In the third and final part of The Divine Comedy, Dante recounts his journey through heaven, after the travails and torments of Hell and the arduous ascent of Mount Purgatory, creating a cosmology of
"Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed . . . The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And in the Convent were those women."In Paradise--her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature--Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain," assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From th
An unnamed protagonist is on holiday with her new, much-married lover, in the company of the monstrously rich. 'How long would she last? It would be uppermost in all their minds.' Each day, while the
Will people ever learn to accept a snake as a friend? Anna and Otis the snake are great friends and they love having fun together. But Otis knows people are scared of snakes, so he usually just plays
A hugely endearing, very funny story about kindness, friendship and overcoming fears for fans of Shirley Hughes and Laura Carlin, from award-winning illustrator Maisie Paradise Shearring.Anna and Otis
You probably know the feeling. You’re playing happily by yourself in the park, when you’re suddenly told, ‘Go and say hello to that little boy over there!’But what if you don’t want to say hello? What if the little boy isn’t really a little boy at all? What… what if he’s a MONSTER in disguise?Welcome to a weird and wonderful ‘what if?’ story where saying hello can lead to all sorts of surprising adventures...
