Matthew Dennison: 13 books

Livia Drusilla II – kortweg Livia – was de echtgenote van keizer Augustus, de moeder van diens opvolger Tiberius, grootmoeder van Claudius en overgrootmoeder van Caligula. Meer dan zeven decennia bracht ze door in het politieke machtscentrum van het oude Rome. Daarmee was zij de machtigste vrouw...

A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied categorization. In this stunning new biography of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison's Behind the Mask traces...

Rome is a subject of endless fascination, and in this new biography of the infamous Empress Livia, Matthew Dennison brings to life a woman long believed to be one of the most feared villainesses of history. Second wife of the emperor Augustus, mother of his successor Tiberius, grandmother of...

Matthew Dennison schreef De twaalf Caesars in navolging van de beroemde Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, die in het begin van de tweede eeuw de levens van ‘twaalf keizers’ beschreef: van Julius Caesar tot en met Domitianus, oftewel van 100 voor tot 96 na Christus. Zijn smakelijke anekdotes en pikante...

An unforgettable depiction of the Roman empire at the height of its power and reach, and an elegantly sensational retelling of the lives and times of the twelve Caesars One of the them was a military genius, one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned, another earned the nickname...

Queen Victoria is Britain's queen of contradictions. In her combination of deep sentimentality and bombast; cultural imperialism and imperial compassion; fear of intellectualism and excitement at technology; romanticism and prudishness, she became a spirit of the age to which she gave her name. Victoria...

Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of her remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-three...

Matthew Dennison schreef een fascinerende biografie van de machtigste vrouw van Rome: Livia Augusta. Zij was de echtgenote van keizer Augustus, de moeder van zijn opvolger Tiberius, de grootmoeder van Claudius en de overgrootmoeder van Caligula. Livia Drusilla II was zonder meer de machtigste vrouw...

Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter's remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the...

Livia Drusilla Claudia fu moglie dell’imperatore Augusto e visse negli anni della trasformazione di Roma da repubblica a impero, testimone sia dei trionfi di Augusto che dell’epoca d’instabilità politica aperta dalla lotta per la successione. Deificata postuma nel 41 d.C., in vita Livia rappresentò...

An engrossing biography of Queen Victoria's youngest daughter that focuses on her relationship with her willful mother---a powerful and insightful look into two women of signi?cant importance and in?uence in world history. Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert....

A Note of Explanation is a previously unknown work by iconic writer Vita Sackville-West. Written in 1922, it was recently rediscovered as a miniature book in Queen Mary's dollhouse in Windsor Castle. Witty and stylish, the story recounts the antics of a time-traveling sprite who inhabits the dollhouse....

A moving biography of Kenneth Grahame, author of the children's classic The Wind in the Willows, and of the vision of English pastoral life that inspired it. During his regular days in London, Kenneth Grahame sat behind a mahogany desk as Secretary of the Bank of England; on weekends he...