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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 3rd Edition. Stapled booklet guide with illustrations and maps, some marks and minor handling wear on the cover, internally clean with no writing inside, includes some adverts for local businesses. Maps by J.M. Lloyd and J.W. Holroyd (illustrator).

Softcover. Zustand: Good.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The unique collection of drawings, paintings and photographs that make up She Was A Hairy Bear, She Was A Scary Bear provide a loosely autobiographical account of creator Louisa Bermingham's idiosyncratic relationship with the world.Using her seemingly inconsequential but deeply resonant protagonist, created using her own hair, to explore themes of power, beauty, self-esteem, responsibility, acceptance, conformity, loneliness and happiness, she takes readers on a surprising, often humorous journey through contemporary womanhood.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Twenty-three-year-old Lillie Carrigan has left behind the America of her childhood to study at Oxford, dismissing her past as she tries to write and become a woman. In the autumn of 1946, she meets a man over whiskey and cigarettes at Balliol College - a man who will become her husband. Over the course of five years, Lillie travels from England to Paris, the Côte d'Azur, New York City and the Hamptons, her marriage unravelling along the way but her memories remaining steadfast as her uninvited yet constant companions. Haunted by past tragedies and scarred by fresh misadventures, Lillie once again shares her story and lays bare her sins.'An intimate character study and honest portrait of a marriage, this sequel, with its eloquent prose and sharp dialogue, does not disappoint.' - J.M. Monaco, author of How We Remember 'A forensic portrait of post-war marriage. In prose that never drops a stitch, Susan Furber has delivered another triumph in this insightful, moving and utterly compelling novel.' - Christine Dwyer Hickey, 2020 Walter Scott Prize winner'We Were Very Merry tells the story of a modern marriage in which no one is at fault since no one appears to have done anything wrong. The attempts to make one's self intelligible to another reveal the grief and regret inherent in the past, and despite a well-earned resolution, the exorbitant price of perception.' - Susanna Moore, author of In the Cut.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I only wanted to keep her as she was in a memory. And for that, more than any other wrong I have done, I am truly sorry.'After more than two decades abroad, Lillie Carrigan - now in her mid-forties - returns to New York for a year to teach at Barnard College, determined to believe the past is finally behind her. In England, she has built a life of poise and apparent stability with a British artist. Now, back in the land of her childhood, old loyalties, old wounds, and old desires begin to stir.As Lillie is drawn once more into the orbit of her childhood friend Lara, her glamorous, brittle friend Mallory, and the husband she thought she had left far behind, the carefully ordered story she tells herself starts to come apart. Against the turbulence of the late 1960s and the rising force of Women's Liberation, What Other Years Have Done is a seductive, piercing novel of memory, grief, female friendship, betrayal, and the dangerous persistence of love. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Amanda Nigh has finally hit her stride. Working at HocusLocus, she recrafts digital content with viral potential while beta-testing radical new software and enjoying London nightlife. But then she discovers a strange story involving Craig Merleau, an American ice hockey player who talks like a European philosopher, inexplicably propelling his team to victory with his cerebral pronouncements.As she is drawn into his philosophical and physical orbit, the world is threatened by a subatomic virus that affects computers and humans in bizarre ways. While the global networks run amok and everyone struggles with quantum superposition and gravity quakes, two people remain blissfully untouched: Amanda and Craig.As Amanda enlists Craig to avert technological and biological Armageddon, she faces a disturbing question: is the end really Amanda Nigh.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Between My Country - and the Others -There is a Sea -But Flowers - negotiate between us -As Ministry.' -Emily Dickinson As the world grapples with the tragic human cost of the global pandemic and its aftermath, the need for kindness and gratitude has become more important than ever. The Ministry of Flowers is in many ways a book for our times, one that offers hope in a changing world. The poems call into stark relief the brevity of human life, while also emphasizing the urgent need to connect with others and offer acts of kindness as a way of healing and moving forward.Taking its title from an Emily Dickinson poem, the book explores how flowers, both real and metaphorical, are at the heart of a kinder world. With a strong ecological focus, the poems celebrate nature's continual ministry in our lives and highlight the need to respect the ecosystems that sustain us. The Ministry of Flowers speaks eloquently to a post-pandemic society, one in which compassion as well as forgiveness (of both self and others) become the seeds of the gentler, fairer world we seek.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The eve of war. Two spies, one mission, divided loyalties - and everything to lose.When Anna marches into a hotel in the Austrian Alps and shoots a member of the waiting staff, Karl sees what few in his position would: an opportunity. It's insights like this that make the German Secret Service keen to keep him on their payroll, and the British Secret Service keen to keep him on theirs too. Soon, Anna finds herself stationed as a 'field agent' - a nanny to a British family with murky loyalties and strong ties to the Nazi party, keeping her ears open for anything that can help Karl root out Agent 33, his counterpart double agent feeding secrets the other way, from Britain back to Germany.If Karl cannot unmask Agent 33, the war could be lost before it begins. But Karl has always had one eye fixed on another enemy: the Nazi officer he watched murder his mother years ago, a man whose sudden reappearance threatens to derail everything. For Anna, the mission carries an even more devastating secret. A family in London is raising the child she was forced to surrender, and she will risk anything to bring her baby back into her arms - even if it means jeopardising her cover.Set across Britain, Germany and Austria in the tense months leading up to the Second World War, What Will Save Us is a thrilling, intimate spy story that weaves revenge, betrayal and impossible choices with a chilling political atmosphere. Claire Seeber casts her storyteller's gaze not on the great leaders and generals, but on the ordinary women and men whose messy, broken lives may end up changing the course of history.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bold, beautiful and spiky, Angela Readman's stories are both magical and real. Following her acclaimed debut Don't Try This at Home, in this new collection, she approaches the fairy tale with a scalpel. The Girls are Pretty Crocodiles reads like a love letter to girlhood and a ransom note to all the fairy tales we have been told. In her prize-winning work 'The Story Never Told', an illiterate woman sells fairy tales for a book she knows will never have her name on the cover. In 'What's Inside a Girl', a class takes lessons on dating invisible girls.Dark, funny and surreal, these stories explore, challenge and ultimately transform the traditional fairy tale narrative. Women learn to be origami, climb into swan skins, feed wolves, flip burgers and snog kelpies. In dazzling prose that remains matter-of-fact, these tales take to task the happy endings we have been sold.Otherworldly, yet down to earth, The Girls are Pretty Crocodiles discovers the hidden voice in the stories we know and reveals the magic of working-class lives. These stories have teeth.'Angela Readman's stories have a compelling intimacy and gorgeous imagery, and are often deeply moving - highly recommended reading.' Alison Moore, author of Booker-shortlisted The Lighthouse'Angela Readman's subtly dark stories rip the covers from the everyday. She turns its innocents and introverts inside-out before us, meanwhile exposing secret rituals and Chinese-whispery legends from all our suffocating and self-contained neighbourhoods. Throughout this new collection, the other Angela - Carter - hangs on Readman's shoulder as she creates an eerie new folklore for fraught times. These are the stories we always knew existed but were never brave enough to tell, even to ourselves.' Ashley Stokes, author of Gigantic, Unsung Stories, 2021'A poetic recontextualising of fairy tales and folklore, The Girls Are Pretty Crocodiles manages to be both playful and dangerous, often in the same sentence. Readman deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Kirsty Logan and Marina Warner, as one of the natural successors to Angela Carter.' Dan Coxon, author of Only The Broken Remain and editor of This Dreaming Isle.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Produced by members of the Northern Short Story Festival Academy, this new anthology showcasing the range of talent in the North of England features work by Litro fiction editor Barney Walsh, author & critic Richard Smyth, and poet and academic Haleemah Alaydi. Twelve of the authors featured in this new work are graduates of the Northern Short Story Festival Academy programme, which developed the voices of twelve brand new short story writers based in the region. Features a foreword by Anna Chilvers. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some stories will do anything to get your attention.In this thrilling and unflinching debut collection, an eclectic group of characters struggle with the lure of the limelight.A teenager escapes school gossip to hang out with a dead Tudor queen; a reality show applicant has a bitter axe to grind; a spiralling woman weaponises her cat's internet fame to keep track of her ex; a guest has a mute meltdown while reluctantly attending a silent retreat.Attention Seekers is a tour-de-force of dark humour and social commentary, deconstructing what it means to take up space and be seen - and at what cost.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Re-evaluating the legacy of the youngest Brontë sister, on the 200th anniversary of her birth. Includes an up-to-date biography, contemporary writing about Anne and her family, and a previously-unpublished essay thought to be the last thing she wrote. 2020 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Anne Brontë, the youngest of the famed Brontë sisters. Only now is she gaining recognition as a great writer in her own right, with her novels Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall deservedly standing alongside those of Charlotte and Emily Brontë. Crave the Rose takes a fresh look at Anne, revealing a woman whose work was more radical than that of her sisters, and which is therefore as relevant today as it has ever been. Alongside a biography of Anne's remarkable, but tragically short, life, this book contains a comprehensive selection of first-person encounters with the Brontës from 19th-century newspapers and archives, giving a fresh insight into the real character of Anne and her family. Also contained exclusively within this landmark book is a newly-discovered essay by Anne Brontë - what may well be the last words that she ever wrote, in print here for the first time.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the great 'undiscovered' post-war British poets, Nigel Gerrans' sixty-year creative journey was marked by personal reflection, piercing observation and eclectic spirituality. This generous selection, made in 2014 by the author's long-time friend and collaborator Felix Hodcroft, offers readers new and old the best possible overview of this remarkable body of work. From the call to action of 'Night Express' to the modern-day tragedy of 'Patient X', from the small triumphs of 'At Her Own Pace' to the biting satire of the previously-unpublished 'Ballad of Ted and Joan', Gerrans meets the world's gaze squarely, never failing to ask the 'necessary question' or skilfully articulate its answer. Finally, and in full, there is 'Song Sequence', a unique blend of passion and philosophy that has been a lifetime in the making; arguably the poet's crowning achievement. It Is I Who Speak is a book filled with energy; a fascinating and vital record of a wonderful writer; a collection of poems that will not fail to move and astonish all those who engage with them. 'Energetic and image-laden . this is a vivid and engaging collection of poems that deserve to live long in the memory.'- Poetry Book Society Bulletin.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Not far away, outside a lighted house.'The final collection in Ralph Dartford's 'Recovery Trilogy' sees the poet meditating on the tragic death of his beloved brother, Joseph, and how he lived in the mythical house of England: a nation of waving flags seen through soft focus sunlight. Here are his people, their misfitting tales that scratch and count the bricks of a private island imprisoned within its own walls, rituals and loneliness.Warm and lyrical, visceral in its fury, but finally resolute in its ceaseless quest for love and tenderness, this concluding collection dances the demand for better days - that we all must have the opportunity to recover and sing together. Whatever the cost to the crumbling mortar of old Albion.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rare Birds creatively re-imagines the rich and gripping story of Holloway Prison through the voices of prisoners, staff and others connected to its history, in order to explore some of the injustices of the penal system during its first hundred years. Natalie Scott's meticulously researched, moving and lyrical poems bring to life well-known voices such as Ruth Ellis, Sylvia Pankhurst, Emily Wilding Davison and Edith Thompson, plus a host of lesser-known names, to tell Holloway's story in a truly unique and fascinating way. Hear inmates at their most vulnerable moments: Ruth Ellis in the last few minutes as she stands at the scaffold describing her executioner; Edith Thompson believing she will be given a stay due to her pregnancy; Selina Salter on her return to prison after being recorded as a lunatic. Join in with rousing suffragette songs composed whilst in prison; hear the testimonies of hunger strikes and forcible feeding; and learn about the shocking differences in treatment shown towards 1st and 3rd division inmates. Despite Holloway Prison's notoriety as a women's prison, the poems voice women in roles other than that of criminal: there are social campaigners, comrades, as well as sisters, daughters, mothers, wives, lovers and companions. The collection explores many topics which are still just as relevant today: human rights, gender, sexuality, mental illness and socio-economic status, with some of the problems women faced in the 19th century being not so different from the issues they face now.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Selected Poems of Bermudian poet Nancy Anne Miller traces the decades she has been writing about her homeland, with the use of image metaphor as her primary tool for revealing Bermuda's complexities. Her choice of this technique is to consciously break apart linear intentional thinking or the masculine sentence as Woolf referenced.For Miller, the use of image metaphor allows a poem's meaning to radiate across the entire poem as one thing is reflected through another in a circular movement, hence preventing one final climatic interpretation. She states: 'The island's history cannot be written down in a straight line' - and sees this as a female-voiced way of being a poet, one that is inclusive, layered, and exploratory.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. She Was a Hairy Bear, She Was a Scary Bear | Louisa Bermingham | Taschenbuch | Valley Press | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2019 | Valley Press Ltd | EAN 9781908853950 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. We Were Very Merry | Susan Furber | Taschenbuch | Valley Press | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2023 | Valley Press Ltd | EAN 9781915606129 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. The Ministry of Flowers | Andrea Witzke Slot | Taschenbuch | Valley Press | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2020 | Valley Press Ltd | EAN 9781912436439 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Spring Fever | Thomas Legendre | Taschenbuch | Valley Press | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2023 | Valley Press Ltd | EAN 9781915606105 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 2016, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History hosted three poets-in-residence: John Barnie, Steven Matthews and Kelley Swain.Inspired by their time delving into the museum's drawers and cabinets, the poets' new work viewed the collections with fresh eyes. Their poems are presented here alongside 19th-century poetry from writers linked with the early days of the museum.Together, the poems in this anthology are a tribute to the Pre-Raphaelite origins of the Oxford University Museum, and a rejuvenation of its artistic legacy. …

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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 800 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | A meticulous, loving tribute to the language, structure and themes of the Brontës¿ own works, as de la Motte at times weaves the very words of their correspondence, novels and poems seamlessly into his lively narrative. Oblivion traces Branwell¿s meandering journey across the north of England, from the Fells of the Lake District to the ocean cliffs of Scarborough, from the smoky streets of industrial Halifax to the windswept moors above Haworth, encountering such notables as Hartley Coleridge and Franz Liszt. Through him we meet poets, sculptors, booksellers, prostitutes, publicans, railway workers, farmers, manufacturers and clergymen; through his experiences we contemplate the ineffable but fleeting ecstasy of sex, the existence of God, the effects of drugs and alcohol and the nature of addiction itself, the desire for fame, and the bitter resentment of artists and intellectuals who feel unappreciated by an increasingly materialistic, mechanised society. This sprawling story is a moving, thought-provoking page-turner that seeks not only to understand the roots of Branwell Brontë¿s tragic end but also to unearth the striking similarities of character between him and his now-famous sisters.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One evening, in December 1931, nine-year-old Eva waits at the window for her father, Arthur, to return from work. Little does she know that this will be the beginning of a decade-long-vigil - or that her mother and sister hold the secret to his absence.Twenty years earlier, a younger Arthur is haunted by his family's emigration to Canada. Seeking a secure future, he marries in haste, only for conscription to tear him away from his new family. Later, after the war, he faces a new battle; against the pressures of work, society and respectability.Finally, in 1941, on the verge of adulthood, Eva must face up to her family's complex legacy and seek the truth behind her father's disappearance. Her coming-of-age quest is set against the backdrop of another war, in a blitz-ravaged London, and the chance for a marriage of her own - or to break the cycle and choose a different path.Based on a true story, The Life We Make is a tale that spans three decades and two generations. Filled with vivid period detail, complex characters and ever-evolving relationships, it is, at heart, a thoughtful examination of the misunderstandings that can drive a family apart - and the love that may, eventually, pull it back together.…