![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() See him contend with the expectations of teachers all too familiar with his infamous older brother … and all while he tries to keep up with his studies. Watch him defend himself against rival cadets. Witness young Hatter struggle with the first stirrings of love. They will share young Hatter’s joy as he forges new friendships at the Millinery, and suffer his frustrations as he strives to maintain these friendships. But in the MILLINERY ACADEMY-each installment of which chronicles a single year of our hero’s education- readers will live through the experiences that shaped this extraordinary Wonderlander. ![]() Cadets will study the mystic and martial arts, as well as the sometimes more difficult art of successfully dealing with others.Īs readers of The Looking Glass Wars novels already know, Hatter will grow up to one day serve as bodyguard to two queens and become Wonderland’s most famous traveler. Those born to be Royal Bodyguards are trained at one of the four academies (Heart, Clubs, Diamond, or Spade) linked to the royal houses. The Looking Glass Wars is the first book in the trilogy. The premise is that the two books written by Lewis Carroll are a distortion of the 'true story'. Swordplay! Newfound friendships! School bullies! Budding love! Self-serving rivals! Scheming adults and soulless rebel plotters! Welcome to the world of Cadet Hatter Madigan, who has just entered Wonderland’s Millinery Academy as one of the freshmen ‘Brims’. The Looking Glass Wars is a series of three novels by Frank Beddor, heavily inspired by Lewis Carroll 's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass. ![]()
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On 23 May, 1940, his Spitfire was shot down during a dogfight over Boulogne after destroying two German fighters. He was also renowned as an international ski champion and fighter pilot with a string of glamorous girlfriends. ![]() ![]() By the age of 29, this charismatic character who spoke nine languages had become a London barrister with a reputation for successfully defending those much less fortunate than him. Born in South Africa in 1910, Roger Bushell was the son of a British mining engineer. Through exclusive access to this material - as well as fascinating new research from other sources - Simon Pearson, Chief Night Editor of The Times, has now written the first biography of this iconic figure. Very little was known about Bushell until 2011, when his family donated his private papers - a treasure trove of letters, photographs and diaries - to the Imperial War Museum. Pearson has done uncommonly well to unearth so much.' 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