![]() Silas, it seems, has thought of only one thing since that chance meeting, and his obsession is darkening by the day. But she has no idea that evil stalks her. ![]() When Iris is asked to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint, and suddenly her world expands beyond anything she ever dreamed of. Rate this book In 1850s London, the Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching the dazzling spectacle, two people meet by happenstance. For Iris, an aspiring artist of unique beauty, it is the encounter of a moment-forgotten seconds later-but for Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by the strange and beautiful, the meeting marks a new beginning. The greatest spectacle London has ever seen is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching, two people meet. The Doll Factory is a sweeping tale of curiosity, love, and possession set among all the sordidness and soaring ambition of 1850s London. ![]() In this “sharp, scary, gorgeously evocative tale of love, art, and obsession” (Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train), a beautiful young woman aspires to be an artist, while a man’s dark obsession may destroy her world forever. ![]()
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![]() ![]() An important factor in his rise was his unswerving devotion to the Parliamentary cause, a devotion which took the form of anti-Royalist predictions in his extremely popular annual almanacs and many of his other publications. William Lilly (1602–1691) rose from humble origins to become the most famous astrologer in England during the years of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth which followed it. Ann Geneva’s recent study of the English astrologer William Lilly does precisely this, and as a result casts an remarkably clear light not only on the work of the most brilliant astrologer of his time but also on a host of other aspects of late Renaissance cultural history. ![]() This is particularly true when it is allowed to speak in its own terms, rather than being forced into the Procrustean bed of some modern intellectual category. The importance of astrology in the culture of the Renaissance has been recognized for some time now, but there is still plenty to be learned about its manifold roles in the interwoven realms of learning, politics and society in the years before the scientific revolution chased it into the back closets of our culture. Hermetic Library Fellow John Michael Greer reviews Astrology and the Seventeenth Century Mind: William Lilly and the Language of the Stars by Ann Geneva in the archive of Caduceus: The Hermetic Quarterly. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is about a secret of a different kind. Bennett followed that up in 2020 with ‘The Vanishing Half’. It tells a story of a 17 year old’s secret and the way that secret reverberates into her early adulthood. Her debut novel ‘The Mothers’ was a critical success and a New York Times bestseller. Brit Bennett has become a literary star in the last six years. It is an hour with the writer Brit Bennett. I’m Dave Miller coming to you in front of an audience at Portland’s Grant High School today. Note: This transcript was computer generated and edited by a volunteer.ĭave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. The call-in phone number during the noon hour is 88. If you’d like to comment on any of the topics in this show, or suggest a topic of your own, please get in touch with us on Facebook or Twitter, send an email to, or you can leave a voicemail for us at 50. ![]() We talk to Bennett about her essays and novels in front of an audience of students at Grant High School in Portland. In that novel and her other writing, Bennett deals with the bonds of family, the importance of storytelling, and the nature of identity. Though spanning the second half of the 20th century, the novel speaks to questions about race and identity that have been central to national conversations for the last two years. Brit Bennett’s book “The Vanishing Half” was on a lot of best-of lists in 2020. ![]() ![]() Politically active by age eighteen, Dworkin was arrested at an antiwar rally in New York City in 1964. ![]() Virginia Woolf, the Brontës, George Eliot, and revolutionary Che Guevara. Her early literary interests were shaped by the writings of Arthur Rimbaud and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and later While still in grade school, Dworkin expressed her desire to effect social change as a writer or lawyer. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONīorn in Camden, New Jersey, Dworkin was raised in a liberal Jewish home. Alternately revered and reviled for her firebrand polemics and castigation of mainstream feminists, Dworkin has exerted an important influence on public discourse surrounding the modes, extent, and human cost of male-dominated sexuality and female oppression. ![]() A forceful spokesperson against pornography, Dworkin calls attention to the sexual myths that perpetuate the role of women as degraded objects of male gratification and exploitation. Her provocative investigations into the cultural origins of misogyny and sexual violence have generated contentious debate among feminists, academics, politicians, and free speech advocates. ![]() A highly controversial author and activist,ĭworkin is a leading radical feminist and member of the contemporary women's movement. ![]() ![]() He was a character, and a deep and complex character for that matter: confusing and quirky, humorous and sarcastic, a lover of life, of food, and of whisky, frequently also ranting and raving, angry and upset. He left us a memoir, pieces of creative writing, novels in progress, essays, both written and video-performed – an incredibly rich archive of ideas and thoughts. ![]() He was a brilliant writer and sharp thinker, creative and unruly. Larger than life.īut he was far from empty inside. With the constant flood of words in which he energetically talked speculative ideas, supported by wild bodily gestures. With his African print blazers in the brightest colours one can think of, his spiky hair dyed in a different colour every time. ![]() Wainaina was such an “African character”: colourful, exotic, larger than life. How to write an obituary for a person who, in his perhaps most famous satirical essay, “ How to write about Africa ”, suggests that “African characters should be colourful, exotic, larger than life-but empty inside, with no dialogue, no conflicts or resolutions in their stories, no depth or quirks to confuse the cause”? How to write an obituary for a person as creative, original and radical as Binyavanga Wainaina – the Kenyan literary writer, public intellectual, and queer thinker who passed away on 21 st May 2019 ? ![]() ![]() The action takes place some 40 years before the moment of composition. Dr Lydgate is especially emblematic of Middlemarch: dying young, a bitter and disappointed man who knew he had married the wrong woman and could do nothing about it. And others still realise their mistakes but are trapped by a wrong decision and never escape. ![]() Others refuse or are incapable of learning, and spend their lives resenting their situation, and blaming others. Some learn the lessons and achieve a temporary happiness. ![]() Indeed, Middlemarch looms above the mid-Victorian literary landscape like a cathedral of words in whose shadowy vastness its readers can find every kind of addictive discomfort, a sequence of raw truths: the loneliness of the disappointed failure, Dr Lydgate the frustrations of his discontented wife the humiliation of a good woman, Dorothea the corrosive bitterness of Casaubon, and so on.įew of Eliot's characters achieve what they really want, and all have to learn to compromise. ![]() Subtitled "a study of provincial life", the novel has a didactic realism that's a world away from Vanity Fair or Great Expectations. George Eliot's masterpiece, Middlemarch, appeared after the deaths of Thackeray (1863) and Dickens (1870). ![]() ![]() Huchus The Library of the Dead, a sharp contemporary fantasy following a precocious and cynical teen as she explores the shadowy magical underside of modern Edinburgh. Expertly blending elements of Zimbabwean and Scottish culture, Huchu’s occult thriller is as entertaining as it is thought-provoking. Genevieve Cogman, bestselling author of The Invisible Library Sixth Sense meets Stranger Things in T. Precocious, often snarky Ropa, meanwhile, breathes new life into the standard rough-around-the-edges female protagonist. Huchu writes with a refreshing voice, crafting an intimate portrait of Ropa and her Zimbabwean family amid the delicious paranormal chaos. The mystery contains plenty of twists, turns, and genuinely eerie moments to draw in even the most seasoned horror reader. Huchus The Library of the Dead, a sharp contemporary fantasy following a precocious. ![]() Now Ropa heads on a dangerous hunt to discover who-or what-is behind these sinister attacks. When penniless ghost Nicola comes to Ropa pleading for help, Ropa is initially reluctant to take on her problems-until she learns that something is sucking the souls out of the bodies of the city’s children. Headstrong high school dropout Ropafadzo “Ropa” Moyo works as a ghostalker, ferrying messages between the worlds of the dead and the living for the right price. ![]() ![]() ![]() Huchu ( The Hairdresser of Harare, as Tendai Huchu) plunges readers into the dark, supernatural recesses of contemporary Edinburgh in his powerhouse fantasy debut and series launch. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lutes weaves these characters’ lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. ![]() Berlin is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism.īerlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens-Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. Over two decades, Jason Lutes quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. ![]() Whether you love graphic novels or have never even touched one before, this event will give you insight and a new appreciation for what can be accomplished when words and images work together. ![]() Renowned comics creator Jason Lutes presents his epic masterwork: Berlin! Join us for an evening at the Norman Williams Public Library to hear all about this breath-taking piece of work and what went into it's creation, straight from the author and artist himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Being able to see the details enabled them to be much more articulate about longer more extended ideas in contrast to the shorter contributions I often get when we read books that rely on the text for the story and being able to understand one another meant they were much more engaged. ![]() ![]() Because they were picking up on visual details it was also much easier for them to explain their ideas to the other students and conversely much easier for the listening students to understand what they were saying - facilitating actual discussion between students rather than constant vying for my attention. ![]() Not only are the pictures very detailed but much of the detail repeats cleverly throughout the book allowing the students to approach the idea of patterns and development as part of a text through the much more accessible route of pictures. It's this last part that I think makes Ottoline and the Yellow Cat such a great book for teaching close reading to second graders. It's been three months since I taught this book to my group of second graders and they STILL reference it during discussions of entirely unrelated books! Not only that but they bring in other books from the series and insist I look at visual motifs that have carried through from this book, the first in the series. ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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