6/10/2023 0 Comments Between these wicked wallsThe more time Andromeda spends at the house, the deeper she realises the evil eye has a grasp on the boy that is slowly worming his way into her heart. When she arrives she quickly realises she is in well over her head, not only with the amount of manifestations the house holds, but also with the sometimes charming, sometimes surly resident Magnus Rochester. Desperate for a job she accepts the cleansing of a haunted house, something much bigger than she has ever dealt with. Andromeda is a debtera, an exorcist who cleanses people and objects of the evil eye. I received a copy for the book from the publisher for review and can confirm all thoughts and opinions are my own.īeing a huge Jane Eyre fan I was really excited to pick this one up and, although it’s definitely a loose retelling of the original, I was still engrossed in the story and loved the addition of Ethiopian mythology.
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Menewood a novel nicola griffithChange is in the air, even if Hild is the only one who can clearly sense it. She has never been stronger or more vulnerable.Īnd war is brewing: old alliances are fraying, the priests are impatient to displace the old religions, vengeful rivals are antsy, the king is greedy and dangerously confident. But she remains one of the king’s most trusted advisers, both seer and warrior, which makes her formidable in a volatile court, and also subject to His Majesty’s most dangerous whims. Hild-now eighteen and married to her forbidden childhood love, battle-scarred and triumphant-is no longer a bright child who charms and dazzles the court with seemingly supernatural insight. In the much anticipated sequel to HILD, Nicola Griffith’s MENEWOOD transports readers to seventh-century Britain, a land full of rival kings and rival religions, poised for revolutions like the world has never seen. 6/10/2023 0 Comments Jackie phamotse the hockey clubLISTEN: Three women share their experiences with nasty cyber bullies. Phamotse wrote I Tweet What I Like…So Sue Me in November 2018 after she got involved with a spat with the Kumalos. Power couple Romeo and Basetsana Kumalo are suing her, according to The Sunday Times. “I am being sued for I Tweet What I Like,” she said laughing. “A lot of young people were wanting more and that is why we have a sequel,” she explained. A lot of people were very uncomfortable with the conversations around the book or if the book was fiction or not. “ Bare: The Blessers Game came out late in 2017. The book speaks about the underground world of powerful men and how they use women in sex cults and this growing secret society in South Africa. Many of the names in her yet-to-be-released book have been changed to protect people’s identity, she confirmed. Phamotse has often been questioned about how much of what she writes is fact or fiction. Her new book is set to be released on 1 June and is a sequel to Bare: The Blesser’s Game. She was in conversation with Kwena Moabelo on POWER Up on Thursday. “If I were to rank it, I would say 80% is true,” says Jackie Phamotse about her new book Bare: The Cradle of the Hockey Club. His intent is, he writes, "to highlight some of the major controversies and issues in the Viking age rather than provide a comprehensive introduction to the subject" The varied illustrations provide detail and context. Author John Haywood provides a tight narrative nugget for each of his topics, while the accompanying map shows where the action is taking place. This book covers the age of Viking exploration, piracy, warfare, settlement, and, bloody mercenary service, those fun years from AD 1 to 1500 in this telling. This is a good addition to Penguin Books' many titles in this genre. It's subject matter can range from a time period, to a region or country, or a historical period. It comes in sizes ranging from coffee table tome to pocket size and travel-friendly. It unites history and geography, and provides great visual representations of architecture, museum items, landscapes, artwork, and people. The historical atlas is a wonderful hybrid of a book. Hatton combines information on the country's history, landscape, and culture with anecdotes from his own experience living in Portugal. The Portuguese: A Modern History (Barry Hatton, 2011).This easily digestible primer on Portugal is accompanied by maps and illustrations. Portugal: A Companion History (José Hermano Saraiva, 1997).Magellan's fascinating tale of circumnavigating the globe is told through firsthand accounts. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Laurence Bergreen, 2003).The earthquake that leveled Lisbon not only destroyed one of the leading European cities of the time but also had a lasting effect on the world at large. The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 (Nicholas Shrady, 2008).Anderson provides a concise, readable overview of Portuguese history. The History of Portugal (James Anderson, 2000).Page explores Portugal's profound influence on the rest of the world. The First Global Village (Martin Page, 2002).This collection of unpublished poetry and thoughts from the great Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa was compiled after manuscripts were found in a trunk following his death. The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa, 1982).(And see our similar lists for elsewhere in Europe.) Books: Nonfiction To learn more about Portugal past and present, check out a few of these books and films. She lives in Dorset and London, with her husband and her five children. Her books have sold over 40 million copies in more than 60 countries, and been translated into over 40 languages. But it is as Sophie Kinsella that she first hit the UK bestseller lists in September 2000 with her first novel in the Shopaholic series. She found critical and public success and went on to publish more books as Madeleine Wickham. Her first book was published when she was 26, under her real name, Madeleine Wickham. Born in London, Sophie Kinsella has graduated from Oxford University and worked as a financial journalist, before becoming a fiction writer. Sophie Kinsella have been writing romantic comedies for over two decades. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.Īll of the Books! Who is Sophie Kinsella? 6/8/2023 0 Comments Exciting times a novel‘Did you see the Book of Kells?’ I said, hoping she’d say no, since I never had. ‘You’re from Ireland,’ said Victoria, as though for my information. Ralph watched us and seemed to think: women are good at talking. We talked and talked, mutually baffled as to why such a thing was happening when neither of us thought it should. Sometimes her eyes said: I don’t know why, either. She was so beautiful I couldn’t see why she was talking to me. Ralph’s girlfriend Victoria was good at wearing clothes. Later in the conversation he called himself ‘a PPEist’ who’d been ‘a bit of a Union hack’. One great-grandparent on each side, which meant Éire owed him a whole grandparent, morally.) He’d voted for Brexit to have tighter borders, and was applying for an Irish passport to avoid being stopped at them. In November we went for brunch on Aberdeen Street with Ralph, pronounced ‘Rafe’, who’d gone to Balliol with Julian, now worked at his bank, and had an alleged flotilla of Hibernian great-grandparents. 6/8/2023 0 Comments The chalet catherine cooperThe characters were fully fleshed, and at ease in their given roles, but they were a mostly narcissistic bunch and therefore unlikeable. The claustrophobic confines of a ski resort during a cold, dark winter, with the resort being battered by one of the worst snowstorms in years, closing the only road, and isolating everyone within, added much to the atmosphere. I’m not always a fan of dual timelines, but with The Chalet, it worked really well. After an avalanche, a body is discovered, but is it linked to the disappearance of the brother in 1998? The group of people we meet this time around are taking a luxurious holiday together, none of them actually get on, but most importantly four of them are linked to the missing brother. This sets the scene perfectly for this claustrophobic thriller from Catherine Cooper. It’s not the best of holidays, as the brothers have always had a difficult relationship, they argue constantly, and sadly, only one of the brothers returns home.įast forward to 2020, where we return to the same resort, in the midst of a vicious snowstorm, with the only road into the resort blocked. The story begins in 1998, in La Madiere, a ski resort in the French Alps, where brothers Will and Adam Cassiobury have taken their girlfriends on holiday. The revised edition of the collection has been updated to take account of further research and a major new papyrus of Empedocles. Here Jonathon Barnes brings together the surviving Presocratic fragments in their original contexts, allowing modern readers to get to grips with these pioneering thinkers whose, ideas remain at the centre of philosophical debate. Democritus' atomic theory of matter, Zeno's dazzling 'proofs' that motion is impossible, Pythagorean insights into mathematics, Heraclitus' haunting and enigmatic epigrams - all form part of a revolution in human thought which relied on reasoning to justify its conclusions and forged the first scientific vocabulary.Although none of their original writings have come down to us complete, patient detective work enables us to reconstruct the crucial questions they asked and their absorbing answers. Above all, the stories emphasize the importance of seizing a definable personal and cultural selfhood, whether through traditional tribal methods or not. They also challenge stereotypes through their blending of pop culture and politics, self-deprecating humor and tradition, and aspiration and generational trauma. The storylines spotlight both internal and external conflict as viewed through the lens of ethnicity, cultural deprivation, and tribal history. The work operates as a bildungsroman in progress, with the characters repeatedly not growing into their identities as Indigenous men. Though the collection lacks a linear structure, the stories are bound together through three reappearing protagonists: Victor Joseph, Junior Polatkin, and Thomas Builds-the-Fire. |