The Moor is Dark Beneath the Moon
The Moor is Dark Beneath the Moon

Author: David Watmough

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2002-11-15

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1554886546

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Advance Praise from Carol Shields, author of Unless and The Stone Diaries "I read The Moor Is Dark Beneath the Moon with great pleasure and with a particular appreciation for its narrative energy; one wants to go on turning over those pages. I loved the Cornish stuff and felt affection for the kids, the teenagers--well, more than affection, more like an instant recognition." -- Carol Shields After decades in Canada, Davey Bryant returns to Cornwall, England, for the funeral of a mysterious relative and lands in the middle of a property-inheritance squabble that threatens to escalate into something far worse. Distraught by the changed landscape of his beloved homeland, Davey wanders the lonely moors and is soon sleuthing his way through a farce of megalithic proportions in which a midget couple driving a Morris Mini van might or might not be reincarnations of an evil Camelot dwarf and his consort. In the course of his investigations, Davey becomes ever more dislocated in time as he tries to fathom the nature of a gay family tree that besides himself may include a spinster aunt and a good-looking teenage cousin named Quentin. Magic's in the air, and it's not just the glint of the BBC cameras shooting a mini-series about Merlin and King Arthur in Tintagel. As Davey says about the moors, "Lots of things have died out here. And not just bodies, but hopes and strange loves. Nothing is really quite as it seems."

Dark Beneath The Moon
Dark Beneath The Moon

Author: Christine Purkis

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-10-31

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 144649862X

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Rowan's family live deep in the country - in a caravan. They are travellers and life is chaotic and very, very happy; until, that is, the day Rowan meets a strange old woman who carries the secrets of the past under her shawl. . . It is a past in which a child, Liza, is locked in a place of fear and danger - and only Rowan can unlock the door from past to present and set Liza free.

Race Against Time
Race Against Time

Author: Frederick Septimus Kelly

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780642107404

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Frederick Septimus Kelly, pianist, composer, Olympic gold medallist, World War I officer, diarist and Australian, was killed during the final battle of the Somme on 13 November 1916. He was 35. An expatriate long forgotten in his own country, he lived an extraordinary life in the company of some of Europe's most influential people. His diaries, covering the period 1907-1915, are held in the National Library of Australia.

The View from Tamischeira
The View from Tamischeira

Author: Richard Cumyn

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2003-08-15

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780888784414

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A disparate group of travellers is thrown together in the Caucasus Mountains. Each has a quest and peering into ones own heart may be the most challenging prospect.

Shelley: Selected Poems
Shelley: Selected Poems

Author: Kelvin Everest

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-03-23

Total Pages: 928

ISBN-13: 1351691627

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the major Romantic poets and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English Language. In this volume, the editors have selected the most popular, significant and frequently taught poems from the six-volume Longman Annotated edition of Shelley’s poems. Each poem is fully annotated, explained and contextualised, along with a comprehensive list of abbreviations, an inclusive bibliography of material relating to the text and interpretation of Shelley’s poetry, plus an extensive chronology of Shelley’s life and works. Headnotes and footnotes furnish the personal, literary, historical and scientific information necessary for an informed reading of Shelley’s richly varied and densely allusive verse, making this an ideal anthology for students, classroom use, and anyone approaching Shelley’s poetry for the first time; however the level and extent of commentary and annotation will also be of great value for researchers and critics.

The Waves
The Waves

Author: Virginia Woolf

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0199642923

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'I, who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of the ordinary, catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon.' Intensely visionary yet absorbed with the everyday; experimental, daring and challenging, The Waves is regarded by many as Virginia Woolf's greatest achievement. It follows a set of six friends from childhood to middle age as they experience the world around them and explore who they are and what it means to be alive. As the contours of their lives are revealed, a unique novel is slowly unveiled. Enfolded within Woolf's lyrical and mysterious language, the mundane takes on a startling new significance while distant pasts are no less in play than the clamorous sounds and kaleidoscopic sights of the modern city. Yet precisely where the alluringly enigmatic pages of The Waves are leading, and what deeper meanings are held within its undulant chapters and shimmering interludes, are questions that have never ceased to enthral readers and critics alike. In this new edition David Bradshaw considers the spellbinding oddness and originality of The Waves, helping the reader to negotiate a way though this most poetic and haunting of novels. Features: --A new edition of Woolf's novel, regarded by many as her greatest achievement. --Edited by David Bradshaw, a distinguished Woolf scholar and editor of acclaimed editions of Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Mark on the Wall and Other Stories, and Woolf's Selected Essays. --Draws on the latest scholarship for the introduction and notes, which help to orient the reader through the novel's complexity. --Up-to-date bibliography. --Full and helpful chronology. --Biographical preface by Frank Kermode. New to this edition: --Introduction by David Bradshaw. --Revised and updated Select Bibliography. --Fuller chronology. --New and expanded notes. --Re-set text for improved appearance. Edited by David Bradshaw, University of Oxford. Publisher's note.