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Preparing to deliver a lecture in Pisa, Professor Horace Dorlan plans to incorporate music and performance into his scientific presentation. On the eve of his big event, however, strange things start to happen. Consciousness and reality start to shift, divergent voices speak of confusing things and questions start to mount up. Where, for instance, is his wife, and why is there a miniature musical quintet in his room, and what of the accident that afflicted him?
Now are you all snuggled up and ready for bed? I'm going to tell you a story about the secret of sleep, and a little bear called Dozy who wanted to sleep, but didn't know how. Dozy Bear and the Secret of Sleep fills the gap in the market for relaxing bedtime books that act as a sleep aid rather than bedtime entertainment. It combines proven sleep and relaxation techniques with Richard Smythe's gorgeous, dreamlike illustrations, and is perfect for any parent who wants to turn naptime or bedtime into a calming experience.
Raymond Briggs' charming Christmas story of the boy who builds a snowman that comes to life, and their adventures together, has become a children's classic. Its popularity has been further enhanced by frequent television broadcasts of the award winning cartoon film The Snowman. In this piano picture book, composer Howard Blake and animator Dianne Jackson have recreated the story in words, music and vivid color illustrations, based on the scenes from the film. The music, which includes the hit song Walking in the Air, is easy enough to be played by pianists of intermediate ability. This unique and irresistible book will bring the story to life, both at home and in the classroom!
This is the full eBook version of Violin Basics (Pupil's Book) in fixed-layout format. Violin Basics is a landmark method by two of the leading figures in music education. Comprising pupil's tutor book, teacher's accompaniment book, and online audio, Violin Basics provides everything you need to get playing. This Pupil's Book starts at absolute beginner level and progresses to Grade 1 level. The step-by-step technical progression is supported by fun exercises and warm-ups, a wide range of imaginative repertoire, music theory, and general musicianship activities. Audio of all the accompaniments are available online.
Originally published in 1878, Paul Faber, Surgeon is the second in MacDonald's classic "Wingfold Trilogy." Wingfold, at last a curate of solid faith which he has made real through a rigorous search for truth, encounters atheist Paul Faber. Both men's stories are journeys of faith, although Faber experiences no religious conversion. As MacDonald says of him in the end, "He was growing, and that is all we can require of any man."
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. This heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love? The manuscript of 'Giacomo Joyce', written in James Joyce's best handwriting and folded between the covers of a school notebook, was discovered in Trieste. Most likely written in 1914, some of it served as a rehearsal for passages in Ulysses. Had Joyce meant to pillage it or publish it? Either way, this fragmented evocation of unrequited desire is, in the words of Joyce's biographer Richard Ellmann, a work of 'small, fragile, enduring perfection'. With a new introduction by Colm Tóibín.
Lose yourself in an epic naval journey in the second novel in the Booker Prize-winning historical fiction Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies. This tropical nowhere was the whole world - the whole imaginable world. A decrepit warship is becalmed halfway to Australia, stilled in an ocean wilderness of heat and sea mists. In this surreal, fête-like atmosphere, a ball is held with a passing ship: the passengers dance and flirt, while beneath them seaweed like green hair spreads omniously over the hull. Half-mad with fear, drink, love and opium, both vessel and passengers feel themselves going to pieces: and the very planks seem to twist themselves alive as the ship comes apart at th...
This recently rediscoved book contains a spirited guide to the simple pleasure of pebble spotting. Ellis is a charming, knowledgeable, and witty guide to everything you didn't know you wanted to know about pebbles. He ruminates on what a pebble actually is, before showing us how they are formed, advising on the best pebble-spotting grounds in the UK, helping to identify individual stones, and giving tips on the necessary kit.
The ingredients in this inaugural issue of 'First Pressings' include Elizabeth James's 'World of Interiors'; Sarah Hall's 'The Amazing Adventures of Carpet Man'; David Greenslade on the day Hugh MacDiarmid died; and Alison Spritzler-Rose's history of 'The Fish People'. From the fantastic debauchery of Neil Addison's familiar anti-hero Rimboard to the condensed emotional intrigue in Richard Skinner's mercurial selection from the light user scheme, 'First Pressings' offers the reader a cornucopia of twenty-three new poets.