![]() ![]() ![]() Keith Simpson's Summer Reading List Recommendations. ![]() Her study Invisible Agents Women and Espionage in Seventeenth Century Britain (OUP) makes for a fascinating read.' 'It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, but Nadine Akkerman through extensive archival research demonstrates the role of women spies and agents. A triumph of scholarly rigour, original thinking and crisp prose. Novelists and film-makers will be plundering the extraordinary stories she has uncovered with forensic skill for years to come.’ ‘ Invisible Agents is a work of deep scholarship that suggests Akkerman would have made an excellent spy catcher. ![]()
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![]() But what else can I say?' A story of mutability, of talking birds and stolen books, of Darwin and Stevenson and of the Jekyll and Hyde in all of us. Caught in her own particular darknesses, she embarks on an Ulyssean sift through the stories we tell ourselves, stories of love and loss, of passion and longing, stories of unending journeys that move through places and times, and the bleak finality of the shores of betrayal. One life, Babel Dark's, a 19th century clergyman, opens like a map that Silver must follow. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of ties that bind and of the slippages that occur throughout every life. Lighthousekeeping Originally being released on the 3rd of April in 2006, this would come out through the ‘Mariner Books’ publishing label. ![]() ![]() Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson Synopsis An orphaned girl is held spellbound by the tales of a lighthouse keeper on the Scottish coast, in a novel by the Costa Award-winning author of The Passion. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine slightly sunned, some old chocolate (?) splashes to front jacket, very slight lean, not price clipped (£15.00), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN PURPLE PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'To Emma Jeanette Winterson'. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '3 5 7 9 20 8 6 4 2'. ![]() Jacket by Julian Humphries (illustrator). ![]() ![]() ![]() Simsion will visit The King's English book shop in Salt Lake on Wednesday. More than a decade later, he’s coming out with the third book in the series, “ The Rosie Result” (Text Publishing, 384 pages), with a story that centers around autism. ![]() SALT LAKE CITY - When author Graeme Simsion first sat down to write his future bestseller “ The Rosie Project,” he had no intention of writing an autistic main character. ![]() ![]() ![]() She never thought her desperate attempt to defy authority would send her to a traitor’s death-unless she agrees to marry Roxburgh.Įdwin quickly realizes he has his hands full trying to control the fiery, rebellious widow-and trying to control his own desire to fill his arms with her beautiful body. If the crown thinks Lady Iona Cameron will allow an English soldier to turn her out of her own home, the crown is sadly mistaken. It’s only after a fierce fight that Edwin discovers that underneath the banned tartan, the “boy” he’s just wounded is none other than the lady of the house. ![]() His welcome comes at the point of a sword. Now Sir Edwin Roxburgh rides to claim Cameron House, his reward for his loyalty to the king. In the six months since the Jacobites met defeat at Culloden, the English have ruthlessly routed the remaining rebels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You are my present." Born in Boston, Mazie now lives in New York with her older sister Rosie, who has rescued her and another sister from their parents, "a rat" and "a simp." Rosie's husband, Louis Gordon, owns a cinema, and at 21, Mazie begins her long career as ticket-seller. 1, 1907, with this entry: "Today is my birthday. Attenberg's fictional Mazie begins a diary she will keep for 32 years on Nov. She was profiled by New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell in an essay collected in Up in the Old Hotel (1992), which is how Attenberg ( The Middlesteins, 2013, etc.) came to know of her. Mazie Phillips was a real person, a rough-and-ready Mother Theresa who walked the streets of Lower Manhattan in the early 1930s, giving out money for food, buying drinks, calling ambulances. Early 20th-century New York and its denizens portrayed through the fictional diary of a nonfictional heroine. ![]() ![]() ![]() He had a reputation as an asshole in the NFL, he's rude all the time, basically acts like a recluse and the author normally explained his piss poor behaviour with his childhood trauma or the fancy word for daddy issues. Normally Cal feels like shit but he does nothing to make things better in the present!!! This annoyed me so much. Also who gives you the right to read someones thoughts and secrets without pemission? This was so intrusive!! ![]() So we find out everything about their past when Cal steals one of Nellie's diaries from high school where she described every awful thing he did to her. They can't stand each other so both are on mission to drive the other out of the city. Then in the present time Cal just retired from the NFL and moves to Calamity to be closer to his best friend Pierce (from the previous book) for whom Nellie works. He treated her like crap, humiliated her, sabotaged her, got her dad fired from his job where they literally lost their livelihood. Cal was the rich popular jock and Nellie was the poor girl on scholarship. They hate but secretly love each other since high school. ![]() This was my highly anticipated book about Cal and Nellie. They went from enemies, to secret fuck buddies to i love you marry me and i'm here like: ![]() This is the weirdest enemies to lovers book i've read in my life. ![]() ![]() So one cold day he decides to visit Cuddles the dog inside his house. ![]() Squirrel hates to miss a party-whether or not he's been invited. Squirrel In The House by Vivian Vande Velde For more of Twitch's adventures, check out Squirrel in the House and Squirrel in the Museum.Ĩ Class Pets 1 Squirrel 1 Dog Chaos by Vivian Vande Velde ![]() With short, funny chapters, young readers will race through this novel to find out what the pets do next. Lively black and white illustrations add to the humor, depicting Twitch's mad dash through the school and the chaos created by a band of class pets on the loose. The different perspectives make this a perfect introduction to narrative point-of-view-and an extra-funny read-aloud. Can the classroom pets-including Sweetie the library rat, a snake named Angel, and the first graders' Green Eggs and Hamster-help Twitch get back to his cozy home in the trees? Each chapter is told in the voice of a different animal as the squirrel works his way through the school, visiting each classroom and trying to stay one step ahead of the principal's menacing dog, Cuddles. But with the door locked and an angry dog chasing him, how will Twitch the squirrel get back out? He'll need a hand, of course. Running into the school to escape a hungry owl was easy. ![]() We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its server. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In reality hives are structured places of desperate survival, with the real life facts often hard to believe. ![]() As a beekeeper, I often observe how bees are romanticized when talking with friends and family and fully expected this rosy view to permeate throughout The Bees. This unique novel is told from the perspective Flora 717, one of countless honeybees within a hive. My personal connection with honeybees now established, it should be easy to see why Paull’s inaugural novel would catch my attention. It has been a continual learning process, but we’ve thoroughly enjoyed becoming beekeepers. My husband’s grandfather kept bees until he was into his late 80s and about five years later we picked up the hobby when a swarm randomly made a home in one of Al’s old hives. ![]() ![]() Grant on Sweetheart, Sweetheart'Weaves a web that grows tighter with each turn of the page.' - Booklist on The Reaping Read more ISBN I enjoyed every horrid word of it.' - Daily Telegraph on The Godsend'The best ghost story I have ever read. The new novel by Bernard Taylor, the bestselling author of The Godsend and Mother's Boys, The Comeback is a psychological thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat with a plot whose twists and turns will keep you guessing until the final page.Critical Acclaim for Bernard Taylor'Bernard Taylor writes with grace. ![]() But as preparations commence, long buried secrets begin to resurface, and Rosemary's quest for fame at any price will lead to murder. When Rosemary receives the unexpected news that her record company is dusting off one of her albums for a reissue, the old hunger for fame and success is reignited, and with Carrie's help she begins to plan her big comeback. The Comeback (Trade Paperback / Paperback)Ī chilling new thriller from Bernard Taylor, the award-winning author of The Godsend and Sweetheart, SweetheartOnce a celebrated singer, Rosemary Paul is now an embittered woman in her sixties, forgotten by nearly everyone but her assistant, Carrie Markham, who idolizes her and p. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Parable of the Sower was the winner of multiple awards, including the 1994 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and has been adapted into an opera and a graphic novel. Earthseed also teaches that it is humanity's destiny to inhabit other planets and spread the "seeds" of the Earth. The main tenets of Earthseed are that "God is Change" and believers can "shape God" through conscious effort to influence the changes around them. Several characters from various walks of life join her on her journey north and learn of a religion she has discovered and titled Earthseed. The novel follows Lauren Olamina, a young woman who can feel the pain of others and becomes displaced from her home. ![]() It is set in a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and social inequality. Parable of the Sower is a 1993 speculative fiction novel by American writer Octavia E. ![]() |