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Britain's Dying

by Roger Homer ...

Anyone who thinks can see that Britain today is broken. But how can we mend it?Current physical, after-the-fact attempts are like applying plasters to cure cancer: the cause, and hence the illness, persists.This collection stands out in seeing our social and environmental problems as substantially moral, analysing them and proposing a moral/philosophical cure as follows:At the root of our ethical ... Read more

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Anyone who thinks can see that Britain today is broken. But how can we mend it?Current physical, after-the-fact attempts are like applying plasters to cure cancer: the cause, and hence the illness, persists.This collection stands out in seeing our social and environmental problems as substantially moral, analysing them and proposing a moral/philosophical cure as follows:At the root of our ethical
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Love’s Mirages

Searching in a forbidding land

by Roger Homer ...

The author is a sensitive man who has always had two equally strong feelings for women: loving and sexual. These poems describe his struggle for love with personal meaning in a rapidly changing world.His journey begins in childhood, with romantic fantasies and parental taboos within a fairly rigid moral climate, offering prized security but causing problems in accommodating clamouring sexuality ... Read more

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The author is a sensitive man who has always had two equally strong feelings for women: loving and sexual. These poems describe his struggle for love with personal meaning in a rapidly changing world.His journey begins in childhood, with romantic fantasies and parental taboos within a fairly rigid moral climate, offering prized security but causing problems in accommodating clamouring sexuality
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The Essence of Nature

by Roger Homer ...

A wagtail’s eccentric walk ... a teeming industrial landscape ... the alienation of a “misfit” …Readers can be told about these things, but when the words spring naively from relatively untutored feeling they can share the essence of them, deepening their appreciation of nature. Yet increasingly, this natural instinct is being lost in our rush to adapt to the world we live in.The Essence of Nature ... Read more

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A wagtail’s eccentric walk ... a teeming industrial landscape ... the alienation of a “misfit” …Readers can be told about these things, but when the words spring naively from relatively untutored feeling they can share the essence of them, deepening their appreciation of nature. Yet increasingly, this natural instinct is being lost in our rush to adapt to the world we live in.The Essence of Nature
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Mouthpieces

by Eimear McBride ...

Written during her time as the inaugural fellow in the Beckett archive last year, Eimear McBride's three short, characteristically brilliant plays - collected in one work, Mouthpieces.Each play depicts a fragment of female experience, all of them told in in Eimear's vivid, original and sharp-witted style. In 'The Adminicle Exists', we hear the inner voice of a woman who saves her troubled, ... Read more

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Written during her time as the inaugural fellow in the Beckett archive last year, Eimear McBride's three short, characteristically brilliant plays - collected in one work, Mouthpieces.Each play depicts a fragment of female experience, all of them told in in Eimear's vivid, original and sharp-witted style. In 'The Adminicle Exists', we hear the inner voice of a woman who saves her troubled,
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood

by Alistair MacLeod, Joyce Carol Oates ...

The stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood are remarkably simple – a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child’s reality conflicts with his parents’ memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father.Yet each piece of writing in this critically acclaimed collection is infused with a powerful life of its own, a precision of language and a scrupulous ... Read more

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The stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood are remarkably simple – a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child’s reality conflicts with his parents’ memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father.Yet each piece of writing in this critically acclaimed collection is infused with a powerful life of its own, a precision of language and a scrupulous
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An Emotional Menagerie

Feelings from A to Z

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Illustrated by Rachael Saunders ...

An imaginative and engaging exploration of childhood emotions through poetry and evocative illustration.Emotions are like animals:No two are quite the same.Some are quiet; some are fierce;And all are hard to tame.Children experience all sorts of emotions: sometimes going through several very different ones before breakfast. Yet they can struggle to put these feelings into words. An inability to ... Read more

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An imaginative and engaging exploration of childhood emotions through poetry and evocative illustration.Emotions are like animals:No two are quite the same.Some are quiet; some are fierce;And all are hard to tame.Children experience all sorts of emotions: sometimes going through several very different ones before breakfast. Yet they can struggle to put these feelings into words. An inability to
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Afterthoughts

or Some Pistachios Won't Open – Wisdom for the Unreflective

by Richard Ayoade ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERRichard Ayoade has set down his most enormous thoughts for the benefit of all those who dare read them. Thoughts like . . .TV detectives need a gimmick. Mine would be not caring who did it.If, when one door shuts, another door opens, there's something wrong with your doors. They shouldn't be doing that.Where's the box to tick if you ARE a robot?<st... ... Read more

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERRichard Ayoade has set down his most enormous thoughts for the benefit of all those who dare read them. Thoughts like . . .TV detectives need a gimmick. Mine would be not caring who did it.If, when one door shuts, another door opens, there's something wrong with your doors. They shouldn't be doing that.Where's the box to tick if you ARE a robot?<st...
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Pessimism for Beginners

by Sophie Hannah ...

Full of enchanting humor and intimacy, this inventive collection of poems is designed to engage and delight. Rhymed metrical forms are masterfully handled to produce highly amusing effects and traditional prose is manipulated in order to handle contemporary subjects. Moving yet lighthearted, these poems are a complicated brew that poetry lovers of every stripe will enjoy. ... Read more

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Full of enchanting humor and intimacy, this inventive collection of poems is designed to engage and delight. Rhymed metrical forms are masterfully handled to produce highly amusing effects and traditional prose is manipulated in order to handle contemporary subjects. Moving yet lighthearted, these poems are a complicated brew that poetry lovers of every stripe will enjoy.
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Between the River and the Road

by Jonathan L. Howard ...

A short story about a small city with a deep and dangerous past.The oddest little things can hide the darkest secrets. There's a little oddity along the path that runs between the river and the road. Nothing major, but interesting. Just the sort of thing you'd mention while chatting.But, whatever you do, don't go back there. Don't look again. Bad things might happen. Bad things WILL happen. ... Read more

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A short story about a small city with a deep and dangerous past.The oddest little things can hide the darkest secrets. There's a little oddity along the path that runs between the river and the road. Nothing major, but interesting. Just the sort of thing you'd mention while chatting.But, whatever you do, don't go back there. Don't look again. Bad things might happen. Bad things WILL happen.
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Being Human

by Elisha WWilliams ...

One humans vision of beautiful...Created by using paints and words as the tools to deliver a message of love to you.Status: Existing.Crime: Being Human.Label: Not Recognised. ... Read more

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One humans vision of beautiful...Created by using paints and words as the tools to deliver a message of love to you.Status: Existing.Crime: Being Human.Label: Not Recognised.
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Three

by Ann Quin ...

S has disappeared from Ruth and Leonard's home in Brighton. Suicide is suspected. The couple, who had been spying on their young lodger since before the trouble, begin to pour over her diary, her audio recordings and her movies - only to discover that she had been spying on them with even greater intensity. As this disturbing, highly charged act of reciprocal voyeurism comes to light, and as the ... Read more

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S has disappeared from Ruth and Leonard's home in Brighton. Suicide is suspected. The couple, who had been spying on their young lodger since before the trouble, begin to pour over her diary, her audio recordings and her movies - only to discover that she had been spying on them with even greater intensity. As this disturbing, highly charged act of reciprocal voyeurism comes to light, and as the
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The Little Book of Thunks

260 Questions to make your brain go ouch!

by Ian Gilbert ...

Series series The Little Books
A Thunk is a beguiling question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. The author guides you through the origins and uses of Thunks and demonstrates how this powerful little book can develop philosophical thinking for all ages ... remember there are no right or wrong answers to these questions. How liberating is that ...? ... Read more

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A Thunk is a beguiling question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. The author guides you through the origins and uses of Thunks and demonstrates how this powerful little book can develop philosophical thinking for all ages ... remember there are no right or wrong answers to these questions. How liberating is that ...?
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