History as Theatrical Metaphor: History, Myth and National Identities in Modern Scottish Drama: 2016
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This revelatory study explores how Scottish history plays, especially since the 1930s, raise issues...
Plague Inc.
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Can you infect the world? Plague Inc. is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic...
Football Loop
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Football Loop is the ultimate FREE football application for Premier League Fans! You can get in real...
Sailing World Mag
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Bring Sailing World Magazine to life with the iPad and/or iPhone app. Check out Sailing's World...
The Real Deal: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Controversial Media Mogul
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From the age of five, when he helped his deaf father negotiate advertising contracts, Richard...
The Real Deal: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Controversial Media Mogul
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From the age of five, when he helped his deaf father negotiate advertising contracts, Richard...
Toward Nationalism's End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn
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This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891-1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the...
LucyB (47 KP) rated Nights at the Circus in Books
Jul 23, 2017
I'd been expecting good things from this book, as everyone always tells me how wonderful Angela Carter is, and it certainly delivered!
It's a surreal, earthy kind of book, divided into three distinct parts, which largely focus on the introduction of Fevvers (the fabulous cockney winged woman), the days at the circus, and the wilds of Siberia. Hey, I did warn you it was surreal!
In this book, the reader encounters intelligent pigs (I LOVED Sybil!), brothel madams who like dressing up as Nelson, depressed clowns and more. It's a weird, wonderful world that Carter conjures up, but a joy to immerse yourself in!
It's also great to read an author who is simultaneously so elegant with her language, and so brutally down-to-earth. This echoes the main character in a way, who has the potential to soar to the sea or crash to the ground.
Definitely a must-read...I've no doubt I'll be revisiting this book in the future!
Lord of the Last Heartbeat (The Sacred Dark #1)
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Stop me. Please. Three words scrawled in bloodred wine. A note furtively passed into the hand of...
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