HISTORICAL · ROMANCE FICTION
Caroline Gray
Also known as: Christopher Robin Nicole, Christopher Nicole
Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, Guyana, and was raised in the Caribbean. His education included: the Queen's College in Guyana; the Harrison College in Barbados; and was fellow by the Canadians Bankers Association. A romantic and passionate of history, he has been published since 1957 as Christopher Nicole, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring. His historical fiction sagas set in tumultuous periods of war have become in best-sellers, and he has won international acclaim for his work under several pseudonyms, some of there female, that includes: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He has worked with many of the most important British and international publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House. On 8 May 1982, Christopher married with the also writer Diana Bachmann. The marriage collabored under the pseudonym Max Marlow. With two sons and two daughters, they live in Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK.
IN THE WANING DAYS OF JANUARY 1918, SILVIO BURIGO carried an autograph book to his classroom at Public School 85 in the Italian slum of East Harlem.
— from The inheritance
Most acclaimed
The Shadow of Death
Honor Williamson grasps at her one chance for happiness when she is offered a home at a sugar plantation on the Saint Vincent island, even though lies and deception are necessary to attain her new life.
The inheritance
In a chronicle of three generations of three working-class families, award-winning journalist Samuel G. Freedman tells the human story of the political transformation of twentieth-century America - the rise and fall of FDR's New Deal coalition and its displacement by the new conservatism of Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich. This is the single most important political phenomenon of our times. Freedman has selected three families who are at once singular and broadly representative. They are families who reached this country just as the century was beginning and struggled as blacksmiths and domestics and butchers and plumbers to gain a foothold. They are families who acted on their beliefs not only by voting but also by organizing neighborhoods and leading union chapters, canvassing precincts and watching polls and marching in torch-light parades. These families were pillars of the Democratic coalition that largely led America from 1932 until 1968 - community activists, trade unionists, machine politicians, with loyalties based on religion, ethnicity, and social class. These families equally embody the forces that shifted the majority into Republican hands for all but four years between 1968 and 1992 - grievances about taxes, crime, and reverse discrimination; the rise of suburbia and a shift to a new political machine based on private financing for development rather than public works. They are individuals who shifted from New Deal Democrats to Reagan Republicans to a mixture of GOP stalwarts, hesitant Clinton backers, and political dropouts. And in so doing, they carried with them a nation's destiny. The Inheritance will change our understanding of how and why America selects its leaders.
The promised land
1996
"Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present the everyday lives and professional activities of individuals and families in these communities and highlight early cross-border activism to end slavery in the United States and to promote civil rights in the United States and Canada. Essays also reflect on the frequent intermingling of local Black, White, and First Nations people. Using a cultural studies framework for their collective investigations, the authors trace physical and intellectual trajectories of Blackness that have radiated from southern Ontario to other parts of Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa. The result is a collection that represents the presence and diffusion of Blackness and inventively challenges the grand narrative of history."--Pub. desc.