Based on several years' worth of exclusive interviews & unprecedented access to all three bands' personal archives this is the first definitive biography of Coil Current 93 & Nurse With Wound Together the bands represent the real English underground in all its sexual cultural & artistic variety A shadowy scene whose work accents peculiarities of Englishness through the links & affinities they've forged with earlier generations of outsiders The three groups have maintained a symbiotic yet uneasy relationship with the mainstream of pop culture ...

England has always been a place of queens The earliest known lived nearly 2000 years ago Early queens such as Boudica & Cartimandua are historical figures while others such as Cordelia & Guinevere are mythical In both historical documents & romantic legends the early queens of Britain played a prominent role & this has never ceased to be the case Nearly eighty women have sat on the throne of England either as queen regnant or queen consort & the voices of all of them survive through their writings & those of their contemporaries For the first time the voices of each individual queen can be heard This volume charts the course of English queenship from our earliest named queen the fierce Boudica through the Anglo-Saxons Normans Plantagenets to the queens of the Wars of the Roses & the woman whose marriage brought peace after years of conflict Elizabeth of York ...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction As every schoolboy knows you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight Grotesque visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally & does exactly that He constructs on the island ' The Project' a vast heritage centre containing everything ' English' from Big Ben to Stonehenge from Manchester United to the white cliffs of Dover The project is monstrous risky & vastly successful In fact it gradually begins to rival ' Old' England & even threatens to supersede it One of Barnes's finest & funniest novels England England calls into question the idea of replicas truth vs fiction reality vs art nationhood myth-making & self-exploration ...

A special edition of England Their England by A G Macdonell reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary Banished from his native Scotland by a curious clause in his father's will Donald Cameron moves to London & decides to conduct a study of the English people; a strange race who he is told have built an entire national identity around a reverence for team spirit & the memory of Lord Nelson What follows is one of the funniest social satires ever written Whether Cameron is haplessly participating in a village cricket match being shown around an exclusive golf course or trying to watch a rugby match in the thick London fog his affectionately bemused portrait of his new countrymen is a joy to read Reminiscent of the gentle wit of P G Wodehouse & Jerome K Jerome England Their England offers a delightful portrait of Britain in the 1920s ...

The most comprehensive & revealing account of the story of England cricket & cricketers yet published 624 pages 8pp colour Wilde Simon ...

Mike Engleby has a secret This is the story of Mike Engleby a working-class boy who wins a place at an esteemed English university But with the disappearance of Jennifer the undergraduate Engleby admires from afar the story turns into a mystery of gripping power Sebastian Faulks's new novel is a bolt from the blue unlike anything he has ever written before contemporary demotic heart-wrenching
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Children will go Wild About Grammar & Punctuation using this fun workbook! They'll love practising the grammar & punctuation skills taught at KS2 while finding out about the amazing world of animals Part of the Letts Wild About series these titles offer an appealing learning approach for budding young explorers keen to discover their world Matched to the KS2 National Curriculum this English Grammar & Punctuation workbook takes children on a wild adventure where they will practise key grammar & punctuation skills & explore amazing animals along the way An ideal purchase if you are looking for a fun & engaging way to improve your child's grammar & punctuation skills Included in this book Accessible & practical activities that support learning at school A quick test to check understanding Explorer's logbook to track progress Wild Animal Facts that children will love reading! Discover more at wwwwildaboutmathsandenglishcouk ...

Children will go Wild About handwriting using this fun workbook! They'll love practising the key handwriting skills taught at Key Stage 1 while finding out about the amazing world of animals Part of the Letts Wild About series these titles offer an appealing learning approach for budding young explorers keen to discover their world Matched to the KS1 National Curriculum it takes your child on a wild adventure where they will practise handwriting & explore amazing animals along the way An ideal purchase if you are looking for a fun & engaging way to improve your child's handwriting Accessible activities that support learning at school Quick test to check understanding Explorer's logbook to track progress Packed with Wild Animal Facts that children will love reading! Discover more at wwwwildaboutmathsandenglishcouk ...

This is the fully revised & expanded second edition of English
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Children will enjoy using this fun & motivating animal-themed activity book Packed with amazing animal facts children can explore the wider-world & learn new skills along the way Covering key areas of the Early Years preschool curriculum this book is an ideal purchase if you are looking for an engaging & interesting way to help your child learn phonics Accessible animal-themed activities which support learning at school to help improve literacy skills Fun approach to learning with engaging & motivating content that children will love to do at home ...