Our Lady of the Flowers (Genet Jean)(Paperback)

Our Lady of the Flowers (Genet Jean)(Paperback)

Jean Genet's masterpiece, composed entirely in the solitude of his prison cell. With an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel was written while he was in prison. As Sartre recounts in his introduction, Genet penned this work on the brown paper which

The Criminal Child: Selected Essays (Genet Jean)(Paperback)

The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school system, a French radio station commissioned Genet to write about his experience as a juvenile delinquent. He sent back a

Miracle of the Rose (Genet M. Jean)(Paperback / softback)

Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and explicitness unprecedented at the

The Thief's Journal (Genet Jean)(Paperback)

First published in France in 1949, The Thief's Journal is Jean Genet's iconic work of autobiographical fiction. This new edition brings his legendary genius to future generations of readers, with an introduction by Genet's great admirer, Patti Smith. From a prison cell, the journal's narrator

The Wound (Mauvignier Laurent)(Paperback)

'Where is your wound?' asks Jean Genet in the lines Laurent Mauvignier uses as an epigraph to The Wound. By the time we have finished this four-part novel, we realize that for many the wound lies four decades back in 'the Events' that people have tried to not talk about ever since: the Algerian

Sexistence (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

Sex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, philosophical and literary, Jean-Luc Nancy explores and upholds the form-giving thrust of the drive. Nancy reminds us that we are more comfortable with

The Star Machine (Basinger Jeanine)(Paperback)

From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich, penetrating, amusing book about the golden age of movies and how the studios worked to manufacture stars. With revelatory insights and delightful asides, Jeanine Basinger shows us how the studio 'star machine' worked when it worked,

Befriending the Stranger (Vanier Jean)(Paperback / softback)

Jean Vanier reflects on who we are and how we build our

Cromwell, Our Chief Of Men (Fraser Lady Antonia)(Paperback / softback)

The bestselling historian's biography of a decisive figure in England's

Querelle (Genet Jean)(Paperback)

'It is awesome, perhaps the finest novel I have ever read in my life. It literally sent shivers through me, the sheer beauty of the language, the exquisite perversity of the imagination, the incredible grasp of motivation-it is his most tightly plotted, best organized, most accessible novel. It is

Seven Flowers - And How They Shaped Our World (Potter Jennifer)(Paperback / softback)

The lotus, lily, sunflower, opium poppy, rose, tulip and orchid: one of our finest horticultural historians considers a septet of flowers that have enflamed hearts and minds in cultures around the

The Man Who Planted Trees

VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. 'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzeard Bouffier

Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War (Owtram Jean)(Paperback)

Patricia and Jean Owtram are possibly the only living sisters to have signed the wartime Official Secrets Act. Raised in a Lancashire country house in the 1920s, the family takes in two Austrian Jewish refugees, and the sisters quickly become fluent in German - which will go on to shape their roles

A Holy Life: The Writings of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes (McEachern Patricia)(Paperback)

While the story of the apparitions of Our Lady to Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes in 1858 are well known, relatively few people are familiar with the saint's own spiritual insights and profound holiness. For the first time in English, this book presents a wide selection of St. Bernadette's

The Lady of Shalott (Lord Tennyson Alfred)(Paperback)

Four gray walls, and four gray towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowersThe Lady of Shalott. Tennyson's romantic poem, full of atmosphere and emotion, tells the story of the mysterious Lady of Shalott. In this exquisite illustrated edition, Charles Keeping's evocative

Lady Business: A Celebration of Lesbian Poetry (Borland Bryan)(Paperback)

Poetry. LGBT Studies. It's our Sapphic sisters turn to shine In the spirit of the Library Journal-honored ASSARACUS comes LADY BUSINESS: A CELEBRATION OF LESBIAN POETRY, featuring some of the most talented and diverse voices from established and emerging female poets, including Sally Bellerose,

My History - A Memoir of Growing Up (Fraser Lady Antonia)(Paperback / softback)

The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Emmerich Anne Catherine)(Paperback)

Incredibly revealing and edifying background of Our Lady, her parents and ancestors, St. Joseph, plus other people who figured into the coming of Christ. Many facts described about the Nativity and early life of Our Lord, as well as the final days of the Blessed Mother-all from the visions of this

Sopranos (Warner Alan)(Paperback / softback)

NOW A SELL-OUT PLAY: OUR LADIES OF PERPETUAL SUCCOURThe choir from Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School for Girls is being bussed to the national finals in the big, big

The Complete Plays of Jean Racine (Racine Jean)(Paperback)

The 17th century dramatist Jean Racine was considered, along with Moliere and Corneille, as one of the three great playwrights of his era. The quality of Racine's poetry has been described as possibly his most important contribution to French literature and his use of the alexandrine poetic line is

Grass Memorial (Harrison Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

From the author of An Imperfect Lady and The Flowers of the

Our Charades and How We Played Them (Jean Francis)(Paperback)

With a Few Practical Hints On the Proper Management of This Favourite and Most Interesting Pastime This book, 'Our Charades and How We Played Them', by Jean Francis, is a replication of a book originally published before 1965. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may

The Language of Psychoanalysis (LaPlanche Jean)(Paperback)

The System of Objects (Baudrillard Jean)(Paperback)