Ada, together with her nine-year-old illegitimate daughter Flora, and her piano, leave Scotland to arrive in the remote bush of 19th-century New Zealand for a marriage arranged by her father. Although mute, she does not consider herself silent as her piano is the vehicle of her expression.
In 2001, the Asham Literary Trust organized the third bi-annual competition of short stories by women in honour of Asham House, the house in Sussex where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived. The competition attracted over nine hundred entries of which the judges selected 12 which are published here together with commissioned stories by Louise Doughty ...
Sex, love and relationships inform many of these stories - from clandestine relationships with Prince Charles to romantic encounters inart galleries. They are twinned with a darker group which explores the passion that turns to violence, and how women relate to men who have killed their partners...
When the first Asham Award was launched in 1996 - in honour of Asham House, the house in Sussex where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived - nearly a thousand unknown women writers took part. This is the first anthology of winning stories, published a year later and entitled "The Catch", demonstrated not only the rich cultural mix of our society today ...
Fran has been married to Nick for more than 12 years, since they were eighteen. They are happy together until a 'little stranger' arrives, in the form of baby Louis, and their lives are irrevocably changed. The boy has good health and a sweet nature, but Fran feels stifled, her old life merely a memory. So, one day, she simply walks away.
A series of short stories which explores the concept of "home" not as a place, but rather as a state of mind. Through dislocations, emigration and immigration, enforced exile and language confusion, the characters of these tales seek to find a special place for themselves.
This unique collection explores the world of gambling through visual images, essays, and fiction- from Edith Wharton to Dostoevsky. The boxed set comes with gambling games from all over the world.
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world' Virginia Woolf Our world has been conjured by the talented writers collected here. These wonderful and evocative stories have a truly international flavour, taking us from icy Alaska to the burnt outback of Australia, and include tales of murder, loss of innocence, revenge, ...
Over the ages, many writers have taken up drawing as a distraction from their literary labors. This beautifully-produced volume includes both color and black-and-white drawings, as well as quotes on the visual arts, from Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Dylan Thomas, Anais Nin, James Thurber, George Sand, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and many others. ...
When Audrey meets Jack, she is forced on a sexually-satisfying, but curiously discontented liasion, which forces her to reconsider her childhood in Canada. Through memories of her past, she tries to understand her rootless new life and attempts to reconcile her sense of self.
This novel concerns three characters living in London who are "outsiders" through race, class and politics. They attempt to see what is changing beneath the terse exterior of Britain. This is Kate Pullinger's first novel. She previously published "Tiny Lies", a book of short stories.
Is Mina simply unfashionably promiscuous or is there something more sinister about her vampiric attitude to men? Where Does The Kissing End? is a Dracula forthe end of the century. It asks;where does the pleasure end and the hurting begin?
This is a dazzling, witty and richly varied collection of short stories, which includes contributions by six much-loved writers - Patricia Duncker, Rachel Cusk, Tessa Hadley, Emily Perkins, Nancy Lee and Kate Pullinger - as well as the twelve brand-new voices of those shortlisted for the Asham Short-Story Award 2007. Asham House in Sussex was once ...
American Agnes Samuel is the kind of woman whom people remember: beautiful, witty, cool. But does anyone in the sleepy Fenland village of Warboys remember another Agnes Samuel, a frightened girl betrayed by her neighbours and wrongly condemned to death as a witch?
Lady Duff Gordon is the toast of Victorian London. But when her debilitating tuberculosis means exile, she and her devoted lady's maid, Sally, set sail for Egypt. It is Sally who describes, with a mixture of wonder and trepidation, the odd menage marshalled by the resourceful Omar, which travels down the Nile to a new life in Luxor. When Lady Duff ...
This is a collection of eight witty, modern short stories about sex, food, love and madness from the Canadian novelist and television writer Kate Pullinger.
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world' Virginia Woolf Asham House in Sussex was once home to Virginia and Leonard Woolf and is the inspiration behind the Asham Award. Launched in 1996 to support and encourage new writers, it is Britain's only prize for short stories by women. Waving at the Gardener presents the ...
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sojokp`o
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9788972530589ISBN:8972530581
Description: NF. Paperback with French flaps. Text in Korean, 255 pages. 8 page photo section at beginning of book with scenes from the movie and a view of a horizontal-format movie poster. Includes pictorial title page, repeated on front cover, rear cover uses another scene. A bright clean copy with no markings, NEAR FINE condition. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Central Books
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780714730417ISBN:0714730416
Description: Very Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. CONTENTS: ANALYSIS: ANDRE GORZ: The Ultimate Ideology of Work; ZYGMUNT BAUMAN: Dawn of the Dead: Intellectuals & Class, Two Interviews; BARBARA O'DAIR & ABBY TALLMER: Sex Premises & Gags; PAUL GILROY: Cruciality & the Frog's Perspective: An agenda of difficulties for the black arts movement in Britain; POETRY: TOM RAWORTH: From 'Sentenced to Death'; FICTION: JAMES KELMAN: From 'A Disaffection'; SUSANNAH DUNN: An Outer London Childhood; NEIL BARTLETT: Courtship ... read more
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