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Nita, the narrator, is a young volunteer who has been recalled from her teaching post in central Africa after a military coup. At a small airstrip she joins a group of local citizens and foreigners who have all missed a flight that may be the last one out.
Welcome to the second volume of stories walking you through the historical streets of Bath. For centuries, this world-renowned city has touched people’s hearts and these stories will, too.
This volume comprises five one-act-plays, namely: 'The dead end' (1979), 'We shall sing for the fatherland' (1979), 'Dark voices ring' (1979), 'The hill' (1980), and 'The road' (1982).
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.