The Feeling Sonnets are written in an English that is translingual not only because it engages other languages but also because it reflects upon itself in uncertainty as if it were the work of a language learner.
Sam Saadoun, a closeted Jewish-Arab from Los Angeles, travels to Beijing to study. He is in pursuit of a romantic gay dream, desperate to escape the United States. When he arrives he is harassed by shadowy characters. All the while a disturbing murder mystery is unfolding in the halls of the university's most curious building.
In Nobody Will Shoot You If You Make Them Laugh: One Man's Journey Through The Mountains And Valleys of Life, the businessman and adventurer Simon Murray tells his extraordinary life story. From an orphanage in Leicester through the rigours and brutality of the English public school system in the 1950s, to a five-year spell in French Foreign ......
Reedie's journey from player to enthusiastic volunteer led to influence in badminton and its worldwide development with new efforts to support athletes and ultimately successful bids to host the London 2012 Olympic Games with the elevation of sport in society and the administration of sport across the Olympic world, poisoned by doping in Russia.
These photographic 'zines' from the home of Lee Miller, Farleys House and Gallery, look at life through the lens of Lee Miller and her husband, the Surrealist artist RolandPenrose and were produced to accompany three exhibitions at the house. Lee Miller at Farley Farm, Picasso at PlayandRoland Penrose's Surrealist Cameraare full of fascinating ......
These photographic 'zines' from the home of Lee Miller, Farleys House and Gallery, look at life through the lens of Lee Miller and her husband, the Surrealist artist RolandPenrose and were produced to accompany three exhibitions at the house. Lee Miller at Farley Farm, Picasso at PlayandRoland Penrose's Surrealist Cameraare full of fascinating ......
Jee Leong Koh writes out of the heart of a contemporary reality most readers are familiar with at second or third hand. He writes of political exile and spiritual homelessness; he understands the perils of war, and the perils of certain kinds of peace. Inspector Inspector is his second Carcanet book .
The Afterlife of Medieval Monasteries in England & Wales
A Thousand Fates explores the afterlife of medieval monasticism in England and Wales, a thousand years monasticism in England and Wales came to an abrupt end in the mid-sixteenth century with the Dissolution of the Monasteries. At its peak two hundred years earlier, many people chose the contemplative life, while the rich sought salvation through ......
