Halla, a king's daughter cast out by her evil stepmother, is raised by bears and dragons, and meets the Wanderer, a mysterious figure who sends her on a long journey.

Travel Light (Virago Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

MITCHISON, NAOMI

Literary

Penguin??Books

From September 1939 to August 1945, Naomi Mitchison kept a diary at the request of the social research organization Mass-Observation.

Among You Taking Notes...: The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945

Biographies & Memoirs

Sheridan, Dorothy

Community & Culture

Oxford University Press

Solution three (Dobson science fiction)

LGBTQ+ Books

Dobson

African heroes (Heroic retellings from history and legend)

Bodley Head

Sun and moon (Acorn library)

Small Talk... avoids the temptation of a full-blown 'My Life and Times' type of autobiography and presents instead a recreation of  childhood years in Oxford before the First World War - a child's-eye view of the family, the friends, the servants, the pets and the holidays in Scotland and Cornwall that made up that childhood. It is as much concerned with her own development as an amateur field botanist as with the occasions when the adult world intruded, when 'Uncle Richard' (Lord Haldane) might lead the younger members of the family out to the wash-house to watch the messy business of heating wax to take the impression of the Great Seal of England. If Lord Baden-Powell and Andrew Lang appear briefly, it is less as famous figures of the period, but rather as irritating visitors with passions either for tying knots or talking about fairies who interrupted the pleasures of raiding the kitchen garden for fruit, or reading at night behind the curtains of the drawing-room. There are glimpses of her reactions to scientific theories, as they reached her in repercussions from her father's work, and to the High Tory politics of her formidable mother. Small Talk... is a precise, vivid picture of the people and manners of a world which has receded so rapidly that it is now further from the experience of people today as the other side of the moon. In another sense, though, it is a timeless picture of childhood itself.  The introductory essay by Ali Smith "The Woman From The Big House" was first first published in Chapman 50.

Small Talk: Memories Of An Edwardian Childhood

History

Europe

A distinguished British writer presents sketches of eleven African heroes ranging from Sundiata, the king of ancient Mali, to Cetshwayo, a Zulu warrior king

African Heroes

Africa

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

The Corn King and the Spring Queen,

Contemporary

Scholarly Press

When Naomi Mitchison, queen of the historical novel, undertook Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, already symbol of a great love story, something remarkable was bound to ensue. But Mitchison did not choose to follow her great predecessors Plutarch and Shakespeare, with the tale of Mark Antony's fatal romance with 'the serpent of old Nile', and the pair's ill-fated wars with Octavian. Her chief interest in producing a new Cleopatra is shown even in her tantalising title, Cleopatra's People. The novel starts with the next generation, with the children of the Queen and of Charmian, one of her 'mates'. The impact of Cleopatra's life and personality is reflected through them, and their efforts to follow in her wake. But wider than that, we see that Cleopatra's people are the people of Egypt, and that she cherished dreams of a great, peaceful trading empire to the south, in Africa and even India. Mitchison's Cleopatra is a powerful woman, immersed more in the affairs of state than in love affairs with Caesar and Antony, although her love for the latter is true. The Queen's dreams for Egypt are greater still: perhaps only a woman and a royal one could have dreamed them in face of Rome.

Cleopatra's people

Genre Fiction

Heinemann

Rome was ripening toward ruin. The debasement of the masses was matched only by the debauchery of the aristocracy. The Emperor Nero was lost in a haze of grandiose ambition, while the ruthless chief of his secret police enforced a reign of terror. In this climate of collapse, the small group met in secret. A beautiful prostitute. A dancing boy. A female slave. The son of a vanquished king. And other despised outcasts, drawn from the most distant lands of the Empire, united by a single shining faith...a single terrible fate...

Blood of the Martyrs

Curtis Books

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