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Romeinen, Geschiedenisboeken

Adam Parker – Magic in Roman Britain

Adam Parker Magic in Roman Britain review, recensie en informatie boek over magie in Romeins Brittannië. Op 15 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Amberley Publishing het boek van Assistant Curator of Archaeology van het Yorkshire Museum Adam Parker over magie bij de Romeinen in Engeland.

Adam Parker Magic in Roman Britain review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Magic in Roman Britain, het boek geschreven door de Britse historicus Adam Parker, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Adam Parker Magic in Roman Britain

Magic in Roman Britain

  • Auteur: Adam Parker (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Romeinen boek, Britse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Amberley Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 15 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 96 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: £ 15,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over magie in Romeins Brittannië

Lavishly illustrated throughout, this fascinating book reveals the true story of magic in Roman Britain.

In Roman Britain people used magic to protect themselves, to gain better health, to fall in love, and to curse wrongdoers. They used arcane words, strange and uncanny materials, and called upon supernatural creatures to make the magic work. This book introduces the subject of magical practices in the ancient world and explores the many incredible ways that this presented itself in Britain in the first four centuries ad. Many different types of magic are featured: prayers written in gold that protected pregnant mothers, rings worn to prevent stomach complaints, and pendants that aimed to help teething infants. Curses written by victims of theft were intended to bring physical ruin on criminals and love charms helped the unlucky in love.

Lavishly illustrated throughout, Adam Parker offers a fascinating insight into the archaeology of magic in Roman Britain.

Adam Parker is the Assistant Curator of Archaeology at the Yorkshire Museum and a PhD Student in Classical Studies with the Open University. He has worked on the public presentation of York’s incredible archaeological remains for many years and published several articles on his thesis subject: the archaeology of magic in Roman Britain.

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Engeland, Engelse geschiedenis

Christopher Horlock – Quirky Brighton

Christopher Horlock Quirky Brighton review, recensie en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van de Engelse stad Brighton & Hove. Op 15 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Amberley Publishing dit boek van Christopher Horlock over de geschiedenis van de stad Brighton.

Christopher Horlock Quirky Brighton review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Quirky Brighton, het boek van Christopher Horlock dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Christopher Horlock Quirky Brighton

Quirky Brighton

  • Auteur: Christopher Horlock (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van de stad Brighton
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Amberley Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 15 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 96 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: £ 15,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over geschiedenis van de stad Brighton

A celebration of Brighton’s individual and often strange history – from eccentric characters to odd events and places.

Brighton and Hove is one of England’s most recent cities and also one of its most colourful and eccentric. It developed as a fashionable resort in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, becoming inextricably linked with the extravagant behaviour of George IV and his fantastical Pavilion. In this book author Christopher Horlock delves into lesser-known but fascinating tales from Brighton’s past. Readers will find stories of the man who walked round the world wearing a medieval iron helmet, a shark attack straight out of the film Jaws, the time Brighton built its own version of Nelson’s Column, plus when the streets were full of hundreds of marauding zombies. And it also includes that notorious naked bike ride that takes place each year.

Quirky Brighton celebrates the unusual and bizarre history of the town and its characters over the years. This fascinating insight into Brighton (and occasionally Hove) will interest all those who want to know more about its curious history.

Christopher Horlock is an author and avid collector of old photographs of Brighton. He writes regularly for ‘Sussex Life’ magazine and has previously written history books for a local publisher as well Amberley.

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Engeland, Memoir

Martin Wall – West Tales of the Lost Lands

Martin Wall West Tales of the Lost Lands review, recensie en informatie memoir over de Midlands in Engeland. Op 15 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Amberley Publishing de memoir van Martin Wall over de Engelse West Midlands. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Martin Wall West Tales of the Lost Lands review en recensie

  • “Reveals both wonder and wisdom.” (Country Life)

Martin Wall West Tales of the Lost Lands

West

Tales of the Lost Lands

  • Auteur: Martin Wall (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: memoir over de Engelse Midlands
  • Taal: Engels
  • Verschijnt: 15 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 11,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het memoir over de West-Midlands in Engeland

Part personal memoir, part cultural history, West is a compendium of ‘tales’, telling the story of a unique geographical and literary landscape – the western Midlands of England. It is a magpie’s nest, a melange of anecdotes, folk legends, ghost stories and fairy tales. But more than this, it is a record of a land and its people, told over 2,000 years of history – a land that birthed both industrial and cultural revolutions.

A native of the area, Martin Wall takes us on a search for lost time in the Lost Lands of the west, charting the liminal energies which have so influenced our literature – and himself. Shamelessly nostalgic, sometimes tender, sometimes brutal, these tales invite us to immerse ourselves in the past, present and future, to become ‘unstuck in time’.

How were the lands ‘lost’? The author laments the decline and fall of a succession of cultures, from the Celtic principality of Pengwern and the mighty kingdom of Mercia to the end of heavy industry in the late twentieth century. With a thoughtful foreword by Robert Plant, West takes history to a new imaginative edge.

Martin Wall inherited his passionate interest in local history and folklore from his father and has been writing about these subjects for ten years. He lectures historical groups on a variety of subjects and acts as a gallery interpreter in his spare time. He is the author of ‘Warriors and Kings’, ‘The Anglo Saxon Age’ and ‘The Magical History of Britain’.

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Spoorwegen, Treinen, Verenigde Staten

Dave Hewitt – An English Railfan in America

Dave Hewitt An English Railfan in America review, recensie en informatie boek met verhalen over Amerikaanse museumspoorwegen. Op 15 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Amberley Publishing dit boek met verhalen over de spoorwegen in de Verenigde Staten geschreven door Dave Hewitt.

Dave Hewitt An Enlish Railfan in America review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van An English Railfan in America, het boek met reisverhalen over de Amerikaanse spoorwegen, geschreven door Dave Hewitt, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Dave Hewitt An English Railfan in America

An English Railfan in America

The Heritage Tour

  • Auteur: Dave Hewitt (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: spoorwegboek, treinreisverhalen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Amberley Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 15 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 96 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 15,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek met Amerikaanse treinreisverhalen

Dave Hewitt’s book illustrates a selection of North American steam and heritage railways traversing stunning landscapes.

Dave Hewitt has made many trips to the United States and Canada over the last twenty years, including visits to thirty-five of the fifty US states. Inspired by North American railways, he quickly switched from tourist to train and track photographer. In this book he shares images from a wide variety of steam and heritage railway sites and museums across the continent. These pages document his journey from the deserts of Utah to the magnificence of the Canadian Rockies, from the green fields of Wisconsin to the towering Giant Redwoods of California. Showcasing a railfan’s trip of a lifetime,

Dave Hewitt’s stunning photographs will appeal to all those with an interest in heritage railways and the spectacular landscapes of North America.

Dave Hewitt was born in Tamworth, Staffordshire and quickly became a rail enthusiast. He became interested in railway photography after taking early retirement from a teaching career, beginning with his local heritage railway, Tanfield. He has visited many lines in England and Wales and over the last twenty years has made at least one trip a year to North America to photograph trains in the US and Canada. He is a volunteer at the Tanfield Railway.

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Engeland, Reisboeken, Reisgidsen

John Husband – Illustrated Tales of Devon

John Husband Illustrated Tales of Devon review, recensie en informatie boek met verhalen en legendes over het Engelse graafschap. Op 15 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Amberley Publishing het boek met verhalen over county Devon. Het boek is geschreven door John Husband.

John Husband Illustrated Tales of Devon review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Illustrated Tales of Devon, het boek met verhalen uit het Engelse graafschap Devon, geschreven door John Husband, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

John Husband Illustrated Tales of Devon

Illustrated Tales of Devon

  • Auteur: John Husband (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: verhalen over Devon
  • Taal; Engels
  • Uitgever: Amberley Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 15 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 96 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 15,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek met verhalen over het Engelse graafschap Devon

The beautiful county of Devon is one of the most popular of English counties. Here is a collection of strange tales and local legends from the county.

Devon’s landscape and history is steeped in its folklore and legends. In Illustrated Tales of Devon, author John Husband explores a multitude of mysterious happenings and strange tales from ancient times to the modern day. The book looks at the legends surrounding Dartmoor’s pixies, sightings of the Devil, hairy hands menacing drivers, the true Uncle Tom Cobley at Widecombe Fair, a murderous monk and a postman poet, one of the first air accidents, an inn designed as a pack of cards built by a gambler and a housing estate and pleasure gardens built on the proceeds of a cough syrup… and much more.

These strange and remarkable stories are accompanied by the author’s photographs of places featured in the text in this hugely entertaining book.

John Husband grew up in the Cornish fishing village of Gorran Haven and has always lived in the county. He has spent his career in the clay industry, has a PhD in Paper Science from the University of Manchester and is a Fellow of the Technical Association of the Paper Industry. He is also a keen photographer and writer and has written articles for The Lady, The Countryman, This England, Evergreen and The People’s Friend.

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Engeland, Fotoboek

Mark McNeill – Liverpool in Photographs

Mark McNeill Liverpool in Photographs review, recensie en informatie fotoboek van de stad in Engeland. Op 15 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Amberley Publishing het boek Liverpool in Photographs. Het boek is gemaakt door de Britse fotograaf Mark McNeill.

Mark McNeill Liverpool in Photographs review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van Liverpool in Photographs, het fotoboek van Mark McNeill over de Engelse stad, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Mark McNeill Liverpool in Photographs

Liverpool in Photographs

  • Auteur: Mark McNeill (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: fotoboek van Liverpool
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Amberley Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 15 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 128 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 18,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het fotoboek van de Engelse stad Liverpool

A stunning collection of images celebrating the face of the city of Liverpool today, capturing what makes this city special.

In the eighteenth century, Liverpool’s position as a favoured port for Britain’s growing Atlantic trade to the West Indies and America allowed it to expand rapidly. It soon became one of the largest and richest cities in the country, and the architectural legacy of the city’s wealth can still be seen today. In the last 100 years, Liverpool’s fortunes have changed, but although it was heavily bombed during the Second World War and experienced decline afterwards through the loss of many of its industries, the city has been regenerated in recent decades, becoming European City of Culture and having areas granted World Heritage Sites. It is now a leading economic and cultural centre, with new developments alongside its architectural legacy transforming the city today.

In Liverpool in Photographs Mark McNeill celebrates the changing face of the city in a collection of stunning images that portray not just the new buildings that characterise modern Liverpool, but also how the older parts survive alongside them. For all those who are proud to live and work in Liverpool, as well as those visiting, this book is a must. Look through these photographs and you will quickly see the enduring fascination of this special city.

Mark McNeill is a professional photographer based in the North West of England. He specialises in landscape photography and also has a particular interest in night-time photography and astrophotography. In 2018 he was highly commended in the prestigious Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition held by the Royal Observatory Greenwich celebrating the very best in astrophotography across the globe, judged by a panel of experts from the worlds of art and astronomy.

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Engeland, Eilandboeken, Engelse geschiedenis

Andrew Powell-Thomas – 50 Gems of the Isle of Wight

Andrew Powell-Thomas 50 Gems of the Isle of Wight review, recensie en informatie reisgids en boek over de geschiedenis van het eiland. Op 15 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Amberley Publishing het boek 50 Gems of the Isle of Wight. Het boek is geschreven door Andrew Powell-Thomas.

Andrew Powell-Thomas 50 Gems of the Isle of Wight review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van 50 Gems of the Isle of Wight, de reisgids en het boek over de geschiedenis van het Britse eiland, geschreven door Andrew Powell-Thomas, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Andrew Powell-Thomas 50 Gems of the Isle of Wight

50 Gems of the Isle of Wight

The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places

  • Auteur: Andrew Powell-Thomas (Engeland)
  • Soort boek; geschiedenis, reisgids
  • Taal; Engels
  • Uitgever: Amberley Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 15 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 96 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 15,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over Isle of Wight

This beautifully photographed selection of fifty of the Isle of Wight’s most precious assets shows what makes it such a popular destination.

Lying just a few miles off the Hampshire coast, the Isle of Wight is famous for its attractive landscape and historical connections. Its coastal scenery is varied, dotted with towns and fortifications built through the centuries to repel invaders, with a chalk downland spine to the island. Carisbrooke Castle held King Charles I during the English Civil War and royal connections continued with Queen Victoria, who made her home on the island at Osborne House. Other eminent Victorians followed including the poet Tennyson and the island became popular with tourists and holidaymakers. Cowes became synonymous with yacht racing and other attractions have been developed in the last century. Marconi sent the world’s very first wireless transmission from the Needles Park while the nearby Needles Battery became the testing site for Britain’s independent rocket-building programme in the 1960s.

50 Gems of the Isle of Wight explores the many places and their history that make this unique island so special, including natural features, towns and villages, buildings and places of historical interest. Alongside justly famous attractions, others will be relatively unknown but all have an interesting story to tell.

Andrew Powell-Thomas writes about military history, local heritage and children’s fiction books, regularly speaking at events, libraries, schools and literary festivals across the South-West. He lives in Somerset with his wife and two young sons and with more books and events planned.

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Schotland, Kastelen

Andrew Powell-Thomas – Castles of Scotland

Andrew Powell-Thomas Castles of Scotland review, recensie en informatie boek over kastelen in Schotland. Op 15 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Amberley Publishing het boek Castles of Scotland. Het boek is geschreven door Andrew Powell-Thomas. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Andrew Powell-Thomas Castles of Scotland review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Castles of Scotland, het boek van Andrew Powell-Thomas, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Andrew Powell-Thomas Castles of Scotland

Castles of Scotland

  • Auteur: Andrew Powell-Thomas (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Schotse kastelen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Amberley Publising
  • Verschijnt: 15 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 96 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 15,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over kastelen in Schotland

An engaging exploration of the history of the castles of Scotland. Will appeal to all those who wish to know more about the history of the country as well as those interested in the story of its castles.

The story of Scotland’s castles is woven into the history of the country. These formidable structures have guarded the landscape since medieval times, and many of these structures are famous emblems of Scotland today. The royal castles in the strategically important cities of Edinburgh and Stirling still dominate their surroundings, but many others stand proud in more remote areas, often by lochs or the sea, on islands or in the mountains. Many simpler fortified structures were built along the border with England, and as the centuries passed many castles in Scotland were converted into country houses or even new houses were built in the style of castles. Today these iconic structures draw visitors from far and wide to explore a unique part of Scotland’s heritage.

This fascinating portrait of the castles of Scotland will appeal to all those who wish to know more about the history of the country as well as those interested in the story of its castles.

Andrew Powell-Thomas writes military history, local heritage and children’s fiction books, regularly speaking at events, libraries, schools and literary festivals across the South-West. He lives in Somerset with his wife and two young sons and with more books and events planned.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers

William Maxwell – So Long, See You Tomorrow

William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1980. Op 6 juni 2025 verschijnt als Vintage Classic de heruitgave van de roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige roman schrijver William Maxwell. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. De roman is in in Nederlandse verschenen met als titel Tot ziens, tot morgen bij Uitgeverij Cossee.

William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow recensie en review

  • “One of the great books of our age. It is the subtlest of miniatures that contains our deepest sorrows and truths and love.” (Michael Ondaatje)
  • “So magically deft at being profound…posesses that daunting quality impossible to emulate: it makes greatness seem simple.” (Richard Ford)

William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow

So Long, Se You Tomorrow

  • Auteur: William Maxwell (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1980
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics
  • Verschijnt: 5 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van William Maxwell uit 1980

Discover the tragically beautiful world of So Long, See You Tomorrow, a quietly devastating masterpiece of human frailty and resilience.

In the quiet farmlands of Illinois, two lonely teenagers – bound by the burden of their rural lives – forge a delicate friendship. But when jealousy ignites between their farming families, it leads to unthinkable tragedy, and severs their bond forever.

Fifty years later, haunted by the past, the narrator seeks to piece together those harrowing events and find redemption for a lifetime of regret. So Long, See You Tomorrow is a haunting exploration of memory, loss, and the enduring quest for forgiveness.

De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman met met als titel Tot ziens, tot morgen is in 2009 verschenen bij Uitgeverij Cossee.

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Ballet en dans, Kunst

Yvonne Rainer – Nevertheless

Yvonne Rainer Nevertheless review, recensie en informatie van het choreografisch werkboek. Op 16 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press, Nevertheless, A Geographic Workbook. Het boek is geschreven door Yvonne Rainer, de Amerikaanse danseres en choreograaf in samenwerking met Emmanuèle Phuon. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het choreografieboek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Yvonne Rainer Nevertheless review en recensie

  • “Rainer’s accomplishment in this book is to translate her artistic mind into a practice. It is of course then truly original, and she is sharing her originality generously, humanly, here in this book. It’s pure gold for someone who is wanting to wrestle with how this revolutionary choreographer upended art history.” (Annie-B Parson, Big Dance Theater)

Yvonne Rainer Nevertheless

Nevertheless

A Choreographic Workbook

  • Auteurs: Yvonne Rainer, Emmanuèle Phuon
  • Soort boek: choreografieboek, dansboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 16 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 24,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst choreografieboek van Yvonne Rainer en Emmanuèle Phuon

A legendary choreographer’s personal and practical guide to the art of dance-making.

Yvonne Rainer was a founding member of Judson Dance Theater, a 1960s New York artists’ collective that championed ordinary, spare movements and spontaneity. Rainer’s decades of creativity—in dance and in filmmaking—have inspired generations of avant-garde, political, and feminist choreographers. Her many works include the iconic dance Trio A and the film Hand Movie.

In this book, Rainer dancer and choreographer Emmanuèle Phuon helps Rainer gather teaching notes from her dance classes and workshops, passages from her creative journals, and her newer thoughts on movement and art, opening a window on to the life’s work of a transformative artist. With fifty prompts for improvisational movement (“39. Travel a long distance as fast as you can while making regular changes in your means of locomotion”), sly illustrations by Pascal Lemaître, and an illuminating interview with Phuon, this workbook makes Rainer’s friendly, humorous, and down&-to-earth creative practice available to everyone. Because, as Rainer says, if you can move, you are a dancer.

Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, and a cofounder of the Judson Dance Theater. She lives in New York City.

Emmanuèle Phuon, a choreographer, dancer, and teacher, is a faculty member at Montclair State University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Open Arts/Collaborative Arts, and Yale University. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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