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Kirsteen is the tale of a young woman from an old but impoverished
Argyllshire family who escapes her domineering father and seeks her
independence. Kirsteen's options appear to be unpaid drudgery at
home, or a loveless marriage. Rejecting both, she escapes to London
where she makes a living through her own innate craft and skill.
Though scorned by her family for choosing to work as a
mantua-maker, Kirsteen becomes highly successful in the life she
carves out for herself. Kirsteen is a startlingly modern novel
whose powerful voice, narrative drive and ironic exposure of
injustice and hypocrisy provide a fascinating perspective on women
in Victorian society. First published in 1890, and written by Queen
Victoria's favourite novelist Margaret Oliphant, Kirsteen is a
deep, rich novel by an author at the height of her powers.
A writer's job is to notice the world. To catch in words the
qualities, textures, patterns, people, events and emotions at play
every day. Cadences - a memoir of personal noticings illustrated
with literary awarenesses from secular and spiritual texts - charts
large and small happenings in and around one woman's life and
argues for an appreciation of the extra/ordinary.
Located in an old west of Scotland town, hanging on to its once
proud identity with its fingertips, 'Cloisters Bookshop' functions
as an oasis of culture and quirky authenticity. The glorious
gallimaufry of scenes, sketches and stories assembled here arise
from, and are shaped by, the bookshop's valiant setting and rich
characters. Differing thus from other contributors to the genre,
this will make you both smile and sigh and ultimately dissuade you
of the belief that it is only book selling that goes on in a
bookshop.
When a thin black and white Collie, lying quietly in her cage at
the Rescue Centre, caught the eye of a family looking for a
companion for their own dog, life as they had known it was
irrevocably changed. Overturning all their accumulated wisdom of
how to live with dogs, Sally, who had been found running scared on
a city street, stretches the tolerance of her new owners to the
limit. Charting the first eighteen months of life with a confused
dog, Learning to Listen also celebrates and reflects on other
beloved dogs, is lightly laced with literary references and the
textures of daily life but above all illustrates how a seemingly
insurmountable problem can reveal itself as an unexpected
invitation into a deeper understanding.
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