Results for: books tagged ‘Survival’
Life is Beautiful: Roberto Benigni
Winner of the Best Picture at the 1998 European Film Awards and the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. 'A masterpiece. Romantic, hilarious, and astonishingly moving.' Chicago ... More
Boss Cupid: Thom Gunn
In some respects a sequel to The Man With Night Sweats, Boss Cupid is a memorialising of friends who have died, an anatomy of survival, and a self-portrait of the ... More
The Man Who Cried: Sally Potter
An epic movie from the creator of Orlando and The Tango Lesson, The Man Who Cried is a young woman's coming-of-age story set in the dangerous maelstrom of the Nazi ... More
Night Over Day Over Night: Paul Watkins
Crow: Ted Hughes
Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave ... More
Hunting the Gugu: Benedict Allen
From the vast island of Sumatra, Benedict Allen brings back the strangest of travellers' tales concerning black-maned ape-men asTheodore Hull - octogenarian survivor of Japanese labour camps - entices him ... More
Into the Crocodile Nest: Benedict Allen
Benedict Allen travelled through Papua New Guinea in search of a tribe that would let him participate in an initiation ceremony into manhood. He was finally admitted to the ceremonies ... More
First World War Poems: Andrew Motion
In this moving anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through the horror and the pity of the Great War, from the trenches of the Western Front to reflections ... More
Love and Hate in Jamestown: David Price
A gripping narrative of one of the great survival stories of American history: the opening of the first permanent English settlement in the New World.'The story of Captain John Smith ... More
The Caliban Shore: Stephen Taylor
When the Grosvenor ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa, an astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely. But the ... More
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