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Bloomsbury presents The Blazing World by Jonathan Healey, read by Oliver Hembrough. A WATERSTONES, TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR A major new history of England's turbulent seventeenth century and how it marked the birth of a new world 'This is a wonderful book...

Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Abigail Thaw, best known for her role as Dorothea Frazil in Endeavour. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Kate Lilley, also read by Abigail Thaw. Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of...

A young lady is kidnapped by a visiting merchant who is enchanted with her. Through divine interference, the ship is beset by a storm and everyone but the lady perishes. Blown up to the North Pole, she inadvertently passes into to another world, the Blazing World, where she is almost immediately made supreme ruler. As the lady begins to exercise her will, Cavendish lays out her own utopia and discusses a wide range of scientific, political, social, and religious topics. But when a war breaks out in her home world, what will the lady do with all power of the Blazing World behind her?

Bloomsbury presents Blazing Star, Setting Sun by Jeffrey Cox, read by Lance C Fuller. From popular Pacific Theatre expert Jeffrey R. Cox comes this insightful new history of the critical Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign at the height of World War II. Cox's previous book, Morning Star, Rising...

AN ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative” history (The New York Times) of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. “Recapture[s] a lost moment when...

“A spectacularly good read...feminism in the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex or Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: richly complex, densely psychological, dazzlingly nuanced.” —Slate From the internationally bestselling author of The Summer Without Men comes “an...

Born in 1623 as the youngest child of a wealthy Essex family, Margaret Cavendish became a Maid of Honour to Queen Henrietta Maria before going on to marry the widowed William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. She was a prolific writer whose work encompassed a range of genres. The Blazing World is part fiction and part feminist text in which a lady is shipwrecked and seeks to ensure that the Blazing World in which she finds herself is transformed into a Utopia - free of war, sexual discrimination, and religious discord.

Dive into the enchanting realm of The Blazing World, a groundbreaking work by Margaret Cavendish that masterfully intertwines satire, natural philosophy, and proto-science fiction. This tale follows a young Lady who, after being kidnapped and facing a tempest at sea, finds herself in the fantastical Blazing World‚Aîa place where she is unexpectedly crowned supreme ruler. As she navigates her newfound power, Cavendish explores her vision of a Utopia, tackling profound scientific, political, social, and religious themes. But when turmoil threatens her home world, how will the Lady wield the ...

Berlin is at a crossroads, and so is Camryn's heart. When Camryn travels to France to celebrate Samhain, the veiled New Year, she has the chance to explore her growing feelings for Leon. But an unexpected giant, an eagle shifter who holds the key to Camryn’s father’s whereabouts, and old enemies stand in their way as they battle for their lives and for the fate of Berlin.

Leo finally thinks he can catch his breath. With his growing army of gorgeous and naughty monster girls, he has defeated King Thanitis and achieved a tenuous peace. He has a chance to regroup and to enjoy his bevy of monster girls! But as he regroups and grows his alliance of dungeon builders, forces are moving against him.