Twelve and a Tilly

Dalton, Jack

London: Faber & Faber

An interpretation of Joyce's masterpiece which illuminates its philosophical and literary significance

Ulysses on the Liffey

Literature & Fiction

Ellmann, Richard (1918-1987)

Classics

Places enter poems, sometimes incidentally, sometimes penetrating the poems as if place were their whole substance. It is not surprising. After all in places we grow up. Place is our external condition; place is garden, field, landscape, woods, fells, springs, rivers, estuaries, beaches, valleys, villages, towns, streets. Place is sunshine, rain, snow, ice. It is west, east, north and south. It is where the seasons change. Our feeling flows into places, and an accumulation of feeling, historical, cultural and personal, flows back from places into our consciousness.'  So Geoffrey Grigson introduces an anthology of 'poems in which place is prominent' which ranges not only geographically over the entire British Isles and the whole history of poetry in English, but includes sections on the landscape of France and Italy; there are poems in French about London and in English about Sorrento. Tennyson said: 'A known landscape is to me an old friend that continually talks to me of my own youth and half-fogotten things.' This and the related feelings for place find their expression and evocation in a selection of nearly three hundred poems which cannot fail to give pleasure to those who share those feelings, 'poetry lovers' or not, and shows Geoffrey Grigson's gifts as an anthologist to full advantage.

Faber Book of Poems and Places

GRIGSON, GEOFFREY

The burning book

GEE, Maggie

Contemporary

As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks and Other Light Verse

Humor & Entertainment

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh) (1907-1973)

Humor

Spied on by the factor of an estate in the Scottish Borders, an unknown woman enters a cottage that has been empty since the violent deaths of its inhabitants more than 20 years ago. She has a set of antique plates which she believes can tell her the truth about the past and what she is to do now.

When They Lay Bare

Greig, Andrew (1951-)

<p>Ted Hughes: Selected by Simon Armitage (Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse) [Paperback] Hughes, Ted and Armitage, Simon</p>

Ted Hughes Poems Selected by Simon Armitage

TED HUGHES

Poetry

An Expert in Murder Death Haunts the West End

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Upson, Nicola

Mystery

A gorgeous new novel from the author of the Man Booker finalist A Long Long Way  As a young woman, Roseanne McNulty was one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland. Now, as her hundredth year draws near, she is a patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, and she decides to record the events of her life. As Roseanne revisits her past, hiding the manuscript beneath the floorboards in her bedroom, she learns that Roscommon Hospital will be closed in a few months and that her caregiver, Dr. Grene, has been asked to evaluate the patients and decide if they can return to society. Roseanne is of particular interest to Dr. Grene, and as he researches her case he discovers a document written by a local priest that tells a very different story of Roseanne’s life than what she recalls. As doctor and patient attempt to understand each other, they begin to uncover long-buried secrets about themselves. Set against an Ireland besieged by conflict, The Secret Scripture is an epic story of love, betrayal, and unavoidable tragedy, and a vivid reminder of the stranglehold that the Catholic Church had on individual lives for much of the twentieth century.

Secret Scripture, The

Barry, Sebastian (1955-)

Literary

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Fine, A fine copy in navy blue cloth boards and endpapers, gilt title on spine with a fine dust jacket. Illustrated with black/white sketches, engravings as called for.

In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815

History

UGLOW, Jenny

Europe

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