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Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909–1943) lived largely in the shadows, searching for her spiritual home while bearing witness to the violence that devastated Europe twice in her brief lifetime. The letters she wrote to her parents and brother from childhood onward chart her intellectual range as well as her itinerancy and ever-shifting preoccupations, revealing the singular personality at the heart of her brilliant essays. The first complete collection of Weil's missives to her family, A Life in Letters offers new insight into her personal relationships and experiences.

A Conversation With A Cat That Might Not Have Actually Taken Place. Cat: Watchyadoin hooman? Me: Oh not much. Just putting the final touches to our book thingy. Cat: Catalorks, sounds important. Me: Sort of. But then, maybe, it isn't. Cat: Huh! Me: Well, I'm writing about a conversation that we're having at this very moment. Cat: Yep. With you so far. Me: But this conversation never really happened. Cat: So, umm, why are we having it then? You know, if it never happened. Me: Well, I needed something a bit bonkers for the back cover. Cat: So why not just make something up like you did before...

Random but meaningful conversations between a cat and her hooman...as written by the clueless but well-meaning hooman. Me: So I've done this book thing. Cat: What's a book thing? Me: Well, books are those things in my bedroom that you sit on quite peacefully during the day and knock onto the floor in the middle of the night when I'm asleep. Cat: Aha. And what do you mean, you've done one? Me: It's about our adventures since you joined me, err, I mean took over the household. Cat: I see. Though, you didn't ask, did you? Me: Oh, is it a problem? Cat: Not necessarily, but I feel permission and...

Viking Cats most definitely played a part in the incursions against England. Of this there is no doubt, despite efforts by so called “real” historians to cover this up. What is unclear is why there is little mention of Saxon Cats. One theory is that Saxons preferred dogs, usually big, mangy, smelly beasts that hunted stags and eat babies. Editors note; the eating of babies was usually blamed on the Viking invaders to scare the Saxon populace. Several famous Viking Cats do exist in history but probably as a hybrid of several heroic felines. For example, Balder Blackclaw was a fierce ...

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.

In the heart of Paris, where art and ambition intertwine, the boundaries between genius and madness blur. A tale of creation, obsession, and the quest for perfection, this story dances on the edge of brilliance. The artist, driven by an insatiable desire to capture the unattainable, confronts the fragility of his own vision. As the canvas comes to life, so too does a world where nothing is as it seems, and the cost of true artistry might just be too high. Balzac's story whispers of the fine line between genius and obsession, where the artist's soul is as fragile as the masterpiece he seeks.

King's Knight is the legend of King Arthur, but not as you know it. This is the dark truth of Camelot told from the perspective of Sir Kay, Arthur's foster-brother. Hated by his fellow knights for his arrogance and bullying, Kay reveals the secrets behind Arthur's glorious reign. From the moment Arthur pulled the sword from the stone, through savage wars and diabolical plots, Kay has remained loyal to his foster-brother, and struggled to keep order among the Knights of the Round Table. Here, in the first volume, Kay tells of war against the Saxons, his passionate love for a Northumbrian ...

July is a poetry collection written over the course of the month of July, one poem written every day exploring a theme or a feeling that was sparked by something that happened that day.

A Cotswold industrialist vanishing off the face of the earth, a heat-affected widow on her first vacation, a female archaeologist encountering a secret Brotherhood. Cairo, June 1896 Lady Catherine Lowther is simply irresistible. But when Catherine announces her cousin Imogene must vacation with her at the famous Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, Imogene fights the ludicrous proposal with tooth and nail. Finally, back in her own house in Landdulton and still mourning Thaddeus, her constable husband, all Imogene wants is to be left alone. But does she really? Cairo is hot, hoity-toity, and ...

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.

En la sombra del régimen nazi, una mujer lucha por proteger a su hija de las garras del mal. París, 1941. Sarah, una mujer judía, se encuentra atrapada en la ciudad con su hija Rebecca de cinco años, mientras la Segunda Guerra Mundial avanza sin piedad por todo el continente. Desesperadas por escapar del creciente control de la opresión nazi, intentan huir a la neutral España. Sin embargo, sus esperanzas se desvanecen cuando son capturadas por la policía francesa y enviadas al campo de internamiento de Drancy, ubicado al norte de París, donde los judíos franceses están siendo ...

In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem. In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything. But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle. Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another.

In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem. In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything. But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle. Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another.

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.

In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem. In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything. But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle. Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another.

Bienvenue dans les Pouilles, à Villa Gloria. Une maison d'hôtes pas comme les autres. À Villa Gloria, Iris et sa mère, qui a donné son nom à sa maison, veillent à ce que chaque client se sente comme chez lui. En cette semaine d'avril, les nouveaux venus promettent un cru d'exception. Gregorio est le roi des râleurs. Rien ne trouve grâce à ses yeux. Valentina et sa filleule, Bianca, ont l'air un peu cabossées – surtout la petite, légèrement obsessionnelle. Doria et Edoardo forment un couple très discret. À se demander ce qu'ils ont à cacher.

Il faut parfois vingt ans pour réparer ses dix-sept... Septembre 1999. Quand Cyril et sa mère Claudia fuient la Normandie en même temps que leur passé, c'est dans une ville improbable du sud de la France, une ville de vacanciers, qu'ils décident de poser leurs valises pour un nouveau départ : à la Grande-Motte. Une ville futuriste, sortie des marais dans les années 60, mais dont Cyril et sa mère vont vite comprendre que ses habitants ont déjà une histoire.

A family cohabits with a horse; three riots are tucked up safely in their beds; a tumbleweed takes up a career in comedy; the giant flag crossing a football crowd has a strange effect on those underneath; a rampaging fifty-foot poem brings terror to a city… As always in Paul Farley’s work, the quotidian and the cosmic are braided together in surprising, funny, or disconcerting ways. And as always, his poems inhabit and explore intermediate, uncertain spaces, a fertile terrain found between the obscurity of the cave and the light of knowledge linked to power.

Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story, and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.