From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, & goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, & mirrors, the characters & images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers & audiences, both adults & children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, & been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, renewed with each re-telling. Few forms of literature have greater power to enchant us & rekindle our imagination than a fairy tale. But what is a fairy tale? Where do they come from & what do they mean? What do they try & communicate to us about morality, sexuality, & society? The range of fairy tales stretches across great distances & time; their history is entangled with folklore & myth, & their inspiration draws on ideas about nature & the supernatural, imagination & fantasy, psychoanalysis, & feminism. Marina Warner has loved fairy tales over a long writing life, & she explores here a multitude of tales through the ages, their different manifestations on the page, the stage, & the screen. From the phenomenal rise of Victorian & Edwardian literature to contemporary children`s stories, Warner unfolds a glittering array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, & The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers` Hansel & Gretel, & Hans Andersen`s The Little Mermaid, to modern-day realizations including Walt Disney`s Snow White & gothic interpretations such as Pan`s Labyrinth. In ten succinct chapters, Marina Warner digs into a rich hoard of fairy tales in their brilliant & fantastical variations, in order to define a genre & evaluate a literary form that keeps shifting through time & history. Her book makes a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding & culture. ...

* Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017* * Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2017** Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Sunday Times* Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born in 1973, her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, & suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam leaves, they leave Xiaolu with her illiterate grandparents in a fishing village on the East China Sea. Once Upon a Time in the East takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing Beijing, navigating the everyday peculiarity of modern China: censorship, underground art, Western boyfriends. In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in Britain. Now, after a decade in Europe, her tale of East to West resonates with the insight that can only come from someone who is both an outsider & at home.` This generation`s Wild Swans` Daily Telegraph ...

` This generation`s Wild Swans` Daily Telegraph ` One of the most startling & fascinating memoirs I`ve read in recent years...a story of China` Libby Purves` Impressive...moving...exhilarating` Financial Times` Guo is rebellious, flamboyant & fundamentally optimistic...fascinating` Scotland on Sunday` This stunning memoir picks up where Jung Chang`s 1991 bestseller Wild Swans left off... This book will make your jaw drop, then clench in anger` Five stars, Sunday Telegraph` Riveting... Guo is a bolder, angrier & more ambitious figure than her forebears` The Times Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, & suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam leaves, they leave Xiaolu with her illiterate grandparents in a fishing village on the East China Sea. It`s a strange beginning.A Wild Swans for a new generation, Once Upon a Time in the East takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing Beijing, navigating the everyday peculiarity of modern China: censorship, underground art, Western boyfriends. In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in Britain. Now, after a decade in Europe, her tale of East to West resonates with the insight that can only come from someone who is both an outsider & at home. Xiaolu Guo`s extraordinary memoir is a handbook of life lessons. How to be an artist when censorship kills creativity & the only job you can get is writing bad telenovela scripts. How to be a woman when female babies are regularly drowned at birth & sexual abuse is commonplace. Most poignantly of all: how to love when you`ve never been shown how. ...

Who is the most mischievous character? Who is the bravest? Stage the ultimate fairy-tale battle as you pit 30 magical characters against each other to beat your opponents. With amazing illustrations & wickedly funny descriptions of each character, create fairy tales as you play! ...

Little Green Raincape is on her way to Rapunzel`s party, deep in the wild woods. The way is long & dark, but Green is a smart girl. Smart enough to turn down apples offered by kindly old ladies, smart enough to turn down travel advice from helpful wolves, & above all, smart enough to solve a wealth of classic fairy tale problems
- not least mend a lovelorn beast`s broken heart. Once Upon a Wild Wood is a richly imagined story packed full of familiar fairy tale characters as you`ve never seen them before. Including Red Riding Hood, Thumbelina, Rapunzel, Beauty & the Beast, Cinderella, the three bears, the seven dwarfs & many more!A visual feast on every page, illustrated with warmth & humour & full of witty details to discover
- this is Chris Riddell at his picture book best!

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This is the story of Maxine & Sheila Kohler, two sisters who grew up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa. When Maxine is just shy of her fortieth birthday her husb&, a brilliant & respected surgeon, drives their car off the road & kills her. Devastated, Sheila returns to the country of her birth, haunted by questions. How had she failed to protect her sister? Was Maxine`s death a matter of chance, or destiny? What lies in the soil of their troubled motherland that condemns its women to such violence? ...

Alan Duff`s groundbreaking first novel is one of the most talked about books ever published in New Zealand & now the basis of a major New Zealand film. This hard hitting story is a frank & uncompromising portrayal of Maoaris in New Zealand society. It is a raw & powerful story in which everyone ia a victim until the strength & vision of one woman transcends brutality & leads the way to a new life. ...

Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2012 In the remote Kootenay Valley in western Canada, good people sometimes do bad things. Two adolescents sabotage a rope swing; a heartbroken young man chooses not to warn his best friend about an approaching car; sons challenge their fathers. Crackling with tension & propelled by jagged, cutting dialogue, D.W. Wilson`s stories reveal to us how our best intentions can be doomed to fail or injure, how our loves can fall short or mislead us. An intoxicating cocktail of adrenaline & vulnerability, doggedness & dignity, Once You Break a Knuckle explores the courage it takes to make it through another day. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL 2016 WINNER OF THE CBI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016 Grace & Tippi don`t like being stared & sneered at, but they`re used to it. They`re conjoined twins
- united in blood & bone. What they want is to be looked at in turn, like they truly are two people. They want real friends. & what about love? But a heart-wrenching decision lies ahead for Tippi & Grace. One that could change their lives more than they ever asked for... This moving & beautifully crafted novel about identity, sisterhood & love ultimately asks one question: what does it mean to want & have a soulmate? The ONE book you have to read this summer! The phenomenal new novel from Carnegie-shortlisted author Sarah Crossan; incredibly moving & extraordinarily crafted, it explores the unbreakable bond & love between sisters. Shortlisted for The CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2016
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