Arrow in the Blue: The First Volume of an Autobiography - 1905-31
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Arrow in the Blue is the first volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography. It covers the first 26...
Animalcolm
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From David Baddiel, the brightest new star of children's books and winner of the LOLLIES award,...
Learning Outdoors with the Meek Family
Tim Meek, Kerry Meek and The Meek Family
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Education does not always need to take place behind a desk, in a classroom or with a teacher. Family...
Satantango
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In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a...
Holy Cow
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Holy Cow by David Duchovny is a comic delight that will thrill fans of Jasper Fforde and Ben...
Every Mother's Son
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Harriet and Fletcher Tuke have worked hard to raise their children well. Daniel, the eldest son, has...
The Countryside in Pictures
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When someone has dementia, traditional books can become incomprehensible and meaningless. This title...
We follow Debbie as she embarks on her first taste of adulthood. She’s eighteen and starting university. She lives in a little village on a dairy farm that her family owns and has no idea how it works being in the city most of the time. From the start of this book she is quite naive and you can tell that she’s not really had to step foot out of the comfort of the village she grew up in.
When she finally makes it into Dublin and to her new university she bumps into a girl named Xanthe who she makes friends with and spends most of her time with when she’s not at home or in class.
The book explores the mental health of many of the characters and does it very delicately, without judgement.
I couldn’t put it down and read it in a couple of hours. It was such a pleasant book. And I loved how the chapters were so short and the characters were just so loveable!
Thank you to Louise Nealon and Readers First for allowing me to read this wonderful book for free!
Awix (3310 KP) rated Apaches (1977) in Movies
Jan 21, 2021
Pretty much guaranteed to traumatise most young viewers, I would have thought, and quite a tough watch for anyone else: you *know* that something horrifically fatal is going to befall one of the young cast every few minutes. In this respect it's written and paced exactly like a horror movie, the kind of thing children would never be allowed to watch - but this is supposed to be educational, see, so they can do things you'd never be allowed to show in an actual commercial movie. Director Mackenzie would go on to make The Long Good Friday and The Fourth Protocol (amongst other things) and brings a mixture of gritty naturalism and an eerie, dream-like quality to the film. Nastily effective: enough to put anyone off a trip to the countryside.
