![]() ![]() But, as dramatic as the scene is, did it actually happen? After all, The Crown's makers say it is a fictionalised retelling of true events. In a tense scene, Prince Philip confronts his daughter-in-law and – for lack of a better phrase – gives her a right telling off. In the tapes, Diana shares previously-unknown details about her time as a royal, her crumbling marriage to Charles as well as her battles with bulimia and depression.ĭuring the episode, word gets out that Princess Diana is involved in the project and it's not long before the Royal Family steps in to put an end to it. ![]() ![]() From suggestions that Prince Charles tried to convince the Queen to abdicate to a rumoured romance between Prince Philip and a family friend, there's plenty to unpack about the fifth season of The Crown.Īs for what's next on our omg-did-that-really-happen!? list, we're certainly not alone in wanting to know more about Princess Diana and the tell-all biography she seemingly had a hand in writing.Įpisode two of The Crown sees the former Princess of Wales – played by The Great Gatsby's Elizabeth Debicki – secretly recording audio tapes for Andrew Morton, a journalist writing about the royal's life. The Crown is back on Netflix and season five has brought with it a lot – and we mean a lot – of drama. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Working together, Easy and Candice might just be able to beat the odds. Searing heat and burning chemistry mix with the danger of a vengeful zealot in this rollicking adventure. What’s more dangerous: the desert or her new partner? The problem is, she doesn’t know if she even likes the fast-talking rogue, let alone trusts her. Now the find of a lifetime is beckoning from the middle of the Sahara, but she’ll have to throw her lot in with Easy Nevada to get to it. But to uncover it, she’ll need help.īy-the-book Candice Cushing only ever wanted to conduct archaeology the traditional way. Now she’s after one last score, the biggest of all: a relic so cursed that it was buried with Cleopatra in a secret tomb over two thousand years ago. For years, mercenary Easy Nevada risked her life finding ancient artefacts for a mysterious benefactor. ![]() ![]() This is the story of how it all came to be. Ive never written a foreword before, so youll have to bear with me. But this utopia suffered a great tragedy. He created Rapture-the shining city below the sea. ![]() So he set out to create the impossible: a utopia free from government, from censorship, and from moral restrictions on science, where what you gave was what you got. That man was Andrew Ryan, and he believed that great men and women deserved better. and many were desperate to take that freedom back.Īmong them was a great dreamer, an immigrant who'd pulled himself from the depths of poverty to become one of the wealthiest and most admired men in the world. America's sense of freedom was diminishing. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business had many watching their backs. ![]() The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had created a fear of total annihilation. FDR's New Deal had redefined American politics. JOHN: Both are inspired by videogamesI was hired to write them, of course, based on the source materialTor Books simply asked me to do the Bioshock novel and I really had enjoyed playing the. In this prequel to the bestselling video game series, Bram Stoker Award–winning author John Shirley tells the story of the rise and fall of the utopian city, Rapture. ![]() ![]() ![]() Using a different printer the 1866 version is the first published edition. Macmillan then printed around 2000 copies of the book in 1865, but both artist and author were unhappy with the poor quality printing and insisted it was reprinted before being published. ![]() ![]() In order to get the tale ready for publication it was enlarged and Punch illustrator, John Tenniel, was commissioned to do the drawings. Before giving the book to Alice, Dodgson showed the the tale to several friends, including fantasy writer George MacDonald, who encouraged him to have the book published. He did this and added a few of his own illustrations. Dodgson entertained the Liddell children with a tale of Wonderland, which Alice Liddell begged him to commit to paper. He remained in Oxford as a Mathematics professor and on 4th July, 1862 took the now famous river cruise with a group of friends, which included the three daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, Alice, Lorina and Edith Liddell. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, is better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll.īorn in 1832, in Daresbury, Cheshire, Dodgson was educated at Rugby, before reading mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. ![]() ![]() Appendix 3: Bibliography of Horace Kephart / George Frizzellīest known for Our Southern Highlanders (1913) and Camping and Woodcraft (1916), Horace Kephart's keen interest in exploring and documenting the great outdoors would lead him not only to settle in Bryson City, North Carolina, but also to become the most significant writer about the Great Smoky Mountains in the early twentieth century. ![]() Appendix 2: Horace Kephart's library / Jason Brady.Appendix 1: Horace Kephart's "Index to Diary" with photographs / George Frizzell.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Contents ![]() |