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This Land Is Their Land
The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story.
In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin...
The Wanderers
The West Country Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The powerful second novel in Tim Pears's acclaimed West Country trilogy. Two teenagers, bound by love yet divided by fate, forge separate paths in England before World War I.
Leo Sercombe is on a journey. Aged thirteen and banished from the secluded farm of his childhood, he travels through Devon,...
The Redeemed
The West Country Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
The final installment in Tim Pears's spellbinding chronicle of love, exile and belonging in a world on the brink of change.
It is 1916. The world has gone to war, and young Leo Sercombe, hauling coal aboard the HMS Queen Mary, is a long way from home. The wild, unchanging West Country roads...
Redeemable
A Memoir of Darkness and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Born in Somerset in 1957 to itinerant Scottish parents, Erwin James lost his mother when he was seven. Shipped from home to home and subject to the whims of various caregivers after his father turned to alcohol and violence, he committed his first crime of breaking and entering when he was ten. His...
by Will Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
'"And the name of the girl through to next week is..." says Stina, and I want to kill her for pausing once again. I want to see her bludgeoned to death with her own stupid mic, her even stupider skin tight dress all stained with oozing gore...'
Thousands of wannabes are auditioning...
Cathedrals of the Flesh
My Search for the Perfect Bath
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2008
People journey to Greece for the ruins, Turkey for the Aya Sophia, and Russia for St. Basil's, but Alexia Brue travels with a different itinerary: to visit the baths. At once deeply personal and highly informative, Cathedrals of the Flesh is the candid and playful account of one woman's determination...
The Deer Camp
A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
For readers of The Stranger in the Woods and H Is for Hawk, a beautifully written and emotionally rewarding memoir about a father, his three sons, and a scrappy 100-acre piece of land in rural Michigan.
Some families have to dig hard to find the love that holds them together. Some have to grow...
Churchill's Legacy
Two Speeches to Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Churchill's Legacy describes how Churchill wielded his influence in post-war politics to enable the restoration of Europe through two key speeches in 1946. Having first helped bring victory to the Allies in 1945, Churchill went on to preserve the freedom of the world by gaining the support of the...
Pondlife
A Swimmer's Journal
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best part of his life Al Alvarez – poet, critic, novelist, rock-climber and poker player – has swum in them almost daily.
An athlete in his youth, Alvarez, now in his...
Engines of Privilege
Britain's Private School Problem
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
A rigorous, compelling and balanced examination of the British public school system and the inequalities it entrenches.
Private schools are institutions that children who are already privileged attend and have those privileges further entrenched, almost certainly for life, through a high-quality,...
The Journey Home
Ten New Commandments for Discovering Your True Self
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
This book offers ten new commandments for coping with the stresses, strains and pressures of modern life. These ten new commandments are ten skilful attitudes for the attainment of your true self.
Be present
Observe yourself
Be nothing
Flee attachment
Transcend suffering
Drop your illusions
Prepare...
The Wonderful Mr Willughby
The First True Ornithologist
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
'Birkhead has combined ingenuity and perseverance to produce an evocative portrait of a great pioneer in the scientific study of birds' Literary Review
Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Along with his Cambridge tutor John...
América
The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
An epic history of the Spanish empire in North America from 1493 to 1898 by Robert Goodwin, author of Spain: The Centre of the World.
At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus's great voyage of discovery,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction?
The means of publishing, buying and reading fiction changed dramatically between 2000 and 2010. This volume explores how the socio-political and economic turns of the decade, bookended...