The mesmerizing bestseller from Josephine Cox
- the nation's favourite storyteller. Some secrets can haunt a whole lifetime. In
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A beautiful 2 pocket pencil case with a snap top closure which opens up to reveal 2 mesh pockets with zip shut closures. The mesh means that you can easily see the contents of your pencil case. This pencil case is also ideal for make-up & measures Approx. 23x 12x 4cm & has an all over pattern on the outside of songbirds on a pale aqua background. ...

A beautiful special gift set featuring one pink & one aqua slim line ballpoint pen with medium nibs & black ink along with a matching zip case. Songbird is a classic inspired design featuring birds & swirls in gold pink & aqua on a light aqua background. ...

An ever useful shopping list & pen on a card background which is magnetic but also has a hanging hole so you can put it up in the most convenient place for you. The shopping list comes with a ruled pad & ballpoint pen. Songbird is a classic inspired design featuring birds & swirls in gold pink & aqua on a light aqua background. ...

The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia ancient tracks connecting communities & following ancient boundaries. Along these lines Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the creation of the land & the secrets of its past. In this magical account Chatwin recalls his travels across the length & breadth of Australia seeking to find the truth about the songs & unravel the mysteries of their stories. ...

Exuberant rhymes are an intrinsic part of the appeal of Roald Dahls books
- & here are some classic & magical moments from the
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Songs Of A Sourdough is Robert Service at his best!. This is nature poetry at its finest. Here the Bard Of The Yukon use picture words that place the reader right in the Yukon of old. As you read you can see the stranger stagger in to the Malamute saloon & feel the fifty below gush of air until he closes the door behind him. You will hear him play the piano & see the ghastly look of the Lady that's known as Lou. You too will jump for the floor when the shooting of Dangerous Dan Mc Grew starts. You too will hear the Call of The Yukon & understand its Law while you come to appreciate The Younger Son." ...

In September 1996 a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room shielding her baby brother while shots rang out in the streets outside the family home in Karachi. This was the evening that her father Murtaza was murdered along with six of his associates. In December 2007 Benazir Bhutto Fatimas aunt & the woman she had publically accused of ordering her fathers murder was assassinated in Rawalpindi. It was the latest in a long line of tragedies for one of the worlds best known political dynasties. Songs of Blood & Sword" tells the story of a family of rich feudal landlords
- the proud descendents of a warrior caste
- who became powerbrokers in the newly created state of Pakistan. It is an epic tale full of the romance & legend of feudal life the glamour & licence of the international political elite & ultimately the tragedy of four generations of a family defined by a political idealism that would destroy them. The history of this extraordinary family mirrors the tumultuous events of Pakistan itself & the quest to find the truth behind her fathers murder has led Fatima to the heart of her countrys volatile political establishment. It is the history of a nation from Partition through the struggle with India over Kashmir the Cold War the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan up to the post 9/11 War on Terror. It is also a book about a daughters love for her father & her search to uncover & to understand the truth of his life & death. It is a book about a family & nation riven by murder corruption conspiracy & division written by one who has lived it in the heart of the storm. " Songs of Blood & Sword" is a book of international significance by a young woman who has already established herself as a brave & passionate campaigner."

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With a foreword by the legendary accompanist Gerald Moore Eric Sams study (Faber 1961 revised 1983) is a notable landmark in the establishment of Wolf as one of the supreme masters of German song. Comprehensively revised & enlarged in 1983 the main subject matter remains the 242 published songs that Wolf wrote for voice & piano though the Ibsen songs for voice & orchestra are also discussed. English translations are provided & the backgrounds to the original poems by Morike Eichendorff & Goethe as well as the Italian & Spanish sources from which the songbooks were drawn are fully explored. Each song is dated its keys identified & vocal range determined. This is the most important book in the English language on the songs of Hugo Wolf since Ernest Newman proclaimed the composers genius in 1907.. . To the English-speaking student this work is a treasure to which he will find himself returning again & again: it is indispensable to those of us anxious to gain a deeper knowledge of Wolf
- Gerald Moore.
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Blake was one of the finest craftsmen of his time an artist for whom art & poetry were inextricably linked. He was an indepedent & rebellious thinker who abhorred pretention & falsity in others. His Songs of Innocence are products of this innocent imagination untainted by worldliness while the Songs of Experience resulted from his feelings of indignation & pity for the sufferings of mankind. The Songs of Innocence & Experience containing some of Blakes finest & best-loved poems are presented here in the form which best satisfied the high expectations of his poetic & artistic aspirations. The fifty-four plates which Blake originallly etched & coloured by hand are faithfully reproduced with the same delicacy &

Dimensions as the artist created them.

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