![]() ![]() Dolan's sentences are like a splash of cold water to the face. 'A funny, smart and sensitive exploration of love, privilege and bisexuality that had me gripped from the first page. A piercingly provocative look at modern love and power games.' - BookRiot Hands down one of the most anticipated debuts of the year. 'A sharp, funny account of a contemporary relationship, told tenderly and with biting, bright insight. She's entirely herself, and that's plenty.' - Sunday Life, Irish Independent ![]() Ultimately a very moving story, one that occupies a small sliver of time and space, but manages a lasting emotional tinnitus. 'The funniest writer you will read this year. ![]() Perfect for fans of Sally Rooney and Emma Jane Unsworth.' - Sunday Times Style 'A funny, smart, contemporary love story. With Exciting Times comes a rare and indeed exciting talent, a cacophony of our times, a treat for the socially distanced.' - Irish Independent Coming-of-age love is told in technicolour. Likely to fill the Sally-Rooney-shaped hole in many readers' lives.' - Irish Times ' Exciting Times more than lives up to the hype. ![]() Heralding for sure a new star in Irish writing.' - Irish Times astute, sardonic and highly emotionally aware. 'Witty, compelling and with a razor-sharp social commentary. 'Droll, shrewd and unafraid - a winning debut.' - Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall It is a very funny, spiky, Marxist, feminist comedy and it's really mean.' - Zadie Smith ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Couldn't wait to continue reading the series.Ģ016: this is about my fifth read of this book. I thought that Cheyenne's relationship with Colt couldn't be surpassed, then Callon comes on the scene. The characters were so intriguing and the storyline was unique in a Ebook world flooded with paranormal fiction (not that I'm complaining). My plan is to reread the first 5 books and finish the series up to book 7 this year. The writing is generally engaging but with moments of 'too much'. Now, I think new readers have to be down with a flip-floppy love triangle and get along with Cheyenne's immaturity but clearly I know what I’m getting with this book. ![]() I still loved it, loved these characters but I fell in love with this book when ebooks were a new thing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! ![]() ![]() Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() When she’s not writing, she’s reading, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and researching aliens. She lives in “”Tornado Alley”” with her husband, two children, and her baby dog named Blue. Her titles have claimed many bestseller tags in numerous categories, are translated in multiple languages, and have been adapted into audiobooks. K Webster is a USA Today Bestselling author. At the stroke of midnight, that choice may be lost for both of us. But love can have deadly consequences when it comes from a Constantine. When she challenges me with an offer of her own, I have to decide if I’m willing to give her far more than cold hard cash. I crave her tears, her moans, her submission. Ash Elliott needs cash, and I make her trade in crudeness and degradation for it. ![]() When I discover the one woman who doesn’t wither under my gaze, but instead smiles right back at me, I’m intrigued. 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Normally it’s just a cop-out, borrowing the sonorous qualities of one art-form to make up for the artistic failings of another.īernard Mac Laverty’s strength has always been his linguistic focus on minutiae, his depiction of the parochial through luminescent language. ![]() Films – the Helfgott biopic or Jane Campion’s truly abysmal The Piano – acquire gravitas by replacing all shades of grey with the stern black and white of the keys. Clichéd images of the musician as mute genius or emotional pygmy crop up everywhere, and bad scripts are bailed out by sonorous soundtracks. Now, though, with sledgehammer subtlety and schmaltz, music, the piano in particular, tends to be invoked for all the synaesthetic reverberations it can offer. The musical metaphors of Romanticism are steeped in linguistic paralysis: as in Shelley, where music ‘vibrates in the memory’ only when ‘soft voices die’. Spoken language follows in music’s wake, verbalisation a poor second best. ![]() The speechless quality of music is much envied and imitated. ![]() ![]() She has published in the children’s book market as well with her Oracles of Delphi Keep series. Victoria Laurie is a professional psychic and a long-time writer of suspenseful and highly readable paranormal mysteries in the adult genre (the Psychic Eye and Ghost Hunter series). Can she right things before it’s too late? A suspect for the investigation, a target for the murderer, and attracting the attentions of a mysterious young admirer who may be connected to it all, Maddie’s whole existence is about to be turned upside down. Soon, Maddie is entangled in a homicide investigation, and more young people disappear and are later found murdered. 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It was the end of the classical world and the crowning of an Ottoman Empire that would last until 1922.Constantinople was a city worth fighting for – its position as a bridge between Europe and Asia and its triangular shape with a deep water port made it ideal both for trade and defence. And as one contemporary witness described it: “The blood flowed in the city like rainwater in the gutters after a sudden storm”. After holding out for 53 days, the city had fallen. ![]() When Sultan Mehmet the Second rode into the city of Constantinople on a white horse in 1453, it marked the end of a thousand years of the Byzantine Empire. ![]() Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siege of Constantinople in 1453. ![]() ![]() In the book, which has a similarly pre-determined endpoint, Metzl leads us through a broad-brush history that includes the way we have already “hacked” species such as the humble chicken. At which point, he steps back and solemnly intones that we all, collectively, need to ask and answer essential questions that will lead to “monumental decisions about our genetic future.” He doesn’t immediately say “yes.” Instead, he moves smoothly into what is clearly intended to be seen as a kind of Socratic dialogue, leading the woman and the rest of the audience in the direction he wants them to go: support for the practice of engineering children. Would you genetically engineer your own kids? ![]() On page 2, he tells the story of how, after “many years” of “writing and lecturing about the future of human reproduction,” he was frozen into silence by one simple question, asked by a woman in the audience: Metzl is a technophilic inevitabilist, a well-informed but glib enthusiast. The author is convinced that we humans are software and ready for an upgrade. However, it doesn’t take long for the reader to realize that the title does, in fact, sum up the book. Hacking Darwin sounds good if you don’t think about it. ![]() The problems with this book by Jamie Metzl begin with the title, which name-checks one of the most famous scientists in history and links him with either computerized theft or a crude temporary fix. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This new translation seeks to retain both the literal sense and the poetic music of the original, and capture the poem's spontaneity and wit. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and it shows him attempting to transform himself from a romantic poet into a realistic novelist. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse.Įngaging, full of suspense, and varied intone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. ![]() ![]() Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. ![]() |