Salt publishing jun 2026 (3 Ergebnisse)
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A woman with a successful career in child protection is floored by her husband's sudden death; a retired civil servant smothers his wife, but can't go through with their pact; a teacher fleeing a disastrous school trip finds himself - literally - in a dark wood.Pascal famously said we shall d…ie alone. But there are always others left behind to grieve, to cheer, to feel guilt, relief or laughter, because we are human, whether we like it or not. In these stories, a dozen characters find at least a dozen ways to live by facing death - their own or that of those they love - in familiar worlds shot through with a strange absurdity.A man with cancer is employed to smoke by a character from a novel who may never have existed; an historian finds a love he hopes will last beyond the grave, even if it isn't his; a former judge dispenses justice in a prison camp; a randomly-selected Prime Minister confronts the biggest life-or-death decision she - or anyone - will ever have to take.A Day Like Any Other explores death - natural, assisted, promised and unexpected - with compassion, wit, a steady gaze and a desire to confront the challenge we mostly prefer to avoid: why live at all It is the perfect collection for anyone who's going to die one day.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Wills gives readers the exceptional at the heart of daily life, invites us to suspend disbelief, enable the surreal.She begins Making the Wedding Dress with a quote from a handbook on sewing and asks what can be fixed, what does it mean to make a daughter's wedding dress. The collection fans…out to explore bullying, money, trade, rats and sinkholes. A third section questions how humans relate to other species, speculates on a worm's opinion of people, the communal life of starlings. The book ends on ideas of exits and entrances, home, absences within a family and the fragility of care.Making the Wedding Dress makes many unexpected connections, moving from sauna to plum tree, to a luxury yacht cruising off Brighton beach. It asks what crows think of humans, it urges its readers to question what is normal.Jackie Wills' six previous collections have taken on big issues but her poems are always grounded. Her poems have been described as warm and witty, satirical, feminist and unputdownable. She starts with the mundane, then exaggerates - a list of the many words used to describe a woman, a sequence of short, impressionist poems on the surreality of menopause.Liz Lochhead described her 1995 debut, Powder Tower (Arc 1995), as 'full of fabulous and exact fictions about ordinary family life'. Writer Robert Macfarlane described her second book Party (Leviathan 2000) as 'a very fine collection indeed'.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Siberia 1833.Forty-one-year-old Maria Mendeleeva is enduring her seventeenth pregnancy. Her husband Ivan has lost his sight, and her brother Vasily has left their grandfather's glass factory in ruins. The factory Maria hungered for as a child. On the brink of poverty and her family's only rem…aining hope, Maria must find a way to make the factory viable. She must find the power to bring her grandfather's dreams back to life. She must make the glass sing.The Maternal Elementis a sweeping, gripping epic with an extraordinary woman at its heart. Maria Mendeleeva - mother of Dmitri Mendeleev, who devised the Periodic Table of the Elements - is a heroine like no other. A woman who refuses to be quashed by circumstance, Maria fights against the strictures of her time to gain an education for herself and for her children as she traverses the Urals of Russia seeking opportunity and safety for her family. A vivid and visceral portrait of a woman history has long since forgotten, The Maternal Element is a manifesto for truth, female empowerment and defying societal expectations.
