Elegant and decadent, vulgar and clever, enchanting and dark. The love child of Angela Carter and Ana s Nin - the book I really really needed SARAH PERRY, author of The Essex SerpentThe sentences sing on the page with wit and intelligence ... This...Loe edasi...
Under the bloody rule of King Arthur - as the cruel knights of the round table wage wars and hunt magical creatures - the ordinary people of Camelot are getting sick. Really sick. Something is poisoning the land. No one in Arthur's court seems t...Loe edasi...
Vivid as fireworks ... Both terrifying and exhilarating Doireann N Ghr ofa, author of A Ghost in the ThroatFunny and sharp ... A hungry book, looking everywhere and seeing everything ObserverIn a time more turbulent than any of us could have eve...Loe edasi...
Brought to you by Penguin.I am sick of the future. Up to here with the future. I dont want anything to do with it; dont want it near me.This is a story about now.Its a story about a woman, and the family she has made for herself. Its about the...Loe edasi...
What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve being eaten? Fierce Bad Rabbits explores the stories behind our favourite picture books, weaving in tales o...Loe edasi...
Brought to you by Penguin. What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? What has Meg and Mog got to do with Polish embroidery Why is death in picture books so often represented by being eaten Fierce Bad Rabbits takes us on an eye-opening journey i...Loe edasi...
Although Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf has lived in exile in the UK for 20 years, she is fast emerging as one of the most outstanding Somali poets, as well as a powerful woman poet in a literary tradition still largely dominated by men. She is a master of t...Loe edasi...
The poems in Clare Pollards new collection Incarnation are about our children and the stories that we tell them. Whether looking at the discourse around pregnancy, describing the pain of childbirth or thinking about surveillance at soft play, they b...Loe edasi...
Ovids Heroides, written in Rome some time between 25 and 16 BC, was once his most popular work. The title translates as Heroines. It is a series of poems in the voices of women from Greek and Roman myth -including Phaedra, Medea, Penelope and Ariadn...Loe edasi...
Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Clare Pollards fourth collection is steeped in folktale and ballads, and looks at the stories we tell about ourselves. From the Pendle witch-trials in 17th-century Lancashire to the gangs of modern-day east London...Loe edasi...
