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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015 Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction 2015 Enter a whole new world in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a beehive Born into the lowest class of her society Flora 717 is a sanitation bee only fit to clean her orchard hive Living to accept obey & serve she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother the Queen But Flora is not like other bees Despite her ugliness she has talents that are not typical of her kin While mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed Flora is removed from sanitation duty & is allowed to feed the newborns before becoming a forager collecting pollen on the wing She also finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum where she discovers secrets both sublime & ominous But enemies are everywhere from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses who jealously guard the Hive Mind & when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all her instinct to serve is overshadowed by an even deeper desire a fierce love that will lead to the unthinkable Laline Paull's chilling yet ultimately triumphant novel creates a luminous world both alien & uncannily familiar Thrilling & imaginative The Bees' is the story of a heroine who in the face of an increasingly desperate struggle for survival changes her destiny & her world ...

Beautiful & moving poetry for the real world' Jeanette Winterson Guardian Wonderful a poet alert to every sound & shape of language' Sunday Telegraph The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of poems as Poet Laureate In it she uses her full poetic range there are drinking songs love poems poems of political anger; there are elegies too for beloved friends &
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' Gamesters & Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores but they are very Devils to their Wives' With The Beggar's Opera (1728) John Gay created one of the most enduringly popular works in English theatre history & invented a new dramatic form the ballad opera Gay's daring mixture of caustic political satire well-loved popular tunes & a story of crime & betrayal set in the urban underworld of prostitutes & thieves was an overnight sensation Captain Macheath & Polly Peachum have become famous well beyond the confines of Gay's original play & in its sequel Polly banned in Gay's lifetime their adventures continue in the West Indies With a cross-dressing heroine & a cast of female adventurers pirates Indian princes rebel slaves & rapacious landowners Polly lays bare a culture in which all human relationships are reduced to commercial transactions Raucous lyrical witty ironic & tragic by turns The Beggar's Opera & Polly
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The first book in a new fantasy trilogy by the award-winning author of The Fabled Beasts Chronicles 272 pages Don Lari ...

Are you interested in the field of counselling & psychotherapy or just starting out in your training? Trying to get to grips with the many different approaches & decide which are right for you? This book can help! An ideal introductory text that assumes no prior knowledge leading authors in the field provide overviews of 26 counselling & psychotherapy approaches in accessible jargon-free terms Each approach is discussed using the same framework to enable easy comparison & evaluation covering Development of the Therapy Theory & Basic Concepts Practice Which Clients Benefit Most? Case study Four further chapters offer an insight into the therapeutic relationship working with diversity professional issues & research while resources such as suggested reading discussion issues appendices of further information & a comprehensive glossary help you consolidate your learning So look no further if you want to know the differences between counselling & psychotherapy compare psychodynamic & psychoanalytic theories discover how constructivist approaches can be applied in practice learn about third wave CBT therapies or just get an general overview of the field; this second edition of a bestseller gives you a whirlwind tour of the breadth complexity fascination & problems of the field of counselling & psychotherapy ...

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