The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young woman Thea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in Colorado has a great gift
- her beautiful singing voice. Her talent takes her to the great opera houses of Europe, & through ambition & hard work, she forges a life as an artist. But if she can never go home again, nor can she leave behind her past. At last, in a desert canyon in Arizona, Thea has a revelation that will allow her to attain a new state of spirituality & become a truly great artist.` Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic` Helen Dunmore` The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work` A. S. Byatt` Lingers long in the memory` Joyce Carol Oates
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The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, ancient tracks connecting communities & following ancient boundaries. Along these lines Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the creation of the land & the secrets of its past. In this magical account, Chatwin recalls his travels across the length & breadth of Australia seeking to find the truth about the songs & unravel the mysteries of their stories. ...

This Moleskine-bound edition is sold together with a blank Moleskine notebook, for recording your own thoughts & adventures. Perfect for the travel writers of the future. The Songlines is Bruce Chatwin`s magical account of his journey across the length & breadth of Australia, following the invisible & ancient pathways that are said to criss-cross the l&. Chatwin recorded his travels in his favourite notebook, which he would usually buy in bulk in a particular stationery shop in Paris. But when the manufacturer went out of business, he was told ” Le vrai moleskine n`est plus”. A decade after its publication, on reading this anecdote in The Songlines, a small Milanese publisher was inspired to revive production of the legendary `moleskine` notebook. This limited, special edition of The Songlines celebrates both the 30th anniversary of the publication of Chatwin`s iconic work, & the 20th anniversary of a brand that has now become synonymous with culture, memory & travel. ...

In The Songs of Trees, award-winning nature writer David Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world, exploring the trees` connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, cooperative & destructive animals, & other plants. In doing this he shows that every living being is not only sustained by biological connections, but is made from these relationships, & that holding a networked view of life enriches our understanding of biology, human nature, & ethics. ...

” Luke Nguyen, of Red Lantern fame, is going home. Travelling on a personal & culinary tour through Vietnam, Luke visits his family & friends, & is invited into the homes of local Vietnamese food experts & cooks, to learn more about one of the richest, most diverse cuisines in the world. Starting in the northwest of Vietnam, in the villages & hills around Sapa, Luke explores the roots of traditional cooking. Moving south, he travels to the capital, Hanoi, renowned for its French-Vietnamese cuisine. He explores the imperial cooking of Hue, discovers the famed cau lau noodles in Hoi An, & tastes a host of simple seafood dishes of coastal Nha Trang & Quy Nhon, his journey culminating in Saigon, where he is reunited with family. The Songs of Sapa is a vibrant, visual essay of Luke`s journey, the stories & recipes from each region, with stunning photographs bursting with colour & texture, capturing the beauty of Vietnam, her people & their deep connection to food.” ...

Part of Penguin`s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When this volume of Shakespeare`s poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets
- all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous `dark lady`
- contain some of the most exquisite & haunting poetry ever written, & deal with eternal subjects such as love & infidelity, memory & mortality, & the destruction wreaked by Time. Also included is A Lover`s Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

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Humour & high adventure combine in the biggest, new action adventure in years
- even if its characters are very small. Infinity
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The choir from Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School for Girls is being bussed to the national finals in the big, big city. & it`s an important day for The Sopranos
- Orla, Kylah, (Ra) Chell, Amanda Konky & Fionnula (the Cooler)
- pub-crawling, shoplifting & body-piercing being the top priorities. Then it`s time to lose that competition
- lose, because a nuclear sub has just anchored in the bay &, tonight, the Man Trap disco will be full of submariners on shore-leave. There is no time for delays... But after the fifth bottle of alco-pop up the back of the bus it`s clear that all is not going to plan, for anyone. The Sopranos are never going to be the same.


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It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain
- the poetry that did
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It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain
- the poetry that did
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