Heroines of the Qing: Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories
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Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth...

The Heart of the Film: Writing Love Stories in Screenplays
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Most movies include a love story, whether it is the central story or a subplot, and knowing how to...

Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts
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IN THE DARKNESS, SOMETHING WICKED SPREADS ITS WINGS THE ETERNAL BATTLE between fallen angels and...

Mischief: Fay Weldon Selects Her Best Short Stories
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'She's a Queen of Words' CAITLIN MORAN. 'One of the great lionesses of modern English literature'...

Chance Developments: Unexpected Love Stories
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In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs from...

Ghosts & Gallows: True Stories of Crime and the Paranormal
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Murder and ghosts go hand-in-hand and vengeful spectres seeking justice or haunting the scene of the...

The Carrot Purple and Other Curious Stories of the Food We Eat
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How many otherwise well-educated readers know that the familiar orange carrot was once a novelty? It...

Under the Lights and in the Dark: Untold Stories of Women's Soccer
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In 2004 football author, journalist and award-winning documentary maker Gwendolyn Oxenham played...