In this powerful book Roger Housden harnesses the unique ability of poetry to touch the readers inner-most feelings. For everyone who knows there is more to life than they are currently experiencing it aims to bring an awakening... Through the voices of ten very individual poets Housden directs each of us to examine the universal themes that pursue us through life: those that stir our eternal emotions & desires. The ten poems presented are timeless; affecting us with a powerful sense of reality & moving us to alter the way we view ourselves & the world. With a penetrating commentary on each of the poems Housden provides an insight into his own spiritual journey & invites us to contemplate the significance of the poets message in our own lives. ...

This title contains: The Umbrella Man"; " Dip in the Pool"; " The Butler"; " The Hitchhiker"; " Mr Botibol"; " My Lady Love" " My Dove"; " The Way Up to Heaven"; " Parsons Pleasure"; " The Sound Machine"; & " The Wish"." ...

You can feel confident about life & gain an optimistic outlook with Windy Dryden's practical straightforward advice. These ten steps will encourage you to take control be flexible accept reality come to like & be fair to yourself accept change & improve your relationships with others. You can follow the steps in order or use them individually to attain your goals. Either way these few basic guidelines for happy living will equip you to tackle anything life can throw at you. ...

Sebastian Grey is in limbo. He is the heir presumptive to the Earl of Newbury unless the current earl a widower can find a bride who will bear him a son. Newbury is in his sixties & somewhat portly but as an earl he's considered quite a catch. Sebastian on the other hand is twenty-nine & extremely handsome but in no hurry to find a wife. Annabel Winslow a country girl through & through has received an offer to go to London for the season. The eldest of a family of eight she knows that a good marriage might be the only thing that will save her family from ruin. After a few weeks in town Annabel attracts the attention of the Earl of Newbury. The thought of submitting to him makes her skin crawl but she is practical & determined to do her duty. Even when Sebastian Grey comes on the scene. ...

Alice has just returned to London from months of travelling abroad. She is late to hear the news that her father is dying & arrives at the family home only just in time to say goodbye. Daniel hasnt had a roof over his head for years but to him the city of London feels like home in a way that no bricks & mortar ever did. He spends every day searching for his daughter; the daughter he has never met. Until now.. . Heart-wrenching & life-affirming this is a unique story of love lost & found of rootlessness & homecoming & the power of the ties that bind. It is a story for fathers & daughters everywhere. ...

A vivid gripping novel about corruption integrity & good intentions gone wrong set in an African country on the brink of civil war for fans of John le Carre Graham Greene & William Boyd. As Ed & Sarah Caines plane passes over the Ngozi hills & begins its descent into Kisuru Sarah is dazzled by the purity of unspoiled nature the perfect environment in which to raise their son. Ed meanwhile as Director of the Global Justice Alliance for East Africa looks forward to rolling up his sleeves & making a real difference in a country that seems to be developing fast. Below them in the sprawling Makera slum Stephen Odinga
- who has to find a way of making more money for his dying mother than they can earn through the family business selling fried bananas
- decides to try a more lucrative line of business. Meanwhile Joseph Kamunda a senior official in a government that for five years has been failing to deliver on its promise to end political corruption is feeling isolated & exposed while others around him covertly seek personal advantage out of International Aid programmes. & beyond the hills a rebel army seethes & waits poised to tip the country into civil war. Before he knows it the duplicity Ed thinks he has left behind in England will begin to infect his own family. Ten Weeks in Africa explores in urgent breathtaking prose the tensions between our ideals & our reality the deep rifts of cultural misunderstanding & the true cost of uninformed good intentions.

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' Yes it was be there or be square as clad in the slum chic of the hipster he issued the slang anthems of the zip age in the desperate esperanto of the bop. John Cooper Clarke: the name behind the hairstyle the words walk in the grooves hacking through the hi-fi paradise of true luxury.' Punk. Poet. Pioneer. The Bard of Salford's seminal collection is as scabrous wry & vivid now as it was when first published over 25 years ago. ' The godfather of British performance poetry' Daily Telegraph. ...

A controversial artist is found dead in her own art installation inside a riverside gallery with locked doors & windows
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful & sometimes violent novel of expectation love oppression sin religion & betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon the mysterious 'tenant' of the title & her dissolute alcoholic husb&. Defying convention Helen leaves her husband to protect their young son from his father's influence & earns her own living as an artist. Whilst in hiding at Wildfell Hall she encounters Gilbert Markham who falls in love with her. On its first publication in 1848 Anne Bronts second novel was criticised for being 'coarse' & 'brutal'. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall challenges the social conventions of the early nineteenth century in a strong defence of women's rights in the face of psychological abuse from their husbands. Anne Bront?'s style is bold naturalistic & passionate & this novel which her sister Charlotte considered 'an entire mistake' has earned her a position in English Literature in her own right. ...

This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Bronte. ' She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it'. In this sensational hard-hitting & passionate tale of marital cruelty " The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" sees a mysterious tenant Helen Graham unmasked not as a 'wicked woman' as the local gossips would have it but as the estranged wife of a brutal alcoholic bully desperate to protect her son. Using her own experiences with her brother Branwell to depict the cruelty & debauchery from which Helen flees Anne Bronte wrote her masterpiece to reflect the fragile position of women in society & her belief in universal redemption but scandalized readers of the time. " The Penguin English Library" contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War." ...