![]() ![]() Their partnership is outstanding, the intimate combination of classical guitar and mezzo-soprano created an entirely new twist to the concert recital" "Lita and Paul gave a virtuoso performance of Lorca’s Canciones Españolas Antiguas. ![]() The recitation in "Los Mozos de Monleon " was every bit as passionate and restrained as the singing. "Outstanding and mesmerising", wrote the poet Marius Kociejowski, after their Clapham Omnibus Theatre Salon Season performance. A collection of traditional Spanish songsĪ recital by Lita Manners (mezzo-soprano) and Paul Thomas (classical guitar)Ĭanciones Españolas Antiguas is a collection of traditional Spanish songs collated and arranged by the poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca during his musicological travels round Spain with Manuel de Falla.įollowing a sellout concert at the Chelsea Arts Club, Lita and Paul have performed to critical acclaim at venues across London and beyond : ![]()
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands Kate Beaton (674) Kindle Edition 14.99 Editorial Reviews Review An exceptionally beautiful book about loneliness, labor, and survival. ![]() After university, Beaton heads out west to take advantage of Alberta?s oil rush, part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. So the have-nots of Canada go to the sands, where none of them really live. Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada.Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant fame, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beatons, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. ![]() ![]() ![]() She knows that people are judging her for where she lives. She knows some people think her neighborhood is not safe. Her life, as she tells us, is one full of love, and that comes across on every page as Zuri defends the place she calls home and describes the camaraderie and the care she finds there. Zuri’s voice carries Pride, making readers fall in love with her, her neighborhood, and her family. Readers looking for a contemporary story lead by a fiercely independent heroine and told in brilliantly strong prose will be enthralled by Ibi Zoboi’s Pride. She does not think the boys belong in her neighborhood, but they may not be as stuck up as she believes. When two handsome, rich brothers move in across the street, however, Zuri will be confronted with some of her own prejudices. Zuri Benitez is one of five daughters growing up in Brookly, and she is planning out a future full of dreams–one where she goes to Howard and then comes back to help transform the neighborhood she loves. Pride is a fresh retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice that pays homage to the original story while making the tale fully its own. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From classics such as John Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland and Winnie the Pooh, to well-known illustrators such as Quentin Blake, this book explores the cover design, character illustration and interiors of these well-loved stories. Includes a foreword by the current Children's Laureate Anthony Browne. It takes us on a visual journey of the development of children's illustrations throughout the ages, the ?notion of childhood', historical facts and the design and illustration of these memorable books. Illustrated Children's Books goes back and visits the history of children's books, looking at the design and characters of these well loved tales. Illustrated Children's Books is a detailed look into the design and stories of children's books, focusing on the well-known illustrators and characters that have influenced readers of all ages. Illustrated Children's Books is a detailed look into the design and stories of children's books, focusing on the well-known illustrators and characters that have influenced readers of all… More. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the eve of World War II, and set against the turbulent backdrops of Madrid and Cuba, Martha and Ernest’s relationship and careers ignite. There she also finds herself unexpectedly-and unwillingly-falling in love with Ernest Hemingway, a man on his way to becoming a legend. ![]() It’s her chance to prove herself a worthy journalist in a field dominated by men. In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War and becomes drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in the devastating conflict. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post “Romance, infidelity, war-Paula McLain’s powerhouse novel has it all.”- Glamour A powerful novel of the stormy marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, a fiercely independent woman who became one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century-from the author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There were not enough, though, to warrant the effort. Usually, when the train was late, they swept stones to kill time. The villagers idled by the tracks, kicking at fat stones cascaded down from the mountain. Monday morning and the train didn’t come. Nadya stood and paced the perimeter of the room, brushing her fingertips along the rough concrete walls. I still think of her now, and she’s five years dead.” ![]() “She didn’t have to see you to think of you. “What’s a sister if you’ve barely seen each other in years?” “She said she was glad she was the one to go and not you.” Before she boarded the rocket, you were the last person she spoke to.” That was usually where it ended, but Nadya raised her face and looked Leonid directly in the eyes. The two of them often repeated this exchange when they were alone together. More confident, maybe, but that’s just the training. Leonid pulled his hand from Nadya’s lap and rested it in his own. She tried to start the song again, but the notes came out at random, as if she had not forgotten just that song but the whole concept of singing. ![]() ![]() Politics of affect in Train to Pakistan and Tamas.Contemporary Research: An Interdisciplinary Academic Journal,4(1),59–75. Bitter after taste: affect, food, and social aesthetics.Theaffect theory reader, Eds. The paper concludes that the affects evoked in the abovementioned novels are ethically tilted to the notions of community and nationhood of the respective writers-an ideologically biased orientation that results in prose of demonization and an open declaration of evil on whom they consider the other. ![]() One positive affect in favor of one at the same time invites the opposite affect for the other. ![]() The notable affects highlighted in the novels are those of love, hatred, happiness, unhappiness, and rage. The affective subjectivity of the writers-Abdullah Hussein (The Weary Generations) and Bapsi Sidhwa (Cracking India)-discredits the mainstream Indian historiography, valorization of the independence struggle, and trivialization of partition issues. This paper analyzes selected partition novels in the light of affect theory in order to demonstrate how Pakistani writers counter the Indian mainstream nationalist line and offer alternative revisionary perspectives on independence that also led to partition violence. ![]() ![]() The novel is based on the author’s experiences as a young boy growing up on a reservation, which adds a layer of relatability and representation. ![]() Junior questions his identity, acceptance, and hope. ![]() It is partly a memoir of Sherman Alexie’s own life.Įnglish teacher Susie Choe said the book is at “a level that is accessible to students,” but that there are still lots of complicated underlying themes that are prevalent throughout the novel. He struggles to find his place at his new school and draw a balance between his two worlds. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a story of Junior, an Indian living on a reservation, and follows his path in changing schools to a predominantly white school and the issues he faces along the way. ![]() The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie has been challenged and even banned in multiple middle and high schools across America due to its sexual content, racial slurs, and mention of alcohol abuse. Many books are banned in schools when they contain sexual content, offensive terminology, violence, use of illegal substances, or political content. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moon of the Crusted Snow-which you can order here-is set in an Anishinaabe community in the north. Waubgeshig Rice is a writer and journalist originally from the Wasauksing First Nation. With more and more unmarked graves of children found around the sites of residential schools, with the increased publicity throwing residential school survivors back into post-traumatic stress, with indigenous communities deep in mourning and non-indigenous folks wanting to stand in support, at least most of us (I hope) with climate change causing record heat in western Canada to the point where elderly and isolated people are dying alone with COVID raging in Africa and other low-vaccination areas, meaning most of the world… I would say chilling and warm and distressing, although that’s a bit of a mouthful to put on a cover, and who wants to read a distressing book in what’s already a distressing time? ![]() ![]() “Chilling in the best way possible,” says the cover quote from novelist Eden Robinson. To mark Canada Day, I thought I’d write about Waubgeshig Rice’s award-winning novel Moon of the Crusted Snow. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through meticulous research and bold imagination, Hynes brings the entirety of the Roman city of Carthago Nova – its markets, temples, taverns of the lowly and mansions of the rich – to vivid life. A hard fate awaits Sparrow, one that involves suffering, murder, mayhem, and the scattering of the little community that has been his whole world. When not being told stories by his beloved ‘mother’ Euterpe, he runs errands for her lover the cook, while trying to avoid the blows of their brutal overseer or the machinations of the chief wolf, Melpomene. His world is a kitchen, the herb-scented garden, then the loud and dangerous tavern, and finally the mysterious upstairs where the ‘wolves’ – prostitutes of every ethnic background from the far reaches of the empire – do their mysterious business. He is Sparrow, who sings without reason and can fly from trouble. ![]() Raised in a brothel on the Spanish coast in the waning years of the Roman Empire, a boy of no known origin creates his own identity. Sparrow tells the story of Jacob, son of no one, last survivor of an abandoned British Roman town. ‘A novel of ancient times for our times.’ – Jim Crace ‘Utterly engrossing, vivid and honest’ – Emma Donoghue ![]() |