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Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children
Dumped in the River Charon, hunted by an accursed river creature and betrayed by the wicked Matron Pluckrose, Tensy Farlow is in mortal danger. She has no parents. Worse still, she has no guardian angel. When she is thrown into the Home for Mislaid Children - a gloomy orphanage where ravens attack, Watc...
1984
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su...
Patient Chef
They say cancer touches everyone, and I'm certainly no exception, so in many ways it was natural for me to volunteer and then work as a staff member at the Sydney Cancer Foundation u which later became Chris O'Brien Lifehouse. Over a period of time I found myself talking at length to patients and famili...
Tennis Shoes
Tennis Shoes is one of the wonderful 'Shoes' collection of adventures for children by Noel Streatfeild.There is no doubt about it - the Heath children have tennis in their blood. Their grandfather and father before them had been top players, and the twins are champion material. Then Nicky - cheeky, rebe...
The Last Good Kiss
"As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked for." (Ian Rankin). "A friggin' masterpiece." (Dennis Lehane). "The stunner that reinvigorated the genre and jacked up a generation of future crime novelists." (George Pelecanos). Meet Private Detective C. W. Sughrue. Private detectives are su...
Embers
Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs.In a secluded woodland castle an old General pre...
James Agee - Selected Poems
James Agee; Andrew Hudgins (Editor)
Better known for writing in a variety of other genres, James Agee always thought of himself as essentially a poet. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition in 1934 for Permit Me Voyage, Agee was, in the words of editor Andrew Hudgins, "as restless in his poetry as he was later in his prose, exhibiti...
Eliot After The Waste Land
The second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century's most important poet, Robert Crawford completes the story he began in Young ...
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