Fixing the Broken Nightingale
Fixing the Broken Nightingale

Author: Richard James Allen

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 9789996542589

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Fixing the Broken Nightingale contains poems of paradox, cynicism, tenderness, outrage and resignation, fleeting lust and enduring love, observation, invention and glimpses of enlightenment written by this widely published and charismatic author, whose earlier books include the critically lauded The Kamikaze Mind (Brandl & Schlesinger) and the NSW Premier's Literary Award-nominated Thursday's Fictions (Five Island Press), and whose previous work also includes multi-award-winning creativity for the screen, the stage and new media platforms."A poet with a subtle, satirical bent, he often renders the mundane (spiders' webs, umbrellas, text messages, taxis) luminous and metaphoric, while interrogating themes of love and loss with poignant artistry...Superb." - William Yeoman, The West Australian"Explosively powerful poetry, vividly, eloquently written and full of short, sharp immediacy."- Lynne Lancaster, Sydney Arts Guide (full review)"The diary of one poet's search for authenticity - a series of quests - this collection needs to be read as a whole. An exceptionally engaging book." - Vivian Smith

Performance and Temporalisation
Performance and Temporalisation

Author: Jodie McNeilly

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-02-22

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1137410272

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Performance and Temporalisation features a collection of scholars and artists writing about the coming forth of time as human experience. Whether drawing, designing, watching performance, being baptised, playing cricket, dancing, eating, walking or looking at caves, each explores the making of time through their art, scholarship and everyday lives.

Nightingale's Nest
Nightingale's Nest

Author: Nikki Loftin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-01-29

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1595146237

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An award winning modern fairy tale about friendship and family, for fans of Bridge to Terabithia Twelve-year-old John Fischer Jr., “Little John” as he’s always been known, is spending the hot Texas summer helping his father to clear trees for Mr. King, the richest and most powerful man in town. Then one day he hears a song through the brush, one so beautiful that it stops him in his tracks. He follows the melody and finds, not a bird, but a young girl sitting in the branches of a tall sycamore tree. There’s something magical about this girl, Gayle, especially her soaring singing voice. Little John's home is full of sorrow over his sister’s death and endless stress over money troubles. But his friendship with Gayle quickly becomes the one bright spot in tough times . . . until Mr. King forces Little John into an impossible choice: risk his family’s wages and survival, or put Gayle's future in danger. Inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen story, Nightingale's Nest is an unforgettable novel about a boy with the weight of the world on his shoulders and a girl with the gift of healing in her voice. "Magical realism meets coming of age in this sensitive and haunting novel."—BCCB, starred review "Smart and beautiful . . . Once you’ve read it, you’ll have a hard time getting it out of your head.”—Elizabeth Bird, School Library Journal Blog

Writing to the Wire
Writing to the Wire

Author: Dan Disney

Publisher: Apollo Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781742588667

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The seeking of asylum in Australia has been politicised in recent decades. Our national conversation has vilified people fleeing persecution and desensitised the Australian polity to human suffering. We are further marginalising the most vulnerable groups in the world and at greater expense than accommodating refugees in the community. What impact does this have upon our collective ethics and national identity? And if our public conversation is steering us into murky moral territory, where may a dissenting voice be heard? Writing to the Wire is a collection of poems by Australians and people who would like to be Australians. It is a book about the idea of being Australian. It is about who we are and who we would rather be. Writing to the Wire offers new ways to understand injustice, to speak out and tell stories. Poetry can show us what were thinking and feeling in a way our politics has failed to do.

The State of Public Administration
The State of Public Administration

Author: Donald C Menzel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-01-28

Total Pages: 759

ISBN-13: 1317454456

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The trends and practices of public administration are ever changing and it is essential that they be appraised from time to time. Designed as a capstone survey of the field, The State of Public Administration focuses on leading edge issues, challenges, and opportunities that confront PA study and practice in the 21st Century.

Windlestraws
Windlestraws

Author: Phyllis Bottome

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-16

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Windlestraws" by Phyllis Bottome. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

A Nightingale Christmas Promise
A Nightingale Christmas Promise

Author: Donna Douglas

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2018-10-04

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1473539021

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For the first time, a Nightingale nurses novel set during the First World War. Follow the senior staff as they overcome the trials of their training years. From Sunday Times top ten bestselling author, Donna Douglas. East London, 1914: Britain is preparing for war. As young men queue up across the country to enlist, the Nightingale Hospital has its own set of new recruits... Anna has had a happy upbringing in her parent’s bakery in Bethnal Green. But as war descends her family’s German roots will wrench them apart in ways Anna never could have imagined. Kate dreams of following in her father’s footsteps and becoming a doctor. With female doctors virtually unheard of, it will take courage to face off the prejudice around her. Sadie joins the Nightingale Hospital for a new life away from her mother’s interference. But the legacy of her family may not be so easy to escape... As the shadow of war descends, will the promise of Christmas help to bring the students together?

Broken Homes
Broken Homes

Author: Ben Aaronovitch

Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 069814371X

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Ben Aaronovitch's bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series • “The perfect blend of CSI and Harry Potter.” —io9 A mutilated body in Crawley. A killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil, possibly an associate of the twisted wizard known as the Faceless Man. Or maybe just a garden-variety serial killer. Before apprentice wizard and Police Constable Peter Grant can even get his head 'round the case, two more are dropped in his lap: a town planner has gone under a tube train, and there's a stolen grimoire for Grant to track down. So far, so London. But then Peter gets word of something very odd happening on a housing estate designed by a nutter, built by charlatans, and inhabited by the truly desperate. Is there a connection? And if there is, why oh why did it have to be South of the River—in the jurisdiction of some pretty prickly local river spirits?

Miss Nightingale's Nurses
Miss Nightingale's Nurses

Author: Kate Eastham

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2018-08-09

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1405935901

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Discover the first heartwarming novel in Kate Eastham's nursing series in this gripping and compelling story of strength 'Deftly written . . . a moving account of loss, as well as self-discovery and achievement' Woman's Own 'A vivid, entertaining read which brought history alive' 5***** Reader Review _________ From the docks of Liverpool to a distant battlefield, can one girl find her brother and save herself? Ada Houston's life is shattered when her brother Frank goes missing following an accident at the docks. But a short time later she hears a rumour that he survived and left Liverpool to fight a foreign war. Determined not to lose him a second time she boards a ship to bring him home. But the battlefields of the Crimea are a hostile place for a penniless young woman. Then one day a lifeline is thrown her way as she is offered the chance to train as a nurse under the famous Florence Nightingale. Working in the most terrible of conditions, Ada shows an aptitude beyond anyone's expectations as she cares for her injured countrymen, makes new friends and enjoys the first flutter of romance. But Frank is still missing and she needs to find him before it's too late . . . _________ 'A wonderfully written book' 5***** Reader Review 'Gripped me right from the start' 5***** Reader Review 'You felt you were with them' 5***** Reader Review

Interpreting Nightingales
Interpreting Nightingales

Author: Jeni Williams

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1997-07-01

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1847141854

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The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek myth of Philomela, the raped girl, silenced by having her tongue cut out, and then transformed into the bird whose name means poet, poetry and nightingale simultaneously. Moving from the classical to the Christian worlds, Jeni Williams discusses nightingales and nature in the early church and sees the emergence of the figure as an emotive emblem of the aristocracy in mediaeval vernacular debate poetry. Her final chapters use the nightingale and the myth to examine Elizabeth Barrett Browning's struggle for an active female voice in Victorian poetry.