books by Barry Unsworth     books:       Losing Nelson31 reviews Barry Unsworth Penguin Books Ltd, 2000 Marvellous!!! I had studied the Napoleonic Wars for a long time before reading Unsworth's book and I thought that I had a good idea of the fighting conditions and the psychology of that period. "Losing Nelson" proved me wrong and opened widely in front of my eyes a wonderful history of a facinating personality. Unsworth uses his main hero, problematic Charles Cleasby, as a fanatical admirer of lord Nelson and ...             Morality Play46 reviews Barry Unsworth Penguin Books Ltd, 1996 A smart page-turner murder mystery This is a really entertaining book, a mystery told by a master storyteller, with beautiful langauge but never a false step in the telling of a good story. Barry Unsworth offers us a mystery from the 14th century full of modern conceptions integrated into the narrative. We get a tale of child molestation and murder mixed with the social and class structure of the middle ages. Unsworth knows that ...             The Songs of the Kings22 reviews Barry Unsworth Chivers Audio Books, 2003 Modern and Ancient As a long-time fan of Greek Mythology, my initial reaction to "The Songs of the Kings" was "sacrilege!". Odysseus as a villain? The absurdly modern speech? But when I tried the book again, I found that it expressed one of the things we love best about Greek Mythology--something about the mythology resonates with us today, after all these centuries. Unsworth reworks the old tale of the sacrifice ...             Pascali's Island4 reviews Barry Unsworth W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 Very disturbing and penetrating It's not the mastery of language. Nor is it the precision with which Unsworth draws his characters. It is, rather, the skill, always evident in his work, with which he illuminates moral dilemnas that makes this book unforgettable. An intense foray into the mind and heart of am informer, this novel will touch all those who have ever wanted to tell their own story but felt unworthy. A very ...             The Rage of the Vulture9 reviews Barry Unsworth Houghton Mifflin (T), 1983 Better than "Sacred Hunger" An odd, suspenseful and gripping story. It reminds of Conrad or Trollope. There is a plot, but the characters are to the fore, deeply drawn, and never faked. The suspense comes from watching the characters make choices, not just the plot. (It is NOT a post-modern novel about a novelist writing a novel about a novelist writing a novel about ... as so many modern novels are.) Better in all respects ...             Sacred Hunger39 reviews Barry Unsworth Penguin Books Ltd, 2004 Greed , power and the forces that counteract them Barry Unsworth's historic novel that won the Booker Prize is an exceptional literary accomplishment and well worth the prize. The word 'vast' would be a good way to describe the novel since it has multiple vividly drawn characters selected from a broad range of social classes and conditions. It is also vast in chronological scope as it covers several 18th century decades in the lives of the ...             Monks of Dust: The Holy Men of Mount Athos3 reviews Xavier Zimbardo Rizzoli International Publications, 2001 Jaw-Dropping The story behind these photos makes them all the more awe-inspiring, but their beauty stands alone. Superb photography and design, unique and amazing subject. If you're looking for something new from a photography book, this is it.             Typhoon and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics)2 reviews Joseph Conrad Modern Library, 2003 No, not " The Perfect Storm" -- Better Typhoon and Other Short Stories -By Joseph Conrad ***** "She seemed, indeed, to have been used as a running target for the secondary batteries of a cruiser. A hail of minor shells could not have given her upper works a more broken, torn, and devastated aspect; and she had about her the worn, weary air of ships coming from the far ends of the world - and indeed with truth, for in her short ...             I, Claudius (Penguin Classics)1 review Robert Graves Penguin Classics, 2006 "What a miraculous fate for a historian." Published in 1934, poet Robert Graves's _I, Claudius_ tells the story of Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, known in Roman history as Claudius--an historian, a crippled stutterer, and widely regarded as an idiot. Claudius is isolated from the treachery of the Roman court during the years immediately after the death of Christ, protected by the fact that no one takes him seriously enough to ...             The Ruby in Her Navel13 reviews Barry Unsworth Penguin Books Ltd, 2007 Europe revisited, reinterpreted A Ruby in Her Navel is yet another superb historical novel by Barry Unsworth. By his phenomenal standards, this book might at first appear somewhat one-paced, even one-dimensional, with its action set firmly in the place and time of its main character, Thurston Beauchamp, a young man in the service of King Roger of Sicily in the twelfth century. But if A Ruby in Her Navel might lack the immediacy ...             After Hannibal13 reviews Barry Unsworth Penguin Books Ltd, 1997 Thoughtful look at the human condition and 'Ugly Englishman' as opposed to Americans who are unusually kind and trusting in this book about several couples trying to work through the good offices of an Italian lawyer trying to help them with problems caused by greedy contractors, crazy neighbors etc.. I found all the little stories interesting except for the one about the professor Monti where Unsworth included maybe a little too much ...             Mooncranker's Gift3 reviews Barry Unsworth Penguin Books, 1977 Mooncranker casts a spell, reels us in, and never lets go! With Mooncranker's Gift, Unsworth creates a haunting, exotic, and ultimately erotic climate in which purity and corruption are engaged inextricably in simultaneous battles for the souls of men and women. Farnaby first meets the philosopher Mooncranker when Farnaby is a thirteen-year-old adolescent living ...             Crete (Directions)3 reviews Barry Unsworth National Geographic, 2004 delightful I was surprised and pleased to find a new Unsworth book- particularly since I am planning a trip to Greece this summer. I have perused several travel guides, but this book stands out, despite its brevity (or perhaps on account of it). Unsworth's glimpse at Crete is by no means comprehensive, but fills in the gaps that he proposes- What kind of place Crete is, some interesting things to see ...             The Partnership1 review Barry Unsworth W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 An early work, which might have dated a little The Partnership was Barry Unsworth's first novel and feels rather different in both style and content from most of his other books. It deals with a business arrangement, and therefore relationship of sorts between Foley and Moss. They design and manufacture plaster pixies for the tourist trade in a Cornish seaside village. There's a division of labour between them and as the book progresses, ...             The Hide3 reviews Barry Unsworth W. W. Norton & Company, 1996 Disturbing tale of disturbed minds The Hide, told from two different, but equally disturbed viewpoints, chronicles the small lives of the twin narrators, Simon and Josh. Simon, who lives on a palatial estate with his sister and the shell-shocked housekeeper, Marion, has secretly dug tunnels beneath the grounds. These tunnels-- his hide-- are both for hiding himself from a confusing and vicious world, and to take voyeuristic ...             SUGAR AND RUM4 reviews BARRY UNSWORTH HAMISH HAMILTON, 1988 How to deal with writer's block "Sugar and Rum" is my first encounter with Barry Unsworth's work, and it's a nice surprise. It is tightly plotted and features a wide assortment of interesting and eccentric characters, but it is also somewhat dissonant and disturbing in the way it makes a crude, if well-meaning, statement about economic reform. Clive Benson is a 63-year-old author who has had a semi-successful career ...             Stone Virgin6 reviews Barry Unsworth W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 Venice, Art, Passion all in one book A great web of stories that makes you really think of the power that people exert over others. Especially the power of this stone virgin and how she affected (affects) those who come in contact with her. Will history continue to repeat itself? 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