The story of The Mousehole Cat comes from Cornish folklore, and Bayley did a lot of local research and drawing in Cornwall. She was born in Singapore, and has a degree in illustration from the Royal College of Art. Nicola Bayley (1949 – present) is an illustrator best known for her loving drawings of cats. She comes from a theatrical family, and from a young age she invented her own stories and plays. So Mowzer and Tom decide to set out to sea and bravely face the Great Storm-Cat together…Ī beautifully illustrated book, which mingles history and legend to tell a stirring story of heroism and storms at sea and a very special cat.Īntonia Barber (1932 – present) is an English author. With Christmas around the corner, there is no food to be found in the village. One day, a huge storm begins to batter the harbour walls, and no-one can leave to fish anymore. Mowzer the cat lives with his owner, Tom the fisherman, in a beautiful seaside village in Cornwall called Mousehole.
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Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today. In Switch Bitch four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. 'Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable' Daily Telegraph In the black comedies of Switch Bitch Roald Dahl brilliantly captures the ins and outs, highs and lows of sex. Topping and tailing this collection are The Visitorand Bitch, stories featuring Dahl's notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius (or plain old Uncle Oswald) whose exploits are frequently as extraordinary as they are scandalous. In the middle, meanwhile, are The Great Switcheroo and The Last Act, two stories exploring a darker side of desire and pleasure. In Switch Bitch four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl. Topping and tailing this collection are The Visitor and Bitch, stories featuring Dahl's notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius (or plain old Uncle Oswald) whose exploits are frequently as extraordinary as they are scandalous. In Switch Bitch four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl. The dénouement, told from Alice’s point of view, offers a few shreds of redemption and a sermon-like anecdote justifying the title (Hinton is a pastor). Roy, however, turns mean and violent as he grows into manhood, setting the scene for more horrific violence, events that shatter Olivia and the little love she has known. Ruth’s children, Tree, and her dreamy older brother, E. Olivia is born on the heels of the grotesque killing of a young black man and the dramatic ice storm that follows. She settles into a shack on the edge of Smoketown, Greensboro’s black ghetto, right next to Ruth, a saintly black woman with her own history of violence. She arrives in Greensboro, N.C., pregnant, but in deep denial, her five-year-old son Roy tagging along like an afterthought. Olivia’s mother Mattie is a sex-driven, emotionally frigid product of her own father’s violence. Grieving, Alice recalls her awful foster childhood and then the book settles into the story of Olivia’s birth and life. Best known for the easy charm of her Hope Springs trilogy, here Hinton ( The Last Odd Day, 2004, etc.) taps into the darker, if not deeper, vein of her recent work. From the moment Alice answers with “bloodlike glaze dripping” from her fingers, we know we are in portentous (and occasionally pretentious) southern gothic territory. Middle-aged Alice is making strawberry jam when her mother Olivia, who abandoned her at age four, knocks on the front door. A mysterious abandonment and reunion frame multi-generational trauma, racial violence and lasting emotional damage. But if you can get past the slow early chapters it becomes an interesting read, culminating in that staple of the Victorian crime novel, the chase through the pea soup fog. At times the period detail comes near to being laid on with a trowel, and some of the characters are taken from stock it comes as no surprise that Lizzie reads Darwin and wears her social conscience on her sleeve. This book is clearly intended as the first in a series featuring Lizzie and Ben as a detective partnership. She also renews acquaintance with Benjamin Ross, once a pit boy in her home village, now a rising young police inspector. Lizzie is soon drawn into the search for the killer, much against the wishes of her employer. Almost immediately she learns that her predecessor, who disappeared some weeks earlier, has been found murdered. Such a young woman is Elizabeth Martin, who arrives in London from Derbyshire in 1864 after the death of her doctor father. Read 174 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The first thrilling instalment in the Inspector Ben Ros. In Victorian England many a penniless young woman of ‘good’ family found that the only form of paid employment available was as a ‘companion’ to a better-off widow. A Rare Interest In Corpses: A gripping Victorian crime mystery by Ann Granger A Rare Interest In Corpses book. “How many times have you been unable to fully enjoy a special moment because you couldn’t stop thinking about what was missing?” But he does suggest, rightly so, I think, that we “throw away the idea that you need to pause your life until you are fully healed.” Life is motion. His vision of self is a very healthy one. I can’t truly have a healthy relationship at any level if I don't understand myself first. Not trauma as we often think of it, perhaps, but the trauma of “jealousy, anger, doubt, and low self-worth.” And the recovery “is not about managing your emotions it is about managing your reactions to your emotions” because “our reactions tell us what our mind has internalized from our past experiences.” And since each and every one of us has different experiences, everything starts with self. There is material on self-awareness, personal relationships, and society at large, but it all comes back to self. I have never encountered this author or his work before reading this book but was not surprised to learn, after finishing the book, that he began his thoughtful journey during a meditation course focused on the self. You will also see partition (and fears it stokes) shaping articles around federalism and relationship between provinces and union. Constituent assembly debates about every minor detail that went into the constitution (For ex: Removal of the words "Due process" in one of the articles was debated so extensively). You also understand why constitution borrowed heavily from 1935 Act. None of the important parts of the constitution was decided based on majority. Author cites that's what makes this an Indian constitution even though it has foreign origins. You will also see that many of the prominent figures (Nehru, Patel, Ambedkar, Prasad to name a few) wield enormous influence but they never forgo consensus and accommodation (two prominent features of the constitution making process) to enforce their will. Reading the book one understands why various provisions exist in the constitution as it is today. I took my own sweet time to read this as this is a very heavy read. Book thoroughly documents how the constituent assembly (with the help of lawmakers and various other experts) drafted various parts of the constitution (Fundamental rights, directive principles, executive, judiciary, federalism, language provisions to name a few). You will get the chance to discover farm activities, including how hay is made and the process of milking cows, and amazing facts, like why birds migrate. You will learn alongside Boris as he is taught about his new life. Among the interesting characters are Boris and Olga's silly brother, Charlie the Dog, and their friends Gus the Squirrel, Charlotte the Horse, Zeke the Mallard Duck, and the Holstein Heifers, Betsy and Ellie Mae. Through the antics and adventures of these two adorable cats, you'll meet an array of animals, both wild and domestic. There, with his sassy older sister, Olga, they explore the farmstead and all it has to offer. Buy 2, Get 3rd Free: Our Favorite Paperbacksīoris, a stray kitten rescued from the city streets, finds his forever home on the farm of his dreams.Summer of Suspense: Buy 2, Get 3rd Free.Huge Summer Stock-Up Sale! Buy 2, Get 3rd Free!. And on the 3,200 mile trip from Tucson to Maine, my wife and I listened to The Warmth of Other Suns, which is a masterful telling of this largely unknown migration. I started off 2020 and ended a 6-month road trip with a weeklong journey through the southern United States and up the east coast to Maine, following a northern journey that many Blacks made between during the great migration in 19. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson Goodreads Feel free to add me on Goodreads as well. I am always on the lookout for recommendations to add to my Goodreads backlog. What were your favorite books? Put them in the comments below and include a reason why you're recommending if you can. Here are my five favorite books in no specific order that I read or listened to in 2020. For me, 2020 was the year of the audiobook as I started listening to them on a cross-country drive in January and then continued listening to them all year long while training for half-marathons that never came. A 90-minute run is much more fun with audiobooks. We could tell from the tapes that there were two Richard Nixons."īut the president's daughter Tricia said that just wasn't so. Nixon "had a remarkable facility to put on an act. But the drug's side-effects include confusion, loss of memory and irritability, which former aide John Dean said top level staffers at the Nixon White House saw on a regular basis.ĭean told CBS News that Mr. His mood wasn't too good." Dreyfus claimed the drug deals effectively with fear, worry, guilt, anger, rage, depression and other conditions. Dreyfus later supplied another 1,000, it said.ĭreyfus told The New York Times he gave Mr. Nixon was given 1,000 capsules of the mood-altering drug Dilantin, an anti-convulsant used to counter epileptic seizures, by Jack Dreyfus, founder of an investment firm. Summers' book also claimed that in 1968, Mr. Cox noted that "these claims are based on statements attributed to two persons no longer alive by a man (Sears) who did not meet either of my parents until years after 1962." He blackened her eye." Sears told Summers he learned this from two lawyers, both now dead, Waller Taylor and Pat Hillings. Nixon's successful 1968 campaign for president, told him that he had been told "that Nixon had hit her (Pat Nixon) in 1962 and that she had threatened to leave him over it. Nixon beat his wife "so badly she could not go out the next day."Īnd Summers writes that retired Washington lawyer John Sears, who worked in Mr. Summers writes that a now-deceased Los Angeles reporter, Bill Van Petten, told an unidentified friend that Mr. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm-that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. And Lucifer said: "Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down." The year is 1348. Now Christopher Buehlman invites readers into an even darker age-one of temptation and corruption, of war in heaven, and of hell on earth. His extraordinary debut, Those Across the River, was hailed as "genre-bending Southern horror" (California Literary Review), "graceful horrific" (Patricia Briggs). |