Orla Kiely Abacus B5 Perfect Bound Notebook is large enough to make detailed notes yet is not too cumbersome to cary around. Useful for making lists projects & notes at college. The book bound hard back covers provide a sturdy base to write on & the elastic closure keeps any loose bits of paper safe. The bold flower head print is set against a cool slate grey colour for an understated look. Inside features lined off white pages with a perforated edge & 2 pretty vellum sheets. measures Approx. h 25 x w 17.5 cm. Orla Kiely is an Irish designer based in London & has just celebrated 10 years in the fashion industry. Orla&8217;s stationery & accessories boast her signature chic funky feminine style taking inspiration from the 1960s & 1970s designs with simple motifs & bold repeating patterns. ...

Are you a budding reporter? Do you find you have inspiring thoughts with no-where to record them? This small Orla Kiely reporter&8217;s notebook could be the answer. Decorated in an olive pattern with a flip opening you will always be stylish when writing your notes. ...

Once described as the 'longest & most charming love-letter in literature' the Virginia Woolf's Orlando" is edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction & notes by Sandra M. Gilbert in " Penguin Classics". Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend the charismatic writer Vita Sackville-West " Orlando" is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure immortal & ageless who changes sex & identity on a whim. First masculine then feminine Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. A wry commentary on gender roles & modes of history " Orlando" is also in Woolf's own words a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in ambiguity & capriciousness. 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 " Orlando" you might like Woolf's " The Waves" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". "I read this book & believed it was a hallucinogenic interactive biography of my own life & future". (Tilda Swinton)." ...

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD & MARGARET REYNOLDS. As his tale begins Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close he will have transformed into a modern thirty-six-year-old woman & three centuries will have passed. Orlando will witness the making of history from its edge dressing in the flamboyant fashions of each day following passing customs & socialising with celebrated artists & writers. Orlando's journey will also be an internal one
- he is an impulsive poet who learns patience in matters of the heart & a woman who knows what it is to be a man. Virginia Woolf's most unusual & fantastic creation Orlando is a funny exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.
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This is a brand new series of five of Woolf's major works in beautifully designed hardback editions. Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend the charismatic bisexual writers Vita Sackville-West Orlando" is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleon-like historical figure who changes sex & identity at will. First masculine then feminine Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. A wry commentary on gender roles & modes of history " Orlando" is also in Woolf's own words a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in its ambiguity & capriciousness." ...

This is the first book about Orlando the famous marmalade cat. He & Grace his beautiful tabby wife have three kittens
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The editor supplies explanatory annotations & textual notes. Historical Backgrounds" is an especially rich collection of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century documents about colonizers & slaves in the new world. Topically arranged-" Montaigne on America " " The Settling of Surinam " " Observers of Slavery 1654 1712 " " After Oroonoko Noble Africans in Europe " & " Opinions on Slavery"-these selections create a revealing context for Behn s unusual story. Illustrations & maps are also included. " Criticism" begins with an overview of responses to Behn & Oroonoko from learned & popular writers of her time to Sir Walter Scott & Virginia Woolf among others. Current critical interpretations are by William C. Spengemann Jane Spencer Robert L. Chibka Laura Brown Charlotte Sussman & Mary Beth Rose. A Chronology of Behn s life & a Selected Bibliography are included." ...

Aphra Behn the poet playwright novelist & political satirist was the first truly professional woman writer in English. This selection edited & introduced by Professor Janet Todd demonstrates the full sophistication & vitality of Aphra Behns genius. It contains the plays The Rover" & " The Widow" " Ranter" (the first English play to be set in the American colonies) together with " Love Letters to a Gentleman" a choice of poems & two short novels
- " The Fair Jilt" & " Oroonoko"
- which are among the most innovative prose writings of the seventeenth century."

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Citizens of our beloved Democratic Republic of North Korea! Imagine the life of an orphan boy plucked from nowhere to be trained as a tunnel assassin a kidnapper a spy. He has no father but the State no sweetheart but Sun Moon the greatest opera star who ever lived whose face is tattooed on his chest. Imagine he lives in our very own country a model of exemplary Communism. A nation that is the envy of the world especially the Americans. Where the only stories people need to hear are those blasting out of loudspeakers to the glory of our dear Leader Kim Jong il. Dry your eyes now comrades! Prepare to hear the Greatest North Korean Love Story Ever Told. THE ORPHAN MASTERS SON is an iconoclastic work of fiction part thriller part coming-of-age story part love story. Dark playful & genre-defying its searing depiction of one mans epic journey through the surrealist brutality of North Korea shines a fierce light on the essence of the human condition. ...

I've told you before & I will tell you again if you are unable to read the Holy Book you will be punished." The teacher's face was a mask of anger. " Understand?" Born in 1975 in the UK to a Pakistani father & an English mother Alexander Khan spent his early years as a Muslim in the north of Engl&. But at the age of three his family was torn apart when his father took him to Pakistan. Despite his desperate cries that was the last he saw of his mother
- he was told she had walked out & abandoned them; many years later he learned she was told he'd died in a car crash in Pakistan. Three years on Alex is brought back to England but kept hidden at all times. His father disappears to Pakistan again leaving Alex in the care of a stepmother & her cruel brother. & it is then that his troubles really begin. Seen as an outsider by both the white kids & the Pakistani kids Alex is lost & alone. When his father dies unexpectedly Alex is sent back to Pakistan to stay with his 'family' & learn to behave like a 'good Muslim'. Now alone in a strange hostile country with nobody to protect him Alex realises what it is to be truly orphaned. No one would listen. No one would help. & no one cared when he was kidnapped by men from his own family & sent to a fundamentalist Madrassa on the Afghanistan border. A fascinating & compelling account of young boy caught between two cultures this book tells the true story of a child desperately searching for his place in the world; the tale of a boy lost & alone trying to find a way to repair a life shattered by the shocking event he witnessed through a crack in the door of a house in an isolated village in Pakistan."
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