Young Romantics - The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives (Hay Daisy)(Paperback / softback)

Young Romantics - The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives (Hay Daisy)(Paperback / softback)

A striking literary biography by a significant and talented young

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives (Hay Daisy)(Paperback)

Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective--celebrating their extreme youth and outsize yearning for friendship as well as their individuality and political radicalism. The book focuses on the network of writers

Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw (James Henry)(Paperback / softback)

Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those

Seabird's Cry - The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers (Nicolson Adam)(Paperback / softback)

Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly (Cardina John)(Paperback)

Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came about, why they are both inevitable and essential, and how their ecological success is ensured by

Shouting in the Evenings - 50 Years on the Stage (Hayes James)(Paperback / softback)

In 1963, a young man from Limerick took his GBP25 savings and journeyed to London to become an actor. While still a student, he was picked to play a small role in Andorra in the inaugural season of the National Theatre at the Old

Handle with Care - My life as a young carer, the loss of my parents and how I learned to live again (Bugg Rochelle)(Paperback / softback)

My life as a carer and how I learned to live

No Empty Chairs - The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War (Mackersey Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Concubine (Amadi Elechi)(Paperback / softback)

Ihuoma, a beautiful young widow, has the admiration of the entire community in which she lives, and especially of the hunter Ekwueme. But their passion is fated and jealousy, a love potion and the closeness of the spirit world are important

Amateur Marriage (Tyler Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in

Circle Mirror Transformation (Baker Annie)(Paperback / softback)

Over six tangled weeks their lives become knotted together in this tender and funny play. Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation won a New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the 2010 Obie Award for Best New American Play. It was voted one of the top ten plays of 2009 by the New York Times,

Asleep (Yoshimoto Banana)(Paperback / softback)

Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay

Fungus the Bogeyman (Briggs Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Life in Bogeydom is full of snot, smells, slime, scum and other unspeakable things, and Bogeymen live under the ground revelling in all the nastiness imaginable. This cartoon-strip picture book is suitable for older

Dying to Live (Stanley Michael)(Paperback / softback)

When the body of a bushman with puzzlingly young organs is stolen from the morgue and a local witch doctor goes missing, Detective Kubu becomes involved in a life-threatening

Goddess Chronicle (Kirino Natsuo)(Paperback / softback)

On an island in the shape of a teardrop live two sisters. One is admired far and wide, the other lives in her shadow. One is the Oracle, the other is destined for the Underworld. But what will happen when she returns to the island? Based on the Japanese myth of Izanami and Izanagi, The Goddess

Daisy Miller and Other Stories (James Henry)(Paperback)

The tale of Daisy's irruption into staid European society enjoyed, as did Daisy herself, a succ�s de scandale; and it has remained one of Jamess most popular short stories. Like the others collected here--'Pandora, ' 'The Patagonia, ' and 'Four Meetings'-- it describes a confrontation between

Byron In Love (O'Brien Edna)(Paperback / softback)

The nobility, arrogance and sheer theatre of Byron's

Animals Eat Each Other (Nash Elle)(Paperback / softback)

A young woman embarks on a fraught three-way relationship and begins to recognise the dark undertow of obsession and jealousy that her presence has created between Matt and Frances, and finds herself balancing on a knife's edge between pain and pleasure, the promise of the future and the crushing

Into The Tangled Bank - Discover the Quirks, Habits and Foibles of How We Experience Nature (Parikian Lev)(Paperback / softback)

Making All Things New and Other Classics (Nouwen Henri)(Paperback / softback)

'If you are willing to live a life of prayer and practise the disciplines of solitude and community, a new hunger will make itself known. This new hunger is the first sign of God's presence.' Henri Nouwen is much loved for his profound but simple insight on Christian spirituality. Making All Things

Bug Club Pro Guided Y3 Hot Spots and Other Extreme Places to Live (Bridges Shirin Yim)(Paperback / softback)

Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture (Cutchins Dennis R.)(Paperback)

This edited collection explores the afterlife of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in theatre and film, radio, literature and graphics novels, making a substantial contribution to the field of adaptation

Bomber Boys - Fighting Back 1940-1945 (Bishop Patrick)(Paperback / softback)

Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan

You Live Where?! (Hay John)(Paperback / softback)

A laugh-out-loud funny story, perfect for fans of Kes Gray's You're Called What?! and Oi! Frog and Friends. Featuring a whole range of unbelievably silly real place names - from Little Snoring to Scratchy