The Bront Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects (Lutz Deborah)(Paperback)

The Bront Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects (Lutz Deborah)(Paperback)

In this unique and lovingly detailed biography, Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the fascinating lives of the Bront s through the things they wore, stitched, and inscribed. Lutz immerses readers in a nuanced re-creation of the sisters' days while moving us chronologically

The Lives of Colonial Objects (Cooper Annabel)(Paperback)

'The Lives of Colonial Objects' is a sumptuously illustrated and highly readable book about things, and the stories that unfold when we start to investigate them. In this collection of 50 essays the authors, including historians, archivists, curators and Maori scholars, have each chosen an object

The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas (Janes Hilly)(Paperback)

In The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas, journalist Hilly Janes explores the poet's life and extraordinary legacy through the eyes of her father, the artist Alfred Janes. A member of Thomas's inner circle, he painted the poet at three key moments: in 1934, 1953 and, posthumously in 1964, portraits which

My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music (Fleisher Leon)(Paperback)

My Nine Lives is a powerful and stirring memoir of one of the greatest pianists of the postwar era--an inspiring tale of courage, compassion, and triumph over outstanding odds. At the peak of his career, celebrated pianist Leon Fleisher suddenly lost the use of two fingers on his right hand

Trauma Healing in the Yoga Zone (Lutz Joann)(Paperback / softback)

The Wouldbegoods (Nesbit E.)(Paperback)

'Nesbit opened the door in the magic wardrobe, pointed the way to platform nine and three quarters. She even had a hand in building the Tardis. And these are among her minor achievements. She is also simply the funniest writer we have ever had' Frank Cottrell-Boyce 'This is the story of one of the

The Glass Forest (Swanson Cynthia)(Paperback)

The lives of three very different women intersect in shocking ways in this 'outstanding psychological thriller' (Library Journal, starred review), by the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookseller. In the autumn of 1960, Angie Glass is living an idyllic life in her Wisconsin hometown. At

A History of Women in 100 Objects (Andrews Maggie)(Paperback)

The history of the world has been told in objects. But what about the objects that tell the history of women? What are the items that symbolize the journey of women from second-class citizens with no legal rights, no vote and no official status to the powerful people they are today? And what are

Who Lives Here? Polar Animals (Hodge Deborah)(Paperback)

The polar regions are home to amazing animals whose bodies are built for living in the extreme cold. Emperor penguins, snowy owls and beluga whales all have special ways of staying warm, finding food and raising their young in a polar habitat of thick ice and snow.The Who Lives Here? series looks

The Rainbow (Lawrence D. H.)(Paperback)

Lawrence's classic novel chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family in Nottinghamshire. Increasingly, the story focuses on Ursula, and follows her development through adolescence and early

Digital Lives in the Global City: Contesting Infrastructures (Cowen Deborah)(Paperback)

Digital technologies have changed the world, transforming how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, produce, distribute, and consume. Digital Lives in the Global City examines those changes in the context of urban life, investigating how urban land, governance, and the economy are being

One by One in the Darkness (Madden Deirdre)(Paperback / softback)

One by One in the Darkness follows a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in 1994, undercut with the story of their childhood in Northern Ireland of the 1960s and

Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (Townsend Sue)(Paperback / softback)

Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a semi-detached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not well. The secondhand bookshop in which Adrian works is threatened with

Nine Lives - In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (Dalrymple William)(Paperback / softback)

Award-winning, critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered

The Professor (Bronte Charlotte)(Paperback)

The hero of Charlotte Bront�'s first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zora�de Reuter, complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both teacher and

Early Reader: The Three Little Witches Storybook (Adams Georgie)(Paperback / softback)

Meet Zara, Ziggy and Zoe, three little witches who live in a magical

They Live in the Sky: Invisible Incredible UFOs Around Us (Constable Trevor James)(Paperback)

Constable's first full-length book reissued, which reveals otherwise hidden creatures and objects traversing our skies that were exposed with his groundbreaking infrared photo techniques. Also covered is a series of telepathic communications the author had developed with what was claimed to be an

Finding God in the Psalms: Sing, Pray, Live (Wright Tom)(Paperback)

I have decided, as a kind of thought-experiment, to order the material in three sections. The Psalms invite their singers, as they always have, to live at the crossroads of time, space and matter. This book explores what happens at this crossing-point' From the Introduction - A spiritual manifesto

Butterfly Cabinet (McGill Bernie)(Paperback / softback)

A secret shared. Two lives entwined. Finally the past must come to

The Hope Chest (Brown Carolyn)(Paperback)

A grandmother's loving bequest changes three lives forever in a heartwarming novel about finding love, hope, and family by New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown.An inheritance has reunited three estranged cousins. Their grandmother Lucy left Nessa, Flynn, and April her home nestled in the

Dancing In The Dark (Lee Maureen)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliantly compelling Liverpool saga following the lives of two women - three generations

Emily Bronte Reappraised (O'Callaghan Claire)(Paperback / softback)

Emily Bronte occupies a special place in the English literary canon. And rightly so: the incomparable Wuthering Heights is a novel that has bewitched us for almost 200 years, and the character of Heathcliff is, perhaps, the ultimate romantic hero, and villain. But Emily herself remains an enigmatic

Three By the Sea (Grey Mini)(Paperback / softback)

In a house by the sea there happily live a dog, a cat and a mouse. Well, happily enough until a stranger knocks on the door one night, offering them each a special free gift. Who is this mysterious salesman blowing into their little world and turning it upside-down? And can their happy home survive

The Makers of Rome: Nine Lives (Plutarch)(Paperback)

Nine biographies that illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen The lives of the statesmen featured in this collection span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they