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From the painter John Constable and the modernist writer Ford Madox Ford to the lost local women who left little trace, these electrifying encounters - spanning the Downs, Poland, Australia, Canada - inspired her to imagine lives that seemed distant, yet were deeply connected through their shared landscape.

An accessible introduction to a writer whose work is of timeless significance and whose unconventional life is a continuous source of fascination. In 1907, when she was twenty-five and not yet a published novelist, Virginia Stephen had everything still to prove. She felt herself to be at a crossroads: `I shall be miserable, or happy, a wordy sentimental creature, or a writer of such English as shall one day burn the pages.¿ Today her prose is ...

An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea-shops. In this multi-award-winning book, Alexandra Harris tells a different story. In the 1930s and 1940s, artists and writers explored what it meant to be...

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Violetta and the Venetian Violin is a middle-grade, time-slip fantasy for readers aged ten to fourteen.One fateful day, Violetta forgets her violin. A minuscule mistake that leads to frighteningly fantastical events. She travels in time, from Sydney 2017, to Venice, 1717. Now, unless she finds the violin before sunrise, she will become trapped in the past forever!Violetta and the Venetian Violin is a story about unusual friendships, a quest fo...

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This book offers a comprehensive report on a three-year, cross-cultural, critical participatory action research study, conducted in children's homes and communities in Fiji. This project contributed to building sustainable local capacity in communities without access to early childhood services, so as to promote preschool children's literacy development in their home languages and English. The book includes rich descriptions of the young child...

This book offers a comprehensive report on a three-year, cross-cultural, critical participatory action research study, conducted in children's homes and communities in Fiji. This project contributed to building sustainable local capacity in communities without access to early childhood services, so as to promote preschool children's literacy development in their home languages and English. The book includes rich descriptions of the young child...

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This small book brings together some of the beautiful art that has, for centuries, gone into the creation of almanacs and calendars. Alexandra Harris' text shows us how, through time, humans have sought to divide time into portions and how traditions associated with each month have made their way into the art of calendars and almanacs.

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Alexandra Harris studied at Oxford and at the Courtauld Institute in London, and worked at Christie's for a year before returning to Oxford to write a doctorate on art and literature in the 1930s. She is now a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, running courses on Modernism and American writing, and leading the MA in Contemporary Literature. Her first full-length book, Romantic Moderns, was the winner of the 2010 Guardian First...

Alexandra Harris studied at Oxford and at the Courtauld Institute in London, and worked at Christie's for a year before returning to Oxford to write a doctorate on art and literature in the 1930s. She is now a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, running courses on Modernism and American writing, and leading the MA in Contemporary Literature. Her first full-length book, Romantic Moderns, was the winner of the 2010 Guardian First...

Tells the story of English culture, art and literature through the way the weather has influenced writers and artists. Looks at a range of writers, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan. From the winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2010, it's a celebration of English air and weather. 60+ illustrations.

Tells the story of English culture, art and literature through the way the weather has influenced writers and artists. Looks at a range of writers, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan. From the winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2010, it's a celebration of English air and weather. 60+ illustrations. Now in paperback.

Deze aantrekkelijke, handzame biografie vertelt hoe een gedreven jonge vrouw, met haar onafscheidelijke notitieboekje, een van de grootste schrijvers uit de wereldliteratuur werd. Het is een verhaal dat bruist van vriendschap, liefde, humor, taal - een van uur tot uur en van dag tot dag intens geleid leven, geïnspireerd door en gewijd aan literatuur en kunst. Een moedig leven ook - wars van conventies, verscheurd door gecompliceerde liefdes en...

Winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award: a groundbreakingreassessment of Englishcultural life in thethirties and forties.