The Map & the Clock is a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed on our islands Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy & by Gillian Clarke National Poet of Wales this anthology gathers fourteen centuries of extraordinary verse
- beginning with the first writings from the old languages of England & Ireland Scotland & Wales & culminating in some of our most recent poets speaking in our present-day tongues Many of our founding myths & legends are told here
- King Arthur & Gawain Beowulf & Mad Sweeney the Mabinogion
- as are the nursery-tales & songs we still sing today Through these pages we witness the tragedy of European wars & world conflict; we court romance & friendship; we explore nationhood & belonging identity & belief; & we are welcomed to a celebration of the cultural diversity of the poetries of our twenty-first century The Map & the Clock is a stunning & essential treasury of the poems that have moulded our languages examined our worlds & shaped our islands through time


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Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news It has nothing to do with his broken boiler the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair with the beautiful Olga It is that for his new exhibition he has secured the involvement of none other than celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq The exhibition brings Jed new levels of global fame But his boiler is still broken his ailing father flirts with oblivion & worst of all he is contacted by an inspector requiring his help in solving an unspeakable atrocious & gruesome crime involving none other than celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2013 ...

A vibrant & evocative account of how the great scientific ideas of the ancient world were lost & found 336 pages 16pp colour plates & integrated bw Moller violet ...

For fans of The Kite Runner a magical yet very moving story of one young Syrian girl's journey to find her way home LONGLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2019 368 pages Maccani Jennifer Zeynab ...

Three brilliant stories that will captivate young readers by War Horse author & former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo The Marble Crusher Does Mr Manners the headmaster really have a machine that crushes marbles? Albert thinks so Colly's Barn Colly the owl & Screecher the swallow band together to save the barn Conker Nick beats the bully Stevie Rooster & becomes Conker king But can he rescue a mistreated dog while searching for the best conker? Michael Morpurgo demonstrates why he is considered to be the master storyteller in these animal tales that are wonderful for engaging early readers aged seven years & up Michael has written more than one hundred books for children including An Eagle in the Snow Listen to the Moon Private Peaceful & An Elephant in the Garden & won the Whitbread Award the Smarties Award the Circle of Gold Award the Children's Book Award & has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 This is travel writing at its best' Katherine Norbury Observer An Observer Book of the Year His father Brian taught Rory Stewart how to walk & walked with him on journeys from Iran to Malaysia Now they have chosen to do their final walk together along the Marches'
- the frontier that divides their two countries Scotland & England Brian a ninety-year-old former colonial official & intelligence officer arrives in Newcastle from Scotland dressed in tartan & carrying a draft of his new book You Know More Chinese Than You Think Rory comes from his home in the Lake District carrying a Punjabi fighting stick which he used when walking across Afghanistan On their six-hundred-mile thirty-day journey
- with Rory on foot & his father ambushing' him by car
- the pair relive Scottish dances reflect on Burmese honey-bears & on the loss of human presence in the British landscape On mountain ridges & in housing estates they uncover a forgotten country crushed between England & Scotland the Middleland They cross upland valleys which once held forgotten peoples & languages
- still preserved in sixth-century lullabies & sixteenth-century ballads The surreal tragedy of Hadrian's Wall forces them to re-evaluate their own experiences in the Iraq & Vietnam wars The wild places of the uplands reveal abandoned monasteries border castles secret military test sites & newly created wetlands They discover unsettling modern lives lodged in an ancient land Their odyssey develops into a history of nationhood an anatomy of the landscape a chronicle of contemporary Britain & an exuberant encounter between a father & a son & as the journey deepens & the end approaches Brian & Rory fight to match step by step modern voices nationalisms & contemporary settlements to the natural beauty of the Marches & a fierce absorption in tradition in their own unconventional lives



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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONGinger is in her forties & a recovering alcoholic when she meets & marries Paul When it becomes clear it's too late for her to have a baby of her own she tries to persuade him to consider adoption but he already has a child from a previous marriage & is ten years older than her so doesn't share her longing to be a parent at any cost As a compromise they sign up to an organisation that sends poor inner-city kids to stay with country families for a few weeks in the summer & so one hot July day eleven year old Velveteen Vargas a Dominican girl from one of Brooklyn's toughest neighbourhoods arrives in their lives & Ginger is instantly besotted Bemused by her gentle middle-aged hosts but deeply intuitive in the way of clever children Velvet quickly senses the longing behind Ginger's rapturous attention While Velvet returns her affection she finds the intensity of it bewildering Velvet's own passions are more excited by the stables nearby where she discovers she has a natural talent for riding & a deep affinity with the damaged horses cared for there But when Ginger begins to entertain fantasies of adopting her things start to get complicated for everyone involved This is a heartbreakingly honest & profoundly moving portrait of the nearly unbridgeable gaps between people & the way we long for fairytale endings despite knowing that they don't exist ...

The original biodynamic sowing & planting calendar now in its 56th year This useful guide shows the optimum days for sowing pruning & harvesting various plants & crops as well as working with bees It

Includes:: Thun's unique insights which go above & beyond the standard information presented in some other lunar calendars It is presented in colour with clear symbols & explanations The calendar

Includes:: a pullout wallchart that can be pinned up in a barn shed or greenhouse as a handy quick reference



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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Titles Comprise The Marine WWE champion John Cena dominates the big screen as Marine John Triton Wherever there&s danger Triton is usually smack dab in the middle of it & he doesn&t play by rules! After he&s unwillingly discharged from Iraq Triton&s beautiful wife Kate (Nip & Tuck&s Kelly Carlson) is kidnapped by merciless jewel thieves led by a vicious killer (Robert Patrick)! Now Triton must fight to save her utilizing his most powerful weapon
- himself! The Marine 2 A relaxing five-star holiday turns into an all out battleground for Marine recon sniper Joe Linwood when a group of local rebels seize control of the hotel taking the billionaire owner & a group of guests including Joe&s wife hostage With the victims in danger of being brutally murdered Joe takes matters into his own hands in order to save his wife from certain death Actors John Cena Robert Patrick Kelly Carlson Anthony Ray Parker Abigail Bianca Jerome Ehlers Ted Di Biase Jr Michael Rooker Temuera Morrison Lara Cox Able Wanamakok Josiah D Lee Cameron Pearson Nick Dash & Masami Kosaka Director John Bonito & Roel Reine Certificate 15 years & over Year 2006 ; 2009 Screen Widescreen Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 2 hours & 58 minutes (approx)

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A Marine sniper (Ted Di Biase) must save his wife (Lara Cox) & other hostages when rebels seize a luxury resort ...