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This deeply moving new collection from Abegail Morley explores the altitudes of trauma, mapping the stark new territory that loss leaves behind, where the landmarks of absence overfill with memories, where the missing loom large, casting their unshifting shadow. Several lives and life-changing themes cross paths in this clear-sighted and profound book. From the hollowing of the empty place and the five stages of grief, these resolute poems with their mettle and wholeheartedness, chart their...
| Автор | Abegail Morley |
An outcast, an outsider, an oddball. With too much ambition and not enough talent, Saffron Jack has never fitted in wherever he’s been. Now, with the feeling that his time is running out, he needs to do something drastic to change his life. So what better idea than to run away to the nearest war zone, and within the bullets, destruction and fighting do the thing he’s always wanted to do: start his own country and declare himself king. At once an exploration of a man left hollow by fate, a...
| Автор | Rishi Dastidar |
This remarkable debut collection from Geraldine Clarkson contains the uncontainable; wondrous, spellbound and daring poems, happy to roam from South American monasteries to the shorelines of memory. These bold, often witty and always hawk-eyed poems survey matters of faith, tragedy and womanhood. Elaborate, skilful and formally audacious, Clarkson is a poet of extraordinary and kaleidoscopic vision; her writing always richly riotous with detail, her poems possessing the singular ability to move...
| Автор | Geraldine Clarkson |
If you always wanted to easily speak of the cuff this little book is for you.<br><br>Thousands of DESCUBRIS' workshop participants have successfully implemented the techniques in this book. You too can learn to give a great impromptu speech without preparation.<br><br>Those moments when you get called upon to say something and you are tongue tied are embarrassing. Some stand there stuttering, have sweaty hands and have a pulse rate of 200. This can be avoided....
| Автор | Thomas Skipwith |
Have you ever wanted to write a book?<br><br>Have you started to write your book, but weren't able to finish?<br><br>Are you ready to learn how to get a book published?<br><br>Discover inside secrets to: <br><br>– Writing a book fast<br><br>– Where and how to start writing your book<br><br>– Finding the time in your busy life to write and finish a book<br><br>Publishing a book the easy...
| Автор | Garrett MDiv Pierson |
Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The year 2021. Major Royale has been posted to Sidney as the new Liaison Officer, as the war for Canada slowly winds down.<br><br>Although the war may have been won, the battles continue. Islamic terrorists, military traitors, suicide bombers and the threat of nuclear destruction provide the backdrop for this second and final book in the Rita Royale series. Toss in a homeless teenaged artist, a harlot in the heat wave, the suspected Antichrist, a...
| Автор | Terry JD Anderson |
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea – Jules Verne<br>Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen<br>The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas<br>Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson<br>Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad<br>Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte<br>Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte<br>The Island of Doctor Moreau- H. G. Wells<br>Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens<br>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain<br>The Adventures of Sherlock...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
Although it has become relatively easy to self-publish, it's also easy to make serious mistakes in writing, design and marketing that can seriously limit the acceptability and sales of a self-published book.<br><br>It's sad—and funny—that some of the worst self-published books, and the majority of the books discussed in this book, are books that try to provide advice to other authors.<br><br>This book will help you avoid the worst...
| Автор | Michael N. Marcus |
Science Fantasy blends science fiction AND fantasy, so it tends to be bolder and more highly colored than pure science fiction. In the middle of the last century, the British magazine SCIENCE FANTASY created its own distinctive strains of fantasy narrative, most famously by such writers as Brian W. Aldiss, J. G. Ballard, John Brunner, Michael Moorcock, and Thomas Burnett Swann, among others. This book looks closely at the whole trajectory of that lost magazine, from its birth in 1950 through...
| Автор | Damien Broderick |
This is a compilation of a unique writing style. I recall some of my childhood memories as best I can. Some details are sketchy, for it's been such a long time since I left the harbour behind to seek my fame and fortune upalong. That being the case, I exaggerate a bit to fill in the blanks. So my stories are mostly truth with a bit of fiction thrown in. I coined a word to describe it. Triction. Livens it up a bit, don't ya t'ink. And of course some is all fiction, but I'll...
| Автор | Wilbur Dean |