Results for: books tagged ‘Childhood’
Going West: Maurice Gee
Was poet Rex Petley a murderer? And why, forty years later, does he drown out on the gulf? His friend Jack Skeat is drawn to examine the landscapes of their ... More
Rain: Kirsty Gunn
A twelve-year-old girl spends summers at a lake with her parents and little brother. The days are long and hot and while the parents entertain their friends the two children ... More
Lord of the Flies: Nigel Williams
Playwright and novelist Nigel Williams's stage adaptation of William Golding's story was first professionally produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in July 1995. 'Remarkably true to the novel ... More
Difficulties of a Bridegroom: Ted Hughes
'These nine pieces hang together, in my mind, as an accompaniment to my poems'. So wrote Ted Hughes in the foreword to this collection, taken from forty years of occasional ... More
Bright Angel Time: Martha McPhee
Set in the early 1970s, Bright Angel Time is a dazzling first novel about eight-year-old Kate and her two sisters, whose lives are turned upside down when their mother falls ... More
Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Benjamin Britten
Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, ... More
The Beast in the Nursery: Adam Phillips
This book is a dazzling look at childhood curiosity and appetite - what inspires it, what kills it, and how it may be sustained. Growing up is a process of ... More
Mrs Power Looks Over the Bay: Fergus Allen
The Mrs Power referred to in the title of Fergus Allen's third collection is just one of the vividly realized figures, who inhabit the Ireland of its author's childhood and ... More
The Shrimp and the Anemone: L. P. Hartley
There is a delicious irony and humour in this Jamesian story about Eustace and Hilda, an Edwardian brother and sister, with its famous opening scene as nine-year-old Eustace watches an ... More
Floods: Maurice Riordan
The poems in Maurice Riordan's second collection are unusual in their recourse to the humanist belief in poetry as one of the forms of knowledge, imparting information about the observable ... More
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