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Book 1: The Crown. Book 1. Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill. The Rise of the Young Queen (1947-1955)
Robert Lacey, a renowned British historian and biographer, has been writing about Queen Elizabeth II and her extraordinary life for over forty years. So his involvement as a consultant in the Netflix series The Crown is quite natural. However, here his voice was more of an advisory one, as the television image of the British monarch was created by screenwriter Peter Morgan, following the laws of the genre.
However, the viewer always wants to look behind the scenes, to see what is behind the scenes, and the royal biographer Robert Lacey satisfied this curiosity by writing the novel The Crown: A Story from the Heart of the Events, in which he adds expert assessments and in-depth details to the events of the series, depicting the realities of Buckingham Palace and 10 Davening Street.
All in all, both authors make us witness a difficult story of how the dreams and hopes of the beginning of life are later subordinated only to duty. Elizabeth Mountbatten could never have imagined that her father would die so young, and that she, still very young and inexperienced, would have to ascend the throne to rule the world's largest empire in an era of great social, cultural and political change. At the time of her coronation, at the age of 27, she was already a wife and mother, but her rise as queen was just beginning.
Book 2. The Queen's Move
- style="text-align: justify;">The grandiose series from Netflix, the most popular in the history of the platform
- style="text-align: justify;">62 000 000 people are delighted with the film
1950s. Beth Harmon is an ordinary orphan with an extraordinary talent for chess. The game is her only passion. As long as Beth is in the game, she controls herself and... her addiction to tranquillisers and alcohol. She desperately wants to become a phenomenal chess player, but at the same time she wants to escape from this reality more and more.
A decisive chess match with the world champion, Russian grandmaster Vasily Borgov, is approaching. One wrong combination can ruin the whole game, and a wrong move can destroy the future. Beth loses control of herself once again. But this time, she won't spare any chess pieces or people to win.
About the author:
Walter Tavis is an American novelist whose works have been translated into about 20 languages. Three of his novels have been adapted into films. However, the most popular is the film adaptation of The Queen's Procession, adapted by Netflix in 2020.
Book 3: Shadow and Bone. The beginning of the «Grisha»trilogy
Welcome to Ravka. It was once a great and powerful country. Now it is on the verge of extinction. Ravka is divided by the Shadow Wrinkle: a line of absolute darkness, teeming with dangerous monsters.
Unremarkable Alina could not have imagined that Ravka's salvation would fall on her slender shoulders. Saving her friend Mala, the girl awakened her dormant power. It is she who is able to destroy the Shadow Wrinkle and reunite the war-torn country.
Time is running out. Alina goes to study with the majestic grysha mages, led by the mysterious Darkling. However, the girl's powerful and untamed power can turn into a serious threat. And not only for the monsters from the shadows, but also for the whole of Ravka, for Mal and Alina herself.
Book 4. The Witcher. The Last Wish. Book 1
The white-haired witch Geralt of Rivia, one of the few representatives of the once numerous shop of defenders of the human race from the creatures of inhuman evil, travels through small kingdoms that can be seen from the castle tower and large cities, receiving payment for what he is trained to do - destroying eyelashes and lizards, strigas and whippersnappers. But the witch also has his own code, in which murder is only a last resort, and a reasonable life, whatever it is, is still a life. This is how he makes new enemies, but also finds friends who will change his fate one day.
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