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Step inside Louis' life like never before as he turns his critical
eye on himself, his home, and family and tries to make sense of our
weird and sometimes scary world. His new autobiography is the
perfect book for our uncertain times by the hilarious and relatable
Louis Theroux. Louis started lockdown with a sense of purpose and
determination. Like the generation who survived the Second World
War, this was his chance to shine. Then reality set in, forcing him
to ask: When did he start annoying his children? Why is
home-schooling so hard? Has the kitchen become the new shed, a
hideaway for men, where, under the guise of being helpful, you can
just drink, listen to music and keep to yourself? And is his
drinking really becoming a problem? He also describes his dealings
with Joe Exotic and flies to the US to make a documentary on the
Tiger King, discusses his Grounded podcast, jumps back into the
world of militias and conspiracy theorists as he catches up with
past interviewees for his Life on the Edge series, and wonders
whether he could get rich if he wrote Trump: The Musical.
Van Bientang het net die naam van 'n restaurant in Hermanus oorgebly: Bientang's Cave, asook 'n weggooi-opmerking: die laaste Strandloper. Uit hierdie gegewens sny die digter se verbeelding spoor in 'n kontra-epos. Wie was Bientang? Te midde van historiese geskrifte, kontemporêre angste en oorlewerings verskyn buitelyne om haar vir oomblikke binne bereik te bring. Die toonaard van die bundel is egter verlies oor 'n verlede wat geen spoor laat in die opgeskryfde geskiedenisse van die land nie.
As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean's
Marshall Islands from being devoured by the waters around them. At
the same time, activists are raising their poetic voices against
decades of colonialism, environmental destruction, and social
injustice. Marshallese poet and activist Kathy Jetn-il-Kijiner's
writing highlights the traumas of colonialism, racism, forced
migration, the legacy of American nuclear testing, and the
impending threats of climate change. Bearing witness at the front
lines of various activist movements inspires her work and has
propelled her poetry onto international stages, where she has
performed in front of audiences ranging from elementary school
students to more than a hundred world leaders at the United Nations
Climate Summit. The poet connects us to Marshallese daily life and
tradition, likening her poetry to a basket and its essential
materials. Her cultural roots and her family provides the thick
fiber, the structure of the basket. Her diasporic upbringing is the
material which wraps around the fiber, an essential layer to the
structure of her experiences. And her passion for justice and
change, the passion which brings her to the front lines of activist
movements-is the stitching that binds these two experiences
together. Iep Jaltok will make history as the first published book
of poetry written by a Marshallese author, and it ushers in an
important new voice for justice.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is anything but Shakespeare. Unless you’ve never read Shakespeare.
This debut poetry collection by Matthew Freemantle is at times hilarious, at times snarky and at other times a concise mirror reflecting back the absurdity of modern life in South Africa - especially during multiple lockdowns.
A high-brow toilet book that tackles personal reflections on toes, fatherhood, sex, commerce and identity.
Hazel Hendry is a remarkable woman. She worked tirelessly raising
money for charities, and particularly for TEARFUND, including
walking the form of a cross from John Oa Groats to Lands End and
from Ramsgate to Fishguard in Wales. When the Croatian War began,
the founder of TEARFUND, George Hoffman, told her, a Hazel, the
people of Croatia need your helpa . So she raised money to send
over 50 lorries, full of much needed supplies of food, furniture,
medical equipment and toiletries, into Croatia. She travelled
personally with many of them during and after the war. Hazel
delivered aid right to the Front Line risking her life to help
people who had lost their homes, livelihoods, and families. This
book is about her experiences during those dangerous years, and the
people who helped her and those that she helped. It is based on
journals which she kept at the time and later recollections of
particular people and events. As such, it is a vivid account of how
the Croations in the War Zone suffered at the hands of the Chetniks
who would attack their villages while leaving neighbouring villages
in Croatia where Serbs lived unscathed. Some of the details that
she recalls are not for the squeamish, but the way in which her
faith supported her throughout this period shines through on every
page.
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Marine
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Alan Jenkins, John Kinsella
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This remarkable collaboration had its origins when John Kinsella
and Alan Jenkins, two very different poets who had long admired and
enjoyed each other's work, discovered by chance that the new poems
they were working on shared a preoccupation with the sea. Marine
brings together those poems and others written since, all dealing
with the sea in its many moods and weathers, with people's
relationship to and exploitation of their marine environment, from
the Indian Ocean to the shores of the Atlantic; the two poets'
highly distinctive voices, while drawing on a dazzling variety of
forms and sources, complementing each other in a powerful
counterpoint.
For years, Laurence Bounds has been pestering some of the most
patient customer service departments from coffee companies to
television studios and shaving companies to travel agents, with his
maddening of letters. From HMV to AEG, the Met Office to the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra - everyone is a target. Discover years of
hilarious letters sent from the Etruria Lodge estate by the
eccentric but highly-educated, Laurence Bounds (B.A, B.Sc). So who
is Laurence Bounds, we hear you ask? A part-time gamekeeper,
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Science, inventor of the
WaspZapper 838 (TM), producer of the famous Bombardier Potato,
founder of The Mobile Judge Programme, dog food pioneer, betting
tycoon, playwright supremo, wine magnate, children's life-size
Henry VIII doll designer, poet, astrologer, published author and
aspiring television producer, to name but a few. Upon buying this
educational book, you may learn some of Laurence's tips and become
a serial entrepreneur just like him. Discover how to complain the
Bounds way, how to communicate effectively with some of the world's
biggest companies, and how to deal with organisations when they are
not keen on your ideas. Join him on a side-splitting journey,
guaranteed to have you in stitches, as you meet his friends,
relatives, and his beloved thoroughbred black Labrador, Alexander
IX. This is Laurence Bounds, his life in his own words...
South Africa, 2019. Twenty-five years since the first post-apartheid
democratic elections, two men from contrasting walks of life are thrust
together to reflect on a quarter-century of change. Jack Morris is a
celebrated classical actor who has just been given both a
career-defining role and a life-changing diagnosis. Besides his age,
Jack has seemingly little in common with his at-home nurse Lunga
Kunene, but the two men soon discover their shared passion for
Shakespeare, which ignites this ‘rich, raw and shattering head-to-head’
(The Times).
Written by South African actor, activist and playwright John Kani, this
refreshingly funny and vital new play premiered in the Swan Theatre,
Stratford-upon-Avon in 2019, before transferring to the Ambassadors
Theatre in London. A co-production with the Fugard Theatre, it
was directed by Janice Honeyman with moving performances from Antony
Sher and John Kani.
An adaptation of the famous poem about a Christmas Eve visitor, set in Ireland.
For a decade, Ecco has published the most outstanding science
writing in America, collected in highly acclaimed annual volumes
edited by some of the most impressive and most important names in
science and science writing today: James Gleick, Timothy Ferris,
Matt Ridley, Oliver Sacks, Dava Sobel, Alan Lightman, Atul Gawande,
Gina Kolata, Sylvia Nasar, and Natalie Angier.
Now series editor Jesse Cohen invites the previous guest
editors to select their favorite essays for this one-of-a-kind
anthology. The result is an outstanding compendium--the best
science writing of the new millennium, featuring an introduction by
the series' 2010 editor and "New York Times" bestselling author of
"How Doctors Think," Jerome Groopman.
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