![]() Macdonald demonstrated that nature writing can be passionately erudite and beautifully observed, but also viscerally intimate and inseparable from the rawness and disorder of our lived experience. While it was not without its precursors (Olivia Laing's To the River, for instance, charts a similar confluence of personal and natural currents), its influence now seems inescapable. It tended, too, to be the preserve of writers of a recognisable type (male, donnish, faintly druidical), leading the poet Kathleen Jamie to deride the cult of the “Lone Enraptured Male”.Īll that changed, of course, with the phenomenal success of Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk. ![]() It tended, until recently, to come in handsomely produced and gift-friendly volumes, and to take a gently contemplative and often lyrical approach to its subject. We have come to expect more of nature writing than we once did. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In the presidential election of 1928 Hoover easily won the Republican nomination. ![]() As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted government intervention under the rubric "economic modernization". That position was challenge Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933), was a mining engineer and author. Hoover deeply believed in the Efficiency Movement (a major component of the Progressive Era), arguing that a technical solution existed for every social and economic problem. The nation was prosperous and optimistic, leading to a landslide for Hoover over the Democrat Al Smith, whom many voters distrusted on account of his Roman Catholicism. ![]() Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933), was a mining engineer and author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Mariana is determined to stop this killer, even if it costs her everything-including her own life. ![]() When another body is found, Mariana’s obsession with proving Fosca’s guilt spirals out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her closest relationships. But why would the professor target one of his students? And why does he keep returning to the rites of Persephone, the maiden, and her journey to the underworld? And she becomes convinced that, despite his alibi, Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder. Mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, quickly suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets, and beneath the ancient traditions, lies something sinister. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana’s niece Zoe, is found murdered in Cambridge. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike-particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Format: Audiobook, read by Louise Brealey and Kobna Holdbrook-SmithĪvailable in physical books, audio book, or ebookĮdward Fosca is a murderer. ![]() ![]() Wakefield, "The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin, "Thurnley Abbey" by Perceval Landon, "Afterward" by Edith Wharton, and "The Wendigo" by Algernonīlackwood. Aickman, acknowledged as the master of the "inconclusive" ghost story, edited this annual anthology for its first eight volumes, using for the most part works from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the period generally known as the Golden Age of the ghost story.Īickman's selections included classics such as "The Haunted and the Haunters" by Lord Bulwer-Lytton, "A School Story" by M.R. So wrote Robert Aickman in the Introduction to the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories in 1964. ![]() "There are only about thirty or forty first-class ghost stories in the whole of western literature." See also Rick's Bibliography of the Ghost Book Series.This article previously appeared in Sirius #2, 1993, and All Hallows #12, June 1996. ![]() ![]() Fontana's "Great Ghost Stories" Series A Bibliography by Rick Kennett ![]() ![]() ![]() Actually, it was when I was nearly at the end of the novel that she mentioned what the book was really about. My take on what happened in the book was more about the discouragement of people with ideas and incentive, and an encouragement of mediocrity and laziness. But on reading the book I am not so sure that Ayn Rand was against communism. Well that is what I remember hearing when it was first released. There were a lot of similarities in the book to the times we were currently going through.įirst published in 1957, Ayn Rand was noted for her intolerance for communism. The lady who wrote the article was right. When a few weeks ago, while reading an article in the Business Section of the newspaper where the writer said we were living in similar times to Atlas Shrugged, I remembered I had the book, in a box set of Ayn Rand’s novels, so decided to read it.Īs it turned out it was the perfect book to read during isolation because of the COVID pandemic. So long ago that I had forgotten what the story was about. It is many years since I have read this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Barrie was the ninth child of ten (two of whom died before he was born), all of whom were schooled in at least the three Rs in preparation for possible professional careers. His mother, Margaret Ogilvy, assumed her deceased mother's household responsibilities at the age of eight. His father, David Barrie, was a modestly successful weaver. James Matthew Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, to a conservative Calvinist family. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, which continues to benefit from them. Barrie was made a baronet by George V on 14 June 1913, and a member of the Order of Merit in the 1922 New Year Honours. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.Īlthough he continued to write successfully, Peter Pan overshadowed his other work, and is credited with popularising the name Wendy. ![]() He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. ![]() Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM ( / ˈ b æ r i/ – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. ![]() ![]() ![]() But for small businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind, another enemy is hiding there as well the truth. Three Past Midnight The Library Policeman is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger. Two Past Midnight Secret Window, Secret Garden enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn t. One Past Midnight The Langoliers takes a red-eye flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. ![]() Stephen King is a master storyteller, and you will never forget these stories, raves the Seattle Times about Four Past Midnight. ![]() ![]() This collection, nominated for a Locus Award, is guaranteed to keep readers awake long after bedtime, and features an introduction and prefatory notes to each novella by the author. With the recent success of the Hulu series 11/22/63 starring James Franco and the highly anticipated The Dark Tower movie in the works, Stephen King s brand is stronger than ever. Now available in paperback from Scribner for the first time. The Bram Stoker Prize-winner for Best Fiction Collection four chilling novellas from Stephen King that will grab you and not let go ( The Washington Post). ![]() ![]()
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