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This book is a sequence of war poems referring to 20th and 21st century conflicts that have involved British forces: among them, the First World War, the Second World War, the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. Several of the poems are based on memories of the poet’s father.
Catergories: Book
Bright and talented, but at odds with her parents, 14-year-old Evelyn Lau ran away to spend the next two years submerged in drugs, prostitution and despair on the streets of Vancouver. The journals she kept provide an account of life on the streets for a young girl.
Catergories: Book
Turkeys jus wanna play reggae
Turkeys jus wanna hip-hop
Can yu imagine a nice young turkey saying,
'I cannot wait for de chop'?
Hot, hip, playful and provocative, here are straight-talking poems from ground-breaking rap poet Benjamin Zephaniah.
Catergories: Book
It’s Jack’s birthday, and he’s excited about turning five.
Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real – only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that...
Catergories: Book
In 1959, two famous Spanish matadors, who were best friends, died.
Alex y Robert is the witty, modern fable of their grandchildren: Alejandra, a young American woman determined to become a matador, and Roberto, a reluctant star Spanish bullfighter whom she recruits to help her.
Part travel adventure, part cultural critique, the novel portrays man’s complex...
Catergories: Book
Despite her mother's constant physical and psychological abuse, Constance Briscoe has gained a place at Newcastle University to study law - a long-held ambition.
She finances her studies by several jobs at weekends and during the holidays, including working with the terminally ill in a hospice. She also finds the money to pay for several cosmetic surgery...
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Set against the stark backdrop of the Icelandic winter, an elusive, enigmatic fox leads a hunter on a transformative quest. At the edge of the hunter’s territory, a naturalist struggles to build a life for his charge, a young woman with Down syndrome whom he had rescued from a shipwreck years before. By the end of Sjón’s slender, spellbinding fable of a novel,...
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In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman.
As their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. An...
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(To be released in early 2010) Ilustrado begins with Crispin Salvador, lion of Philippine letters, dead in the Hudson River. His acolyte Miguel investigates the author's demise and the disappearance of a manuscript about the corruption behind rich Filipino families. To understand the death, Miguel scours the life, charting Salvador's trajectory via his poetry,...
Catergories: Recommendation
Stuart Christie recommends three of his favourite books, i.e. Passage to India by E.M. Foster, English Patient by Michael Ondaatje and the Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood to us and tells how books have changed his life.
