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Fourteen-year-old Elle and her friends are going to a
not-to-be-missed funfair. But a ride on the Ghost Train takes them
further than they ever imagined. They end up in 1880, face-to-face
with criminal mastermind, The Grandfather! To Elle's surprise, he
needs her help. Someone has threatened to reveal The Gift to the
media. If that happens, everyone will know that Leaplings can leap
through time; no Leapling will be safe. Meanwhile, Millennia's
power at the head of The Vicious Circle grows. Will Elle work for a
villain to save her secret community? Can she and The Infinites
crush The Vicious Circle for good?
'Vivid, funny, exciting and inventive' Philip Pullman
'Has a magic all of its own' Bernardine Evaristo
'What an inspiration. The future just got so much better' Benjamin
Zephaniah
FIGHT CRIME, ACROSS TIME!
Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer
still are Leaplings with The Gift – the ability to leap through time.
Elle Bíbi-Imbelé Ifíè has The Gift, but she’s never used it. Until now.
On her twelfth birthday, Elle and her best friend Big Ben travel to the
Time Squad Centre in 2048. Elle has received a mysterious warning from
the future. Other Leaplings are disappearing in time – and not everyone
at the centre can be trusted.
Soon Elle’s adventure becomes more than a race through time. It’s a
race against time. She must fight to save the world as she knows it –
before it ceases to exist . . .
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Refugee Tales (Paperback)
Ali Smith, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chris Cleave, Marina Lewycka, Jade Amoli-Jackson, …
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Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an
overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway
across... A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers
'acting on a tip-off' and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years,
is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of
escape... An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery -
first on a Ghanaian farm, then as a victim of trafficking - writes
to the Home Office for help, only to be rewarded with a jail
sentence and indefinite detention... These are not fictions. Nor
are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the
frighteningly common experiences of Europe's new underclass - its
refugees. While those with "citizenship" enjoy basic human rights
(like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14
days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in
Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the
stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain's
policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their
accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims'
stories in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare,
intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.
It's midsummer's day and thirteen-year-old Elle and her Leapling
classmates are visiting the Museum of the Past, the Present and the
Future. But on the day of the school trip, disaster strikes, and
the most unique and valuable piece in the museum, the
Infinity-Glass, is stolen! And worse still, Elle's friend and
fellow Infinite, MC(2), is arrested for the crime! To prove his
innocence Elle must leap back centuries in time, to a London very
different from today. Along the way she will meet new friends, face
dangers unlike any she has ever known, and face an old enemy who is
determined to destroy her. Can Elle find the missing Infinity-Glass
and return it to its rightful home before it's too late?
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I Have Found a Song (Hardcover)
Patience Agbabi, Polly Atkin, Valerie Bloom; Illustrated by Sonia Boyce, Hew Locke, …
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"I Have Found a Song" is a fascinating collection of poems and
images published to mark the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the
Slave Trade Act. It originated in a commission from Arts Council
England for 12 poets to write on the theme of enslavement, which
has resulted in a richly diverse selection of new poems.
Interspersed with these are elaborate and exciting visual
contributions by five artists invited by "Enitharmon Editions" to
produce work on the same theme. The de luxe edition of the book is
accompanied by a portfolio of signed original prints, and each
artist has also contributed additional sequences of images
reflecting on enslavement in its many forms. The poets include
Patience Agbabi, Polly Atkin, Valerie Bloom, Jean 'Binta' Breeze,
Fred D'Aguiar, Helen Dunmore, Bernardine Evaristo, Paul Farley,
Jacob Sam-La Rose, Iain Sinclair, Hugo Williams, and Benjamin
Zephaniah. The artists include Sonia Boyce, Hew Locke, Shanti
Panchal, Chris Steele-Perkins, and Paula Rego.
Bloodshot Monochrome is a glorious poetic take on all things black,
white and read. Reinventing the sonnet, Patience Agbabi shines her
euphoric, musical lines on everything from growing up to growing
old, from Northern Soul to contract killers, from the retro to the
brand new. Whether resurrecting the dead in 'Problem Pages',
playing out noir dramas in 'Vicious Circle', or capturing moments
of her own life in perfect snapshot, Agbabi's verse is sublimely
lyrical and spiked with gleeful humour.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015 Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry
Cathedral, Poet pilgrims competing for free picks, Chaucer Tales,
track by track, it's the remix From below-the-belt base to the
topnotch; I won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatch when the
tales overrun, run offensive, or run clean out of steam, they're
authentic and we're keeping it real, reminisce this: Chaucer Tales
were an unfinished business. In Telling Tales award-winning poet
Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-century remix of
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales retelling all of the stories, from the
Miller's Tale to the Wife of Bath's in her own critically acclaimed
poetic style. Celebrating Chaucer's Middle-English masterwork for
its performance element as well as its poetry and pilgrims,
Agbabi's newest collection is utterly unique. Boisterous, funky,
foul-mouthed, sublimely lyrical and bursting at the seams, Telling
Tales takes one of Britain's most significant works of literature
and gives it thrilling new life.
'They call me Jax, though my real name's Eva The whole of the
Jackson Five rolled into one serious diva No.1 on the guest list,
top of the charts When I make my grand entrance, the sea of sequins
parts...' From Hamburg to Jo'burg, Oslo to Soho, Patience Agbabi
follows her critically acclaimed debut collection R.A.W., with
Transformatrix, an exploration of women, travel and metamorphosis.
Inspired by 90s poetry, 80s rap and 70s disco, Transformatrix is a
celebration of literary form and constitutes a very potent and
telling commentary on the realities of late twentieth century
Britain. It is also a self-portrait of a poet whose honesty,
intelligence and wit manages to pack a punch, draw a smile and warm
your heart all at once.
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The Best British Poetry 2012 (Paperback, New)
Sasha Dugdale; Series edited by Roddy Lumsden; Contributions by Fleur Adcock, Patience Agbabi, Tara Bergin, …
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The Best British Poetry 2012 presents the finest and most engaging
poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year.
The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK
poetry. Each poem is accompanied by a note by the poet explaining
the inspiration for the poem. An indispensable guide to British
poetry and a must-have purchase for anyone interested in the art,
from newcomers to the most experienced professional and all
creative writing students working in English.
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