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." ...

The Penguin Classics" edition of Anne Bronte's " The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" her groundbreaking study of a woman's valiant struggle for independence from an abusive husband is edited with an introduction & notes by Stevie Davis. Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham a beautiful & secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip & speculation Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced. It is only when she allows Gilbert to read her diary that the truth is revealed & the shocking details of the disastrous marriage she has left behind emerge. Told with great immediacy combined with wit & irony " The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is a powerful depiction of a woman's fight for domestic independence & creative freedom. In her introduction Stevie Davies discusses " The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" as feminist testament inspired by Anne Bronte's experiences as a governess & by the death of her brother Branwell Bronte & examines the novel's language biblical references & narrative styles. Anne Bronte (1820-1849) youngest of the Bronte sisters was born at Thornton West Yorkshire. Her father was a curate & her mother died when she was a baby leaving five daughters & one son. After the death of her sisters Maria & Elizabeth from tuberculosis in 1825 the Bronte children were homeschooled & together they created fantasy worlds & kingdoms which they explored in writing. Anne worked as a governess between 1840 & 1845 after which she published " Agnes Grey" (1847) & " The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" (1848) under the pen-name Acton Bell. Anne Bronte died in 1849. If you enjoyed " The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" you might also like Edith Wharton's " The Age of Innocence" also available in " Penguin Classics"." ...

Each volume in the Collector's Library" series has a specially commissioned Afterword brief biography of the author & a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of " The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is by Kathryn White an established expert on the Bronte family & former Librarian of The Bronte Parsonage Museum at Haworth on the Yorkshire Moors." ...

When the mysterious & beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours immediately begin to swirl around her. As her neighbour Gilbert Markham comes to discover Helen has painful secrets buried in her past that even his love for her cannot easily overcome. ...

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With over 400 recipe ideas & many wonderful stories from the cook's garden Tender: Volume I -- A cook & his vegetable patch is the definitive guide to cooking with vegetables from the presenter of BBC One's Simple Cooking. 'I would like to think I know more now than I did before I picked up my trowel & dug that first furrow of red & white radishes. How to get the best out of a vegetable yes but also what are the different ways to treat it in the kitchen which seasonings will make it sing what other ingredients is it most comfortable or most exciting with. What are the classic recipes not to be missed by a newcomer & what new ways are there which might be of interest to an old h&.' In his inimitable unpretentious style Nigel Slater the presenter of BBC One's Simple Cooking elevates vegetables to the starring role in his latest cook book whether that means enjoying vegetables for their own sake or on the same plate as a piece of meat or fish. From crab cakes & crushed peas to broccoli & lamb stir-fry luxury cauliflower cheese to a delicious broad bean salad ' Tender' has everything a cook could want from a recipe book. ...