Paul arranges for Celia's old friend, Annetta, to join them in England as Celia's companion, but Annetta arrives to find that another woman, the widow Frances Sydenham, has insinuated herself into the Pindar household. Lady Sydenham seems to have a mysterious hold over Celia and, Annetta suspects, increasingly over Paul. Who is this woman, and what are her motives? Like everyone else, including members of the royal family and Pindar's greedy brother Rafe, she is fascinated by the Sultan Blue, the legendary diamond Pindar has brought back from the Middle East. All of London wants to get their hands on the jewel, despite the dark magic properties that are said to surround it, but Paul Pindar might be the only merchant who doesn't have a price.

Author : Isaac STEPHENSON (of the Society of Friends.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
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Download or read book A Sermon ... preached at the Friends' Meeting House, Bishopsgate Street, London, Dec. 1828 written by Isaac STEPHENSON (of the Society of Friends.) and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Sidney Gibson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
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Download or read book Lectures and Essays on Various Subjects written by William Sidney Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
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Download or read book Journals of the House of Lords written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Herbert
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
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Download or read book The history of the twelve great livery companies of London written by William Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
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Download or read book The Building News and Engineering Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring Concerning Charities
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
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Download or read book The Endowed Charities of the City of London written by Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring Concerning Charities and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Katie Hickman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608196917
Total Pages : 353 pages
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Download or read book The Aviary Gate written by Katie Hickman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constantinople, 1599. Paul Pindar, a secretary to the English ambassador, thinks he has lost his love, Celia, in a shipwreck. Now, two years later, clues begin to emerge that she may be hidden among the ranks of the slaves in the Sultan's harem. But how can he be sure? And can they be reunited? With a secret rebellion rising within the Sultan's palace, danger surrounds the lovers. A lush, ancient tale of treacherous secrets, forbidden love, and murder in the Ottoman palace,The Aviary Gate is exotic historical fiction at its very best.

Author : Henry Andrade Harben
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
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Download or read book A Dictionary of London written by Henry Andrade Harben and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465603948
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book The Manchester Rebels of the Fatal '65 written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÊLittle of the old town, however, is now left. The lover of antiquityÑif any such should visit ManchesterÑwill search in vain for those picturesque black and white timber habitations, with pointed gables and latticed windows, that were common enough sixty years ago. Entire streets, embellished by such houses, have been swept away in the course of modern improvement. But I recollect them well. No great effort of imagination was therefore needed to reconstruct the old town as it existed in the middle of the last century; but I was saved from the possibility of error by an excellent plan, almost of the precise date, designed by John A. Berry, to which I made constant reference during my task. Views are given in this plan of the principal houses then recently erected, and as all these houses were occupied by Prince Charles and the Highland Chiefs during their stay in Manchester, I could conduct the Rebel leaders to their quarters without difficulty. One of the houses, situated in Deansgate, belonged to my mother's uncle, Mr. Touchet. This is gone, as is Mr. Dickenson's fine house in Market Street Lane, where the Prince was lodged. Indeed, there is scarcely a house left in the town that has the slightest historical association belonging to it. When I was a boy, some elderly personages with whom I was acquainted were kind enough to describe to me events connected with Prince Charles's visit to Manchester, and the stories I then heard made a lasting impression upon me. The Jacobite feeling must have been still strong among my old friends, since they expressed much sympathy with the principal personages mentioned in this TaleÑfor the gallant Colonel Townley, Doctor Deacon and his unfortunate sons, Jemmy Dawson, whose hapless fate has been so tenderly sung by Shenstone, and, above all, for poor Tom Syddall. The latter, I know not why, unless it be that his head was affixed on the old Exchange, has always been a sort of hero in Manchester.