Angel Sands is a traditional seaside resort of bed & breakfasts cottages to let & teashops. & with the best views of the tiny beach & surrounding coastline is Paradise House home to the Baxter girls
- or the Sisters of Whimsy as they're known locally. With their mother taking time out to find herself it's down to Genevieve to maintain the smooth running of the family-owned B&B. Not an easy task given that their father
- now that his wife isn't around
- has suddenly become a magnet for the opposite sex. & there's little help from her sisters: Nattie is too busy offending her long time admirer & Polly spends most of her days with her head in the clouds or in a book. But when news spreads in the tightly knit community that a nearby dilapidated barn has been sold Genevieve finds that a bittersweet trip down memory lane is unavoidable...


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John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological moral & spiritual origins of man's existence Paradise Lost" has been fully revised with an introduction by John Leonard in " Penguin Classics". In " Paradise Lost" Milton produced poem of epic scale conjuring up a vast awe-inspiring cosmos & ranging across huge tracts of space & time populated by a memorable gallery of grotesques. & yet in putting a charismatic Satan & naked innocent Adam & Eve at the centre of this story he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties
- blind bitterly disappointed by the Restoration & in danger of execution
- " Paradise Lost's" apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men' or exposes the cruelty of Christianity. John Leonard's revised edition of " Paradise Lost" contains full notes which elucidates Milton's biblical classical & historical allusions & discuss his vivid highly original use of language & blank verse. John Milton (1608-1674) spent his early years in scholarly pursuit. In 1649 he took up the cause for the new Commonwealth defending the English revolution both in English & Latin
- & sacrificing his eyesight in the process. He risked his life by publishing " The Ready & Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth" on the eve of the Restoration (1660). His great poems were published after this political defeat. If you enjoyed " Paradise Lost" you might like Dante's " Inferno" also available in " Penguin Classics". " An endless moral maze introducing literature's first Romantic Satan". (John Carey). "" Paradise Lost" is to my mind the greatest poem in English". (Philip Pullman author of " His Dark Materials" trilogy)."


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Of mans first disobedience & the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world... Sing heavenly muse From almost the moment of its first publication in 1667 Paradise Lost was considered a classic. It is difficult now to appreciate both how audacious an undertaking it represents & how astonishing its immediate & continued success was. Over the course of twelve books Milton wrote an epic poem that would justify the ways of God to men a mission that required a complex drama whose source is both historical & deeply personal. The struggle for ascendancy between God & Satan is played out across hell heaven & earth but the consequences of the Fall are all too humanly tragic
- pride ambition & aspiration the motivating forces. In this new edition derived from their acclaimed Oxford Authors text Stephen Orgel & Jonathan Goldberg discuss the complexity of Miltons poem in a new introduction & on-page notes explain its language & allusions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords 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.
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First published in 1968 Alastair Fowlers annotated edition of Paradise Lost is acknowledged as the most authoritative guide to this major work. It is the only recent edition of Paradise Lost to be based on the text of the first (1667) edition now widely accepted to be closer to Miltons intention than that of 1674. ...

On Saturday 9th September 1922 the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna the richest & most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth century. Almost two million people were caught up in a disaster of truly epic proportions. PARADISE LOST is told with the narrative verve that has made Giles Milton a bestselling historian. It unfolds through the memories of the survivors many of them interviewed for the first time & the eyewitness accounts of those who found themselves caught up in one of the greatest catastrophes of the modern age. ...

Christine Summers is a pretty young teacher in a country school in the 1930s & the apple of more than one man's eye. Christine has no intention of sacrificing her independence to marry anyone least of all Charley Noonan the rough-tongued young farmer who has been pursuing her for years. When she meets lonely widower Alan Kelso however Christine finds herself falling in love. Alan has also caught the eye of pony breeder Beatty Mc Call. Passionate experienced & unscrupulous Beatty wants is willing to offer him more it seems than Christine can ever hope to match. But sometimes all it takes to fall in love is dancing to the Paradise Waltz.. . Rich in tangled affections & intriguing characters in THE PARADISE WALTZ Jessica Stirling captures all the pain & humour of life a small gossip-ridden village in the time between two world wars when wireless & the cinema were changing everyone's ideas about romance. ...

Cooking in Cafe Paradiso the internationally-renowned restaurant in Cork Ireland Denis Cotter has gained a reputation for innovation in his approach to food & for the quality & personal style of his menus. Paradiso Seasons represents Denis Cotter's personal journal through the eternally shifting seasons focussing on his favourite vegetables at their prime moment & from them creating sumptuous & thoughtful recipes. Featuring over 140 original recipes prefaced by informative & witty introductions Paradiso Seasons offers a practical & inspirational approach to cooking & eating seasonal food (the section on 'outdoor cooking' will be a godsend to anyone who wants to cook vegetables creatively during the summer 'barbeque' season!). ...

Featuring recipes selected from the award winning Paradiso Seasons A Paradiso Year offers a practical & inspirational approach to cooking & eating seasonal food. Autumn arrives with its solid crops of vegetables. Is there anything more solid than a pumpkin? Just as spring has a dramatic effect on our cooking after the heaviness of winter autumn reins it in again slows it down. Then we come to winter when the available produce is dominated by hardy greens & the many edible roots: carrots turnips parsnips celeriac predominantly. These are foods that are perfect for dishes we love need even to eat in the cold dark days. Stews soups rich bakes & roasts slow braises. ...

This book is about my own personal favourite puzzles & conundrums in science all of which have famously been referred to as paradoxes but which turn out not to be paradoxes at all when considered carefully & viewed from the right angle. A true paradox is a statement that leads to a circular & self-contradictory argument or one that describes a logically impossible situation. Our subject is perceived paradoxes
- questions or thought-experiments that on first encounter seem impossible to answer but which science has been able to solve. Our tour of these mind-expanding puzzles will take us through some of the greatest hits of science
- from Einsteins theories about space & time to the latest ideas of how the quantum world works. Some of our paradoxes may be familiar such as Schrodingers famous cat which is seemingly alive & dead at the same time; or the Grandfather Paradox
- if you travelled back in time & killed your grandfather you would not have been born & would not therefore have killed your grandfather. Other paradoxes will be new to you but no less bizarre & fascinating. We will ask such questions as: how does the fact that it gets dark at night prove the Universe must have started with a big bang? Where are all the aliens? & why does the length of a piece of string vary depending on how fast it is moving? In resolving our paradoxes we will have to travel to the furthest reaches of the Universe & explore the very essence of space & time. Hold on tight.


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Kristin Hersh was a preternaturally bright teenager starting university at fifteen & with her band Throwing Muses playing rock clubs she was too young to frequent. By the age of seventeen she was living in her car unable to sleep for the torment of strange songs swimming around her head
- the songs for which she is now known. But just as her band was taking off Hersh was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Paradoxical Undressing chronicles the unraveling of a young womans personality culminating in a suicide attempt; & then her arduous yet inspiring recovery her unplanned pregnancy at the age of 19 & the birth of her first son. Playful vivid & wonderfully warm this is a visceral & brave memoir by a truly original performer told in a truly original voice.
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