The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years & the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013 It is a book brimming with warmth mischief & a self-deprecating humour as well as with a charming ' Larkinesque' crankiness a quarrel with ageing an impatience with youth the grievousness of losing friends & colleagues But for all its intimate hearthside rumination this is a volume of poems that looks outward in equal measure at Scottish independence British politics & an international refugee crisis & reflects unflinchingly on what it is to consider oneself a contributor to society Penned with a dexterous wit & a steady nerve The Noise of a Fly is a mesmeric imagining of our later years by one of this country's most senior & celebrated writers' It is hard to think of many poets who can equal his combination of imaginative ambition formal resource & range of tone Written on these terms poetry is a matter of permanent urgency' Sean O' Brien' The most respected Scottish poet of his generation' Nicholas Wroe ...

In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block He waits all through the night expecting to be taken away to the ' Big House' Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now & few who are taken to ever return ...

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- OBSERVERIn May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block He waits all through the night expecting to be taken away to the Big House Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now & few who are taken to the Big House ever return So begins Julian Barnes's first novel since his Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending A story about the collision of Art & Power about human compromise human cowardice & human courage it is the work of a true master
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- OBSERVERIn May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block He waits
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The world's most influential chef redefines the possibilities of a restaurant cookbook by sharing new techniques for fermentation--the secret sauce behind every dish at Noma the world's leading restaurant & one of the most important food topics today--and offering revolutionary knowledge & original recipes for home cooks & professional c 440 pages 750 full-colour photographs Redzepi Rene ...

Sir Waldo Hawkridge -- wealthy handsome eligible illustrious & known as ' The Nonesuch' for his athletic prowess -- believes he is past the age of falling in love But when he comes North to inspect his unusual inheritance at Broom Hall in the West Riding his arrival leads to the most entertaining of ramifications Georgette Heyer won the hearts of a huge worldwide readership with her peerless novels of historical romance
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Chopsticks at the ready go! Pluck a noodle from the carton The longer your noodle the more points you earn Watch out though the other players are waiting to snatch your noodle in mid-air & add it to their bowl Ages 6 Playing time 20 minutes Players 2-4 ...

WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHORLike Primo Levi's The Periodic Table The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history as Andrew Solomon narrates brilliantly & terrifyingly his own agonising experience of depression Solomon also portrays the pain of others in different cultures & societies whose lives have been shattered by depression & uncovers the historical social biological chemical & medical implications of this crippling disease He takes us through the halls of mental hospitals where some of his subjects have been imprisoned for decades; into the research labs; to the burdened & afflicted poor rural & urban He talks to faith healers & voyages around the world in a quest for folk wisdom He analyses the medications of today as well as reviewing the politics of diagnosis & treatment & perhaps most significantly he looks at the vital role of will & love in the process of recovery ...

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