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- Ancestry : a novel / by Mawer, Simon,author.;
The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it? Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea. Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, sits primly in a second class carriage on the train from Sussex to London and imagines a new life in the big city. George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Foot, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married life under arms. Now these people exist only in the bare bones of registers and census lists but they were once real enough. They lived, loved, felt joy and fear, and ultimately died. But who were they? And what indissoluble thread binds them together? Simon Mawer's compelling and original novel puts flesh on our ancestors' bones to bring them to life and give them voice. He has created stories that are gripping and heart-breaking, from the squalor and vitality of Dickensian London to the excitement of seafaring in the last days of sail and the horror of the trenches of the Crimea. There is birth and death; there is love, both open and legal but also hidden and illicit. Yet the thread that connects these disparate figures is something that they cannot have known, the unbreakable bond of family.- Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Mawer, Simon; Census; Families; Genealogy;
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- King Arthur [videorecording] : Excalibur rising / by Byard, Adam,actor.; Elwy, Annes,actor.; Mawer, Victor,screenwriter.; Moseley, Shaun,composer.; Perry, Nick(Cinematographer),director of photography.; Smith, Antony,1975-film director,film producer,screenwriter.; Stuart-Hill, Nicola,actor.; Swift, Gavin,actor.; Warlow, Rhys,editor of moving image work.; Excalibur Rising Ltd,production company.; Tornado Studios,production company.; Vertical Entertainment,publisher.;
Music by Shaun Moseley ; edited by Rhys Warlow ; director of photography, Nick Perry.Adam Byard, Annes Elwy, Gavin Swift, Nicola Stuart-Hill, Simon Armstrong, Dewi Rhys Williams, Kerry Joy Stewart.In the year 520 AD, during the bloody battle of Camlann, King Arthur, aided by his legendary sword Excalibur, lands a fatal blow to his traitor son Mordred. Arthur's dying wish to his loyal knight, Sir Bedivere, is to return Excalibur, the source of is powers, to the Lady in the Lake. Nineteen years later, an older Sir Bedivere finds himself in jail after trying to free Arthur's son, Owain, from the town guards when he is caught stealing from Lord Antonius.14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Arthur, King; Illegitimate children of royalty; Knights and knighthood; Swords;
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