![]() ![]() charting the lives of men and women who inspired not only political progress but an entire new way of living and loving' Colm Tóibín Read more How far should they go to win personal freedoms? And how high a price are they willing to pay for a new way of living? Their daring book threatens to throw John and Henry, and all those around them, into danger. Yet they share a vision of a better world, one that will expand possibilities for men and women everywhere. ![]() When in 1894 John and Henry decide to write a revolutionary book together, intended to challenge convention and the law, they are both caught in relationships stalked by guilt and shame. Meanwhile Henry Ellis's wife Edith has fallen in love with a woman - who wants Edith all to herself. Īfter a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John Addington, a married man, has met Frank, a working-class printer. ![]() Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership. 'We must live in the future we hope to make': a magnificent and daring novel of forbidden love and new ways of living set in 1890s London ![]()
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![]() Since then she has worked with many companies in New York & regionally. Currently she produces Sci-Fest LA, the annual Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Festival, and is the Executive Director of Mob Rule, Incorporated, a non-profit community outreach project.Ī third generation actress, Margot made her debut at age nine in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie on Broadway. A short play of Lee’s Hearts, Flowers, and Jell-O, was featured at the 10th anniversary of The 52nd Street Project at Lincoln Center Lee now resides in Los Angeles, where she has directed for The Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, Theatre of Note, Highways, The Second City, The Hollywood Fringe Festival, The Blank Theatre, and REDCAT at the Disney Concert Hall. Lee wrote and directed The NOW Show, (a multimedia send-up of the late night talk shows), which sold out for its entire run at Dixon Place. ![]() Her New York credits include Extensions by Murray Schisgal and The Portable Dorothy Parker at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Cowboy Girl at New York Theatre Workshop, Heads at La Mama, The Adventures of She-Man at The Westbank Theatre Bar, and Did I Vote For You?, an original play with music which received a special performance grant from the Franklin Furnace. While living in NY she was a member of The Circle Rep Lab, The Women’s Project and Productions, and was a teaching artist for The Lincoln Center Institute. She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and Ensemble Studio Theatre, LA. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lee has directed numerous productions in New York, as well as regional theatre. ![]() ![]() (For example, sick seamen don’t serve on deck, but are sent below to get out of the elements and rest so they are literally “under the weather.”) ![]() He recounts and analyzes the politics on land and onboard the ships as well as the dangers of the journey and how the vocabulary of sailing has permeated the language. Grann, who recently spoke by video surrounded by his voluminous notes and a model of The Wager, dives deep into the maritime world of that era. Related: Sign up for our free newsletter about books, authors, reading and moreĪs David Grann recounts in his gripping new book, “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder,” neither group expected to see the other alive – and their competing stories created a new round of complications. Then, astonishingly, another three men turned up alive, including the captain and a young man whose grandson, the poet Lord Byron, would write about these exploits in “Don Juan.” It got worse from there: scurvy, typhoons, a shipwreck, murder and cannibalism and mutiny.Įventually, 81 men set out from where the crew had been stranded on a makeshift ship for a 3,000-mile journey that killed nearly two-thirds of them their survival was hailed as a miracle. ![]() Things went awry before they even left as the ships had trouble finding willing and able men. In 1740, a warship called The Wager left England as part of a fleet looking to make war with Spain in South America and capture a galleon holding millions in treasure. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story of Achilles, Hector and Priam and Troy date back to 70 BC. The character of Somax is Malouf’s own creation. Malouf takes some of the generic features from the classical epic and re-makes them in a less formal novel. A novel that uses the final section, Book 24 of Homer’s The Iliad an epic poem, to tell the tale of Hector’s slaughter and Priam’s subsequent visit to Achilles to plead for his son’s body. When reading texts to construct meaning, readers increase their understanding by recognising the craftsmanship of the writing and the choices the author made to portray the topic in a certain way. ![]() Construction of Meaning and Structure of Texts The resource will be useful for both studies. This Resource is for students studying ‘Ransom’ as a single text in the Victorian VCE Curriculum OR for Year 12 students studying the comparative texts of ‘Ransom’ with ‘The Queen’. ![]() ![]() ![]() As they grow closer, he finds himself willing to risk everything to keep her alive even his relationship with his devoted brother and liaison, Niklas, who now like everyone else wants Sarai dead.Īs Victor and Sarai slowly build a trust, the differences between them seem to lessen, and an unlikely attraction intensifies. While on the run, Victor strays from his primal nature as he succumbs to his conscience and resolves to help Sarai. ![]() But things don’t go as planned and instead of finding transport back to Tucson, she finds herself free from one dangerous man and caught in the clutches of another. When Victor arrives at the compound to collect details and payment for a hit, Sarai sees him as her only opportunity for escape. ![]() Victor is a cold-blooded assassin who, like Sarai, has known only death and violence since he was a young boy. Over time she forgot what it was like to live a normal life, but she never let go of her hope to escape the compound where she has been held for the past nine years. Sarai was only fourteen when her mother uprooted her to live in Mexico with a notorious drug lord. From the author of the New York Times, USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling novel, THE EDGE OF NEVER, comes a story of passion and survival… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nicholls also wrote plays for theater and was given an award for Author of the year in 2014 for the book ‘Us”. His most notable books are ‘One Day’ and ‘Starter for 10’. He also made several film adaptations which were released for Cinemas in 2005, 2006, 20. He adapted his novel, ‘Starter for 10’, for film which was shown in cinemas in 2006. Later on, one of his books, the novel ‘One day’ was shown as a film. ![]() When the show of one of the television series was canceled, his anger over it made him confine himself to writing. He contributed scripts for television series and miniseries, an engagement he undertook quite seriously. His early acting career wasn’t without challenges though he later discovered his talent in writing. Afterwards, he proceeded to act professionally in his 20s, something he kept at for a while. He later graduated from college and trained as an actor in the USA. He attended college in Hampshire and acted different roles in various productions in college. David Nicholls, a Briton, is an English writer who is also a screen writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now the nation's favourite footballer wants to show YOU how to achieve your dreams, in this positive and inspiring guide for life. Marcus Rashford MBE is famous worldwide for his skills both on and off the pitch – but before he was a Manchester United and England footballer, and long before he started his inspiring campaign to end child food poverty, he was just an ordinary kid from Wythenshawe, South Manchester. The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Beast Beyond the Fence is the first fiction book by England International footballer, child food-poverty campaigner and bestselling author Marcus Rashford MBE, inspired by Marcus's own experiences growing up! Written with Alex Falase-Koya, it is the third title in the Marcus Rashford Book Club and is packed with tons of illustrations by Marta Kissi, making it the perfect book for children aged 8-11. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dickens's themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe Gargery, the unsophisticated and kind blacksmith. ![]() Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery - poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death - and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens's most celebrated scenes, starting in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict Abel Magwitch. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. ![]() It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman a coming-of-age story). Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Low Fat Vegan Recipes BasicsĪll of the recipes in this cookbook are vegan, low in fat and high in fiber. They were also created with the busy weeknight chef in mind, with most of the recipes ready in under 30 minutes. Moskowitz asserts that healthy cooking doesn’t have to mean deprivation and the 125 vegan recipes included in the book are designed to taste great and trim the waistline. Those health-promoting changes included reducing her intake of fat and emphasizing more whole food based meals. She says the recipes in the vegan cookbook were created after she was diagnosed with PCOS and realized she needed to change her diet. Vegan Cookbook: Appetite for Reduction BackgroundĪppetite for Reduction is a low fat vegan cookbook written by bestselling author and vegan chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz. ![]() ![]() ![]() The ultimate shape of the book could have gone in a few different directions, so it took me a little while to implement those pieces in the right way. And I was like, “Oh my God, that’s so obvious! How did I not see that?” I’ve read this thing 20 times. It moves so fast and is so terrifying that if you jam it in before the end, people are going to have such a comedown with Dan’s section. And I will never forget my agent basically saying to me I was insane if it wasn’t the last section. And Tina’s section originally was not the last section. Sometimes it’s hard when you’re the author to see your own thing. ![]() And part of what happened was that I got good advice. Yeah! That’s interesting, because all of their sections were in a different order when I first submitted the book. How did you decide what order you wanted to put their narrative threads in? ![]() Bill, Stacey, Dan, and Tina’s stories have some overlap throughout the book. When you’re approached by somebody and you can tell what you’ve written has impacted them in some way, that’s not something you can easily wring out as a writer or artist. In particular, people who are from families or know people who struggle with heroin or opiate addiction-that’s something I get an awful lot of, people coming up to tell me some very harrowing and sad stories. Really, the most gratifying thing has been people reaching out and telling me what parts of the book moved them. Have you had any interesting reactions from other Ohioans? ![]() |