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The Water and the Wine
Leonard Cohen is at the start of his career and in love with Marianne. It is the 1960s, and writers and artists gather on the Greek island of Hydra to pursue art and love. Love, sex and new ideas have landed on Hydra. As the island hums with creativity, Jack and Frieda join the artistic community, hoping to mend their broken marriage. However, Greece is overtaken by a military junta and the artists’ idyll is over.
Mixed
MIXED is a hilarious yet moving story of family, faith and undercooked chicken.
Mixed
"If Judaism were a swimming pool, Ruth would be at the centre of it, Miriam would be sitting at the edge, dangling her feet in the water, and Uncle Gerald wouldn't even be in the building. How do you live a Jewish life in a non-Jewish world? Sisters Ruth and Miriam Green take different stances. Living in north London, Ruth has a Jewish husband, sends her children to Jewish schools and is very involved in the local Jewish community. Miriam lives in the Midlands, has a non-Jewish husband and her children attend a school where they are the only Jewish pupils. Ruth is a Jewish Brit. Miriam is a British Jew. Their different approaches lead to tension and division in the family: will those rifts b...
Raffy's Shapes
Late at night when all the world is asleep Raphaella, A painter who has the unusual ability to change shape at will, Swoops as a bird over dark waters or, Fishlike, Swims to deeper depths.
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Botanical Short Stories
A group of botanists in search of rare species dismiss local custom at their peril. Love in all its wildness and wonder is found clinging to crumbling chalk cliffs and growing through cracks on city streets. A scientist takes a radical step to understand her houseplant. A poet remembers her beloved flowers, and the longing for a magnificent tropical garden outlasts death. From tokens of love to neolithic burial gifts, bridal bouquets to seasonal wreaths and healing potions to artistic masterpieces, flowers and plants have a multitude of meanings and a long and complex relationship with us. They brighten our homes and delight us in garden and countryside, convey our emotions and symbolise the stages of our human lives. Throughout the anthology, interactions with the natural world bring opportunities for new beginnings, transformation, and a chance to heal. This rich and wide-ranging collection celebrates the deep connection that exists between people and plants in fourteen short stories as varied, diverse, and global as the botanical world itself.
Conversations with an Octopus
When the body of lecherous landlord, Raj Sumal, washes up on the beach, it’s up to Detectives Jim Paddon and Grace Brown to solve the mystery.
The Inner Life of Empires
The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century family They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and examining their ideas, sentiments, and values, renowned historian Emma Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy, the B...
Mission
A novel of a father, a son, and the mayhem a lie can wreak: "Mission is a book that will stay with me. A remarkable debut." -Sarah Haywood, New York Times-bestselling author of The Cactus A five-year-old boy and his father are separated by an unforgivable lie. Twenty years later, they meet, and the father, dying, tells of the con men who cheated him of all he had-and the small Northwestern town called Mission that spurned him. Now it is time for revenge. What follows is a twisting story of guile and brutality, mud and gold, as the father's enemies are played by a young man with the crooked snout and the pocketful of hatpins . . . "A powerful narrative which charts one man's attempt to overcome adversity and reclaim his family's land." -Tamar Hodes, author of The Water and the Wine "Paul Forrester-O'Neill reveals himself to be an ambitious prose stylist." -Nicholas Royle, author of The Director's Cut
