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101 modern re-tellings of the classic Australian short story The Drover's Wife by Henry Lawson
Mystifying, harrowing and funny, The Oshun Diaries explores the lure of Africa, the life of Austrian priestess Susanne Wenger (Adunni Olorisha), and the appeal of the Ifa goddess as a symbol of female empowerment.
A literary comedy about the 18th-century rivalry between Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds for the affections of the Royal Family. Meanwhile, in the present day, a picture which may or may not be a long-lost Gainsborough turns up on a TV antiques show being filmed in Suffolk
An essential guide to writing, editing, re-writes, submissions and more, based on Scott Pack's sell-out Guardian Masterclasses
A gripping family drama set in a West Country farming community, from the author of the acclaimed Summerstoke trilogy
Tess Burrows climbed to the point furthest from the centre of the Earth to broadcast thousands of peace messages she had collected from people of all ages.
London, 2050. The socio-economic crisis of recent decades is over and consumerism is thriving.Ownership of land outside the city is the preserve of a tiny elite, and the rest of the population must spend to earn a Right to Reside. Ageing has been abolished thanks to a radical new approach, replacing retirement with blissful euthanasia at a Dignitorium.When architect Philip goes missing, his wife Alice risks losing her home and her status, and begins to question the society in which she was raised. Her search for him uncovers some horrifying truths about the fate of her own family and the reality behind the new social order.Wolf Country is a powerful dystopian vision in the spirit of Black Mirror and Never Let Me Go.
The lyrical new novel from the award-winning author of Electricity and Forgetting Zoe, about a former farmhand, now a widower in his seventies, who goes on the run in the Yorkshire Dales after committing a crime. Longlisted for the Portico Prize.
An elderly local artist plunges 100 feet to her death at an overstretched London hospital and the police immediately sense foul play. The hospital cleaner, a Syrian refugee and loner, is arrested for her murder. He protests his innocence, but why has he given her the story of Aladdin to read, and why does he shake uncontrollably in times of stress? Judith Burton and Constance Lamb reunite to defend a man the media has already convicted. Together they uncover not only the cleaner's secrets, but also those of the artist's family, her lawyer and the hospital. A new Burton and Lamb legal thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Pinocchio Brief.
A story of murder and family rivalry set amid the 'format wars' of early recorded sound
An atheist comedy featuring God and a confused young man from Hackney. When gay, pleasure-seeking Stefano Cartwright is almost killed by a wave while at the beach, his journey up a tunnel of light convinces him that God exists after all, and he may need to change his ways if he is not to end up in hell. When God happens to look down his celestial telescope and see Stefano, he is obliged to pay unprecedented attention to an obscure planet in a distant galaxy, and ends up on the greatest adventure of his multi-eon existence.The Hurtle of Hellcombines a tender, human story of rejection and reconnection with an utterly original and often very funny theological thought-experiment, in an entrancing fable that is both mischievous and big-hearted.
An ingenious and hilarious novel masquerading as sixteen short biographies of Australian literary figures, who are all entirely made up
An original and authoritative guide to the shift in business thinking which has caused unprecedented turmoil in the modern world
A brand new thriller series from an award-winning graphic novelist and games writer, creator of Atomic Blonde
First UK publication of the epic wartime love story that took New Zealand by storm
A unique, remarkable and hilarious portrait of one of our most talked-about and controversial literary figures
Jules Mountain has reached Everest Base Camp, within reach of fulfilling his life's ambition, when the 2015 Nepal earthquake sets off the avalanche. Something sets him apart from the other surviving climbers: is it that he has already cheated death by surviving cancer? Does his gung-ho attitude show him to be brave, fatalistic or irresponsible?
A biting satirical novel that imagines the post-Brexit, political landscape of the UK in 2020. Funny, thought-provoking and worryingly believable.
Fleeing war and the death of her family, Eve has carefully constructed a new life for herself in London. Yet she is troubled by vivid, disturbing dreams, symptoms of her traumatic past, which intrude increasingly on her daily life. As she is drawn further into her dream world, she finds herself caught up in a fresh battle for survival. A dark, lyrical fantasy about healing and reconnecting with the full richness of the self.
The Hopkins Conundrum blends the real stories of Gerard Manley Hopkins and the ship-wrecked nuns of his most famous poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland, while casting a wry eye on The Da Vinci Code industry in a highly original mix of fiction, literary biography and satirical commentary.
The realities of a business start-up in a war-torn Iraq - it's not like this at Harvard Heyrick was on the first civilian plane into Baghdad after the airport had been secured. Armed with a camp bed, some baked beans, and a wallet full of greenbacks, his mission was to establish a foothold for one of the world's largest logistics businesses in one of the world's most inhospitable markets. This book charts the challenges, the characters, the comedy, and the catastrophe of trying to do business in a war zone. It also provides a unique perspective on the Iraq conflict; not of another journalist, soldier, or politician but of a businessman with unusual balls.
All Will Be Well looks at how love and compassion, when given out to others, can act as an antidote to the often painful human condition. It awakens us to all the small things that we can do to make those around us feel better and in doing so, bring happines to ourselves as well. It shows that each of us has the ability to make a difference. This book will encourage us to use those abilities and by doing so help ensure that all will be well. This is a story of unswerving, joyful faith and hope.
Our healing journeys differ. Some move country or hit the bottle. Diane's healing journey was travel. Her son loved travelling and mountain climbing in South America. He'd walked the Inca Trail and longed to return to the sacred citadel of Machu Picchu. On the first anniversary of his death, fragile and aching with grief, she travelled alone to Peru to scatter his ashes there. Diane's adventures en route were by turns scary, electrifying and humorous: flying over the Nazca Lines; a consultation with an Inca witch; an accidental brush with Peruvian porn. She immersed herself in the culture - and Peru reconnected her with life. This is a story about profound loss leading to spiritual gain. And it's a story about love.
This is the third book in this series. containing more than 100 stories compiled from the best entries of the annual worldwide competition.
On the cusp of middle age, Simon Fenton leaves Britain in search of adventure and finds Senegal, love, fatherhood, witch doctors and a piece of land that could make a perfect guest house, if only he knew how to build one. The Casamance is an undiscovered paradise where mystic Africa governs life, people walk to the beat of the djembe, when it rains it pours and the mangos are free. But the fact that his name translates to 'vampire' and he has had a curse placed on him via the medium of eggs could mean Simon's new life may not be so easy.
This enthralling account details Alastair Humphrey's epic journey across Africa, through Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. His experience is at times brutal, and though he faces loneliness, despair, and harsh conditions, he also survives through trust in the kindness of strangers. Moods of Future Joys is the story of the first remarkable stage of the expedition. Just two weeks into the ride the September 11th attacks, and the war that followed, changed everything. All Humphreys' plans went out the window and, instead of riding towards Australia, he suddenly found himself pedalling through the Middle East and Africa and on towards Cape Town. But his journey did not end there. In fact, this was only the beginning...
At the Deep End tells the story of a founding member and leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change.Morgan Tsvangirai came to prominence in the late 1990s and became known as one of southern Africa's most influential statesmen. Over the next ten years he would be harassed, tortured, charged with treason and labelled a traitor, but he would win a global reputation as a courageous and indefatigable symbol of resistance in the face of brutal repression.From teenage mine worker, to trade union leader, to Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in a coalition government, his autobiography traces Tsvangirai's political development and activism, laying bare the challenges and frustrations of his political life, up to and including the power-sharing agreements with President Robert Mugabe.
Gwen Maka, a forty-something Englishwoman, was told by everyone that her dream was impossible. Gwen's solo ride takes us across the deserts and vanished Indian trails of the American West, over the snow-peaked Rocky Mountains, down Mexico's Baja coast and finally into the sub-tropics of Central America. Her journey is intertwined with the legends of past events; as she rides through unwordly landscapes, the ghosts of the American Indians and pioneers who shaped the Americas travel with her. Riding with Ghosts is Gwen's frank but never too serious account of her epic 7,500 mile cycling tour. She handles exhaustion, climatic extremes, lechers and a permanently saddle-sore bum in a gutsy, hilarious way. Her journey is a testimony to the power of determination.
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