Peter Redford - Böcker

The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in size and variety. In this study, annotated transcriptions are given of all of the private letters in English and all the English verse. Incipit transcriptions and identification are provided for each of the other items, including those in foreign languages. The history and provenance of the collection are described in detail, with lengthy notes on memorial transcription of verse and prose, and the clandestine interception of letters. The book makes available texts, annotations and commentary that will have an impact on a wide range of scholarship. It will be found useful to literary scholars, editors, and social historians, illuminating such diverse subjects as the circulation of verse, the correspondence of John Donne, the self-fashioning of English gentlemen after the classical Romans of their class and the government's paranoiac spying on its own citizens.

'A Murderer's Legacy' is a sensational thriller with exciting and unpredictable twists and turns leading to a tense climax. The death of a Columbian drug lord leads to a series of deadly events across London and southern England. A senior Metropolitan police officer risks everything when she sees an opportunity to enrich her life. A routine surveillance operation results in a gruesome assassination. The Foreign Office is implicated in shady dealings with individuals for whom murder is no obstacle. Scotland Yard is drawn into the fray. Using unorthodox methods, maverick detective John Whiles sets about untangling the web of greed, corruption and murder.