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The Corn King and the Spring Queen

Naomi Mitchison

The Corn King and the Spring Queen

Introduced by Naomi Mitchison. Set over two thousand years ago on the clam and fertile shores of the Black Sea, Naomi Mitchison’s The Corn King and the Spring Queen tells of ancient civilisations where tenderness, beauty and love vie with brutality and dark magic. Erif Der, a young witch, is compelled by her father to marry his powerful rival, Tarrik the Corn King, so becoming the Spring Queen. Forced by her father, she uses her magic spells to try and break Tarrik’s power. But one...

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Naomi Mitchison

The Three Perils Of Man

James Hogg

The Three Perils Of Man

Edited and introduced by Douglas Gifford. The Three Perils of Man is regarded as Hogg’s most ambitious work of fiction. The book’s extraordinary combination of the fantastic, the funny, the serious and the historically realistic must be unique in literature. The adventures of its characters, told with the author’s characteristically bold simplicity, are many, mad, and breathtakingly fast. Ranging from Galloway to Northumberland, the main focus of the book is to be found in the Scottish...

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James Hogg

Land Of The Leal

James Barke

Land Of The Leal

This huge novel, closer in scope to a Russian epic than to any English counterpart, opens at the turn of the century in the extreme poverty of the Rhinns of Galloway, an agricultural backwater of the southern-most part of Scotland. With a loving regard for the land and its people, Barke traces the lives of David and Jean Ramsay who, full of hope, painstakingly uproot themselves and their family in the search for prosperity. Their efforts to retain respect and a decent way of life are thwarted...

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James Barke

Hick

Andrea Portes

Hick

This fall, the film festival circuit will be introduced to the indomitable Luli McMullen in Hick, the new film made from the acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes, who also adapted the screenplay. The filmdirected by Derick Martinistars Chloë Grace Moretz, Blake Lively and Eddie Redmayne and features Rory Culkin, Anson Mount, Juliette Lewis and Alec Baldwin in supporting roles.Hick is the story of Luli (Moretz), a bright kid from a hick town who’s had enough and...

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Andrea Portes

Maisie at 8000 Feet

Frederick Reuss

Maisie at 8000 Feet

Maisie at 8000 Feet is the story of an eight-year old girl who can fly and her idyllic summer in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey that ends in a moment of catastrophic loss. Following the death of her mother, Maisie travels the Pine Barrens with her artist/archeologist father; meets his cousin and confidante, Sally, who wants to repair the little girl’s heart; and flies over it all trying to see how her life could have taken such a turn. Many years later, her son gone to college and her...

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Frederick Reuss

Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Sa...

Mattox Roesch

Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same

He’s in the middle of nowhere, Alaska, because his Eskimo mother has moved home, and Cesar, a seventeen-year-old former gang banger, is convinced that he’s just biding his time til he can get back to LA. His charmingly offbeat cousin, Go-boy, is equally convinced that Cesar will stay. And so they set a wager. If Cesar is still in Unalakleet in a year, he has to get a copy of Go-boy’s Eskimo Jesus tattoo.Go-boy, who recently dropped out of college, believes...

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Mattox Roesch

The Book of Colors

Raymond Barfield

The Book of Colors

How can a 19-year-old, mixed-race girl who grew up in a crack house and is now pregnant be so innocent? Yslea is full of contradictions, though, seeming both young and old, innocent and wise. Her spirit is surprising, given all the pain she has endured, and that's the counterpoint this story offerswhile she sees pain and suffering all around her, Yslea overcomes in her own quiet way.What Yslea struggles with is expressing her thoughts. And she wonders if she will have something of...

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Raymond Barfield

Chaka

Thomas Mofolo

Chaka

Written in Sesotho in 1909 and first translated in 1931, Thomas Mofolo’s classic South African novel has formed the foundation of all modern interpretations of the Shaka legend. A modern tragedy and the first of its kind to mythologise the life of the Zulu Warrior King, Chaka tells the tragic story of a boy shunned by his father – a Zulu prince born out of wedlock who, through unbridled ambition, sorcery and sheer brutality, claims his rightful place as heir to the throne. This edition features...

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Thomas Mofolo

By fakkellig

Karel Schoeman

By fakkellig

Dit is Ierland aan die einde van die agtiende eeu: ’n Ierland onder die hiel van die Engelse heerser, sy volk onderdruk, magteloos, sonder regte. Die opstandsgevoel neem toe, ook onder invloed van die Franse Rewolusie en Napoleon se opkoms. Teen hierdie agtergrond maak David, jonger broer van sir Arthur, heer van Donore, onverwags kennis met die Ierse volk. Hy raak bevriend met die skoolmeester Liam O Néill, die verarmde Séamas Bán, die priester O Floinn, met die meisies Nóra en Eilís . . . en...

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Karel Schoeman

Subduction

Todd Shimoda

Subduction

Shimoda's best novel to date, and his first psychological thrillerTodd Shimoda was the winner of the 2010 Elliot Cades Award for Literature, given to Hawaii's top writer. Past winners include Paul Theroux & Ian MacMillan. Shimoda's 2009 novel Oh! was picked as a summer best read by NPR's Morning Edition & a notable book by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.The Fourth Treasure (2002) was translated into six languages and was named a notable book by the Kiriyama...

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Todd Shimoda

The Brides of Midsummer

Vilhelm Moberg

The Brides of Midsummer

For centuries, people have celebrated every Midsummer's Eve at an ancient spring near a small Swedish village. On that special night, when unmarried men and women dance and some unusual activities are permitted, the Bridal Spring has special powers.<br /><br />Vilhelm Moberg introduces four musicians on the last day that each one will ever know: a curmudgeonly fiddler from the 1930s, a sad and conscientious key-harp player from the plague era of 1711, a ne'er-do-well...

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