The Emperor's Last Island by Julia Blackburn
The Emperor's Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories and myths, absurdities and simple facts that have accumulated around Napoleon and his sojourn here.
A melancholy and exquisitely bizarre essay on fame, morality and the vanity of human wishes * London Review of Books *
Moving and original.. Julia Blackburn writes like an angel -- Mary Wesley
Pure enchantment, stranger than fiction * Cosmopolitan *
Moving and original.. Julia Blackburn writes like an angel -- Mary Wesley
Pure enchantment, stranger than fiction * Cosmopolitan *
Julia Blackburn has written a number of books of non-fiction, fiction and poetry. The Three of Us won the J. R. Ackerley Award, Threads won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award and the New Angle Prize, Time Song was shortlisted for the Wainwright Book Prize, and Thin Paths was shortlisted for the Costa Prize for Biography. Her two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper’s Companions, were both shortlisted for the Women’s Prize. She lives in Suffolk and Italy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099752110 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099752115 |
| Title | The Emperor's Last Island |
| Author | Julia Blackburn |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1997-09-11 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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