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The Party Wall
Mark gradually ingratiates himself into the life of his nex-door neighbour Freya, who is struggling with the death of her own husband. Freya - lost in a sea of grief - only slowly begins to realise that Mark's motives may not be quite as compassionate as they seem and her eyes are opened to the treat she has guilelessly invited into her home.
A Century of Troubles
To accompany a season of drama documentaries on Channel 4, Stevie Davies tells the political and social history of England in the 17th century.
The Element of Water
In pre-war Germany, two boys grow up together inseparable. However, as adulthood approaches and Nazism continues its inexorable march, they can no longer reconcile their friendship as one becomes an SS officer and the other a pawn in the intelligence unit. Thirteen years later their children meet.
Emily Brontë
Available for the first time in the United States a new series of innovative critical studies introducing writers and their contexts to a wide range of readers. Drawing upon the mast recent thinking in English studies, each book considers biographical material, examines recent criticism, includes a detailed bibliography, and offers a concise but challenging reappraisal of a writer's major work. Published in the U. K. by Northcote House in association with The British Council.
Impassioned Clay
"When Olivia's mother dies and her grave is dug in the back garden of the family home, the skeleton of a seventeenth-century woman is uncovered beneath the layers of Cheshire clay. The remains are crushed, the neck broken and the bones fragile and decayed. But one thing remains intact, a scold's bridle. Only when Olivia delves back into history to unearth the story of this silenced woman does she begin to understand her own passions."--Back cover
The Web of Belonging
Jess has lived peaceably in Shrewsbury with her husband Jacob for many years. He is solid, dependable, beautiful to her. She is contented to be his wife, to look after his elderly mother, aunt and cousin, to be a pillar of their family and community. Then, suddenly, everything changes. Now Jess must question the entire basis on which she has lived so many years of her life. Must discover whether the identity she has created has really been so valuable to herself and to those around her, and whether there is a different - angry, passionate, fulfillable - Jess waiting to get out.
The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës
The extraordinary works of the three sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë have entranced and challenged scholars, students, and general readers for the past 150 years. This Companion offers a fascinating introduction to those works, including two of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century - Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights. In a series of original essays, contributors explore the roots of the sisters' achievement in early nineteenth-century Haworth, and the childhood 'plays' they developed; they set these writings within the context of a wider history, and show how each sister engages with some of the central issues of her time. The essays also consider the meaning and significance of the Brontës' enduring popular appeal. A detailed chronology and guides to further reading provide further reference material, making this a volume indispensable for scholars and students, and all those interested in the Brontës and their work.
Four Dreamers and Emily
Meet Eileen Nussey James, a self-professed expert on Emily Bronte and her passion; Marianne Pendleton, an overworked lecturer and slave to domesticity; Timothy Whitty, the widower who receives nocturnal visits from Emily's ghost; and Sharon Mitchell, a waitress drawn into the world of academia.
Arrest Me for I Have Run Away
Arrest Me, for I Have Run Away is a stunning short-story collection on human nature and identity. Stevie Davies' latest work, it is bound to captivate and charm the reader.
Into Suez
Set in the postwar period when Britain, the bankrupt victor of the Second World War, attempted to assert itself as an Imperial power in a world wholly altered. Joe's tragedy is that of an ordinary working man of his generation: he's a lovely, humorous, emotional man in whom the common ration of racism and misogyny becomes a painful sickness. Ailsa, intelligent, curious and craving to explore the realities of the Egypt she enters, meets on the voyage out Mona, a Palestinian woman who excites in her yearning for a world beyond her horizons. When Joe's closest friend is murdered by Egyptian terrorists, their relationship spirals towards tragedy. Through it all, love remains. Looking back in old age, their daughter Nia follows in their wake to sail the Suez Canal with the aged Mona. Nia has been told her father was a war hero: now she will face a more painful truth.
