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“victor watson”

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  • Time After Time

    by Victor Watson ...
    A young Anglo-Saxon woman is travelling across an empty East Anglian landscape. She’s dressed as a man, for safety. But when her only companion is murdered, she knows she faces discovery, and almost certainly much worse.In the Napoleonic period, a little boy has to walk several miles to market, on his own, for the first time.In the present day, a mixed-race teenage girl – along with her best ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Reading Series Fiction

    From Arthur Ransome to Gene Kemp

    by Victor Watson ...
    This book investigates the 'series' in children's literature. The works of several well-known children's authors - UK and the US, traditional and contemporary - are analyzed, and using these examples, the book explores the special nature and appeal of series writing for children. As well as providing an historical overview of the series, the author raises important questions about the nature of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Where Texts and Children Meet

    Edited by Eve Bearne, Victor Watson ...
    It is impossible to reflect upon children's books without considering the children who read them. Where Texts and Children Meet explores the ways in which children make meaning of the various texts they meet both in and out of school.Eve Bearne and Victor Watson have brought together chapters on all the major issues and topics in children's literacy including:* the meaning and relevance of terms ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Opening The Nursery Door

    by Mary Hilton, Morag Styles, Victor Watson ...
    Opening the Nursery Door is a fascinating collection of essays inspired by the discovery of a tiny archive: the nursery library of Jane Johnson 1707-1759, wife of a Lincolnshire vicar. It has captured the scholarly interest of social anthropologists, historians, literary scholars, educationalists and archivists as it has opened up a range of questions about the nature of childhood within English ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    by Leah Price ...
    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who ... Read more

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  • River of Destiny

    by Barbara Erskine ...
    From the bestselling author of Time’s Legacy and Lady of Hay comes a thrilling new novel, River of Destiny, an epic story that spans Anglo Saxon Britain, Victorian Suffolk and the present day.Perfect for fans of Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth.On the banks of the River Deben in Suffolk are ancient barns dating back to Anglo Saxon times – within these walls lie secrets that have been buried for centuries ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës

    Edited by Heather Glen ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The extraordinary works of the three sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë have entranced and challenged scholars, students, and general readers for the past 150 years. This Companion offers a fascinating introduction to those works, including two of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century - Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights. In a series of original essays, contributors ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Ghost Woods

    by C. J. Cooke ...
    A young woman sent to stay in a crumbling gothic manor will find haunting secrets creeping out of the surrounding dark woods in this new, chilling novel from the acclaimed author of The Lighthouse Witches.In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore—old stories of ghosts, of witches, of a child who is not quite a child.Now the woods are creeping ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London

    by Lawrence Manley ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth ... Read more

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  • Thornyhold

    A delightfully escapist and cozy read by the Queen of the Romantic Mystery

    by Mary Stewart ...
    'Genuine escapism - I couldn't put it down!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Best read on a cold winter night with hot chocolate' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'An instant favourite' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The rambling house called Thornyhold is like something out of a fairy tale.Left to Gilly Ramsey by the cousin whose occasional visits brightened her childhood, the cottage, set deep i... ... Read more

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  • Romanticism and Gender

    by Anne K. Mellor ...
    Taking twenty women writers of the Romantic period, Romanticism and Gender explores a neglected period of the female literary tradition, and for the first time gives a broad overview of Romantic literature from a feminist perspective. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD