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'A book of women and water , babies and art - the herstory of
Ireland - but mostly this is a book about the raw, riotous,
brutally beautiful act of being alive.' - Kerri ni Dochartaigh,
author of Thin Places A map of motherhood, Milk is at once a gentle
and meditative story of one woman's experience of new motherhood as
well as a confronting and often painful examination of the
experience of having children in contemporary Ireland. Alice
Kinsella is a young mother, giving birth to her son in her
mid-twenties, adrift in a new town and navigating her newly
accompanied life. A powerful and yet delicate mix of the personal
and political, Milk is an unflinching and unique memoir that looks
at the experience of motherhood against the backdrop of a seemingly
changed Ireland.
In this poignant, hilarious and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywood's most powerful woman, the mega-talented creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder, reveals how saying YES changed her life - and how it can change yours too.
With three hit shows on television and three children at home, Shonda Rhimes had lots of good reasons to say no when invitations arrived. Hollywood party? No. Speaking engagement? No. Media appearances? No. And to an introvert like Shonda, who describes herself as 'hugging the walls' at social events and experiencing panic attacks before press interviews, there was a particular benefit to saying no: nothing new to fear. Then came Thanksgiving 2013, when Shonda's sister Delorse muttered six little words at her: "You never say yes to anything".
Profound, impassioned and laugh-out-loud funny, in Year of Yes, Shonda Rhimes reveals how saying YES changed - and saved - her life. And inspires readers everywhere to change their own lives with one little word: Yes.
One might as well start with Séraphin: twenty-four years old,
playlist-maker, nerd-jock hybrid, self-appointed merchant of cool,
Rwandan, stifled and living in Windhoek. In a few weeks he will
leave the confines of his family life for cosmopolitan Cape Town
where his friends, parties, conquests and controversies await. More
than that, his long-awaited final year in law school will deliver a
crucial puzzle piece of the Great Plan immigrant parents have for
their children when they are forced to leave home and settle in new
countries: a degree from one of South Africa’s most prestigious
universities.
For Séraphin, the coming year promises to be felicitous. But a
year is more than the sum of its parts and en route to the future
the present must be lived through and even the past must be
survived. The Eternal Audience of One follows the intersecting
lives of Séraphin and a host of eclectic characters from pre- and
post-1994 Rwanda, colonial and post-independence Windhoek, Paris
and Brussels in the ’70s, the crowded public schools of Nairobi, as
well as the hormone-saturated clubs and streets of Cape Town. From
one of Africa’s emerging literary voices comes a piquant modern
epic of family, friendship and migration.
The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
This is the age of addiction, a condition so epidemic, so all encompassing and ubiquitous that unless you are fortunate enough to be an extreme case, you probably don't know that you have it.
What unhealthy habits and attachments are holding your life together? Are you unconsciously dependent on food? Bad relationships? A job that doesn't fulfill you? Numb, constant perusal of your phone, looking for what?
My qualification for writing this book is not that I am better than you, it's that I am worse. I am an addict, addicted to drugs, alcohol, sex, money, love and fame.
The program in Recovery has given Russell Brand freedom from all addictions and it will do the same for you.
This system offers nothing less than liberation from self-centredness, a new perspective, freedom from the illusion of suffering for anyone who is willing to take the necessary steps.
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021 One
of The Times 50 Best Sports Books of 2021 Little Wonder tells the
epic, and until now largely unchronicled, story of Lottie Dod, the
first great heroine in women's sports. Dod was a champion tennis
player, golfer, hockey player, tobogganist, skater, mountaineer,
and archer. She was also a first-rate musician, performing numerous
choral concerts in London in the 1920s and 1930s, including in a
private performance before the King and Queen. In the late 19th
century, Dod was almost certainly the second most famous woman in
the British Isles, bested only by the fame of Queen Victoria. She
was fawned over by the press, and loved by a huge fan base - which
composed poems and songs in her honor, followed her from one
tournament to the next, voraciously read every profile published on
her and every report on her sporting triumphs. Yet, within a decade
or two of her retirement from sports, Dod was largely a forgotten
figure. She lived, unmarried and childless, until 1960, and for the
last half of her life she was shrouded in obscurity. In this new
book, Sasha Abramsky brings Lottie's remarkable achievements back
into the public eye in a fascinating story of resilience and
determination.
'A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing' Caitlin
Moran 'Newman is a brilliant writer' Observer A fresh, opinionated
history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in
school but didn't. For hundreds of years we have heard about the
great men of history, but what about herstory? In this freewheeling
history of modern Britain, Cathy Newman writes about the pioneering
women who defied the odds to make careers for themselves and alter
the course of modern history; women who achieved what they achieved
while dismantling hostile, entrenched views about their place in
society. Their role in transforming Britain is fundamental, far
greater than has generally been acknowledged, and not just in the
arts or education but in fields like medicine, politics, law,
engineering and the military. While a few of the women in this book
are now household names, many have faded into oblivion, their
personal and collective achievements mere footnotes in history. We
know of Emmeline Pankhurst, Vera Brittain, Marie Stopes and
Beatrice Webb. But who remembers engineer and motorbike racer
Beatrice Shilling, whose ingenious device for the Spitfires'
Rolls-Royce Merlin fixed an often-fatal flaw, allowing the RAF's
planes to beat the German in the Battle of Britain? Or Dorothy
Lawrence, the journalist who achieved her ambition to become a WW1
correspondent by pretending to be a man? And developmental
biologist Anne McLaren, whose work in genetics paved the way for in
vitro fertilisation? Blending meticulous research with information
gleaned from memoirs, diaries, letters, novels and other secondary
sources, Bloody Brilliant Women uses the stories of some
extraordinary lives to tell the tale of 20th and 21st century
Britain. It is a history for women and men. A history for our
times.
Met hierdie unieke boek vertel Nataniël die verhaal van ’n kindertyd in drie klein dorpies en een groot voorstad, ’n era waartydens reëls blindelings gevolg is en oor ’n jong seun met ’n oorweldigende vrees vir die gewone. Kyk na my is Nataniël se eerste volwaardige memoir.
The number one bestseller and Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year
by national treasure Bob Mortimer.'The most life-affirming, joyful
read of the year' - Sunday Times 'Winningly heartfelt' - The
Guardian 'A triumph' - Daily Mail Bob Mortimer's life was trundling
along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart
condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel
an upcoming tour. The episode unnerved him, but forced him to
reflect on his life so far. This is the framework for his hilarious
and moving memoir, And Away... Although his childhood in
Middlesbrough was normal on the surface, it was tinged by the loss
of his dad, and his own various misadventures (now infamous from
his appearances on Would I Lie to You?), from burning down the
family home to starting a short-lived punk band called Dog Dirt. As
an adult, he trained as a solicitor and moved to London. Though he
was doing pretty well (the South London Press once crowned him 'The
Cockroach King' after a successful verdict), a chance encounter in
a pub in the 1980s with a young comedian going by the name Vic
Reeves set his life on a different track. And now, six years on,
the heart condition that once threatened his career has instead led
to new success on BBC2's Gone Fishing. Warm, profound, and
irrepressibly funny, And Away... is Bob's full life story (with a
few lies thrown in for good measure.)
Audrey Blignault is een van die heel bekendste skrywers in
Afrikaans. Vir ongeveer 50 jaar het daar gereeld nuwe boeke uit
haar pen verskyn. In 'n Blywende vreugde kan lesers vir die eerste
keer haar persoonlike briewe aan vriende, familie en mede-skrywers
lees. Sy skryf onder andere aan dr. Elize Botha, M.E.R., Hennie
Aucamp, Ernst van Heerden en W.A. de Klerk oor dinge wat haar na
aan die hart lê. Die briewe wissel van liriese aanhalings uit die
poësie tot selfspot en skaterlag-stoute rympies en grappe. Wanneer
geliefdes deur die dood weggeneem word, ontroer haar openhartige
ontboeseming. Die omslag van die boek is 'n foto van een van die
skrywer se geliefde kledingstukke. En hoe gepas, want dink jy aan
Audrey Blignault, dink jy rooi - en spesifiek aan die oulap se rooi
wat mooi maak.
The Man Who Inspired the World's Fastest-Growing Religion
"Muhammad" presents a fascinating portrait of the founder of a
religion that continues to change the course of world history.
Muhammad's story is more relevant than ever because it offers
crucial insight into the true origins of an increasingly
radicalized Islam. Countering those who dismiss Islam as fanatical
and violent, Armstrong offers a clear, accessible, and balanced
portrait of the central figure of one of the world's great
religions.
In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship
voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica. At the mid-way stop in South
Georgia, her pristine image of the Antarctic was shattered when she
discovered the dark legacy of twentieth century industrial-scale
whaling. Enraged by what she found, she was quick to blame the men
who undertook this wholescale slaughter, but then she stumbled upon
the grave of an eighteen-year-old whaler from Edinburgh who she
could not allow to bear the brunt of blame. There are two sides to
every story. The Two-Headed Whale vividly brings to life the
spectacular scenery and wildlife of the vast Southern Oceans, set
alongside the true-life story of Anthony Ford, the boy in the
grave, as he sailed the same seas and toiled in an industry where
profits outranked human life. In this compelling account, Sandy
challenges our preconceptions of the Antarctic, weaving in themes
of colonialism, capitalism and its link to both environmental and
human exploitation. Drawing together threads of nature and travel
writing with an unflinching narrative of life onboard a whaling
factory ship and the legacy it left behind, The Two-Headed Whale
leaves us questioning our troubled relationship with the
extraordinary abundance of this planet.
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Journal 1887-1910
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Jules Renard; Translated by Theo Cuffe; Introduction by Julian Barnes
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