![]() ![]() ![]() When his ambitions are ignored by the city's staid musical elite, Delage's finds his situation suddenly transformed by a chance meeting with Amalia von Schalla, an elegant grande dame of Viennese society. He walks the great musical city, offering an impassioned defense of his piano's technical superiority to any who will hear it. (they contain) stories within stories, of enigmatic characters and sly questions with many possible answers." In The Voyage, Piano manufacturer and salesman Frank Delage travels to Vienna from Sydney, hoping to introduce a new design to replace the respected old pianos of Europe. The New York Times Book Review wrote that Bail's writing "exhibit(s) a surfeit of imagination, skill and style. Murray Bail is best known for his internationally best-selling novel Eucalyptus, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year and winner of the 1999 Miles Franklin Award. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. A great man' Stephen Fry Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express 'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times 'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese 'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard 'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. Filled with bathos, pathos and gales of ribald laughter, this is a barely sane helping of military goonery and superlative Milliganese. No ammunition') to the landing at Algiers in 1943 ('I closed my eyes and faced the sun. ' In this, the first of Spike Milligan's uproarious recollections of life in the army, our hero takes us from the outbreak of war in 1939 ('it must have been something we said'), through his attempts to avoid enlistment ('time for my appendicitus, I thought') and his gunner training in Bexhill ('There was one drawback. ![]() I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. ![]() ![]() A site where early humans butchered each other across sixty thousand years. Disturbing subterranean noises he recorded prior to vanishing, draw her to Brickburgh's caves. Helene, a disillusioned lone parent, lost her brother, Lincoln, six years ago. ![]() But when a vast hoard of human remains and prehistoric artefacts is discovered in nearby Brickburgh, a hideous shadow engulfs her life. Lifestyle journalist Katrine escaped past traumas by moving to a coast renowned for seaside holidays and natural beauty. ![]() Ancient rites, old deities and savage ways can reappear in the places you least expect. Nor did it bury the horrors predating civilisation. One million years of evolution didn't change our nature. ![]() Winner of The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel 2020 ![]() ![]() ![]() Rachel Plummer was commissioned by LGBT Youth Scotland to write the collection, and the commission was funded by Creative Scotland. Wain is fully illustrated in colour by Helene Boppert, and aimed at teenagers. The poems in this collection are fun, surprising, and full of a magical mix of myth and contemporary LGBT themes - it is a perfect read for teens who are learning more about themselves, other people, and the world around them. These poems immerse readers in an enriching, diverse and enchanting vision of contemporary life. The collection contains stories about kelpies, selkies, and the Loch Ness Monster, alongside perhaps lesser-known mythical people and creatures, such as wulvers, Ghillie Dhu, and the Cat Sìth. ![]() ![]() Wain is a collection of LGBT themed poetry for teens based on retellings of Scottish myths. ![]() ![]() ![]() To complicate matters, there’s also a strange young woman who showed up at Stan and Joy Delaney’s door a while back, and who is now nowhere to be found… ![]() Their parents are both former tennis players who used to run a tennis academy. The police soon identify their father, Stan, as a possible person of interest in her case.Īs they try to unravel the mystery of what happened to her or where she went, the four siblings - Troy, Brooke, Logan and Amy - are forced to confront truths about their relationships with each other, with their significant others, with their parents and about their parents’ marriage. For all the details about this potential jump to the small screen, here’s what we know about the Apples Never Fall TV series: What’s it about? What’s the plot?Īpples Never Fall follows the four Delaney siblings after the disappearance of their mother, Joy Delaney. ![]() Apples Never Fall TV Series: What We Knowīy Jennifer Marie Lin on Nov 4th, 2021 (Last Updated Nov 4th, 2021)Īpples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty has a limited series in development. ![]() ![]() ![]() Amber’s husband read Clare’s diaries, so Amber thought Clare would try to kill him to protect her secret. She crashed it to end Amber’s pregnancy to keep being the most important person in her life. The last diary entry after Clare killed her parents in the fire was “Taylor made me do it” so we don’t know which one was crazy.Įdward was stalking Amber and kept her in the coma, but Clare had been driving the car when Amber was hurt. Clare wrote the diaries (Amber’s maiden name was Taylor). This book was very well written and the twists were very twisty. ![]() ![]() She is married to Paul and works as a radio presenter. The novel is told from the perspective of Amber Reynolds, who is in a coma but can hear everything that is going on around her. ![]() ![]() ![]() The historian, Toynbee said, must necessarily select what is significant and what is not. Get briefed on the story of the week, and developing stories to watch across the Asia-Pacific. ![]() ![]() Every historian, he explained, “is situated in a point-moment of time, and he can only observe the universe from this shifting point-moment in his very brief life.” Urban and Toynbee agreed that historians bring to their studies their own prejudices and biases. Toynbee acknowledged that all historians’ views of history are shaped by their life experiences as well as their research. The first part of the dialogue dealt with Toynbee’s approaches to the study of history. Urban had familiarized himself with Toynbee’s magisterial A Study of History and his lesser works. The Toynbee-Urban dialogue consisted of twelve radio discussions in 19 that were published in 1974 under the title Toynbee on Toynbee. More than two years later, Toynbee sat down with George Urban, the Hungarian writer who moved to England in 1948, wrote for Encounter magazine, and worked for the BBC and Radio Free Europe. A few weeks ago, I wrote in these pages about the fascinating 1970 dialogue between Arnold Toynbee and Japanese professor Kei Wakaizumi, which was later edited and published in book form as Surviving the Future. ![]() ![]() ![]() Used These Alternate Names: Maurice Breçon, Fric Lajber, Fritz Leiber, Jr., Fritz R. ![]() ![]() Leiber's capacity for endless self-reinvention and productive self-examination kept him, until his death, one of the most modern of his sf generation. Leiber's late short fiction, and the fine horror novel Our Lady of Darkness, combine autobiographical issues like his struggle with depression and alcoholism with meditations on the emotional content of the fantastic genres. Leiber's science fiction includes the planet-smashing The Wanderer in which a large cast mostly survive flood, fire, and the sexual attentions of feline aliens, and the satirical A Spectre is Haunting Texas in which a gangling, exo-skeleton-clad actor from the Moon leads a revolution and finds his true love. He found his mature voice early in the first of the sword-and-sorcery adventures featuring the large sensitive barbarian Fafhrd and the small street-smart-ish Gray Mouser he returned to this series at various points in his career, using it sometimes for farce and sometimes for gloomy mood pieces-The Swords of Lankhmar is perhaps the best single volume of their adventures. was one of the more interesting of the young writers who came into HP Lovecraft's orbit, and some of his best early short fiction is horror rather than sf or fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Whether or not the world is falling apart from a political perspective,” she writes, “scientifically, we’re living in a golden age. ![]() But after accepting the fact that our universe cannot “persist unchanged, forever,” thinking through the science of end times is actually a thrill, an opportunity “to dig deep into the question of where it’s all going, what that all means, and what we can learn about the universe we live in by asking these questions.” Mack uses humor, metaphor, and personal experience to offset her often technical descriptions, creating a delightfully unsettling narrative that explains big ideas in modern physics and cosmology through the lens of end times. A theoretical astrophysicist surveys five possible scenarios for the end of the universe, backed by the latest research in physics and cosmology.Īcknowledging the end of the universe is a grim proposition. ![]() ![]() ![]() Williams - Asian American perspectives : ambivalence of the model minority and perpetual foreigner / Sze-kar Wan - Postcolonial approaches : negotiating empires, then and now / Jeremy Punt - Queer approaches : improper relations with Pauline letters / Joseph A. Lopez - Feminist approaches : rethinking history and resisting ideologies / Cynthia Briggs Kittredge - Jewish perspectives : a Jewish apostle to the Gentiles / Pamela Eisenbaum - African American approaches : rehumanizing the reader against racism and reading through experience / Demetrius K. Oakes - Visual perspectives : imag(in)ing the big Pauline picture / Davina C. ![]() Marchal leads a group of scholars who are. Nasrallah - Economic approaches : scarce resources and interpretive opportunities / Peter S. Studying Pauls Letters provides a survey of the most relevant current methods in Pauline scholarship. sexuality, ethnicity, and empire and the audiences of Pauls letters. Lopez - Spatial perspectives : space and archaeology in Roman Philippi / Laura S. Marchal teaches introductory religious studies courses. Marchal - Historical approaches : which past? whose past? / Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre - Rhetorical approaches : introducing the art of persuasion in Paul and Pauline studies / Todd Penner and Davina C. ![]() Table of contents: Introduction: Asking the right questions? : perspective and approach / Joseph A. ![]() |