![]() ![]() Rose needs a husband, Thomas an education but Cassandra lives for her writing. Mortmain is crippled by writer’s block, while his beautiful second wife Topaz struggles to be a dutiful stepmother to Rose, Cassandra and Thomas. The eccentric Mortmain family have been rattling around in a vast, decrepit castle for years, gradually slipping into financial ruin. This edition is illustrated by Ruth Steed, and features an afterword by publisher Anna South. ![]() These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Ī wonderfully quirky coming-of-age story, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians is an affectionately drawn portrait of one of the funniest families in literature. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “If you’re looking for a handy guide to not just crafting imaginative fiction like sci-fi, fantasy, and horror, but to writing in general, be sure to pick up a copy of Steampunk Bible author Jeff Vandermeer’s lovingly compiled Wonderbook." -Flavorwire and the kind of book you will find yourself picking up again and again.” - Kirkus Reviews online “This is the kind of book you leave sitting out for all to see. “Jammed with storytelling wisdom.” - Fast Company’s Co.Create blog Valente, and Karen Joy Fowler, to name a few. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Catherynne M. Aimed at aspiring and intermediate-level writers, Wonderbook includes helpful sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names in fantasy today, such as George R. Employing an accessible, example-rich approach, Wonderbook energizes and motivates while also providing practical, nuts-and-bolts information needed to improve as a writer. This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. ![]() ![]() With dashes of reoccurring characters (the inept Gussie Fink-Nottle and Madeline Basset from Right Ho, Jeeves) and a host of new faces to love, loath, and laugh at, Code of the Woosters is by far my favorite P.G. With two sets of lovers helplessly torn apart, an abducted cow creamer, a paranoid magistrate, a spying fascist leader, and some rare escapes into the love lives of newts, it’s all happening at the ill-fated Totleigh Towers. Bumbling aristocrat and the butler that owns him are once again thrown into the madness of family, friends, and absurdist schemes. How could this epic mess have started with something as simple as a love of good cooking and a diabolical aunt obsessed with a cow creamer? Who could possibly unravel the threads of love, mischief, and the poor quiet chap who just wants some good cooking at the elegant table of Anton, that treasured chef of said diabolic aunt? Where did it all go wrong, and what can make the increasingly complex schemes wane? Of course, Bertie’s man, Jeeves, is the only one with a head on his shoulders and a cunning plan up his well-tailored sleeve. ![]() ![]() In one of the most daring (and deranged) escapades yet, Bertie Wooster finds himself in danger of a lynching, developing a reputation as an incurable kleptomaniac, and (worst of all) becoming entangled in an engagement to the drippy Madeline Basset and to Stiffy Byng. Rating: My Favorite W odehouse Novel to Date ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on he has no great family to back him, no private army. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. A Guardian Book of the Year * A Times Book of the Year * A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year * A Telegraph Book of the Year * A Sunday Times Book of the Year * A New Statesman Book of the Year * A Spectator Book of the Year 'It is a book not read, but lived' Telegraph 'Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century' Observer 'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?' England, May 1536. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. ![]() Looking for other books by Hilary Mantel? Click here. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After a period following the collapse of the Soviet Union, when constitutional democracy spread to many countries not just in Europe but across the globe, and Francis Fukuyama declared that history had come to an end, the tide seems to have turned. W inston Churchill once famously declared: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” Underpinned by the rule of law and the popular will, democracy is the only way we can prevent the arbitrary exercise of tyrannical power: suppression of free speech curtailment or abolition of civil liberties laws passed by decree without public debate or popular approval arrest and imprisonment without trial torture and murder by unchecked agencies of the government and theft, extortion and embezzlement by politicians in power, who inevitably turn into kleptocrats when democracy is destroyed. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was very eye opening about the role big money is playing in politics. I read Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right shortly after the 2016 election. If you want to understand how we killed the unions in this country, how we widened the income divide, stalled progress on climate change, and how our corporations bought the influence industry, all you have to do is read this book. ![]() These strategies made him and his brother David together richer than Bill Gates.īut there’s another side to this story. He’s a genius businessman: patient with earnings, able to learn from his mistakes, determined that his employees develop a reverence for free-market ruthlessness, and a master disrupter. But few people know much about Koch Industries and that’s because the billionaire Koch brothers have wanted it that way.įor five decades, CEO Charles Koch has kept Koch Industries quietly operating in deepest secrecy, with a view toward very, very long-term profits. ![]() Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers that make our food to the chemicals that make our pipes to the synthetics that make our carpets and diapers to the Wall Street trading in all these commodities. The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and US Steel combined. Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America. ![]() ![]() The great wail of Pete and his warpath are, to me, the real core of the book. OK, time travel back and forth twice (not exactly, but I am not going to reveal the story) is fine with rare exposure of the inherent paradoxes (do we need parallel universes to avoid meeting our doppel gangers?) and is the nominal theme here. I enjoyed all the passages where Pete is present and active the most. Since I got her from a shelter, she had to be neutered, an absolute no-no for Pete (and, perhaps, Heinlein's own cats). I finally got my first cat six years ago and she is not quite like Petronius the Arbiter, Pete for short, in the book. Except for one thing: Heinlein, I think, knew a lot about cats. There are many aspects to this book that is not meant to be taken seriously. ![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t expect Natasha and Daniel to receive a happy ever after because the odds are against them. “Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.” The Sun is Also a star Nicola Yoon Natasha’s time is up, and her plane leaves that night.ĭaniel doesn’t back down and sets out to prove to Natasha that he can get her to fall in love with him by the end of the day.īut the universe has other plans for them. ![]() For Daniel, it’s love at first sight, but Natasha doesn’t believe in the notion of love. Well, more like, Daniel saves Natasha from getting hit by a car. On the way to her appointment, Natasha bumps into Daniel Bae, a Korean American teen on his way to his yale admission interview. Natasha Kinsley is a Jamaican American teen about to be deported, and in her last-ditch effort, she sets up a meeting with a paralegal. This book is not a quick read, but if you’re up for it, check it out. The Sun is Also a Star is an #ownvoices novel the author, Nicola Yoon, grew up in Jamaican and Brooklyn, and falls under the YA romance genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() The problem with this little quandary is that there is a snow storm closing in and the Swiss police won’t be able to get there to help find the missing woman in time. When someone close to the engagement party goes missing, Elin must decide if she can help – using her detective skills – or if she should just leave this one to the professionals. It was once a Sanatorium and has this dark and interesting past that creeps Elin and her boyfriend out. She ends up at this brand new hotel in the Swiss Alps that her brother is celebrating his engagement at. ![]() It is one of those that you will want to completely immerse yourself in and get lost in.Įlin is a police detective, who is currently on leave after a case went wrong and she was injured and mentally scarred. I’d originally been intending on reading this one as buddy read with someone else, but they sped ahead and read it in two sittings, so I then went ahead and read it myself over three sittings. Pick this one up for a thrilling read that will keep you guessing until the end. I picked it up after seeing a recommendation online, and then hearing about it everywhere! I was on a book buying ban at the time so I had to wait to actually get my hands on a copy and that wait was terrible □ But I got the book and I’m really glad I did. Published by Transworld publishing January 2020 ![]() ![]() Well, she started her career in the film industry with a minor role in the movie Diamonds Are Forever. Moreover, she graduated from the General William J. Well, Peterson was so much fascinated by horror-themed toys since her tender age. Peterson holds an American nationality and belongs to a white ethnicity. However, Cassandra has not yet disclosed any information about her parents and siblings. ![]() When she was in her early age, her family affected by the flood and moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado. ![]() Cassandra Peterson’s Bio, WikiĬassandra Peterson was born on 17 September 1951, in Manhattan, Kansas, the United States. If you want to know all the details about Cassandra Peterson, then read the article until the end. Moreover, she has maintained her net worth to be $3 Million. 5 feet and 7 inches tall Peterson was married to her husband Mark Pierson and later divorced. ![]() Well, she gained popularity after hosting the TV station KHJ-TV. Well, her recurring role as Elvira has successfully made her fans frightened.Ĭassandra Peterson is widely recognized as an American actress, best known for her role as Elvira in the Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. If you have ever watched the Mistress of the Dark, then you must recognize the horror character Elvira starred by Cassandra Peterson. ![]() |