Roger Osborne”s work has provided a range of innovative insights into our views of the past, and how they inform the present. His previous books include The Floating Egg: Episodes in the Making of Geology, The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China, The Dreamer of the Calle San Salvador: Visions of Sedition and Sacrilege in Sixteenth-Century Spain, Civilization: A New History of the Western World and Of The People, By The People, A New History of Democracy.
Roger Osborne is also a professional playwright. His plays include The Art Of Persuasion, first performed in 2011 and Laughton, staged in 2013 He lives in Scarborough.
11 Ebooks tarafından Roger Osborne
Roger Osborne: Of The People, By The People
”Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” Churchill had more reason than most to rue the power of democracy, having been …
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Roger Osborne: Civilization
Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have described a world engaged in ”a fight for civilization”. But what do we mean by civilization? We believe in a western tradition of ope …
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Roger Osborne: The Floating Egg
The Floating Egg begins with the search for an alchemist”s secret, and ends with the re-imagination of a past world. Each chapter is connected to a particular corner of north-east England, and each …
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Roger Osborne: Iron, Steam & Money
In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and …
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Roger Osborne: Deprat Affair
Detective story, social history, human drama, The Deprat Affair recreates the hothouse atmosphere of colonial Indochina in the early twentieth century. Among its cliques, its bitter rivalries, its …
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Roger Osborne: Dreamer Of Calle San Salvador
Spell-binding, horrific, poetic, apocalyptic, heart-rending, disturbing, prophetic, seditious, compelling and utterly fascinating – the dreams of Lucrecia de Leon have lain virtually undisturbed in …
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Belinda Wheeler: A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott
Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal …
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Belinda Wheeler: A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott
New essays on the acclaimed Australian Indigenous author’s entire body of work, including his novels, short stories, poetry, and his work with Indigenous language and health.
Since the mi …
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