![]() ![]() ![]() 'Will make you laugh and make you cry, but will also reveal the truth of who you really are' Louise O'Neill 'Keyes is in a class of her own' Daily ExpressįAMOUS FANS AND WHY THEY LOVE MARIAN KEYES 'A warm and hilarious page turner' Good Housekeeping Love the Walsh sisters? Don't miss out on the eagerly awaited sequel to Rachel's Holiday: AGAIN, RACHEL. Will she forgive and forget? Or can she find the courage to take a chance on herself, and start a life of her own? So when James gets back in touch, eager to put things right, Claire faces a choice. ![]() Juggling her sisters' drama, her parents' pity and the demands of a baby, Claire desperately misses the way things were. and runs home to Mum and Dad.īut it's not the sanctuary she'd been hoping for. On the day she gives birth to her first child, Claire's husband James tells her he's been having an affair, and that now's the right time to leave her.Įxhausted, tearful and a tiny bit furious, Claire doesn't know what to do. 'Reading a novel by Marian Keyes is like sitting at the kitchen table with your nicest, most confiding friend' Daily Mail ![]() 'A modern fairy tale, full of Keyes's self-deprecating wit' Sunday Mirror Discover the riotously funny, tender and touching debut from the No. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() ![]() Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. ![]() We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() Owing in part to professional etiquette which at that time frowned on veterinary surgeons and other professionals from advertising their services, he took a pen name, choosing "James Herriot". ![]() In 1969 Wight wrote If Only They Could Talk, the first of the now-famous series based on his life working as a vet and his training in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Challenged by his wife, in 1966 (at the age of 50), he began writing. Wight intended for years to write a book, but with most of his time consumed by veterinary practice and family, his writing ambition went nowhere. The original practice is now a museum, "The World of James Herriot". In January 1940, he took a brief job at a veterinary practice in Sunderland, but moved in July to work in a rural practice based in the town of Thirsk, Yorkshire, close to the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors, where he was to remain for the rest of his life. In 1939, at the age of 23, he qualified as a veterinary surgeon with Glasgow Veterinary College. Wight is best known for his semi-autobiographical stories, often referred to collectively as All Creatures Great and Small, a title used in some editions and in film and television adaptations. ![]() James Herriot is the pen name of James Alfred Wight, OBE, FRCVS also known as Alf Wight, an English veterinary surgeon and writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Neither Kalinda nor her best friend Jaya wish to be Claimed they are content to live a peaceful life in the Sisterhood, yet are committed to the will of the gods.īut when the powerful tyrant Rajah Tarek visits the Sisterhood, Kalinda is chosen as his 100th - and final - wife. However, Kalinda is an unlikely candidate to become a rani or courtesan because she's been plagued by fevers her whole life. Orphaned 18-year-old Kalinda has spent her life with the Sisterhood in the Samiya Temple, where she and other girls are trained to fight in preparation for the Claiming. King's debut young adult fantasy novel, "The Hundredth Queen," plunges readers into a fantasy world full of love, betrayal, rebellion and magic. King, Skyscape, $9.99, 324 pages (f) (ages 13 and up)Įmily R. ![]() ![]() I really enjoyed getting to know all these wonderful characters. The characters were amazing and so lovable. I loved it so much!! Everything about this book had me reading it and not wanting to put it down. But the only way to escape the control of her cruel mentor and claw her way from poverty is to set her sights on something grander: becoming Royal Storyteller to the king. ![]() Tanwen doesn’t just tell stories-she weaves them into crystallized sculptures that sell for more than a few bits. As Tanwen flees for her life, she unearths long-buried secrets and discovers she’s not the only outlaw in the empire. Tanwen goes from peddler to prey as the king’s guard hunts her down. Where You Can Buy It: Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, Christian Book, and anywhere else books are sold!ĭuring her final story peddling tour, a tale of treason spills from her hands, threatening the king himself. ![]() ![]() The Story Peddler (The Weaver Trilogy #1) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() IF you love typography, and want to expand your knowledge and idea swipe files, this one will be a welcome addition. More than 800 featured sketchbook pages reveal the designers’ creative practices across diverse briefs, concepts, languages, and alphabets. Arranged alphabetically, the world’s most exciting designers and typographers― including Philippe Apeloig, Ed Benguiat, Hoefler Type Foundry, Henrik Kubel, Toshi Omagari, and Francesco Zorzi― present a staggering range of ways to communicate with typography. Typography Sketchbooks gets into the minds of designers who create typefaces, word images and logos. ![]() This show- all tour through leading graphic designers’ personal sketchbooks reveals the creative processes behind typefaces, word- images, and logos. Steven Heller (Editor), Lita Talarico (Editor). In true Heller style, we’re treated to the personal sketchbooks of the most influential and inventive illustrators and typographers working today! I think you’re gonna like this one - here, follow along for a sneak peek and more detail! just one of the cool spreads found in Freehand: New Typography Sketchbooks One of the themes of this collection is the changing and evolving reading habits of today’s over-saturated society. the minds of designers who create typefaces, word-images and logos through their private sketchbooks. I always enjoy seeing the latest books from Steven Heller! This time he has teamed up with Lita Talarico to bring you a killer compendium of typographic ideas. Steven Heller (author), Lita Talarico (author). ![]() ![]() ![]() He is also close kin to Leskov, Chekhov, Shchedrin, and his own contemporaries Alexey Remizov and Andrey Bely. He is a direct descendant of Gogol and Dostoyevsky, the favorites of his childhood. ![]() Small wonder he was hated and hounded by those who demanded uniformity and total compliance with an outside will-the state’s, the Benefactor’s, the Party’s.Ī powerful and original writer, and an entirely modern one, Zamyatin is deeply rooted in the traditions of Russian literature. “We shall break down all walls-to let the green wind blow free from end to end-across the earth,” says his heroine. These two principles-eternal change, and freedom of the individual to choose, to want, to create according to his own need and his own will-dominated both his life and his work. Revolutions are infinite,” and, “I do not want anyone to want for me-I want to want for myself.” Zamyatin s credo is best pressed in the words of the heroine of We: “There is no final revolution. ![]() An epitome of his philosophy, the novel prefigured his own future and that of his country with astonishing accuracy. We played a fateful role in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s life. ![]() ![]() “Everybody seeks happiness! Not me, though! That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. “Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.” – Calvinħ. ![]() And change means doing things that aren’t fun! I say phooey to that!” – CalvinĦ. And fixing problems always seems to require personal change. ![]() And once you see problems, you feel like you ought to fix them. Ignorance is bliss! Once you know things, you start seeing problems everywhere. “Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?” – Calvinĥ. “There’s no problem so awful that you can’t add some guilt to it and make it even worse.” – CalvinĤ. Don’t you think it’s odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us?” – Calvinģ. “Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. “Reality continues to ruin my life.” – CalvinĢ. ![]() If you are a fan of this comic, then this collection is for you.Ĭhange your perspective and outlook on life by reading this collection.Īnd don’t forget to check out these Charlie Brown quotes and Garfield quotes. ![]() Their hilarious lines will make you think about the importance of life and everything you encounter in it. This comic strip expressed what’s in a six-year-old’s imaginary mind. These Calvin and Hobbes quotes we’ve gathered will teach you a thing or two about life and will help you shape yourself into a better person.Ĭalvin and Hobbes is undoubtedly part of everybody’s childhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When gorgeous local farmer Leo Maxwell delivers her a lovely bunch of organic walnuts, Roxie wonders if a summer back home isn’t such a bad idea after all. After a dairy disaster implodes her carefully crafted career in one fell ploop, she finds herself back home in upstate New York, bailing out her hippie mother and running the family diner. Roxie Callahan is a private chef to some of Hollywood’s wealthiest, and nastiest, calorie-counting wives. The New York Times bestselling author of Wallbanger and Rusty Nailed is back with Nuts, the first in a brand new series set in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. Genres: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Women, Romantic Comedy, General, Fantasy Published by Simon and Schuster on October 20th 2015 Also by this author: Cream of the Crop (Hudson Valley, #2), Roman Crazy, Buns (Hudson Valley, #3), One More Round ![]() ![]() ![]() Oludara, but she pursues her work through to a dramatic culmination. Drawing comfort from her uncle Root, who studied with DuBois, and her graduate school mentor, Dr. She is sometimes daunted by the trauma of her legacy. Ailey uncovers her own lineage through family stories, historical documents, oral histories, and slave archives from rural Georgia, which reveal Indigenous, Black and white roots. Ailey (named for Alvin) Garfield’s story alternates between Atlanta, where she was born and educated, to rural Chicasetta, where her mother’s people first arrived from Africa. DuBois’ sorrow songs by weaving several centuries’ worth of “songs” from the ancestors into her narrative of the coming of age and young adulthood of a brilliant Atlanta scholar. In a daring structure, Jeffers echoes the legendary W.E.B. ![]() ![]() Her people and her dirt, her trees, her water.” The tongue that speaks and trips on the names of the dead as it dares to tell these stories of a woman’s line. The opening lines signal the lyrical language that permeates this first novel, whose author has published five books of poetry (she was longlisted for the National Book Award for The Age of Phillis): “We are the earth, the land. Du Bois is a voluminous ancestral story, vast in scope, ranging from the first decades of the Afro-Indigenous interactions with Europeans on this continent to the contemporary U.S. ![]() Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Harper) ![]() |