5/28/2023 0 Comments Bill bryson island![]() ![]() In Conversation with Tim Whitnall on Wednesday 15 March, 2pm. Post Matinee Q&A on Saturday 11 March (BSL interpreted) Open Captioned Performance: Saturday 11 March at 2.30pmĬlosed Captioned Performance: Saturday 11 March at 7.30pm This production is most suitable for those aged 12+Īudio Described Performance: Saturday 11 March at 2.30pm with a Touch Tour at 12.30pm, described by Colin Johnson Running Time: Approximately 2 hours 35 minutes including an intervalĬontent guidance: This production includes the use of very strong language, language reflective of historical attitudes around Mental Health, reference to drug use, sexual references, mention of suicide, flashing lights, pyrotechnics, loud sound effect explosions, and haze. Notes From A Small Island spent three years in The Sunday Times bestsellers list and sold over two million copies. How can the nation that produced Marmite, Gardener’s Question Time and people who say “Ooh lovely” at the sight of a cup of tea, hold such a special place in this American’s heart?Ī world premiere stage adaptation that celebrates one of the nation’s most beloved books and celebrates the quirks of our small island. Bill Bryson’s smash-hit memoir journeys to the stage for the first time in this World premiere.įrom Calais to Scotland, Bill travels the length and breadth of Britain. ![]()
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5/27/2023 0 Comments Greek mythology stephen fry![]() ![]() ![]() Ouranos is often referred to as Uranus – a name that now engenders great hilarity to children of all ages! ![]() Gaia has two sons all of her own: Pontus, the sea, and Ouranos, the sky. It’s from them that all the gods, monsters, and heroes of Greek mythology later arise. These are primordial deities, the First Order of divine beings. Simultaneously – remember, there’s no Time yet – two other entities come into being: Gaia, the earth, and Tartarus, the underworld. Upon their creation, Erebus sleeps with his sister and from their union spring forth Hemera, day, and Aether, light. Indeed, the word before was meaningless as Time itself didn’t yet exist.įrom out of Chaos, two creations emerge: Erebus, the darkness, and Nyx, the night. The answer is that there was nothing before Chaos. What exactly was that? Perhaps a divine being, perhaps just nothing at all, or as Fry says, perhaps a “grand cosmic yawn.” Whatever the case, one thing scientists agree on is that everything will eventually return to Chaos, or entropy.īut just as you might wonder who or what came before the Big Bang, you might also wonder who or what came before the Greek’s Chaos. ![]() But the Greeks believed that in the beginning, there was only Chaos. Scientists today propose that the Universe started with the Big Bang. ![]() ![]() All is going as planned-until the pair is caught red-handed. So when Uncle Mick receives a tip about a safe full of jewels in an empty house, he and Ellie can't resist. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but with World War II in full swing, Uncle Mick's locksmith business just can't pay the bills anymore. ![]() "Filled with wry humor, tight suspense, and a delightful cast of characters." -Alyssa Maxwell, author of the Gilded Newport mysteriesįIRST RULE: DON'T LOSE YOUR CONCENTRATION.Įlectra McDonnell and her family earn their living outside the law. ![]() ![]() The first in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, set in England during World War II, A Peculiar Combination is a delightful mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and the author's signature wit. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Final poirot book![]() ![]() When they receive a letter from Styles Court, the place where they solved their first murder together, it seems like fate and they readily accept. It was the last of her books to be published during her lifetime.Īfter a year apart Hercule Poirot, now crippled with arthritis, is reunited with his old companion Captain Hastings, who has since become a widower. Knowing that she could no longer write any novels, the elderly Christie authorised Curtain's removal from the vault and subsequent publication. ![]() The final Poirot novel that Christie wrote, Elephants Can Remember, was published in 1972, followed by Christie's last novel, Postern of Fate. Partly fearing for her own survival, and partly wanting to have a fitting end to Poirot's series of novels, Christie had the novel locked away in a bank vault for over thirty years. The novel also returns the characters to the setting of Christie's first published work, The Mysterious Affair at Styles.Ĭhristie wrote the novel in the early 1940s, during World War II. The novel features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings (who had not appeared together since Dumb Witness in 1937) in their final appearances in Christie's works. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1975 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in the same year, probably also in September. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments The Uncut Wood by Slade James![]() Find many more outstanding podcasts at frolic. Jeff also talks about his story, “The Hockey Player's Snow Day.”Ĭomplete shownotes for episode 280 along with a transcript of the interview are at .īig Gay Fiction Podcast is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. Plakcy, and Kai Butler as they share details on the stories they're offering in the giveaway. We also hear from authors Colbie Dunbar, Shannon West, Slade James, Marina Vivancos, Spencer Spears, Giovanna Reaves, Neil S. Lucy tells readers what they can expect in the giveaway and also talks about the two stories she has for readers. Lucy Lennox joins Jeff to talk about the Winder Wonderland Story Giveaway, which runs through January 10. Also, the next edition of”Big Gay Fiction Live” is Thursday, January 14 at 7pm ET and features authors from the upcoming shared universe, “The Magic Emporium.” ![]() ![]() The Big Gay Fiction Book Club selection for January is “An Unseen Attraction” by KJ Charles. ![]() Jeff & Will kick off 2021 with two announcements. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perfectly crafted and thematically rich' Barbara Kingsolver 'Vital and compelling' The Times 'Arresting and altogether distinctive, powerful and haunting a collection to be read aloud and repeated for generations' Los Angeles Times 'Enchanting, magnificent. 'Eva Luna's stories are delicate, their images akin to poetry. ![]() Rendered in her sumptuously imagined, uniquely lyrical style, The Stories of Eva Luna is a cornerstone of Isabel Allende's work, and in her character Eva Luna she creates a modern-day Scheherazade. ![]() Interweaving the real and the magical, she explores love, vengeance, compassion and female power, depicting worlds that are at once poignantly familiar and intriguingly new. Lying in bed with her lover, European refugee and journalist Rolf Carle, Eva answers his request for a story 'you have never told anyone before' with these twenty-three samples of her vibrant artistry. Eva Luna is a young woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love. INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE JAPANESE LOVER A captivating collection of short fiction by one of the most beloved writers of our timeEva Luna is a young woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love. Told in the voice of Isabel Allende’s beloved character Eva Luna, a distinctive, powerful, and haunting ( Los Angeles Times) collection of short fiction by one of the most iconic and acclaimed writers of our time. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Martin luther king birmingham jail![]() “So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice,” King wrote. Without a light or even a mattress on the bedsprings, King wrote what would become the classic “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” an intellectual and philosophical treatise that challenged white moderates for decades to come. Martin Luther King Jr., jailed with about 50 other peaceful protesters, wrote a response to local clergy members who had chastised him for upsetting Alabama’s status quo. Months before the March on Washington, where he delivered his spellbinding “I Have a Dream” speech, the Rev. Sixty years ago, a Baptist minister sat in a southern jail cell and penned the most important written statement of the civil rights movement. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments The Fated Sky by E.M. Swift-Hook![]() Settled long before the rise of faster-than-light technologies and left isolated for hundreds of years, its population have degenerated into the barbarism of a medieval culture. Temsevar is an insignificant Periphery world on the very fringes of galactic civilisation. “Well, if he lives, perhaps we shall find out what kind of fighter he is, this man from the stars.” This and this - they were made by blades,” Zarul said, pointing at the scars. The castellans would be scrambling over each other to purchase something so rare and exotic as a genuine offworlder. ![]() The thought struck him that this man would fetch a fortune in the Alfor slave pens. His flesh carried several old scars and his muscles were clean and compact beneath the skin. But this one was strong and his body was built like any ordinary man. From all he had heard they were feeble, using machines they had invented to do the work of their muscles. ![]() For some reason he had assumed that offworlders would be frail, with weak, puny bodies. ![]() One man's fight against fate shapes the destiny of an entire world.Ĭaer's breath hissed between his teeth. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Walter mitty story![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘The Old Man ain’t afraid of Hell!’” (Paragraph 1). ![]() An immense “eight-engined Navy hydroplane” hurdles into the maw of a gathering storm, piloted by the Commander, who coolly ignores his lieutenant’s fearful protests that a hurricane is brewing, while his stout-hearted crew looks on admiringly: “‘The Old Man’ll get us through,’ they said to one another. The story opens in medias res-mid-action and without preamble-in the heightened style of a pulp adventure: “‘We’re going through!’ The Commander’s voice was like thin ice breaking” (Paragraph 1). This guide refers to the story as it appeared in The Thurber Carnival (Harper and Row), a selection of Thurber’s stories and sketches that first appeared in 1945. These include the siren-song of cultural tropes the emasculation and/or infantilization of modern man marital discord and the ambiguous nature of the imagination. Along the way, however, Thurber explores numerous themes, which are no less humorous, in his wry treatment, for their essential seriousness. The story’s action, which juxtaposes Mitty’s fantasized exploits with his mundane day-to-day life, generates no significant change or self-reflection in its milquetoast protagonist: The story’s close finds him much the same person as he was at the start. Unlike most classic fiction, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” portrays little or no character arc. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Across the universe book![]() Space enthusiasts will appreciate the starship setting, but they are sure to be disappointed at the “Star Trek” physics used in the design and operation of Godspeed. When other “frozens” are murdered, and Elder discovers Eldest has been keeping secrets from him, he and Amy join forces to find the murderer and uncover the truth about the ship’s progress toward Centauri-Earth. But Eldest, the current leader, warns that Amy’s differences will only bring trouble. She witnesses her parents’ freezing and then she joins them in a nightmarish dream state that ends with her unscheduled thawing, and near drowning, inside her glass coffin.Įlder, a 16-year-old dark-haired, dark-skinned boy, born on Godspeed and destined to become the leader of the thousands of mono-ethnic “shipborns,” is captivated by the unusual Amy. The story begins with Amy, a 17-year-old redheaded girl who is the only teen among the frozen, a perk granted to her scientist mother and military father who have skills considered essential to the survival of the colony. ![]() One hundred carefully selected colonists are frozen for the journey while thousands of others live out their lives, generation after generation, as members of the crew. The destination is Centauri-Earth, and the trip is to take 300 years. ![]() ![]() Sometime toward the end of this century, a group of investors has decided to send the first generation starship to an exosolar planet. ![]() |