Daily Archives: March 31, 2011

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New Title: Edith Sitwell Avant Garde Poet English Genius

Author:  Richard Greene
  • Hardcover: 544 pages
  • Publisher: Virago Press Ltd (3 Mar 2011)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1860499678
  • ISBN-13: 978-1860499678
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 5 cm

    • Product Description

    Born into a privileged family of eccentrics, Edith Sitwell set out during the years of the Great War to create a life in the arts. A friend of Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein, she ran an unlikely London literary salon that attracted most of the great writers and artists of the day. Her quips and anecdotes grew legendary, and she established herself as the quintessential poet of the Blitz. Regarded in her own time as a truly great poet, for the better part of forty years Sitwell’s work has been neglected by critics intimidated by her large gestures. This meticulously researched, groundbreaking and brilliant biography allows readers to grasp her poetry anew and to experience its humanity and its beauty, while at the same time turning much of what we have ever learned about modern British poetry on its head.

    About the Author

    Richard Greene is Professor of English at Toronto University and a renowned biographer.
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    Great Book: The Perfect Neighbour

    Author:  Nora Roberts
  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Mills & Boon (4 Feb 2011)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0263885283
  • ISBN-13: 978-0263885286
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12 x 2.4 cm

    • Product Description

    In New York, people were supposed to ignore their neighbours. But that was a rule that Cybil Campbell had never learned. When the sunny brunette knocks on her new neighbour’s door, she expected that they would make a connection – after all, she knew everyone else in the apartment block. Preston McQuinn wasn’t interested in small talk. He was in Manhattan to finish a job and leave as quickly as possible – until Cybil’s sweet nature and big green eyes captured his interest. Cybil was intrigued by her mysterious new acquaintance – but what would she do when she found out he’d been lying to her from the very first moment they met?
    About The Author:
    Nora Roberts is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 190 novels and there are 300 million copies of her books in print. Under the pen name J. D. Robb, she is author of the New York Times bestselling futuristic suspense series, which features Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke.
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    Book Recommendation: The Last Honest Woman

    Author:  Nora Roberts
  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Mills & Boon (4 Mar 2011)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0263887545
  • ISBN-13: 978-0263887549
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.6 cm

    • Product Description

    New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts brings you the remarkable O’Hurley Family. Never tell the whole truth, nobody wants to hear it. As the widow of an infamous racing car champion, Abby O’Hurley shunned publicity. Now a single mum, struggling to keep her family and farm afloat, Abby has invited charming, disarming and ruthlessly cynical biographer Dylan Crosby to tell her story. Abby’s doing it for the sake of her sons, but she needs to keep Dylan from uncovering her darkest secrets. She’ll tell him just enough to close that chapter of her life, even if Dylan wants more than she’s willing to give…
    About  The  Author
    Nora Roberts is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 190 novels and there are 300 million copies of her books in print. Under the pen name J. D. Robb, she is author of the New York Times bestselling futuristic suspense series, which features Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke.