Violet end paperback

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days The last days of five great thinkers, writers and artists - as they come to terms with the reality of approaching deathKatie Roiphe's extraordinary book is filled with intimate and surprising revelations. Susan Sontag, consummate public intellectual, finds her rational thinking tested during her third bout with cancer. Seventy-six year old John Updike's response to a fatal diagnosis is to begin a poem. Dylan Thomas's fatal collapse on the floor of a Greenwich Village tavern is preceded by a fortnight of almost suicidal excess. Sigmund Freud understands his hastening decline. Maurice Sendak shows his lifelong obsession with death in his beloved books.The Violet Hour - urgent and unsentimental - helps us to be less afraid in the face of death. Features Summary From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes an arresting and wholly original account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike... Author Katie Roiphe Publisher Virago Press Ltd Release date 20170406 Pages 306 ISBN 0-349-00853-1 ISBN 13 978-0-349-00853-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days The sixth and final adventure in the thrilling fantasy series from award-winning author Garth Nix. Tal and Milla are only one step away from death, while the evil that has controlled their world for so long is about to triumph. If the Veil is lifted, nothing can save the Dark World. Their one glimmer of hope is to confront the monster Sharrakor and regain the Violet keystone. But first they must climb up to the highest levels and find their way into the Seventh Tower... Features Summary The sixth and final adventure in the thrilling fantasy series from award-winning author Garth Nix. Author Garth Nix Publisher HarperCollins Children's Books Release date 20100805 Pages 271 ISBN 0-00-726124-1 ISBN 13 978-0-00-726124-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Highams Park lies on the Greenwich Meridian, about ten miles from St Paul's Cathedral, but it is not easy to find it on a map. The old hamlet of Hale End is even more elusive, but is a vital community with its own identity. Early settlers came to the Great Forest of Waltham and, from the Tudor period to the Victorian era, the beautiful forest around Hale End, and its proximity to the City, appealed to Lord Mayors of London and wealthy merchant bankers. Epping Forest and the lake attracted day trippers, who came by rail to Hale End station, but the urban village of Highams Park only began to develop in the 20th century, when a plastics factory was established there. Suddenly shops, schools and affordable houses were being built for factory workers and City clerks, and a lively community was created. Fascinating people have always lived in the area, from Haldan in Saxon times to the designers of the Airship R101 and Concorde more recently. Charmingly written, this book will appeal to residents and social historians alike. Features Summary A history of Highams Park and Hale End, new in paperback Author M. L. Dunhill Publisher The History Press Ltd Release date 20190501 Pages 160 ISBN 0-7509-9190-9 ISBN 13 978-0-7509-9190-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. "The Pillars of the Earth" is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of "The Pillars of the Earth," Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year, "World Without End." In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with "The Pillars of the Earth," a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmedit will hold you, fascinate you, surround you ("Chicago Tribune")and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. "World Without End" takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of "The Pillars of the Earth," The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideas about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human racethe Black Death. Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, "World Without End" breathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft. Features Summary In 1989, Follett astonished the literary world with "The Pillars of the Earth," a sweeping epic novel set in 12th-century England that centers on the building of a cathedral... Author Ken Follett Publisher New American Library Release date 20081007 Pages 1014 ISBN 0-451-22499-X ISBN 13 978-0-451-22499-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Franco "Bifo" Berardi's newest book analyzes the contemporary changes taking place in our aesthetic and emotional sensibility -- changes the author claims are the result of semio-capitalism's capturing of the inner resources of the subjective process: our experience of time, our sensibility, the way we relate to each other, and our ability to imagine a future. Precarization and fractalization of labor have provoked a deep mutation in the psychosphere, and this can be seen in the rise of psychopathologies such as post-traumatic stress disorder, autism, panic, and attention deficit disorder. Sketching out an aesthetic genealogy of capitalist globalization, Berardi shows how we have arrived at a point of such complexity in the semiotic flows of capital that we can no longer process its excessive currents of information. A swarm effect now rules: it has become impossible to say "no." Social behavior is trapped in inescapable patterns of interaction coded by techno-linguistic machines, smartphones, screens of every size, and all of these sensory and emotional devices end up destroying our organism's sensibility by submitting it to the stress of competition and acceleration. Arguing for disentanglement rather than resistance, Berardi concludes by evoking the myth of La Malinche, the daughter of a noble Aztec family. It is a tale of a translator and traitor who betrayed her own people, yet what the myth portends is the rebirth of the world from the collapse of the old. Features Summary Franco "Bifo" Berardi's newest book analyzes the contemporary changes taking place in our aesthetic and emotional sensibility -- changes the author claims are the result of semio-capitalism's capturing of the inner resources of the subjective process: our experience of time... Author Franco "Bifo" Berardi Publisher Semiotext(e) Release date 20151205 Pages 352 ISBN 1-58435-170-5 ISBN 13 978-1-58435-170-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days A novel of anger, jealousy, betrayal and murder in 2000 BC It is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful and venomous, most agree that she deserved to die like a snake.Yet Renisenb, the priest's daughter, believes that the woman's death was not fate, but murder. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within her own father's household. As the wife of an eminent archaeologist, Agatha Christie took part in several expeditions to the Middle East. Drawing upon this experience and exhaustive research, she wrote this serial killer mystery laid in Egypt 4000 years ago. Features Summary A novel of anger, jealousy, betrayal and murder in 2000 BC Author Agatha Christie Publisher HarperCollinsPublishers Release date 20170323 Pages 262 ISBN 0-00-819632-X ISBN 13 978-0-00-819632-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Features Author Gonzalo C. Garcia Publisher Galley Beggar Press Release date 20171019 Pages 503 ISBN 1-910296-79-1 ISBN 13 978-1-910296-79-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Features Author Lisa Renee Jones Publisher St. Martin's Griffin Release date 20180101 ISBN 1-250-08385-0 ISBN 13 978-1-250-08385-2

Paperback. English. Publisher: Penguin. 1961. In fair/good condition.

Paperback. English. Galaxie Press. 1980. 248 pp with bw illustrations and dwgs. In fair/good condition. Revised Edition. The end of Ian Smith's UDI rebellion, resulting in modern-day Zimbabwe.

Paperback. English. ISBN: 0620383348. Publisher: Penkelly Books. 2007. In fair condition. Psychology student Vicky Watts goes to Plettenberg Bay hoping to discover what happened to her enigmatic great-grandfather, Dan Butler, who returned from the trenches of the Western Front in 1918 suffering from shell-shock. Like the archaeologists working in the Letterbox Cave, the novel gradually brushes through layers of the past, revealing not only Dan's harrowing story of war, guilt and love but reaching back to the foundations of modern South African society when a young Khoi flees the brutality of his trekboer master. The mysterious cave, near Plettenberg Bay, connects the lives of the major characters and it is near this archaeological site that Vicky experiences her own life-altering crisis.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Black Violet is the gripping American-based crime debut by screenwriter Alex Hyland. On the surface, Michael Violet is a legitimate San Francisco car dealer. But appearances can be deceiving. In reality, he's a talented pickpocket, lifting the keys to the city's most luxurious cars. He's kept his criminal life secret from his journalist brother, Jon, who's made a career out of exposing corruption. But when Jon is killed, Michael uses his talents to track down his brother's killer. Driven by guilt and revenge, Michael finds himself being forced into the role of the hero, whether he likes it or not. But turning from thief to hero isn't going to be as easy as he'd hoped... Features Summary When talented young pickpocket, Michael Violet, learns that his journalist brother has been killed, he uses every artful trick up his sleeve to track down the murderer - but turning from thief into hero isn't as easy as he'd hoped. Author Alex Hyland Publisher Accent Press Ltd Release date 20170810 Pages 272 ISBN 1-78615-509-5 ISBN 13 978-1-78615-509-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days They've got their eyes on you: a quirky, creepy and unforgettable adventure, perfect for fans of Roald Dahl, Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton. Violet hates living in Perfect. Why does everyone have to wear special glasses to stop them going blind? What are the strange noises in the night and why is Mum acting so weird? Then Dad disappears and Violet is determined to uncover the truth with the help of the mysterious Boy. But returning normality to Perfect is a battle they never imagined... Illustrations:Black and white text throughout Features Summary Violet hates living in Perfect. Why does everyone have to wear special glasses to stop them going blind? What are the strange noises in the night and why is Mum acting so weird? Author Helena Duggan Publisher Usborne Publishing Ltd Release date 20170801 Pages 352 ISBN 1-4749-2416-6 ISBN 13 978-1-4749-2416-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days A visceral thriller from the creator of the hit BBC drama Silent Witness, introducing synaesthetic detective DCI Mark Lapslie. I've looked into the eyes of women who have banged nine-inch nails into the skulls of their victims with hammers... we evaluate them, trying to determine whether they have actually changed, or whether there's still a core of evil within them...Before his diagnosis, DCI Mark Lapslie thought everyone was like him. Now he knows he suffers from synaethesthesia - a rare neurological condition that has cross-wired his senses. The sickening clamour of sounds he can taste has smothered his marriage and stifled his career. At the scene of a fatal traffic accident, Lapslie's interest isn't in the recently deceased driver, rather the desiccated corpse found lying next to him. Something about the body stirs a fleeting recollection at the back of Lapslie's mind... he can't quite put his finger on it, but he can almost taste it... Memories haunt Violet Chambers. Taking tea with her friend Daisy, she knows it's time to move on. As Daisy falls to the floor, eyes streaming, face burning, Violet calmly waits. Black hellebore is remarkably potent. It won't be long now. Discover the other books in the DCI Mark Lapslie series: Tooth and Claw, Scream, Thirteenth Coffin and Flesh and Blood. Features Summary A visceral thriller from the creator of the hit BBC drama Silent Witness, introducing synaesthetic detective DCI Mark Lapslie. Author Nigel McCrery Publisher Quercus Publishing Release date 20080726 Pages 400 ISBN 1-84724-384-3 ISBN 13 978-1-84724-384-3

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