Evan Walters (1893-1951) is perhaps the great hidden secret of Welsh painting in the twentieth century an outstanding artist who awaits discovery beyond Wales. This book presents for the first time a generous selection of colour reproductions of his paintings
- portraits landscapes still lives
- with a biographical essay on the artist. The bulk of the book however is taken up by a host of responses to the paintings by leading artists writers poets & academics including Shani Rhys James Iwan Bala Mary Lloyd Jones Jan Morris Twm Morys Nigel Jenkins Rowan Williams Dannie Abse Peter Stead Prys Morgan Gillian Clarke Tim Davies Mererid Hopwood John Barnie Jon Gower Peter Finch Joe Dunthorne & many others. The result is revealing of both Walters & the respondents & becomes a fascinating commentary on creativity & inspiration. The book is unique in one other respect in that all the royalities are being donated to the Noahs Ark Appeal for the Childrens Hospital of Wales.

...

Can an orthodox Christian committed to the historic faith of the Church & the authority of the Bible be a universalist? Is it possible to believe that salvation is found only by grace through faith in Christ & yet to maintain that in the end all people will be saved? Can one believe passionately in mission if one does not think that anyone will be lost forever? Could universalism be consistent with the teachings of the Bible? Gregory Mac Donald argues that the answer is yes to all of these questions. Weaving together philosophical theological & biblical considerations Mac Donald seeks to show that being a committed universalist is consistent with the central teachings of the biblical texts & of historic Christian theology. ...

A man wakes trapped inside a cloning vat. He has no idea how he got there no idea where he is & no idea who he is. But someone is trying to kill him & theyre about to succeed.. .A disgraced Foreign ambassador leaves his post humiliated & ignored by his superiors only to meet Ameline
- a woman who seems to know everything about him & an alarming amount about a conspiracy to overthrow the government. & on a back-water world during an economic crisis a worker called Tibus Heth leads a revolt against the corporation which earns him an unexpected & mysterious ally with astounding influence & an inclination to aid his revolutionary ideas.. .
...

An exceptional page-turner. Escapism doesn't get more thrilling than this. Love has never had much of a place in the life of 16-year-old Evening Spiker but being the daughter of a billionaire genetic scientist has other perks. Like a private hospital where you can recover from near-fatal road accidents. & a hot surfer boy to push your wheelchair. While Eve is healing her mother sets her an unexpected challenge: to use a cutting-edge virtual reality system to design the perfect boy; everything from the colour of his eyes to the level of his IQ. It's the chance of a lifetime. The chance to play God. But what Eve doesn't realise is that she isn't just playing. Because her mother's research is about more than just saving human lives.. . It's about creating them. ...

With the death of a mother & the abduction of a young girl Susan Fletcher has written a vividly beautiful novel about the innocence & terror of childhood. Following the loss of her mother eight-year-old Evie is sent to a new life in rural Wales
- a dripping place where flowers appear mysteriously on doorsteps & people look at her twice. With a sense of being lied to she sets out to discover her familys dark secret
- unaware that there is yet more darkness to come with the sinister disappearance of local girl Rosemary Hughes. Now many years later Eve Green is waiting for the birth of her own child & when she revisits her past something clicks in her mind & her own reckless role in the hunt for Rosies abductor is revealed...A truly beautiful & hypnotic first novel this is both an engaging puzzle & an enchanting work of literature.

...

Eve Was Framed offers an impassioned personal critique of the British legal system. Helena Kennedy focuses on the treatment of women in our courts
- at the prejudices of judges the misconceptions of jurors the labyrinths of court procedures & the influence of the media. But the inequities she uncovers could apply equally to any disadvantaged group
- to those whose cases are subtly affected by race class poverty or politics or who are burdened even before they appear in court by misleading stereotypes.

...

The technology to download the consciousnesses of pilots into multiple clones the Capsuleers has finally delivered the dream of immortal soldiers. Train a soldier just once & then however many times he dies he will keep on getting more experienced more battle toughened as his brain is downloaded into a ready supply of cloned bodies. But no-one anticpated the effects of the multiple traumas the multiple stresses of multiple lives & deaths on the battle field. War is hell. & now it can last forever for everyone. A fast-moving action-packed novel of interstellar war & high-tech combat backed by massive cross promotion. ...

' Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!' Frances Burney's first & most enduringly popular novel is a vivid satirical & seductive account of the pleasures & dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society womanhood & inevitably love Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image-conscious & often cruel world where social snobbery & sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas of pleasure-gardens theatre visits & balls. But Evelina's innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses & absurdities of manners & social ambitions
- as well as attracting the attention of the eminently eligible Lord Orville. Evelina comic & shrewd is at once a guide to fashionable London a satirical attack on the new consumerism an investigation of women's position in the late eighteenth century & a love story. The new introduction & full notes to this edition help make this richness all the more readily available to a modern reader. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.
...

EVEN AS WE SPEAK is an illuminating & hilarious collection of essays from one of Picadors most beloved authors. Reflecting his comprehensive knowledge wide-ranging interests & eclectic style Clive James explores the rise & fall of various celebrities discusses Australian poetry considers the state of television today questions the culpability of the ordinary German in the holocaust & contemplates -- in a compellingly provocative & much-talked about piece -- the death of Diana. ...

This is one of those special novels
- a piece of working magic warm funny & sane
- that you just want to ride off into the sunset

...