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Twenty Five, being one meditation and twenty four sermons, is
published as a celebration of Bob Heath-Whyte's twenty five years
as a Church of England Reader and Licensed Lay Minister. Selected
from sermons preached between 1988 and 2013, they cover the
church's year from the first Sunday in Advent to the Sunday of
Christ the King.
Ever since A Hall of Mirrors depicted the wild side of New Orleans
in the 1960s, Robert Stone (1937-2015) has situated novels where
America has shattered and the action is at a pitch. In Dog
Soldiers, he covered the Vietnam War and drug smuggling. A Flag for
Sunrise captured revolutionary discontent in Central America.
Children of Light exposed the crass values of Hollywood.
Outerbridge Reach depicted how existential angst can lead to a
longing for heroic transcendence. The clash of religions in
Jerusalem drove Damascus Gate. Traditional town-gown tensions amid
twenty-first-century culture wars propelled Death of the
Black-Haired Girl. Stone's reputation rests on his mastery of the
craft of fiction. These interviews are replete with insights about
the creative process as he responds with disarming honesty to
probing questions about his major works. Stone also has fascinating
things to say about his remarkable life - a schizophrenic mother, a
stint in the navy, his involvement with Ken Kesey's Merry
Pranksters, and his presence at the creation of the counterculture.
From the publication of A Hall of Mirrors until his death in 2015,
Stone was a major figure in American literature.
A timely new edition featuring the brilliant work from among the
most inventive minds in illustration and cartoon wizardry. Heath
Robinson was one of Britain's most successful graphic artists. His
work has had a huge influence on comic art in this country, but
also on the image and self-image of the British. As the champion of
pragmatic man, Heath Robinson presented a vision of the British as
an unflappable, ingenious and slightly demented breed of inventors
that persists to the present day. The British are still a nation of
garage-haunting amateur engineers who will recognise the
inhabitants of Heath Robinson's world, with their pot bellies and
pots of tea, archaic faces and sturdily commonsensical approach to
the problems of existence. How to hunt tigers by elephant, how to
get an even tan, rise with the sun or put out a chimney fire, these
and many more pressing questions are answered in the pages of
Contraptions. With illustrations salvaged from the family archives
and commentary by Heath Robinson expert, Geoffrey Beare,
Contraptions is the best possible introduction to the work of one
of Britain's great comic talents.
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