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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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The Sultan's Wife (Paperback)
Jane Johnson; Narrated by Rebecca Norfolk, Walles hamonde
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R290
R239
Discovery Miles 2 390
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A sweeping historical adventure, set in 17th-century Morocco, from
the bestselling author of Court of Lions. Morocco, 1677 The
tyrannical King Ismail resides over the palace of Meknes. Through
the sweltering heat of the palace streets, Nus Nus, slave to the
king, is sent to the apothecary. There he discovers the bloody
corpse of the herb man, and becomes entangled in a plot to frame
him for the murder. Meanwhile, young, fair Alys Swann is captured
during her crossing to England, where she is due to be wed. Sold
into Ismail's harem, she is forced to choose: renounce her faith or
die. An unlikely alliance develops between Alys and Nus Nus, one
that will help them to survive the horrifying ordeals of King
Ismail's court. Brimming with rich historical detail and peppered
with real characters, from Charles I to Samuel Pepys, The Sultan's
Wife is a story of enduring love and adventure. 'Jane Johnson
writes the sort of books you want to tell everyone about ... I'm
addicted' Katie Fforde 'An utterly compelling story' Stuart
MacBride 'An irresistible page turner - I loved it' Barbara Erskine
'Full of intrigue, deceit, skulduggery and murder' Ben Kane
A highly entertaining and ingenious black comedy. Four elderly
ladies have been'sharing their lives in Violet's rented house,
pooling their pension books and sharing chores. After a mugging
Violet dies, but Marge, Lottie and Doris omit to tell the
authorities and leave Violet's body peacefully in the cemetery.
However, Violet's granddaughter, Ronnie, arrives from Australia in
search of her relative...6 women, 1 man
In Vienna of 1777, a gifted young pianist is sent to Doctor Mesmer
in the hope that his unorthodox methods will cure her blindness.
Mesmer's treatment is based on transferring a spiritual fluid that
restores physical and mental harmony. To the disquiet of her
parents, he insists that Maria stay in his house during treatment.
Maria's sight is restored, but gossips read more into the
relationship than that of doctor and patient. The treatment ends in
scandal with most of Vienna convinced that Mesmer is a charlatan.
Unable to see once again, Maria returns to her parents and resumes
her career as the blind pianist. Mesmer leaves for Paris, still
deeply committed to the his miraculous healing powers.-5 women, 3
men
All Groups
Drama
William Norfolk
Characters: 2 male, 6 female
Interior Set
Several years after her acquittal, Lizzie Borden is living with
her sister and invites players from a touring company to reenact
the circumstances of the crime. This imaginative play in style and
construction enjoyed an extended professional run in Britain.
This book is about the intersection of storytelling and science.
Recognizing that humans are hard-wired for narrative, this
collection of new essays integrates the two in a special way to
teach science in the K-6 classroom. As science education changes
its focus to concepts that bridge various disciplines, along with
science and engineering practices, storytelling offers
opportunities to enhance the science classroom. Lesson plans are
provided, each presenting a story, its alignment with science (Next
Generation Science Standards), language arts (Common Core State
Standards) and theater arts standards (National Core Arts
Standards). Instructional plans include a rationale, preparation,
activities and assessment.
Simon Norfolk's book Afghanistan; chronotopia is now recognised as
a classic of photography. It establised Norfolk's reputation as one
of the leading photographers in the world and has been exhibited in
more than 30 venues worldwide. For the first time since 2001, Simon
Norfolk has returned to the country. This time he follows in the
footsteps of the Irish photographer John Burke, a superb, yet
virtually unknown, war photographer whose eloquent and beautiful
photographs of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) form a most
extraordinary record. Using unwieldy wet-plate collodion negatives
and huge wooden cameras Burke shot landscapes, battlefields,
archaeological sites, street scenes, portraits of British officers
and ethnological group portraits of Afghans in what amounts to a
record of an Imperial encounter. The range of work is tremendously
broad and yet suffused with a delicate humanism. These are also the
first ever pictures made in Afghanistan. With this book, one
hundred and thirty years too late, John Burke's time has at last
come. Norfolk's new work looks at what happens when you add half a
trillion US war dollars to an impoverished and broken country such
as Afghanistan. Very loosely re-photographic in nature, the work is
more of an 'Improvisation on a theme' by John Burke, and is
presented as an artistic collaboration between Burke and Norfolk.
It features photographs by Burke never before published as well as
Norfolk's new pictures from Kabul and Helmand.
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Bleed (Hardcover)
Simon Norfolk
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R2,318
R1,942
Discovery Miles 19 420
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A haunting and beautiful limited edition book from the
internationally respected photographer, Simon Norfolk. The war in
Bosnia in the 1990s raised to common currency the terms 'ethnic
cleansing,' and 'humanitarian intervention'. It brought back to
Europe a barbarism not seen since the Second World War; and was the
first war fought very much under the eyes of the media. It was also
the first conflict fought by killers who knew, even before the war
had finished, that a war crimes tribunal awaited them. Norfolk's
photographs initially appear almost abstract. Yet through these
still and beautiful images of ice, water, snow and the land, we can
sense the arrogance of killers who believed they could conceal the
brutal evidence of their crimes by reburying their victims in
'secondary graves'. But over time secrets escape, and the truth
bleeds out.
An international best-seller and winner of the Somerset Maugham
Prize, Lempriere's Dictionary is the debut novel from Lawrence
Norfolk, one of England's most innovative, internationally
acclaimed young authors. In eighteenth-century London, John
Lempriere works feverishly on a celebrated dictionary of classical
mythology that bears his name. He discovers a conspiracy against
his family dating back 150 years. Told with the narrative drive of
a political thriller and a Dickensian panorama of place and time,
this astonishing tale encompasses the Great Voyages of Discovery,
multinational financial conspiracies, and a motley cast of scholars
and eccentrics, drunken aristocrats, whores and assassins, and
octogenarian pirates, all brilliantly depicted across three
continents and the world of classical mythology.
In this trickster tale from Africa, Anansi learns the value of
being a good host. He also learns the truth of the old saying, what
goes around, comes around.
This book is about the madness of everyday life under a
dictatorship. It shifts in theme and time, testing the borderlines
of prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction, history and
autobiography - all in the unassuming guise of a children's ABC.
The Last Window-Giraffe is a playful and personal journey through
the political unrest of the seventies and eighties. It was inspired
by a Hungarian children's dictionary, entitled Window-Giraffe,
which explained the whole world in simple terms; a world where
everything was in order and all problems were easily solved.Popular
across Europe for the best part of a decade, The Last
Window-Giraffe is a politically infused rendition of the original:
quirky, astute and powerful. Peter Zilahy draws on his travels
around the 'soft dictatorships' of Eastern Europe, offering his
acerbic observations on the often bizarre spectacle. In one
instance, he describes the carnival-like protests against the
Milosevic regime in Belgrade simply and humorously. This reflects,
like the format of the book, the manner in which the regime treat
their people like children. Filled with his own striking
photographs, Zilahy gives fascinating insight into a whole other
universe behind the Iron Curtain. The Last Window-Giraffe is one of
the most unusual, beguiling books you will ever read."
In Wrong Place, a son faces twelve years behind bars, and his
father faces not only losing his son, but his marriage and his job.
Mark Norfolk recently completed his debut feature, Love is Not
Enough, which has received critical acclaim. His previous play
Knock Down Ginger is also published by Oberon Books.
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