*WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE - BOOK OF THE YEAR*Inspired by a true story, The Home Child is a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home Ground-breaking Benjamin Zephaniah Beautifully crafted Guardian Extraordinary Hannah LoweIn 1908, Eliza Showell, twelve years old and newly orphaned, boards a ship that will carry her from the slums of the Black Country to rural Nova Scotia.
J O S E P H YO S S I A R O N(1947-2010)Joseph Yossi Aron was born in 1947 in Satumare, Romania and spent his fi rst 4 yearsin Linz Displaced Persons Camp, Austria.
Set against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks, Kai Carlson-Wee's debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust, depression, brotherhood, and survival.
Dans Ce qui ouvre l’horizon, Ma Saïsara approche avec une perspective élargie le thème de l’amour en lui donnant des tonalités sensibles, vibrantes et ouvertes sur le monde.
A book of wild imagination and linguistic play, Nowhere begins by chronicling the pain that the speaker and her absent father endure during the years they are separated while he is in prison.
This poem - originally published anonymously, written after Wilde's two year's hard labour in Reading prison - is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved.
These soulful lyrics use allusive imagery and ecumenical diction to consider the pastoral as a life to inhabit, not an artifact or idealized place to visit.
Voici le pays qui fascine Pierre Perrault, celui du quotidien des humbles, des pêcheurs de Tête-à-la-Baleine, des chasseurs de loups-marins de L’Anse-Tabatière, de ce peuple nomade que sont les Innus, encore nommés Montagnais au temps où il rédige une première version de ces pages, au début des années 1960, c’est-à-dire à l’heure où il va bientôt tourner ce chef-d’œuvre du cinéma documentaire qu’est Pour la suite du monde.
Mary Angeline Bell, known as Angie to family and friends, grew up in Portland, Oregon and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Lewis & Clark College and a Master of Arts from the University of Oregon.