![]() ![]() ![]() With all the humour and humanity that have made his novels so enduringly popular, this collection brings Pratchett out from behind the scenes of the Discworld to speak for himself – man and boy, bibliophile and computer geek, champion of hats, orang-utans and Dignity in Dying. A Slip of the Keyboard brings together for the first time the finest examples of Pratchett’s non fiction writing, both serious and surreal: from musings on mushrooms to what it means to be a writer (and why banana daiquiris are so important) from memories of Granny Pratchett to speculation about Gandalf’s love life, and passionate defences of the causes dear to him. Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series – but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer’s research and animal rights. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, it dawned on him that "I didn't know the first thing about the only planet I was ever going to live on". What on earth is Bill Bryson doing writing a book of popular science- A Short History of Almost Everything? Largely, it appears, because this inquisitive, much-travelled writer realised, while flying over the Pacific, that he was entirely ignorant of the processes that created, populated and continue to maintain the vast body of water beneath him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the second part I have tried to tell the story of the dismantling and destruction of that symbolic world, from Henry VIII s break with the Papacy in the early 1530s to the Elizabethan "Settlement" of religion, which I take to have been more or less secure, or at least in the ascendant, by about 1580. In the first part I have sought to explore the character and range of late medieval English Catholicism, indicating something of the richness and complexity of the religious system by which men and women structured their experience of the world, and their hopes and aspirations within and beyond it. This book attempts two tasks usually carried out separately, and by at least two different sets of practitioners. Leicht berieben, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. Slightly rubbed, allover very good and clean. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). ![]() ![]() Sharing a similar Dada-ist sensibility, Frantz and Byrne put together a musical duo, The Artistics – later to be re-named Talking Heads. Talking Heads had formed only a few years prior, after David Byrne met drummer Chris Frantz and his girlfriend Tina Weymouth while studying at Rhode Island School of Design. The wonderful results encompass a spectrum of often warring tones, textures and moods. ![]() ![]() Across its eleven tracks, the interplay of the band’s instruments with each other and Eno’s synthetic froth is explored, leading to some of the band’s most arresting songs, wherein the conventional mechanics of a post-punk band are upturned, dissected and re-organised. This is Fear of Music, Talking Heads’ third album, and their second (of three) that they would make in collaboration with Brian Eno. READ MORE: Hiss Golden Messenger – O Come All Ye Faithful review: A Christmas Americana treasure.In fact, the closest Electric Guitar comes to such a moment is probably a skittish, minuscule riff that darts away from the songs’ taut chorus in abject terror. And, Fear of Music is quite unlike any other album. ![]() But Talking Heads were not like other bands. With any other band, you’d likely expect that a track titled after this most cherished of instruments would foreground it prominently – a flashy lead break here, pummelling chords there. ![]() “Never listen to electric guitar” commands a typically unbalanced David Byrne on Fear of Music’s penultimate cut, aptly dubbed Electric Guitar. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Regardless of their appetite for the paranormal, readers will be mesmerized by a plot that moves quickly to a chilling conclusion. Hooper keeps the suspense dialed up as Riley experiences brief flashes of memory, visions of satanic rites and continued blackouts. Vulnerable and unable to trust herself or those around her, Riley perseveres in an investigation that could prove deadly. Despite her haziness on the investigation's details to date-including her apparent romantic involvement with Sheriff Jake Ballard-she persuades her boss, Noah Bishop, chief of the FBI Special Crimes Unit, to let her stay to "stabilize" the situation, which just got bloodier with another brutal murder. ), Riley is on assignment on Opal Island off the coast of South Carolina, summoned there by her ex-army friend, Gordon Skinner, to investigate possible occult activity. In this third fast-paced installation of Hooper's Fear trilogy (after Chill of Fear Psychic FBI agent Riley Crane wakes up one afternoon covered in blood (not her own), with a pounding headache and no memory of the last three weeks-or her clairvoyant sense. Bantam 25 (292p) ISBN 978-8-1 Psychic FBI agent Riley Crane wakes up one afternoon covered in blood (not her own), with a pounding. ![]() ![]() ![]() The main issue addressed in this volume is not how male socialists "dealt with" the woman question or how women functioned in or outside left-wingparties it rather centers on illustrating the power distribution between the sexes in specific political and cultural contexts. The mystique of the "new woman" in the 1920s and the 1930s challenged traditional notions of gender identity and relations, not the least of which was the redefinition of the role of men. ![]() Central to these are definitions of femininity and masculinity in terms of mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion at the workplace, in the home, and in the political arena. ![]() However, by far the most provocative questions deal with gender relations. Each of these movements is viewed as acomplex matrix of organized and unorganized participants. ![]() The emblematic title of this volume highlights the fundamental conception of this comparative study of eleven West European countries: that in the interwar decades two great movements gained in strength, converged, diverged, competed, and cooperated. This pioneering volume places the role of women within the history of the interwar years, whenboth the women's and socialist movements became prominent, and raises the key question of how power was distributed between the genders in a historical setting. Until recently, histories of women tended to be segregated from the larger historical context. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This novel is such a heart-wrenching story and is definitely one that you need tissues for. I feel like the moral is embrace life and live each day to its fullest. Not only does the story contain romance but I see it as one that shows the hardships within the adult working life and how life can change at any moment. She addresses the topic of human nature and how connecting with certain people will make you see life in a happier way. ![]() The story may be about a subject that only some understand but she makes you think about what would happen and how you’d feel in that type of situation. Jojo Moyes writes in a way that makes you feel connected to the characters and I got completely lost within her words. I fell in love with this book the moment I opened it and I couldn’t put it down until I was finished. When Louisa enters his life as his new carer, she brings a new light to his life and the book covers how their relationship develops. He no longer feels the joy of living and goes through each day doing nothing but taking his medication. ![]() This is how she crosses paths with Will Traynor, who devastatingly became paralysed after a motorcycle accident. Me Before You tells the story of the quirky Louisa Clark, who unfortunately lost her job and is seeking a new one. ![]() ![]() ![]() The very things that they once travelled a Yellow Road to get are now the things that corrupt them. Her friends have changed, too, but they are still just as loyal to her. She’s kind of super-evil and ruling Oz with an Iron fist and those magical shoes of hers. Gone is the Technicolor, instead there is crumbly faded, Yellow Brick Road! And Dorothy is no longer Kansas sweet. But Oz is nothing like the one in the books or the movie, it’s darker and twist-ier. She gets her wish, where her trailer is picked up by a tornado and she is dropped in Oz. I’ve been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked.ĭorothy Must Die is the story of Amy Gumm, an outcast in her hometown of Mission, Kansas who wants more than anything to beanywhere but there. My name is Amy Gumm-and I’m the other girl from Kansas. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. They say she found a way to come back to Oz. There’s still the yellow brick road, though-but even that’s crumbling.ĭorothy. To be a place where Good Witches can’t be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. But I never expected Oz to look like this. ![]() I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little blue birds. I didn’t ask to be some kind of hero.īut when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado-taking you with it-you have no choice but to go along, you know? Danielle Paige is joining us today with her novel Dorothy Must Die. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is the last of his kind, the last dragon. However.he has survived, unlike the rest. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts far and wide as Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie-now he goes by Vern. Lying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent fire breather has been reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-shirt, and binging Netflix in a fishing shack. In the days of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs-now he hides from swamp tour boats and rises only with the greatest reluctance from his La-Z-Boy recliner. From the New York Times best-selling author of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult novel about a vodka-drinking, Flashdance-loving dragon who lives an isolated life in the bayous of Louisiana-and the raucous adventures that ensue when he crosses paths with a 15-year-old troublemaker on the run from a crooked sheriff. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the novel, the wall is erected with less immediacy Luke is still single and working retail while his friends are married and raising children. In the film, this separation is marked by one event, a liquor store robbery during which the group’s fifth friend is killed and Luke is too paralyzed with fear to act. During their college years, they were inseparable but now a wall has built up between them. ![]() Luke feels outside of the deep friendship that binds the other three men. It is as much a danger as the mysterious thing that hunts them, something that is bloodthirsty, fast, and clever. In both, the foreboding forest is its own character, a twisted primal wilderness that swallows up our protagonists, dwarfs them with its unmoving presence. The Ritual, written by Adam Nevill, shares many of its key elements with its 2017 Netflix film adaptation, diverging primarily at both ends but sharing a common center. Adversity comes in the form of nature, cruel and immense, the supernatural, ancient and not subject to the rules of our modern world, and the strife that can arise between even the closest of friends in such harrowing circumstances. Within the depths of an ancient rotting forest in Northern Sweden, four friends become lost and hunted. ![]() |