These Summary Notes summarise and analyse all 15 poems in the Power and Conflict anthology for GCSE AQA English Literature. This includes: detailed line-by-line annotations and…
Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in childhood and about childhood. The other story is…
A light-hearted, fully-illustrated retro-style picture book with 60+ words and phrases you can use to practise your Gaelic with your cat.
THE REAL GAME OF THRONES... The Wars of the Roses were a prolonged brawl over an inheritance by a deeply dysfunctional extended family. The inheritance in question was the throne…
''Eucritus and I and pretty Amyntas turned asideTo the farm of Phrasidamus, where we sank downWith pleasure on deep-piled couches of sweet rushes,And vine leaves freshly stripped…
In this short story H.G. Wells conducts a disconcerting thought experiment. What would become of a community if its members were somehow deprived of sight?
This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge.Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing '…
A new special edition of the seminal, bestselling book, with a new foreword by the author and a new jacket by the artist Michael Kirkman, to celebrate the author's 80th birthday.
WINNER OF THE 2017 SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZE A new translation of Sade''s most notorious, shocking and influential novel.This disturbing but hugely important text has influenced…
Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the…
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKBessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer. Scotland''s National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who…
A dark and horrifying tale of Druidism, madness and murder. The Oaks is an idyllic, up-market country club – but its ornately carved walls hides a horrific past. Sixty years ago…
This Very Short Introduction provides both the believer and non-believer with a balanced survey of the central questions of theology. David Ford''s approach draws us in to…
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What the hell is shoegaze? A scene? A movement? A sound? Back in the Nineties, many would have said the so-called genre was entirely fabricated. The term itself, an offensive piss…