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The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin (Hardcover): Sarah Knight, Stefan Tilg The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin (Hardcover)
Sarah Knight, Stefan Tilg
R4,705 Discovery Miles 47 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time, the production of Latin writing exploded thanks to book printing and new literary and cultural dynamics. Latin also entered into a complex interplay with the rising vernacular languages. This Handbook gives an accessible survey of the main genres, contexts, and regions of Neo-Latin, as we have come to call Latin writing composed in the wake of Petrarch (1304-74). Its emphasis is on the period of Neo-Latin's greatest cultural relevance, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Its chapters, written by specialists in the field, present individual methodologies and focuses while retaining an introductory character. The Handbook will be valuable to all readers wanting to orientate themselves in the immense ocean of Neo-Latin literature and culture. It will be particularly helpful for those working on early modern languages and literatures as well as to classicists working on the culture of ancient Rome, its early modern reception and the shifting characteristics of post-classical Latin language and literature. Political, social, cultural and intellectual historians will find much relevant material in the Handbook, and it will provide a rich range of material to scholars researching the history of their respective geographical areas of interest.

Memoir of Sarah Knight - Wife of Thomas Knight, of Colchester, Who Died On the 28Th of the Fifth Month, 1828 (Hardcover): Sarah... Memoir of Sarah Knight - Wife of Thomas Knight, of Colchester, Who Died On the 28Th of the Fifth Month, 1828 (Hardcover)
Sarah Knight
R729 Discovery Miles 7 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Grow The F*ck Up - How To Be An Adult And Get Treated Like One (Paperback): Sarah Knight Grow The F*ck Up - How To Be An Adult And Get Treated Like One (Paperback)
Sarah Knight
R415 R370 Discovery Miles 3 700 Save R45 (11%) Ships in 8 - 13 working days

The newest entry in the multi-million-copy-selling 'No F*cks Given Guides' series from New York Times best-selling author Sarah Knight, showing how taking a little more responsibility can bring a lot more satisfaction to life.

Best-selling author Sarah Knight returns with her latest collection of hard-hitting advice for the modern adult who doesn't quite know how they got here. Whether you're searching for your ideal adult form, or just beginning to bridge the gulf between being fully dependent and gloriously independent, Sarah Knight has the hard-earned wisdom to get you from total helplessness to reliable resourcefulness.

Packed with key life hacks such as Communication, Personal Responsibility, and Life Experience, Grow the F*ck Up puts all the advice your parents tried to give you in one handy package that will help you get your life firing on all cylinders. Blissfully free of judgment and packed with the tools to identify mindset minefields and correct puerile proclivities that prevent one from becoming a truly mature, responsible, independent individual, this toolkit provides everything you need to succeed at being a fully-fledged, capital-a Adult.

Get Your Sh*t Together (Paperback): Sarah Knight Get Your Sh*t Together (Paperback)
Sarah Knight
R331 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R25 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

How to stop worrying about what you should do, so you can finish what you need to do and start doing what you want to do.

Ever find yourself snowed under at the office - or even just glued to the sofa - when you really want to get out (for once), get to the gym (at last), and get started on that daunting dream project you're always putting off? Or if you are confined to barracks and that's driving you nuts, then it's time to get your sh*t together.

In The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, 'anti-guru' Sarah Knight introduced the joys of mental decluttering. Get Your Sh*t Together takes you one stop further - organizing the f*cks you want and need to give to help you quit your day job and move abroad, balance work and fun - and save money while you're at it - or simply get out of the door for happy hour, every day.

No F*cks Given: Life-Changing Words to  Live By (Hardcover): Sarah Knight No F*cks Given: Life-Changing Words to Live By (Hardcover)
Sarah Knight
R360 R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Save R39 (11%) Ships in 8 - 13 working days

A beautifully packaged collection of inspirational quotes with a hilariously explicit twist from Sarah Knight's beloved No F*cks Given Guides series In The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving A F*ck Sarah liberated you from people and things that don't make you happy; with Get Your Sh*t Together she provided a tough-love push towards getting organized to achieve your goals; You Do You offered a roadmap to embracing your individuality; Calm the F*ck Down delivered practical solutions for managing ever-more stressful times; and F*ck No! taught you to set boundaries and stick to them with confidence and flair. No F*cks Given: Life-Changing Words to Live By gathers the very best of this no-bullsh*t, life-changing advice into one must-have gift book that enlightens and entertains on every page.

The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Hardcover): Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring,... The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Hardcover)
Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, Sarah Knight
R5,287 Discovery Miles 52 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the Midlands, and parts of the West Country, staying with private and civic hosts, and at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The progresses provided hosts with unique opportunities to impress and influence the Queen, and became occasions for magnificent and ingenious entertainments and pageants, drawing on the skills of architects, artists, and craftsmen, as well as dramatic performances, formal orations, poetic recitations, parades, masques, dances, and bear baiting.
The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I is an interdisciplinary essay collection, drawing together new and innovative work by experts in literary studies, history, theatre and performance studies, art history, and antiquarian studies. As such, it will make a unique and timely contribution to research on the culture and history of Elizabethan England. Chapters include examinations of some of the principal Elizabethan progress entertainments, including the coronation pageant Veritas temporis filia (1559), Kenilworth (1575), Norwich (1578), Cowdray (1591), Bisham (1592), and Harefield (1602), while other chapters consider the themes raised by these events, including the ritual of gift-giving; the conduct of government whilst on progress; the significance of the visual arts in the entertainments; regional identity and militarism; elite and learned women as hosts; the circulation and publication of entertainment and pageant texts; theafterlife of the Elizabethan progresses, including their reappropriation in Caroline England and the documenting of Elizabeth's reign by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century antiquarians such as John Nichols, who went on to compile the monumentalThe Progresses of Queen Elizabeth (1788-1823).

You Do You - How To Be Who You Are And Use What You've Got To Get What You Want (Paperback): Sarah Knight You Do You - How To Be Who You Are And Use What You've Got To Get What You Want (Paperback)
Sarah Knight
R395 R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Save R42 (11%) Ships in 8 - 13 working days

*From the 'anti-guru' author of the smash hit The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k and the New York Times bestseller Get Your Sh*t Together *

In The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, our favourite 'anti-guru' Sarah Knight unleashed the power of saying no. In Get Your Sh*t Together, she prioritised the sh*t you need and want to do so you can achieve your hopes and dreams. Now she's back, doubling down on your happiness with her latest message: You Do You.

Being yourself should be the easiest thing in the world. Yet instead of leaning in to who we are, we fight it, listening too closely to what society tells us. You Do You helps you shake off those expectations, say f**k perfect, start looking out for number one and keep on with your badass self. From career and finances to relationships and family, lifestyle and health, Sarah Knight rips up the rulebook.

Writing about her mistakes and embarrassments in her own personal quest to 'do me' - because nobody gets everything right all day, every day - Sarah Knight shows why you can and should f**k up and teaches you to let yourself off the hook, bounce back and keep standing tall.

Thoroughly Modern - The Pioneering Life Of Barbara Ker-Seymer, Photographer, And Her brilliant Bohemian Friends (Paperback):... Thoroughly Modern - The Pioneering Life Of Barbara Ker-Seymer, Photographer, And Her brilliant Bohemian Friends (Paperback)
Sarah Knights
R359 R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Save R37 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Vivacious, sassy, out to have fun, Ker-Seymer was committed to independence.

One of a handful of outstanding British photographers of her generation, Ker-Seymer's work defined a talented, forward-looking network of artists, dancers, writers, actors and musicians, all of whom flocked to her Bond Street studio. Among her sitters were Evelyn Waugh, Margot Fonteyn, Cyril Connolly, Jean Cocteau and Vita Sackville-West. Barbara Ker-Seymer (1905-1993) disdained lucrative 'society' portraits in favour of unfussy 'modern' images. Her work was widely admired by her peers, among them, Man Ray and Jean Cocteau. Her images as a gossip-column photojournalist for Harper's Bazaar were the go-to representations of the aristocracy and Bright Young Things at play. Yet as both a studio portraitist and a photojournalist, she broke with convention.

Equally unconventional in her personal life, Ker-Seymer was prefigurative in the way she lived her life as a bisexual woman and in her contempt for racism, misogyny and homophobia. Fiercely independent, for much of her life she rejected the idea of family, preferring her wide set of creative friends, with the artist Edward Burra, ballet dancer William 'Billy' Chappell and choreographer Frederick Ashton at its core.

Today, Ker-Seymer's photographs are known for whom they represent, rather than the face behind the camera, an irony underpinned by the misattribution of some of her most daring images to Cecil Beaton. Yet her intelligence, sparkle, wit and genius enabled her to link arms with the surrealists, the Bloomsbury Group, the Bright Young Things and, most gloriously, the worlds of theatre, cabaret and jazz.

With unprecedented access to private archives and hitherto unseen material, Sarah Knights brings Barbara Ker-Seymer and her brilliant bohemian friends vividly to life.

The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court (Paperback): Jayne Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, Sarah... The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court (Paperback)
Jayne Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, Sarah Knight
R774 Discovery Miles 7 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late fifteenth through the early eighteenth centuries. This period witnessed the height of the Inns' status as educational institutions: emerging from fairly informal associations in the fourteenth century, the Inns of Court in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries had developed sophisticated curricula for their students, leading to their description in the early seventeenth century as England's 'third university'. Some of the most influential politicians, writers, and divines - as well as lawyers - of Tudor and Stuart England passed through the Inns: men such as Edward Hall, Richard Hooker, John Webster, John Selden, Edward Coke, William Lambarde, Francis Bacon, and John Donne. This is the first interdisciplinary publication on the early modern Inns of Court, bringing together scholarship in history, art history, literature, and drama. The book is lavishly illustrated and provides a unique collection of visual sources for the architecture, art, and gardens of the early modern Inns -- .

The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k - The bestselling book everyone is talking about (Paperback): Sarah Knight The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k - The bestselling book everyone is talking about (Paperback)
Sarah Knight
R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The bestselling book everyone is talking about, revealing the surprising art of caring less and getting more. 'Genius' Cosmopolitan 'The best book I have read recently . . . Absolutely blinding. Read it. Do it' Mail on Sunday 'The anti-guru' Observer Are you stressed out, overbooked and underwhelmed by life? Fed up with pleasing everyone else before you please yourself? Then it's time to stop giving a f**k. This irreverent and practical book explains how to rid yourself of unwanted obligations, shame, and guilt - and give your f**ks instead to people and things that make you happy. With a bonus section on how to save your sanity over the holiday season, the simple 'NotSorry Method' for mental decluttering will help you unleash the power of not giving a f**k and will free you to spend your time, energy and money on the things that really matter. 'I love Knight's book before I even start reading it' Sunday Times Magazine 'Life-affirming . . . The key practice she advocates is devising for yourself a "fuck budget" . . . It's a beautiful way of streamlining your psyche' Guardian Also available from Sarah Knight: You Do You: how to be who you are and use what you've got to get what you want Get Your Sh*t Together - Sarah Knight's must-have follow up to The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k.

Calm the F**k Down (Paperback, New Edition): Sarah Knight Calm the F**k Down (Paperback, New Edition)
Sarah Knight
R415 R370 Discovery Miles 3 700 Save R45 (11%) Ships in 8 - 13 working days

The latest no-f**ks-given guide from New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Get Your Sh*t Together, and You Do You

Do you waste time overthinking things you can't do anything about?

Do you freak out when things don't go to plan?

Does anxiety get in the way of you living your best life?

When life hands you a big fat f**king lemon, Calm the F**k Down gives you practical ways to manage the situation, not to mention your anxiety about the situation. One hundred per cent practical and zero percent Pollyanna-ish, this is a book that acknowledges all the bad shit that can and probably will happen to you - from break ups and breakdowns to floods, family feuds and France running out of butter - and shows you what you can realistically do about it so you can get on with your life, stop worrying and wallowing, and start bouncing back.

Think of Calm the F**k Down as the friend who, instead of reassuring you that 'everything's going to be okay,' actually shows you how to make it so.

You Do You - How to Be Who You Are to Get What You Want (Hardcover): Sarah Knight You Do You - How to Be Who You Are to Get What You Want (Hardcover)
Sarah Knight 1
R491 R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Save R43 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

*From the 'anti-guru' author of the smash hit The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k and the New York Times bestseller Get Your Sh*t Together * In The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, our favourite 'anti-guru' Sarah Knight unleashed the power of saying no. In Get Your Sh*t Together, she prioritised the sh*t you need and want to do so you can achieve your hopes and dreams. Now she's back, doubling down on your happiness with her latest message: You Do You.

Being yourself should be the easiest thing in the world. Yet instead of leaning in to who we are, we fight it, listening too closely to what society tells us. You Do You helps you shake off those expectations, say f**k perfect, start looking out for number one and keep on with your badass self. From career and finances to relationships and family, lifestyle and health, Sarah Knight rips up the rulebook.

Writing about her mistakes and embarrassments in her own personal quest to 'do me' - because nobody gets everything right all day, every day - Sarah Knight shows why you can and should f**k up and teaches you to let yourself off the hook, bounce back and keep standing tall.

Get Your Sh*t Together Journal - Practical Ways to Cut the Bullsh*t and Win at Life (Paperback): Sarah Knight Get Your Sh*t Together Journal - Practical Ways to Cut the Bullsh*t and Win at Life (Paperback)
Sarah Knight
R456 R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Save R24 (5%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k - The bestselling book everyone is talking about (Paperback): Sarah Knight The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k - The bestselling book everyone is talking about (Paperback)
Sarah Knight
R422 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Save R51 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Genius' Cosmopolitan 'The best book I have read recently ...Absolutely blinding. Read it. Do it.' Daily Mail The bestselling book everyone is talking about - our favourite anti-guru Sarah Knight reveals the surprising art of caring less and getting more. Are you stressed out, overbooked and underwhelmed by life? Fed up with pleasing everyone else before you please yourself? Then it's time to stop giving a f**k. This irreverent and practical book explains how to rid yourself of unwanted obligations, shame, and guilt - and give your f**ks instead to people and things that make you happy. From family dramas to having a bikini body, the simple 'NotSorry Method' for mental decluttering will help you unleash the power of not giving a f**k and will free you to spend your time, energy and money on the things that really matter. The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k: How to stop spending time you don't have with people you don't like doing things you don't want to do. 'Self-help with an edge' Vogue 'I love Knight's book before I even start reading it' Sunday Times Magazine Coming this December from our favourite anti-guru Sarah Knight: Get Your Sh*t Together - the must-have follow up and perfect companion to bestselling The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k.

The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k - The bestselling book everyone is talking about (Hardcover): Sarah Knight The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k - The bestselling book everyone is talking about (Hardcover)
Sarah Knight 1
R492 R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Save R68 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The word-of-mouth bestseller * Published in more than 30 countries * 3 million copies sold worldwide Are you stressed out, overbooked and underwhelmed by life? Fed up with pleasing everyone else before you please yourself? Finding it hard working from home? Then it's time to stop giving a f**k, and care less to get more. This irreverent and practical book explains how to rid yourself of unwanted obligations, shame, and guilt - and give your f**ks instead to people and things that make you happy. From family dramas to having a bikini body, the simple 'NotSorry Method' for mental decluttering will help you unleash the power of not giving a f**k and will free you to spend your time, energy and money on the things that really matter. 'The anti-guru' Observer 'Absolutely blinding. Read it. Do it.' Mail on Sunday 'Genius' Cosmopolitan 'I love Knight's book even before I start reading . . . Works a charm' Sunday Times Magazine 'Life-affirming . . . The key practice she advocates is devising for yourself a "fuck budget" . . . It's a beautiful way of streamlining your psyche' Lucy Mangan, Guardian ALSO AVAILABLE FROM SARAH KNIGHT: YOU DO YOU: how to be who you are and use what you've got to get what you want AND Get Your Sh*t Together - the New York Times bestseller helping you organise the f**ks you want and need to give

Calm the F**k Down Journal - Practical ways to stop worrying and take control of your life (Paperback): Sarah Knight Calm the F**k Down Journal - Practical ways to stop worrying and take control of your life (Paperback)
Sarah Knight 1
R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Do you waste time overthinking things you can't do anything about? Do you freak out when things don't go to plan? Does anxiety get in the way of you living your best life? 'I love Knight's book' - Sunday Times Magazine on The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k 'Life-affirming' - Guardian on The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k 'Absolutely blinding. Read it. Do it' - Mail on Sunday on The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k 'Changed my life . . . I wasn't alone - the book became an international bestseller' - Vogue on The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k From the white noise of what-ifs to the white-hot terror of a full-blown crisis, 'Anti-guru' Sarah Knight is on hand to help you help yourself to manage any situation, however stressful. Through practical advice and guided interactive exercises, the Calm the Fuck Down Journal is a place for you to ask and answer questions that may have been swirling around your brain like minnows on a meth bender. The Journal will help you learn how to stop dwelling on unlikely outcomes in favor of creating more likely ones. How to plow forward rather than agonize backward. And crucially, how to separate your anxiety about what might occur from the act of handling it when it does occur. Armed with this beautifully designed journal you will have ample calamity management tools at your fingertips to help you manage whenever the shit threatens to or already has hit the fan.

Get Your Sh*t Together Journal (Paperback): Sarah Knight Get Your Sh*t Together Journal (Paperback)
Sarah Knight 1
R390 R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Save R42 (11%) Ships in 8 - 13 working days

Do you work too much, play too little and never have enough time to devote to the people and things that truly make you happy? If yes, then pause, breathe and pour yourself a glass of wine if you like because Sarah Knight, author of the word-of-mouth bestseller The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k is here to help. The Get Your Sh*t Together Journal is packed full of practical exercises and prompts to help you work out what you want and arm you with the tools to go out and get it. Whether you're an overwhelmed under-achiever or a high-functioning basket case, Sarah Knight is here to guide you, step by step and day by day, towards living your best life every damn day. 'The anti-guru' Observer 'Absolutely blinding. Read it. Do it.' Mail on Sunday 'Genius' Cosmopolitan 'I loved Knight's book even before I start reading . . . Works a charm' Sunday Times Magazine 'Life-affirming . . . The key practice she advocates is devising for yourself a "fuck budget" . . . It's a beautiful way of streamlining your psyche' Lucy Mangan, Guardian

The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Paperback): Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring,... The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Paperback)
Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, Sarah Knight
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the Midlands, and parts of the West Country, staying with private and civic hosts, and at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The progresses provided hosts with unique opportunities to impress and influence the Queen, and became occasions for magnificent and ingenious entertainments and pageants, drawing on the skills of architects, artists, and craftsmen, as well as dramatic performances, formal orations, poetic recitations, parades, masques, dances, and bear baiting. The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I is an interdisciplinary essay collection, drawing together new and innovative work by experts in literary studies, history, theatre and performance studies, art history, and antiquarian studies. As such, it will make a unique and timely contribution to research on the culture and history of Elizabethan England. Chapters include examinations of some of the principal Elizabethan progress entertainments, including the coronation pageant Veritas temporis filia (1559), Kenilworth (1575), Norwich (1578), Cowdray (1591), Bisham (1592), and Harefield (1602), while other chapters consider the themes raised by these events, including the ritual of gift-giving; the conduct of government whilst on progress; the significance of the visual arts in the entertainments; regional identity and militarism; elite and learned women as hosts; the circulation and publication of entertainment and pageant texts; the afterlife of the Elizabethan progresses, including their reappropriation in Caroline England and the documenting of Elizabeth's reign by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century antiquarians such as John Nichols, who went on to compile the monumental The Progresses of Queen Elizabeth (1788-1823).

Bloomsbury's Outsider - A Life of David Garnett (Paperback): Sarah Knights Bloomsbury's Outsider - A Life of David Garnett (Paperback)
Sarah Knights
R797 Discovery Miles 7 970 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The first biography of David Garnett goes beyond stereotype and myth and presents a clear sighted account of this often contradictory figure at the centre of literary London in the era of the Bloomsbury Group. Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for best biography 2016 Book of the Year 2015 Sunday Times Book of the Year 2015 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2015 Evening Standard Book of the Year 2015 New Zealand Listener Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2015 Literary Sensation, Lover, Libertine, Family Man Award-winning novelist and towering figure of the 20th century British literary landscape, David Garnett was a Bloomsbury insider ultimately pushed to the margins. In this, the first biography of Garnett, (known as Bunny), author Sarah Knights - who has had unprecedented access to Garnett's papers - goes beyond stereotype and myth to present a clear sighted account of this often contradictory figure. Trained as a scientist, Garnett worked as a novelist and wrote exquisite prose. Lady into Fox was made into a Rambert ballet and Aspects of Love into an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. In the First World War, he was a conscientious objector whereas in the Second he worked for British intelligence. A free love enthusiast, he nevertheless married. He loathed literary criticism but became a leading literary critic. Born into the Victorian period, Garnett's life spanned two World Wars, the Swinging Sixties and beyond. From pre-Revolutionary Russia, by way of Indian Nationalists in London and carefree Neo-Paganism, Garnett's early life was packed with adventure. Propelled by a desire to be constantly in love, he dazzled men and women, believing the person mattered, irrespective of gender. An overnight literary sensation in the 1920s he was at the centre of literary London. Confidante and mentor of many writers, T. E. Lawrence, Rupert Brooke, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells, were among his friends. Garnett felt most at home with the Bloomsbury Group, in particular with Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, his lover, with whom he lived during the First World War. Their long friendship was threatened, however, when Garnett's cradle-side prophecy to marry their daughter Angelica came true. David 'Bunny' Garnett is brought to life by Ben Lloyd-Hughes and Jack Davenport in the BBC series 'Life in Squares'.

You Do You - How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got to Get What You Want (Hardcover): Sarah Knight You Do You - How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got to Get What You Want (Hardcover)
Sarah Knight
R501 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck and Get Your Sh*t Together comes more straight talk about how to stand up for who you are and what you really want, need, and deserve--showing when it's okay to be selfish, why it's pointless to be perfect, and how to be "difficult."

Being yourself should be easy, yet too many of us struggle to live on other people's terms instead of our own. Rather than feeling large and in charge, we feel little and belittled. Sound familiar? Bestselling "anti-guru" Sarah Knight has three simple words for you:

YOU DO YOU.

It's time to start putting your happiness first--and stop letting other people tell you what to do, how to do it, or why it can't be done. And don't panic! You can do it without losing friends and alienating people. Knight delivers her trademark no-bullsh*t advice about:

- The Tyranny of "Just Because"

- The social contract and how to amend it

- Turning "flaws" into strengths--aka "mental redecorating"

- Why it's not your job to be nice

- Letting your freak flag fly

- How to take risks, silence the doubters, and prove the haters wrong

Praise for Sarah Knight"Genius." --Cosmopolitan"Self-help to swear by." --Boston Globe"Hilarious... truly practical." --Booklist

Thoroughly Modern - The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends (Hardcover):... Thoroughly Modern - The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends (Hardcover)
Sarah Knights
R619 R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Save R73 (12%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'I just called myself Ker-Seymer Photographs,' Barbara said. 'I didn't think it was necessary to have your sex displayed on the photographs.' Vivacious, sassy, out to have fun, Ker-Seymer was committed to independence. One of a handful of outstanding British photographers of her generation, Ker-Seymer's work defined a talented, forward-looking network of artists, dancers, writers, actors and musicians, all of whom flocked to her Bond Street studio. Among her sitters were Evelyn Waugh, Margot Fonteyn, Cyril Connolly, Jean Cocteau and Vita Sackville-West. Barbara Ker-Seymer (1905-1993) disdained lucrative 'society' portraits in favour of unfussy 'modern' images. Her work was widely admired by her peers, among them, Man Ray and Jean Cocteau. Her images as a gossip-column photojournalist for Harper's Bazaar were the go-to representations of the aristocracy and Bright Young Things at play. Yet as both a studio portraitist and a photojournalist, she broke with convention. Equally unconventional in her personal life, Ker-Seymer was prefigurative in the way she lived her life as a bisexual woman and in her contempt for racism, misogyny and homophobia. Fiercely independent, for much of her life she rejected the idea of family, preferring her wide set of creative friends, with the artist Edward Burra, ballet dancer William 'Billy' Chappell and choreographer Frederick Ashton at its core. Today, Ker-Seymer's photographs are known for whom they represent, rather than the face behind the camera, an irony underpinned by the misattribution of some of her most daring images to Cecil Beaton. Yet her intelligence, sparkle, wit and genius enabled her to link arms with the surrealists, the Bloomsbury Group, the Bright Young Things and, most gloriously, the worlds of theatre, cabaret and jazz. With unprecedented access to private archives and hitherto unseen material, Sarah Knights brings Barbara Ker-Seymer and her brilliant bohemian friends vividly to life. Praise for Sarah Knights' Bloomsbury's Outsider: A Life of David Garnett: 'Perceptive... sympathetic, thorough and witty' Francesca Wade, Telegraph 'Delightful read... exceedingly well-researched' DJ Taylor, Guardian 'Magisterial biography' Roger Lewis, The Times 'Wonderful' Claire Harman, Evening Standard 'Books of the Year'

F**K No! - How to Stop Saying Yes, When You Can't, You Shouldn't, Or You Just Don't Want to (Hardcover): Sarah... F**K No! - How to Stop Saying Yes, When You Can't, You Shouldn't, Or You Just Don't Want to (Hardcover)
Sarah Knight 1
R488 R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Save R44 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The latest no-f**ks-given guide from New York Times bestselling author of the international sensations The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Get Your Sh*t Together, You Do You, and Calm the F**k Down.

How to stop saying yes when you can't, you shouldn't, or you just don't want to

With 2 million copies sold worldwide, Sarah Knight's bestselling No F*cks Given Guides prove that she's the Queen of No: no to a single extraneous f*ck given, to unwanted obligations, overcommitting, and overcomplicating her life.

For Sarah, saying no is easy. For the rest of us, it's stress-inducing, blood pressure-raising, teeth-grinding hard. But it doesn't have to be. F**k No! is filled with tips, techniques, and practical strategies that will arm you with not only permission to decline, but plenty of ammunition for doing so.

An encyclopedia of examples, a cornucopia of comebacks, a plethora of polite replies: if you're looking to say no (and without being selfish, unlikeable, or mired in missing out), you've come to the right place.

Calm the F**k Down (Hardcover): Sarah Knight Calm the F**k Down (Hardcover)
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The latest no-f**ks-given guide from July 2017 New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Get Your Sh*t Together, and You Do You Do you waste time overthinking things you can't do anything about? Do you freak out when things don't go to plan? Does anxiety get in the way of you living your best life? When life hands you a big fat f**king lemon, Calm the F**k Down gives you practical ways to manage the situation, not to mention your anxiety about the situation. One hundred per cent practical and zero percent Pollyanna-ish, this is a book that acknowledges all the bad shit that can and probably will happen to you - from break ups and breakdowns to floods, family feuds and France running out of butter - and shows you what you can realistically do about it so you can get on with your life, stop worrying and wallowing, and start bouncing back. Think of Calm the F**k Down as the friend who, instead of reassuring you that 'everything's going to be okay,' actually shows you how to make it so.

Calm the F*ck Down Journal - Practical Ways to Stop Worrying and Take Control of Your Life (Paperback): Sarah Knight Calm the F*ck Down Journal - Practical Ways to Stop Worrying and Take Control of Your Life (Paperback)
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Get Your Sh*t Together - How to Stop Worrying about What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing... Get Your Sh*t Together - How to Stop Worrying about What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do (Hardcover)
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The no-f*cks-given, no-holds-barred guide to living your best lifeEver find yourself stuck at the office-or even just glued to the couch-when you really want to get out (for once), get to the gym (at last), and get started on that "someday" project you're always putting off? It's time to get your sh*t together.

In The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, "anti-guru" Sarah Knight introduced readers to the joys of mental decluttering. This book takes you one step further--organizing the f*cks you want and need to give, and cutting through the bullsh*t cycle of self-sabotage to get happy and stay that way. You'll discover:

- The Power of Negative Thinking

- Three simple tools for getting your sh*t together

- How to spend less and save more

- Ways to manage anxiety, avoid avoidance, and conquer your fear of failure

- And tons of other awesome sh*t!

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