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43 produkter
Time Song
Searching for Doggerland
Häftad, 2022
172 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to HollandTime Song tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country now called Doggerland, a huge …
Old Man Goya
Häftad, 2003
141 kr
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In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. It was a time of political turmoil, of war, violence and …
Threads
The Delicate Life of John Craske
Häftad, 2017
344 kr
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Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill. For the rest of his life he kept moving in and out of what was described as ‘a stuporous …
With Billie
Häftad, 2006
183 kr
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'This is a raw, true book that evokes not just the life of the great singer Billie Holiday but an entire jazz era....' Mail on SundayJulia Blackburn's brilliant and haunting book is a life of Billie Holiday told in the voices of those who knew her. During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, …
Three of Us
A Family Story
Häftad, 2009
187 kr
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Winner of the J. R. Ackerley AwardThis is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic, who for many years was addicted to barbiturates; Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious. After her parents were divorced, …
Thin Paths
Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village
Häftad, 2012
160 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but a series of events brought her close to the old people of the …
Emperor's Last Island
A Journey to St Helena
Häftad, 1997
181 kr
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The Emperor's Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories and myths, absurdities and simple facts that have accumulated around Napoleon and his sojourn here. It follows him through the eyes of those who lived with him, who guarded …
My Animals and Other Family
Inbunden, 2007
179 kr
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In these five stories Julia Blackburn recalls the significant animals in her life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of her family, her painter mother and poet father. First comes Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar via Harrods pet department. He slept …
Writing Woman
A Memoir in Many Lives
Inbunden, 2027
232 kr
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A spellbinding memoir of a writing life‘I’ve been writing for most of my life, with hardly a pause, as if my survival depended on the process, which I suppose in a way it did.’Three islands, two abandoned houses, a remote mountain village; Napoleon in exile, old man Goya, Billie Holiday’s friends …
Songbird Army
Can a choir of small voices stand against a gang of bullies?
Häftad, 2025
118 kr
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Lost Dragonflies
E-bok, 2025
64 kr
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A thrilling eco-magical adventure filled with ancient nature magic and heartfelt environmental mystery—perfect for fans of Hannah Gold and Sophie Kirtley.Twelve-year-old Belle has always been torn between her mum's faith in science and her Nana Willow's deep bond with the land. But when Whisper …
Lost Dragonflies
A children's mystery adventure about the magic of nature.
Häftad, 2025
175 kr
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May Day Chorus
The Songbird Choir, #2
E-bok, 2026
64 kr
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Every garden needs a song. But what happens when singing is forbidden?Rube the robin has always led The Songbird Choir. But when Flint and his gang arrive searching for buried treasure, they tear up the garden, scatter the singers, and make one thing brutally clear: no singing allowed.Forced to …
Daisy Bates in the Desert
E-bok, 2011
144 kr
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In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. And there she stayed, with occasional interruptions, for almost 30 years. In Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn explores the ancient and desolate landscape where Ms Bates says she was most happy. …
Old Man Goya
E-bok, 2010
108 kr
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In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. It was a time of political turmoil, of war, violence and …
With Billie
E-bok, 2010
147 kr
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'This is a raw, true book that evokes not just the life of the great singer Billie Holiday but an entire jazz era....' Mail on SundayJulia Blackburn's brilliant and haunting book is a life of Billie Holiday told in the voices of those who knew her. During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, …
Three of Us
A Family Story
E-bok, 2010
144 kr
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Winner of the J. R. Ackerley AwardThis is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic, who for many years was addicted to barbiturates; Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious. After her parents were divorced, …
My Animals and Other Family
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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In these five stories Julia Blackburn recalls the significant animals in her life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of her family, her painter mother and poet father. First comes Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar via Harrods pet department. He slept …
Thin Paths
Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village
E-bok, 2011
122 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but a series of events brought her close to the old people of the …
