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The Queen's Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis, exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and alcoholism. The book was adapted for the 2020 Netflix miniseries, The Queen's Gambit.
Elizabeth Fremantle (born 1962) is an English novelist. Her published works include Queen's Gambit (2013), The Girl in the Glass Tower (2016) and the critically acclaimed thriller The Poison Bed (2018).
The Township of Esquimalt (/ ɪ ˈ s k w aɪ m ɔː l t /) is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada.It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and Royal Roads, to the northwest by the New Songhees 1A Indian reserve and the town of View Royal, and to ...
In 2022, his biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was published. [12] It was his second book to become a Times Book of the Year. [ 13 ] In the same year, he was a main contributor to BBC Northern Ireland 's and Al Jazeera 's coverage for the death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and accession of Charles III .
Queen Elizabeth I's grandfather, King Henry VII, is Queen Elizabeth II's 12-times great-grandfather, connecting them through the broader royal lineage. Universal History Archive/Getty .
Throughout the book, Dain regularly touches her face in times of worry. It's revealed that secretly, he'd been using his signet to read her thoughts, and he saw the secret, illegal meeting Xaden held.
The venue was spectacular — he knows I'm a bookworm and love being surrounded by old books. And man, were there books. Everything from dusty, leather-bound copies of Chaucer to modern feminist ...
The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Or On the Segregation of the Queen is the first book in the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King. It was nominated for the Agatha best novel award and was deemed a Notable Young Adult book by the American Library Association .