Download or read book Poetry Geography written by Neal Alexander and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected critical essays examine contemporary poetry in terms of cultural geography. Key themes are place and identity; literary cartographies; walking as trope and spatial practice; the poetics of edges, margins, and peripheries; landscape, language, and form.

Download or read book The Unaccompanied written by Simon Armitage and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the prize-winning poet and former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom comes a powerful collection of poetry that gives voice to the people of Britain with a haunting grace. We meet characters whose sense of isolation is both emotional and political, both real and metaphorical, from a son made to groom the garden hedge as punishment, to a nurse standing alone at a bus stop as the centuries pass by, to a latter-day Odysseus looking for enlightenment and hope in the shadowy underworld of a cut-price supermarket. We see the changing shape of England itself, viewed from a satellite "like a shipwreck's carcass raised on a sea-crane's hook, / nothing but keel, beams, spars, down to its bare bones." In this exquisite collection, Armitage X-rays the weary but ironic soul of his nation, with its "Songs about mills and mines and a great war, / lines about mermaids and solid gold hills, / songs from broken hymnbooks and cheesy films"—in poems that blend the lyrical and the vernacular, with his trademark eye for detail and biting wit.

Download or read book The Suburbs written by Marie Bouchet and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While suburbs provide a rich field of research for sociologists, architects, urbanists and anthropologists, they have not been given much attention in literary and cultural studies. The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives sets out to enrich the limited existing body of critical analysis on the subject with a landmark collection of essays offering a far larger perspective than the books or collections published so far on the topic. This interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach includes literary and art studies, philosophy, and cultural comment. It examines the suburbs across cultural differences, contrasting British, South African and North American suburbs. The specificity of this book therefore lies in a cross-national and cross-continental exploration of these unchartered territories. The suburbs are redefined as those rebellious margins whose geographical borders are necessarily fuzzy and sketch out a common place where cultural frontiers can be transcended. They are, to use Sarah Nuttall’s terminology, places of “entanglement” where contraries meet and where new ways of being in the world is reborn. Seen through the prism of art and literature, the suburbs may then be recognized, as philosopher Bruce Bégout argues, as a “new way of thinking and making urban space.”

Download or read book Jenny James Is Not a Disaster written by Debbie Johnson and published by Harper Muse. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's having a bad day . . . and then there's having a Very Bad Day. Thirty-something single mum Jenny James is used to the typical run-in-your-tights, milk-turned-sour, break-a-nail bad kind of day. Attitude from her teenage son? Count on it. Car problems? To be expected. Never quite enough money for monthly expenses? Guaranteed. And then arrives the Very Bad Day--when Jenny finds out her dull but reliable office job is in jeopardy, her car totally and completely breaks down, and she arrives home (on foot) just in time to see her modest-but-cozy cottage sliding off a cliff into the sea. Jenny's life--not to mention her home--has reached its ultimate low point. Estranged from her parents since she became pregnant at age eighteen and set out on her own, Jenny has nowhere to turn when she and her son, Charlie, find themselves without a place to live. Her neighbor, the reclusive but attractive Luke who lives alone with his dog in a surprisingly homey RV, opens up his camper--and his vagabond lifestyle--to Jenny and her son. As the unlikely threesome--four including the dog--hit the road, Jenny finds herself experiencing a new sense of freedom as she reflects on who she was, who she is, and who she could become. Maybe when you fall, you actually find the best way to move forward.

Download or read book The Motorway Service Station as a Destination in Its Own Right written by Simon Armitage and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in Marsden, Yorkshire, and is a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published ten collections of poetry including Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid (Faber & Faber) and his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. His awards include one of the first Forward Prizes, The Sunday Times Young Author of the Year, a Lannan Award, and an Ivor Novello Award for his song-writing in the BAFTA-winning film Feltham Sings. He is a also a playwright, novelist, regular broadcaster.

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the 4th session of the 28th Parliament through the session of the Parliament.

Download or read book The Book of Visions written by Nicholas Albery and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over five hundred best ideas (schemes, plans, proposals, etc.) from around the world - the visions of leading practitioners, world experts and inspired amateurs - new and imaginative (non-technological) for tackling social problems and improving the quality of life collected by the London Institute of Social Inventions. The Institute, a charity of research and education set up in 1985, is backed by many prominent people in all fields of life whose common goal is to promote social innovations: new social services or new and imaginative solutions to social problems, ideally before they becomes crises.

Download or read book Food Britannia written by Andrew Webb and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British food has not traditionally been regarded as one of the world's great cuisines, and yet Stilton cheese, Scottish raspberries, Goosnargh duck and Welsh lamb are internationally renowned and celebrated. And then there are all those dishes and recipes that inspire passionate loyalty among the initiated: Whitby lemon buns and banoffi pie, for example; pan haggerty and Henderson's relish. All are as integral a part of the country's landscape as green fields, rolling hills and rocky coastline. In Food Britannia, Andrew Webb travels the country to bring together a treasury of regional dishes, traditional recipes, outstanding ingredients and heroic local producers. He investigates the history of saffron farming in the UK, tastes the first whisky to be produced in Wales for one hundred years, and tracks down the New Forest's foremost expert on wild mushrooms. And along the way, he uncovers some historical surprises about our national cuisine. Did you know, for example, that the method for making clotted cream, that stalwart of the cream tea, was probably introduced from the Middle East? Or that our very own fish and chips may have started life as a Jewish-Portuguese dish? Or that Alfred Bird invented his famous custard powder because his wife couldn't eat eggs? The result is a rich and kaleidoscopic survey of a remarkably vibrant food scene, steeped in history but full of fresh ideas for the future: proof, if proof were needed, that British food has come of age.

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates Hansard written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inseparable Bond written by David Poulter and published by E-Books Publisher. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ordinary People written by Phil Boast and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During part I of 'Ordinary People', we have been introduced to the leading players who reside in the village of Middlewapping, and whom we meet again here, to see how their lives, loves and relationships are developing. During much of part II, however, centre stage is taken up by another young lady, who's name is Victoria Tillington, only daughter to the Lord and Lady of Middlewapping Manor. One morning she takes it upon herself to walk the family dogs into the village; the morning itself is of little significance, but her action eventually sets off a chain of events which nobody in this apparently sleepy backwater of England would have imagined. Victoria's life is about to crash; to be broken on the rocks of her loneliness, and she comes to see the village as perhaps her last hope of redemption; a way back to a happier life. And waiting in the wings is another person; somebody whom she has not seen or heard from for over ten years, and the only person that she has ever really loved. In the end it takes the death of two people to set in motion something which could be her only salvation, and dark forces are brought into play in order for this to become possible. For in part II of our tale we are introduced to another character whom we have yet to encounter; we are about to meet Rebecca.

Download or read book BUG Britain and Ireland written by Backpackers Guide (BUG) and published by BUG Backpackers Guide. This book was released on 2005 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Budget travel is what BUG guides are all about - no flash hotels and fancy banquets - just the most comprehensive information on backpackers' hostels and living it up without blowing the budget.

Download or read book Croatia written by Piers Letcher and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide focuses on Croatia's natural and cultural attractions, including in-depth coverage of Zagreb and the historic cities of Dubrovnik and Split.

Download or read book Food on the Move written by Lawrence David and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Revenge written by Harry Gardiner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One quiet night in a London flat, Detective John Hunter wakes to find an intruder in his bedroom. With little warning, the intruder pulls a weapon, and Hunter dives off the bed, miraculously dodging a shotgun blast. But the woman sharing his bed, the wife of one of London's most vicious gangsters, is killed instantly. Hunter faces her killer, not surprised in the least that the assailant is his lover's husband. I knew what I had to do and felt strangely calm. There was no resistance when I bent down and searched through the man's pockets. I found two shotgun cartridges. I felt nothing as I pointed the gun and pulled the trigger. The hateful eyes disappeared into an explosion of blood. This one act leads Hunter into a cycle of vicious revenge that leaves a trail of destruction across England, Spain, and Germany. In trying to cover up his murderous secret, Hunter must involve himself with a crooked American organization that exposes him to a war not of his own making. The deeper he ventures into this new life, the harder it becomes to remember which side of the law he's on. But Hunter's past is about to catch up with him, and it could prove to be fatal .

Download or read book Bread of Heaven written by Richard Woolley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bread of Heaven is divided into two parts: a diary detailing a year in the life of a man trying to make babies, films and sense out of life, love, sex and sexuality; and a comedy feature film script, written by that same man, in the same year, about the British coalminers' strike of 1984. 'Bread of Heaven' (the film's original title) is used as a metaphor for the ups and downs of life and creativity, and as a symbol for the solidarity of people from different backgrounds in times of trouble. In the diary, the power of love and friendship, the delights and difficulties of sex, the pressures of conception, and the idyll of an Italian writing holiday are all interwoven in fast moving prose that offers humour and insight amid glimpses of despair. In the film, the light and dark sides of the miners' struggle are revealed, when a striking miners' family from Yorkshire goes to stay with a well-to-do, but supportive academic's family in Cambridge; unexpected bonds grow between the two families, as naivety and a budding teenage romance come face to face with the reality of clandestine state violence. 'Richard Woolley has the rare gift of keeping you anxious to know what happens next.' David Robinson, The Times New Zealand Agent/Distributor: Publishers Distribution Ltd (PDL) Address: 39 Woodside Avenue, Northcote, Auckland 0627, NZ Ph: +64 9 828 2999 Fax: +64 9 828 2399 Email: [email protected]

Download or read book K2 The Savage Mountain written by Norman Handy and published by novum pro Verlag. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one man's travels through northern Pakistan, using Gilgit as a centre. You will be taken westward to the fascinating Kalash Valleys with a surviving unique culture, struggling to maintain their identity in the harsh and rugged mountains, bordering Afghanistan. The story continues to Baltistan and up through the Karakoram Mountains and the infamous Karakoram Highway that links the country to China via the Khunjerab Pass, the highest road border crossing in the world. The journey goes eastwards across the Deosai plateau which have an average elevation of 4,000m and the disputed areas of Jammu and Kashmir. Finally there is the ascent to base camp of K2, the world's second highest but most deadly of mountains.