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See the girl in the trees. Catch her if you can.Several centuries ago, a group of ecologists escaped the breakdown of a societyravaged by climate change by vanishing into giant, genetically engineered forests inthe North American west. Dwelling among vast canopies that hover several thousandfeet above the earth, their descendants fear the cannibals roaming far beneath themand cling to the teachings of their sacred text, The Book of Silvanus.Sixteen year-old Ostrya considers it a burden to train as the canopy's next doctor. Buther life's work has been preordained-and she's desperate to reclaim her mother's love.When a cataclysmic storm wracks the canopy, Ostrya begins to face her doubts aboutthe teachings of the book and the laws of the canopy. If she is to survive, she will haveto decide if her destiny is in the treetops or on the forest floor.
Nora the not-so-big cat shares everything with her sharp-eyed boy: pillows and books and toys. Everything-except for one mystery shut inside a secret room. When the door is left open one evening, Nora sneaks through. She will need all her bravery and little cat powers to protect her friends from the monster that lurks inside.Nora and the Lake Monster is a storybook about how the adventures we read inside books can inspire our own imaginations.
This book addresses the political aspects of fifth-century Athenian tragedies, setting them in their immediate historical context. It is an important topic and one that only rarely and sporadically finds its way into accessible accounts of Greek tragedy. Carter sets out to elucidate to a student and general audience how and why Athenian tragedy should be read as a political art form. The political content of ancient drama has been the subject of much scholarly debate in the last thirty years, but much of that debate is highly technical and inaccessible. Carter demonstrates that like the contemporary satirical comedy of Aristophanes, or indeed the sculptures of the Parthenon, tragedy involved a highly political dimension.He provides stimulating and provocative analyses, from varied points of view, of the political aspect in several individual tragedies (always referred to in modern translations). To this he adds a chapter on the ‘reception’ of political tragedy, alluding to theatre and film productions of the Greek plays that have taken an overtly political stance within a modern context.
John Trenear, an 84 year old widower, lives alone in a bleak London tower block. He has turned away from a world he finds alien, its customs and beliefs so different from the Christian simplicities of his Cornish childhood. He tweets not, neither does he watch TV. Consequently, when the coronavirus strikes and lockdown is imposed, he has no idea what is happening; Corona to him means only the fizzy soft drink he enjoyed as a child. On VE Day there are no Corona bottles being opened with an explosion of fizz, as they had in the merry street party he remembers: indeed the streets below his flat are incomprehensibly empty. But the day brings him added confusion and distress, for it appears that something called a 'hate crime' has been committed. Corona Man, a study of old age, confusion and isolation, is both very poignant and very funny. D. M. Thomas is an internationally known poet and novelist. His third novel, The White Hotel, considered a modern classic, has been translated into more than thirty languages. His most recent work of fiction, Hunters in the Snow (2014) is also published by the Cornovia Press. He lives in his native Cornwall with his fourth wife Angela. Being incompetent at gardening, trying out new recipes or assembling giant jigsaw puzzles, he has spent the months of lockdown writing this fictional verse journal.
Vienna in the early 20th century was, in the words of our protagonist and narrator, a soulless, syphilitic whore of a city; a turbulent and bubbling melting pot of races, creeds and politics, rapidly expanding as it strained to contain the ever-increasing multitudes. In such places the nightmare moments of modern history are conceived. This novel is a fictionalised account of those who were to change the very collective psyche of mankind. It is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the sometimes thin dividing line between becoming good or evil. D. M. Thomas is a British novelist and poet, born and living in Cornwall. His novel The White Hotel was an international bestseller and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is rightly considered a modern classic, translated into more than 30 languages. John Updike said of the book: 'Astonishing ... A forthright sensuality mixed with a fine historical feeling for the nightmare moments in modern history, a dreamlike fluidity and quickness'; the statement could equally be applied to Hunters in the Snow.
In both his poetry and his novels, such as the iconic world-bestseller The White Hotel, D. M. Thomas has followed his own vision, ignoring the fashionable and the expected. The Last Waltz is no exception. The impression it leaves is of experience, personal and historical, distilled over a life stretching from the threat of Hitler to the threat to freedom of thought and speech today. The moods vary, from grief to controlled anger to satirical humour; the themes, from falling in love on his first day at Infants school to a royal wedding competing in our news (successfully) with Palestinians being massacred. All explored with immense assurance in a rich variety of forms. 'There aren't many poets in England as good as Thomas.' - The Guardian.
Hector Van Groat If something is missing, and you're feeling blue, you could learn from Hector, who feels this way too. This little genius lives in an upside down boat, and he grunts from his hill like a grumpy old goat. "Hector van Groat needs no-one but Hector, because he is a genius, a crazy inventor"
BLANKA VON FROCKWhen you want more but you have all you need, it's Blanka von Frock, whose tale you should read. She bullies her sisters in their frozen windmill, and her greedy demands give the village a chill: "I want what I want and I want it today, so listen up sisters and do as I say"Book #2 in the D.M. Mullan's Curious Tales series.
Gertrude Grunder is the furthest thing from an eco-warrior, but she'll have to learn that looking after our environment is everyone's concern. The third book in the D.M. Mullan's Curious Tales series.
Fourth book in the successful D.M. Mullans Curious Tales seres. Focused on a single character with minimalist illustration style. Focus on time.
December 1923. In the picturesque Westmorland village of Crowthwaite, the barmaid at The Black Feather entertains a traveller with a local story of pagan sacrifice - the Murder of Crows. Unbeknownst to the guests already arriving for Christmas at Crowthwaite Castle, the storytelling foreshadows things to come. As he does every year, Sir Henry de Trouville, tenth Baronet, has demanded his family join him for the festive season. But family friction soon begins to flare, and when the snow falls to herald Christmas it brings with it a shocking series of events. Just before the passes through the Pennines are closed off, Detective Inspector Gilbert Dunderdale of Manchester City Police arrives at the castle to investigate the evil, and inconvenient, business of murder.