A politically urgent yet timeless collection that studies the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love. In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation on power and loss, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the wind, and cannot possibly carry all we've been handed? Offering a stark moral critique of pandemic self-preservation-as...

Scottish poet Morag Anderson explores relationships and the damage people can do to each other in her debut chapbook: concealed violence, love and everything in between. Sample Poem: Paterfamilias When the breadth of your back is no more than narrative beneath the tailored twill of your shirt, when your fingers, gone to driftwood, rattle and clack against the ancestral crest of old gold, when you cannot rise to greet the changing seasons that...

Lapsed Capitalist: A Poetry Collection contains sixty poems on our relationship with capitalism, democracy, politics, privilege, careers, class, consumerism, nature, creativity, health, happiness, love and more.

"Winner of the 2006 Best Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies" Victoria Kahn is Professor of English and Bernie H. Williams Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Machiavellian Rhetoric (Princeton). Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England? In Wayward Contracts,...

Extrait : "«Sur les ondes joyeuses de la mer sombre et bleue, comme elles nos pensées sont sans bornes, et nos âmes libres comme elles ; aussi loin que la brise peut porter, partout o les vagues écument, voilà notre empire, voilà notre patrie. Ce sont là nos royaumes, o notre puissance n'a point de limites. Notre pavillon est le sceptre auquel obéissent tous ceux qui le rencontrent. Dans notre vie turbulente et sauvage, nous passons, avec...

Life throws numerous arrows at us, trying to smash us down, demoralise us, lead us to accept defeat. Whether in the fields of love or work, of creativity or of simply of survival itself, these slings and arrows of a quarrelsome fate must be overcome if one is to make one's way in what is left of this world. Farflame (Resistance) is dedicated to those who fought to overcome adversity, and unashamedly questions the modern rule of never having heroes....

These richly atmospheric tales from Victorian London trace the continuing adventures of an ever-popular sleuth: "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-headed League," "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb," "The Final Problem," "The Adventure of the Empty House," "The Musgrave Ritual," more. Large print edition.

Unfinished is a collection of meta-physical poetry compiled over twenty years. The poems both stand alone and can be read as a continuous unfolding story.

"[A] big, brave, compassionate play about grief, revenge, forgiveness and bearing the unbearable." --The Guardian One evening, ten-year-old Rhona goes missing. Her mother, Nancy, retreats into a state of frozen hope. Agnetha, an academic, comes to England to research a thesis entitled "Serial Killings: A Forgivable Act?" Then there's Ralph, a loner with a bit of a record who's looking for some distraction . . . Drawn together by horrific circumstances,...

Alford was born in London in 1810. Something of a prodigy he had published several Latin odes and a history of the Jews by the time he was 10. Graduating from Cambridge his life was to follow in the family footsteps of being a clergyman and he held the post of Vicar at Wymeswold in Leicestershire, for the next 18 years. Shortly after this he became the Dean of Canterbury. Much of his career highlights are based on his theology and such works as his...