David Roberts: 135 books
Restoration Plays and Players
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Introducing readers to the key texts, theatrical practice and context of late seventeenth-century drama, David Roberts combines literary and theatrical approaches to show how Restoration plays were written, performed, received and printed. Structured according to the 'life cycle' of the dramatic text,...
Shantaram
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2004
"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."
So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel by Gregory David Roberts, set...
Finding Everett Ruess
The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
The definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted cult following.
Wandering alone with burros...
The Will to Climb
Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The bestselling author of The Mountain and No Shortcuts to the Top chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made—or attempted—the ascent
As a high school student,...
Devil's Gate
Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
The Mormon handcart tragedy of 1856 is the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations, and yet it remains virtually unknown today outside Mormon circles.
Following the death of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, its second Prophet and new leader, Brigham Young, determined...
Thomas Betterton
The Greatest Actor of the Restoration Stage
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Restoration London's leading actor and theatre manager Thomas Betterton has not been the subject of a biography since 1891. He worked with all the best-known playwrights of his age and with the first generation of English actresses; he was intimately involved in the theatre's responses to politics,...
George Farquhar
A Migrant Life Reversed
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
George Farquhar (1677–1707) is one of the most successful and enduringly popular Restoration playwrights. His two masterpieces*, The Recruiting Officer* and The Beaux' Stratagem, are still regularly performed today. Yet aspects of Farquhar's biography, and in particular his Irish roots and family...
The Pueblo Revolt
The Secret Rebellion That Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The dramatic and tragic story of the only successful Native American uprising against the Spanish, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and missionaries began their brutal subjugation of the Pueblo Indians in what is today the Southwestern...
by David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne.
Lord Benyon is on board the Queen Mary, bound for New York, where his mission is to persuade President Roosevelt to supply Britain with arms and money, if it comes to war with Germany. Those who want him to fail will stop at nothing...
by David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne.
Verity Browne and Lord Edward Corinth are attending a memorial in Westminster when the service is interrupted by a young woman's desperate cry for help. Too late, they find Maude Pitt-Messanger's father slumped in his seat, stabbed...
by David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne.
August 1935. The Duke of Mersham's exclusive party ends in tragedy as General Sir Alistair Craig VC collapses, victim of a poisoned glass of port, just as Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne join the soirée.
The unlikely...
by David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne
August 1939, the last hot days of a perfect English summer as the certainty of war descends. Newlyweds Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne are determined to spend these last days of peace quietly in their new house in a sleepy...
by David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne.
October 1936. Joe Weaver, press magnate and close friend of the Royal family, calls for Lord Edward Corinth's help in recovering some missing letters, stolen from Wallis Simpson - the King's intimate friend. But there is no mystery...
by David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne
Returning from Prague with suspected tuberculosis, Verity Browne checks into a private clinic on Henley-on-Thames - the perfect place for her new fiancé, Lord Edward Corinth, to keep an eye on her.
While Verity recuperates...