James Fenton is a rather peculiar individual. He was, after all, among the first to loot the US Embassy as the city of Saigon fell. This year, he found himself in the Presidential Palace in Manila, and his booty included one towel (with the monogram of Imelda Marcos) and a letter to President Marcos - resting alongside the grand piano, on which James Fenton managed to play a version of Bach's Prelude in C (abruptly abbreviated) while the population of Manila rioted. But James Fenton's version of the Philippines is more than a record of being at the right place at the worst of possible times. It is also an account of one of the most historic uprisings in recent years - in which an entire people, cheated of its vote in a snap election, responded in turn: with a snap revolution.

Granta 18: The Snap Revolution (Import)

Literature & Fiction

JAMES FENTON

Essays & Correspondence

Granta Publications

The Memory of War (Penguin International Poets)

Poetry

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Penguin Modern Poets 1: Volume One: James Fenton, Kit Wright, Blake Morrison Bk. 1

Penguin Modern Poets: James Fenton, Kit Wright, Blake Morrison Bk. 1

Blake Morrison

Kit Wright

Penguin

Now for the new millennium comes an entirely new edition, personally selected and introduced by James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet himself, rightly famed for his own love poetry. Organised according to poets, rather than subjects, the edition celebrates love poetry originating in the English language, from Wyatt to the present day. It includes blues lyrics, American folk poetry, Elizabethan lyrics, Broadway songs, and a full range of poetic styles from the aristocratic to the popular. Eminently readable and engaging, "The New Faber Book of Love Poetry" presents some of the most emotive and memorable lyric poems produced in the English language from the Renaissance to the present day.

The New Faber Book of Love Poems

Faber and Faber

Yellow Tulips

Faber Faber Poetry

An Introduction to English Poetry

Farrar Straus, 2002

HISTORY OF TASMANIA From its discovery in 1642 to the present time ( Tasmaniana Facsimile Editions; No 1)

Melanie Publications

The hamely tongue: A personal record of Ulster-Scots in County Antrim

The Ullans Press

Hamely Tongue: Personal Record of Ulster-Scots in County Antrim

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Ulster-Scots Academic P

In this light-hearted book, poet and gardener James Fenton describes a hundred plants he would choose to grow from seed. 'It seemed a simple and interesting idea: what plants would you choose if starting a garden from scratch?' Includes chapters on flowers for colour, size, or exotic interest; herbs and meadow flowers; climbing vines and tropical species; the micro-meadow; raising plants from seed; and a wealth of personal tips and advice. As Fenton writes, 'the emphasis is on childish simplicity of approach, and economy of outlay.' Here is a happy, stylish, thought-provoking exercise in good principles, which exudes that rare thing: common-or-garden sense about gardens.

A Garden From A Hundred Packets of Seeds

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Notting Hill Editions

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