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This Liberty Faber Poetry Journal contains eight classic poems and over a hundred lined pages for the owner to fill as they wish. To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)April from Prologue to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.
I saw the streets, the lights, the cars, the people -Everything moving in different directions at the sametime. . . I wanted to make the map alive. In December 2008, an entrepreneur leaves a tech conference in Paris. As he stands on the street, unableto hail a cab, an idea lands with the falling snow: tap a button, get a ride. Ten years later, Mia drives nights in Manchester, Sean is recruited as the brightest new programmer and Tyler moves on to yet another new future. Brilliant Jerks tells the story of three people - a driver, a coder and a CEO - working for one tech monolith, but living worlds apart. Joseph Charlton's sleek, gripping and revelatory play, based on the creation of a multi-billion-dollar app, premiered at VAULT Festival, 2018, and was revived at Southwark Playhouse, London, in March 2023.
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the bestselling author of Golden Hill.
solitary bachelors and disillusioned youths - these are the watchers, not the players. This is the aftermath of being one who - in Matthew Arnold's words - 'has reached his utmost limits and finds .
'The greatest book ever written on British independent music' Guardian'One of the best British music books of the last ten years' MojoFounded by Alan McGee in 1983, Creation Records achieved notoriety as the home of Primal Scream, the Jesus and Mary Chain and other anti-Establishment acts.
**Includes a new foreword by Pankaj Mishra**Bombay in the 1980s: Shyam Lal is a highly regarded voice teacher, trained in the classical idiom but happily teaching more popular songs to well-to-do women, whose modern way of life he covets.
A stunning collection of short stories from the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth.
From the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, a novel that goes straight to the heart of a family, in all their hopes, desires and regrets.
From the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, acollected novel in three parts and tender ode to quotidianlife and family loyalties
A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author of The Immeasurable World and The Moor. 'Breathtakingly good . . . I am deeply moved by what Atkins has achieved. Exiles is completely sui generis.'EDMUND DE WAAL'An incredible, brilliant act of retrieval.'PHILIP HOARE, author of Albert & the Whale'Atkins spins a marvellous tapestry of colourful tales, beautifully weaving history and travel accounts.'ANDREA WULF, author of The Invention of Nature'A fascinating study of displacement and empire. Atkins' voice is distinctive: subtle, reflective and tough-minded.'COLIN THUBRON, author of The Amur RiverThis is the story of three unheralded nineteenth-century dissidents, whose lives were profoundly shaped by the winds of empire, nationalism and autocracy that continue to blow strongly today: Louise Michel, a leader of the radical socialist government known as the Paris Commune; Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, an enemy of British colonialism in Zululand; and Lev Shternberg, a militant campaigner against Russian tsarism.In Exiles, William Atkins travels to their islands of banishment - Michel's New Caledonia in the South Pacific, Dinuzulu's St Helena in the South Atlantic, and Shternberg's Sakhalin off the Siberian coast - in a bid to understand how exile shaped them and the people among whom they were exiled. In doing so he illuminates the solidarities that emerged between the exiled subject, on the one hand, and the colonised subject, on the other. Rendering these figures and the places they were forced to occupy in shimmering detail, Atkins reveals deeply human truths about displacement, colonialism and what it means to have and to lose a home.Occupying the fertile zone where history, biography and travel writing meet, Exiles is a masterpiece of imaginative empathy.'[Atkins] is humane, humble, and empathetic . . . beautiful and moving.'ILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa'Thoughtful, meditative, beautifully sustained and transporting.'GAVIN FRANCIS, author of Island Dreams'Brilliant . . . [Atkins has] done Dinuzulu's exile an immense service by bringing it into view in the most thoughtful and engaged way.'PROFESSOR HLONIPHA MOKOENA, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa'In this sensitive and subtle book, Atkins probes the peripheries of European empire with a painterly eye for rarely-seen landscapes and a poet's sense for the reverberation of history and social change.'FRANCISCO CANTU, author of The Line Becomes a River***Read The Moor and The Immeasureable World for more award-winning writing from William Atkins
Miss Margaret Finch - a rather old-fashioned young woman - is spying for the mass observation project when she happens across the disgraced Reverend Stiffkey (aka Harold Davidson) who is the subject of a national scandal. Though the two are thrown together by chance, Margaret is determined to discover the truth about the Reverend;
When Dr Stockmann discovers the town's famous spa waters are poisoned, she expects to be treated as a hero for averting an environmental catastrophe.
New Selected Poems is a book of singular abundance and formal verve, featuring poems of rare vision and dramatic power by a consummate and resilient artist.
After two elegiac comedies about the decline of old England, Mr Bennett has now written a gorgeously vulgar but densely plotted farce that is a downright celebration of sex and the human body... a combination of hurtling action with verbal brilliance. Guardian
As Gill struggles to reconcile this Kelly with the Kelly she has been keeping safe in her mind, a noise is gathering at their periphery that refuses to go unheard any longer. Akedah won the Bruntwood Prize Original New VoiceAward in 2019.
Hugh Brody is renowned for his work with indigenous peoples.In the 80s he was engaged in a lawsuit brought by the Inuit people of the Arctic against the Canadian government.Brody lived with the Inuit, learned their language, recorded all their stories, which were then used as evidence in the court case - which the Inuit won.In his new book, he returns to the Arctic and is confronted by the deterioration of the situation there.The Inuit now possess the land, but the government has pressured them into living in settlements rather than out on the land.Their children are forced to go to school where they learn to speak English, losing their own language, which is the element that ties them to their land.Sexual abuse by the treachers intimidates the children into a silence that results in widespread suicide among the young.This silence ties in with Brody's own story - a mother hounded out of her home in Vienna by the Nazis, causing her to retreat into the same kind of silence that Tom Stoppard experienced from his mother, who also fled from the Nazis.As a writer and anthropologist, Brody's concern has always been with the human condition, arguing for the need to safeguard the most vulnerable from the depredations of the modern word.
Fox thinks Christmas is about presents, Badger thinks it's about desserts, Magpie thinks it's about singing... Tortoise and Hedgehog begin to feel rather overwhelmed with all the noise and fuss. But in a quiet moment of reflection they learn the most important lesson of all: Christmas is about being with the ones you love.
'An outstanding debut - ingenious, fast-paced and unpredictable.' HARLAN COBEN'Geneva is one of the best thrillers I've ever read. More than that, it could save Sarah's life. In Geneva, the couple are feted as stars - at least, Sarah is.
Uncle Paul (1959) was Celia Fremlin's second novel, and consolidated the success of her suspenseful debutThe Hours Before Dawn.Fifteen years ago Uncle Paul was exposed as a murderer by his wife Mildred, and sent to prison. Now a seaside holiday for Mildred's half-sister Isabel and her family seems to be the venue for Uncle Paul's revenge. Mildred arrives at a lonely cottage near to Isabel's caravan site, and Isabel's urgent summons to her sister Meg brings the three women together to play out a drama of fear and suspicion, betrayal and revenge.'Beautifully played out to a startling and valid ending... Fremlin is here to stay as a major mistress of insight and suspense.' New York Times'Fremlin puts a keen edge on the reader's curiosity and keeps it there... the writing is so good throughout.'Times Literary Supplement
A powerful new collection from one of our leading contemporary poets, reflecting the strange and chaotic times we live in.
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