Jennifer M. Wilson has decided to become a voice. A professional enunciator, an announcer, a voice-over artist, she has retreated into a world of words. Behind the sound-proof double doors of the recording studio she must surely be safe from the painful inconveniences of hate & love. Until reality breaks in & Jennifer uncovers the harsh vocabulary of addiction & the addictive extremes of sex. -An alchemical romance, a Swiftian satire for our times, an impossible spiritual journey & a devastating plummet into insanity & perversion, So I Am Glad is oblique, incisive, hilarious & horrific. ...

Growing up in a small Wiltshire village, Abbie Morris knows what lies ahead of her
- a life of drudgery as a menial servant,
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Growing up in a small Wiltshire village, Abbie Morris knows what lies ahead of her
- a life of drudgery as a menial servant,
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The story of a murder is framed by the story of a brief friendship between two young boys. One, the narrator, is coping with the recent death of his mother; the other, a farm boy, witnesses his parents & a friend in scenes he neither understands nor wishes to. The narrative goes into his past & explores the events that destroyed the lives of his parents. ...

The story of a murder is framed by the story of a brief friendship between two young boys. One, the narrator, is coping with the recent death of his mother; the other, a farm boy, witnesses his parents & a friend in scenes he neither understands nor wishes to. The narrative goes into his past & explores the events that destroyed the lives of his parents. ...

' There was an old womanwho lived in a shoe, she had so many rooms--what could she do?' Mrs Badger feels lonely in her great big shoe, so she decides to adopt a baby. But when she has so many spare rooms, why stop at just one? Martina Selway takes the familiar rhyme of the Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe, & transforms it into a fresh & quirky counting book. ...

Miles Davis was one of the crucial influences in the development of modern jazz. His Kind of Blue is an automatic inclusion in any critic's list of the great jazz albums, the one record people who own no other jazz records possess, & still sells 250, 000 copies a year in the US alone. But Miles regularly changed styles, leaving his inimitable impact on many forms of jazz, whether he created them or simply developed the work of others, from modal jazz to be-bop, his seminal quintet & his big-band work, to the jazz funk experiments of later years.

Miles not only knew & worked with everyone who was anyone in jazz, from Coltrane to Monk, he was a friend of Sartre's, lover of Juliette Greco & musical collaborator with musicians who ranged from Stockhausen to Hendrix. John Swzed is uniquely well-qualified to do justice to Miles, both in terms of his impact on jazz, & as one of the great Black Americans: as political figure, icon & archetypal cool dude. His book fills in the gaps left by myth-making about Miles' life
- both by Miles himself & by his previous biographers
- telling the story of his childhood, his depressions & his relationship with heroin as well as the more familiar public career.



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