Powerful retelling of popular narratives of the British campaign in Mesopotamia 264 pages Izzidien Ruqaya ...

A bewitching literary suspense debut rich in atmosphere & Gothic overtones 320 pages Harrison De Sales ...

In The Waters of Eternal Youth the twenty-fifth instalment in the bestselling Brunetti series our Commissario finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a crime at all Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the grand Contessa Lando-Continui a friend of Brunetti's mother-in-law Fifteen years ago the Contessa's teenage granddaughter Manuela was found drowning in a canal She was rescued from the canal at the last moment but in many ways it was too late; she suffered severe brain damage & her life was never the same again Once a passionate horse rider Manuela now aged thirty cannot remember the accident or her beloved horse & lives trapped in an eternal youth The Contessa unconvinced that this was an accident implores Brunetti to find the culprit she believes was responsible for ruining Manuela's life Out of a mixture of curiosity pity & a willingness to fulfil the wishes of a loving grandmother Brunetti reopens the case But once he starts to investigate Brunetti finds a murky past & a dark story at its heart The Waters of Eternal Youth is awash in the rhythms & concerns of contemporary Venetian life from historical preservation to housing to new waves of African migrants all circling the haunting story of a woman trapped in a perpetual childhood ...

In The Waters of Eternal Youth the twenty-fifth instalment in the bestselling Brunetti series our Commissario finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a crime at all Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the grand Contessa Lando-Continui a friend of Brunetti's mother-in-law Fifteen years ago the Contessa's teenage granddaughter Manuela was found drowning in a canal She was rescued from the canal at the last moment but in many ways it was too late; she suffered severe brain damage & her life was never the same again Once a passionate horse rider Manuela now aged thirty cannot remember the accident or her beloved horse & lives trapped in an eternal youth The Contessa unconvinced that this was an accident implores Brunetti to find the culprit she believes was responsible for ruining Manuela's life Out of a mixture of curiosity pity & a willingness to fulfil the wishes of a loving grandmother Brunetti reopens the case But once he starts to investigate Brunetti finds a murky past & a dark story at its heart The Waters of Eternal Youth is awash in the rhythms & concerns of contemporary Venetian life from historical preservation to housing to new waves of African migrants all circling the haunting story of a woman trapped in a perpetual childhood ...

THE FIRST NOVEL IN MILLY ADAMS' BRAND NEW SAGA SERIES Perfect for fans of Daisy Styles & Nancy Revell War lands them in the same boat Can they pull together? October 1943 West London Nineteen-year-old Polly Holmes is leaving poor bombed London behind to join the war effort on Britain's canals Stepping aboard the Marigold amid pouring rain there's lots for Polly to get to grips with Not least her fellow crew strong & impetuous Verity whose bark is worse than her bite & seasoned skipper Bet With her sweetheart away fighting in the RAF & her beloved brother killed in action there's plenty of heartache to be healed on the waterway & as Polly rolls up her sleeves & gets stuck into life on board the narrowboat
- making the gruelling journey London up to Birmingham
- she will soon discover that a world of new beginnings awaits amid the anguish of the war Praise for Milly Adams' Well researched with an engaging heroine & a delightful ending' Anna Jacobs ' Milly Adams' readers will find the story & its rich cast of characters very appealing' Lizzie Lane

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Tracklist A Season In Hull Remains The Coaster In Santa Cruz Slick Black River From The Rain Thin Lizzy Live & Dangerous Don't Worry My Friend Dont Worry At All Tropical Fish Memphis Slim In Paris Flow My Tears The Musician Said A Letter From Hull (Dom's Song) The Pharmacy Cross Hot Rain Riding On The Salt Lake David In A Field Of Pumpkins ...

In Book 6 in the series readers take a step into a time warp in five short stories Head back to events from the previous books & previously unseen scenes & perspectives to uncover mysteries that had been left unanswered Live Alive Kyon peruses the stalls at the cultural festival & visits Mikuru&s noodle stall Everything seems normal for once until a surprise band shows up to perform The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00 The movie that the SOS Brigade created in The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya (Book 2) is shown & the Bridage gets to see it in its final form Love at First Sight Kyon meets with an old friend who describes seeing a girl he&s fallen in love with—and it turns out to be Yuki! Will this mere human have a chance with the world&s most stoic robot? Where Did the Cat Go? This story takes readers back to Book 3 (The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya) in which the SOS Brigade finally begins the main event for the Snow Mountain retreat murder mystery The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina Mikuru asks Kyon to accompany her to buy tea leaves but a secret motive may be involved About the Author Nagaru Tanigawa is a Japanese author best known for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya for which he won the grand prize at the eighth annual Sneaker Awards ...

Introduction & Notes by Deborah Parsons University of Birmingham 'I am writing to a rhythm & not to a plot' Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel The Waves Widely regarded as one of her greatest & most original works it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature & the passage of time Six children
- Bernard Susan Rhoda Neville Jinny & Louis
- meet in a garden close to the sea their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back & forth from the shore The subsequent continuity of these six main characters as they develop from childhood to maturity & follow different passions & ambitions is interspersed with interludes from the timeless & unifying chorus of nature In pure stream-of-consciousness style Woolf presents a cross-section of multiple yet parallel lives each marked by the disintegrating force of a mutual tragedy The Waves is her searching exploration of individual & collective identity & the observations & emotions of life from the simplicity & surging optimism of youth to the vacancy & despair of middle-age

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The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful & poetic novel It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea & follows their lives as they grow up & experience friendship love & grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival Regarded by many as her greatest work The Waves is also seen as Virginia Woolf's response to the loss of her brother Thoby who died when he was twenty-six ...

A formally innovative work of modernist fiction Virginia Woolf's The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels The Waves conveys the full complexity & richness of human experience Tracing the lives of a group of friends The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth & middle age While social events individual achievements & disappointments form its narrative the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters their aspirations their triumphs & regrets their awareness of unity & isolation Separately & together they query the relationship of past to present & the meaning of life itself Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author & essayist a key figure in literary history as a feminist & modernist & the centre of ' The Bloomsbury Group' This informal collective of artists & writers which included Lytton Strachey & Roger Fry exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture Between 1925 & 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic & highly experimental novel The Waves (1931) She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism & biography including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) & A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay If you enjoyed The Waves you might like Woolf's Mrs Dalloway also available in Penguin Classics'A book of great beauty & a prose poem of genius' Stephen Spender' Full of sensuous touches the sounds of her words can be velvet on the page' Maggie Gee Daily Telegraph ...