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The River
In a small village in Devon in 1958 two young children are found drowned. Their parents, Isabel and Robert, are devastated, but as time goes by their tragedy becomes part of the everyday fabric of village life. Thirty years later, Anna arrives. She comes to the village on a whim, hoping for a fresh start. She and doesn't tell anyone that she is pregnant. She moves in with Isabel and for a short time the women find solace in each other's company. The baby's arrival, however, causes powerful feelings of loss and heartbreak to surface, and Anna begins to question whether Isabel's feelings towards her child are entirely benign ...
Secret Life
It is 1974 in Communist Bulgaria. Yana, a young woman living there, realises that she can’t go on living in the shadow of fear and oppression. She must escape somehow. Crossing the closed borders to the free world takes a feat of courage and imagination and when she finally reaches Britain, it is all she dreamt it would be. She begins to discover what liberty really means and falls in love with Daniel, an artist who seems to understand the sadness she carries for her lost homeland. But Yana has not escaped her homeland after all; a deed she promised to carry out before she left holds her hostage to the past. She must make a choice: betray the man she loves or endanger the lives of the fami...
Petite Mort
'Part Moulin Rouge, part Alfred Hitchcock' Grazia 'A sly, erotic thriller concerned with doubleness and duplicity' Guardian Mesdames et Messieurs, presenting La Petite Mort, or, A Little Death ... A silent film, destroyed in a fire in 1914 at the Pathé studio, before it was seen even by its director. A lowly seamstress, who makes the costumes she should be wearing, but believes her talent - and the secret she keeps - will soon get her a dressing room of her own. A famous and dashing creator of spectacular cinematic illusions - husband to a beautiful, volatile actress, the most adored icon of the Parisian studios. All fit together, like scenes in a movie. One with a twist that will leave you breathless ...
The River
The Orange Prize long listed debut novel by the author of The German Boy In 1958, in a small Devon village, on an idyllic summer afternoon, two children are drowned. Their parents, Isabel and Robert, are overcome with grief but, as time passes, their tragedy becomes part of the everyday fabric of village life. One summer's day, thirty years later, Anna arrives. She comes to the village on a whim, hoping to start afresh - and, without telling anyone she is pregnant, goes to live with Isabel. For a time the women find solace in each other's company, but the baby's arrival causes powerful feelings of loss and heartbreak to surface, and Anna must question whether Isabel's feelings towards her ch...
Teaching Creative Writing
Teaching Creative Writing includes lively contributions from over two dozen leading practitioners in the field. Topics addressed include history of Creative Writing, workshops, undergraduate, postgraduate, reflective activities, assessment, critical theory, and information technology.
Two Trees
John Brownleader, a Black Country soldier, is injured outside Arras in 1918 and rescued by a German. Following capture, John finishes the war in a Berlin prisoner of war camp. He realises that the enemy has saved his life, even though he is in an appalling physical and psychological condition. On his return home, his family is forced to re-assess their own interpretations of the enemy and the traumatic impact of war. In poor health, John asks his girlfriend Ada to marry him and enlists her help to write secret letters to his German rescuer. The consequences of their actions are explored in the closing stages of the novel when John’s divided family is obliged to meet the ‘enemy’.This is...
The German Boy
In 1947, Elisabeth Mander's German nephew comes to stay: Stefan Landau, her dead sister's teenage son, whom she hates and loves before she's even set eyes on him. Orphaned by the war and traumatised by the last, vicious battles of the Hitler Youth, Stefan brings with him to England only a few meagre possessions. Among them a portrait of a girl with long copper hair by a young painter called Michael Ross - and with it the memory, both painful and precious, of her life and that time between the wars. Spanning decades and generations, The German Boy tells the moving story of two families entangled by love and friendship, divided by prejudice and war, and of a brief encounter between a woman and a man that touched each of their lives forever.
How Far We Fall
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON DAUGHTER A wife who must keep her affair secret. A husband who has the power to bring her lover down. A marriage that could end in murder. . . Beth was still reeling from the end of her affair the night she met Albie - a man who knows her ex better than anyone, but has no idea of their history. He's perfectly placed to give Beth the revenge she craves - if only she can keep her secret safe. But how far is she willing to go? ___________ 'Instantly intriguing, chilling' Daily Mail 'A breathtaking dissection of a marriage' Woman & Home 'A brilliant exploration of power and responsibility, jealousy and vengeance, set against the fascinating backdrop of the world of neurosurgery' Daily Express
3 Great Historical Novels
Here are three great historical novels in one volume. HABITS OF THE HOUSE: Fay Weldon takes us inside an aristocratic household -- upstairs and downstairs -- in the last three months of the nineteenth century. Tea gowns are still laced with diamonds; there are still nine courses at dinner, but bankruptcy, war and social unrest loom. THE SILVER THREAD: London, 1840. A young woman boards a prison ship bound for the other side of the world. Weaving death, love and adventure, The Silver Thread is plotted like a murder mystery, but narrated with the skill and style of a literary storyteller. THE CONDUCTOR: Winter, 1941. The story of how Shostakovich and one valiant, bedraggled orchestra created a defining moment in the siege of Leningrad – the bloodiest seige in history – is a gripping testament to the life-affirming power of music.
Seeking Wisdom in Adult Teaching and Learning
This book concerns the pursuit of wisdom in education, and the argument that wisdom – personified here as Sophia – is tragically marginalised or absent in current Western epistemological discourses. It includes a review of key historical and classical framings which have lost much potency and relevance as certain cultural narratives hold sway; these include the reductionist, technicist and highly instrumentalist discourses which shape the articulation and delivery of much education policy and practice, whilst reflecting similar troubling framings from broader neoliberal perspectives. Fraser argues that wisdom’s marginalisation has had, and continues to have, profoundly deleterious consequences for our educative practices. Through a compelling combination of narrative and autoethnographic techniques, while also drawing on philosophical and cultural traditions, the book pushes at the boundaries of emerging knowledge, including how knowledge is generated. It will be of interest to those who facilitate the learning of adults in a variety of settings as well as to students and supervisors seeking exemplars and 'justification' for working in non-traditional ways.
