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![]() ![]() Her most recent book is Dubliners (Marinoni, 2022: Milan), co-authored with visual artist Mario Sughi. Mia Gallagher writes novels, stories and essays. ![]() Her debut novel The Water Cure was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 and won a Betty Trask Award 2019. Sophie Mackintosh is the author of three novels: The Water Cure, Blue Ticket an d Cursed Bread. A master at drawing readers into thrilling webs of intrigue and desire, Mackintosh weaves a deadly, luscious fable of hysteria, envy, desire, and transformation in her latest novel Cursed Bread. How well do you really know your neighbours, your friends, your family? Veteran writer of psychological turmoil and suspense Sophie Mackintosh explores love, obsession, and our capacity for violence. “ has entered a brilliant new stage of writing.” – Jo Hamya, The Guardian ![]() ![]() It was a time of supreme tumult in England - seeking a divorce from his first wife, Henry had been declared head of the church in England, formalizing the break with Rome, and had then ordered the dissolution of the monasteries and the seizure of their land to raise funds. Seven novels have been written so far, and the earliest, Dissolution (2003), is set in the year 1537, when Shardlake's services are required by none other than Thomas Cromwell, the Earl of Essex and Henry VIII's right-hand man. Related: Best Series About the Tudor Dynasty Shardlake's background as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn means he has an eye for detail and a knack for coolly analyzing the particulars of a case. ![]() Moreover, he has a disability - he is described as having a hunchback in the novels, like the infamous king whose death inaugurated the Tudor period, Richard III. ![]() ![]() Shardlake hails from Lichfield in the Midlands, and his father was a yeoman. ![]() ![]() I do kind of like the double-V as a visual metaphor for the two rivers that flow through town, but still. Whether I would ultimately hate it or love it, I had to read the story.įirst, let me get one thing straight, the pronunciation of the town's name is T'Rivers, not Trivvers. If that wasn't reason enough, the book almost immediately compares Two Rivers - in a favorable manner - to its sister city. Not in Green Bay Packer Country, not in the riotous `hoods of Milwaukee, not even Kenosha or the eponymous Sheboygan, but smack dab in the heart of my hometown of Two Rivers, Wisconsin. When I came across Yolanda Polanski and the Bus to Sheboygan, I bought it because the story is set in Wisconsin. The reason I purchased this novel is not because of the title. ![]() ![]() Yolanda Polanski and the Bus to Sheboygan Adam Sydney 9780985163631 Books Download As PDF : Yolanda Polanski and the Bus to Sheboygan Adam Sydney 9780985163631 Books Yolanda Polanski and the Bus to Sheboygan Adam Sydney 9780985163631 Books ![]() ![]() ![]() As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations. Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario), a brilliant neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. ![]() #MayfairWitches premieres Jan 8th on and /tOPxPEuXHr- Interview with the Vampire NovemWhat is Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches about?Īnne Rice's Mayfair Witches centers around Dr. In the teaser, which you can check out for yourself below, Rowan (Alexandra Daddario) says that she draws her strength from "both the good and the bad" and "in the end, they cannot be separated." While that may sound like balance when it comes to power, the teaser definitely has something of an ominous tone making it pretty clear things are going to be very complicated for Rowan and likely very quickly.Ī new legacy awaits. ![]() ![]() ![]() Divided by blood but united-precariously-by a shared vision, the brothers begin erecting their mighty ring of granite, aligning towering stones to the movement of the heavenly bodies, and raising arches to appease and unite their gods. There is Lengar, the eldest, a ruthless warrior intent on replacing his father as chief of the tribe of Ratharryn Camaban, his bastard brother, a sorcerer whose religious fervor inspires the plan for Stonehenge and Saban, the youngest, through whose expertise the temple will finally be completed. ![]() ![]() Three brothers-deadly rivals-are uneasily united in their quest to create a temple to their gods. ![]() Bernard Cornwell's epic novel Stonehenge catapults us into a powerful and vibrant world of ritual and sacrifice at once timeless and wholly original-a tale of patricide, betrayal, and murder of bloody brotherly rivalry: and of the never-ending quest for power, wealth, and spiritual fulfillment. Four thousand years ago, a stranger's death at the Old Temple of Ratharryn-and his ominous "gift" of gold-precipitates the building of what for centuries to come will be known as one of mankind's most singular and remarkable achievements. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The love that John and I share with our love for Christ is one of the most precious gifts God could have given us," June Carter said of her husband. They had one child together, John Carter Cash, who was born in 1970. The couple performed frequently together and released several collaborative albums, including Carryin' on With Johnny Cash and June Carter, Johnny & June and June Carter and Johnny Cash: Duets. ![]() ![]() Nonetheless, Cash wed Carter on March 1, 1968, less than two weeks after proposing. "I should have been relentless at saving it," Liberto adds, "as relentless as June was at destroying it." Cash and Liberto's divorce was official by the end of 1967, paving the way for Cash to marry Carter however, Liberto, who passed away in 2005, wrote in her autobiography, I Walk the Line: My Life With Johnny, that the divorce was a "degrading, horrible experience," and she blamed Cash's new wife for the split. ![]() ![]() ![]() The oldest geezer in the entire faculty of Unseen University-home of magic, wizardry, and big dinners-Windle was looking forward to a wonderful afterlife, not this boring been-there-done-that routine. But like every cutback in an importantpublic service, Deaths demise soon leads to chaos and unrest-literally, for those whose time was supposed to be up, like Windle Poons. Now Deathis having the time of his life, findinggreener pastures where he can put hisscythe to a whole new use. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes anda well-earned gold watch. But that was before Death started pondering the existential. ![]() Book Synopsis They say there are only two things you can count on. ![]() ![]() At the university, he joined a student club, named Lese- und Redehalle der Deutschen Studenten, which organized literary events, readings, and other activities. ![]() ![]() This study offered a range of career possibilities, which pleased his father, and required a longer course of study that gave Kafka time to take classes in German studies and art history. Kafka first studied chemistry at the Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague but after two weeks switched to law. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of the French language and culture from Flaubert, one of his favorite authors. His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony" (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).ĭespite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature. ![]() Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis" (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s misfortune, as its author accepts, is that it ends in 1997, and thus lacks a post-colonial perspective. Throughout the book Mr Tsang dispenses history with even-handedness, acknowledging that Britain’s colonial years brought prosperity, an efficient administration and concepts such as due process, while never neglecting the second-class treatment of ethnic Chinese. But the Japanese conquering of Hong Kong in 1941 dispelled hubristic ideas of British invincibility. For many years, writes Mr Tsang, politicians in Westminster considered Britain too powerful (and China too backward) to make handing back its crown dependency conceivable. While Hong Kong island and the Kowloon peninsula were awarded to Britain in perpetuity, under “unequal treaties” signed after the opium wars, the far larger New Territories, stretching from Kowloon to the Shenzhen river, were only given on a 99-year lease in 1898. Hanging over the narrative is Britain’s gradual realisation that it had a “Hong Kong problem”. ![]() ![]() This extensive history covers the period from 1841, the year before Hong Kong was ceded to Britain, to 1997, when China retook control. ![]() |