The two island groups of Orkney and Shetland have much in common. In each the grey stone houses and treeless landscapes are scoured in winter by stinging gales, and in summer lie under the endless days...
This collection bring readers the delicacy of youth tinged with vicissitudes, and the sorrows as youth is gone, with seven short stories on “how a person becomes himself or herself in the world”.
The 44 essays and other pieces collected in this book range in subject from Adam Lindsay Gordon to Peter Corris, and include Eleanor Dark, Hal Porter, Christina Stead, Dal Stivens and A. B. Facey...
Kamil is a cheerful, lively five-year-old, who goes to kindergarten and loves to make silly jokes. Is he a boy like anyone else? Yes and no: he behaves normally but he is blind from birth.
The Strange Case of Abdülahamid and Sherlock Holmes
by Andrew Finkel
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 9780995756656
Pub Date: 2024-05-03
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Even Keel
280 Pages
Strange that the last great Ottoman Sultan would have Sherlock Holmes stories read to him before going to sleep. Stranger still, his addiction helped change the course of history. A clue to these goings-on lay in Conan Doyle’s dying words that the one adventure that still intrigued him was ‘The Second Wife’. For no such story exists… Or does it?
The life of Amerigo Vespucci is an adventure that, starting from the city of Florence in the fifteenth-century, stretches to the the extreme limits of the known earth. In this fictional autobiography,...
This book contains 6 works written by Xu Zechen, a leading figure of Chinese Post-1970 writers in different periods. It reflects the different creative characteristics of the author in each period, and also draws a relatively complete outline of the author's creative trajectory.
Three close friends in their early twenties, known as “the three musketeers” since childhood, are the main characters of this novel about friendship set between Mont Blanc, the city of Milan, India, and Africa.
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