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Author | : Daisy Johnson |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2017-05-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 155597967X |
A singular debut that “marks the emergence of a great, stomping, wall-knocking talent” (Kevin Barry) Daisy Johnson’s Fen, set in the fenlands of England, transmutes the flat, uncanny landscape into a rich, brooding atmosphere. From that territory grow stories that blend folklore and restless invention to turn out something entirely new. Amid the marshy paths of the fens, a teenager might starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl and grow jealous of her friend. A boy might return from the dead in the guise of a fox. Out beyond the confines of realism, the familiar instincts of sex and hunger blend with the shifting, unpredictable wild as the line between human and animal is effaced by myth and metamorphosis. With a fresh and utterly contemporary voice, Johnson lays bare these stories of women testing the limits of their power to create a startling work of fiction.
Author | : Annie Proulx |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2022-09-27 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1982173378 |
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* *A 2022 NBCC Awards Nonfiction Finalist and a 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist* From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, this riveting deep dive into the history of our wetlands and what their systematic destruction means for the planet “is both an enchanting work of nature writing and a rousing call to action” (Esquire). “I learned something new—and found something amazing—on every page.” —Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment—by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are crucial to the earth’s survival, and in four illuminating parts, Proulx documents their systemic destruction in pursuit of profit. In a vivid and revelatory journey through history, Proulx describes the fens of 16th-century England, Canada’s Hudson Bay lowlands, Russia’s Great Vasyugan Mire, and America’s Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. She introduces the early explorers who launched the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands—the Ague, malaria, Marsh Fever. A sobering look at the degradation of wetlands over centuries and the serious ecological consequences, this is “an unforgettable and unflinching tour of past and present, fixed on a subject that could not be more important” (Bill McKibben). “A stark but beautifully written Silent Spring–style warning from one of our greatest novelists.” —The Christian Science Monitor
Author | : Freya North |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0099278367 |
Chick Lit. Fen McCabe, just 28, has only ever been in love with one man. To her sisters' exasperation, he's a 19th-century sculptor called Julius Fetherstone. And as Fen starts a new job, dreaming of her hero and his missing masterpiece, her flatmates and family harbour a secret hope that she might just meet a living, breathing man instead. Matt Holden, turning 30, edits Art Matters magazine. Newly single, and determined to avoid commitment, he nevertheless finds himself rather attracted to Fen. James Caulfield, not quite 50, is forever fending off the advances of the women he gardens for in Derbyshire and forever fending off his bank manager. To improve his finances, he must sell his two small Fetherstones. And who better to advise than Fen McCabe? Is it possible to fall in love with two very different men at the same time? Sculpture, sexual attraction and severe indecision collide in Freya North's colourful and charming novel.
Author | : Samuel Wells (Registrar to the Bedford Level Corporation.) |
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Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 1828 |
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Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 1830 |
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Author | : Samuel A. Wells |
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Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 1830 |
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Author | : Esq. Samuel Wells |
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Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : Bedford Level (England) |
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Author | : Edmund Crispin |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1448218071 |
Dandelions, hearing aids, a blood-stained cat, a Leonardo drawing and a corpse with an alibi... Just some of the unusual clues that Professor Gervase Fen and his friend Inspector Humbleby are confronted with in this sparkling collection of short mystery stories. Employing a skilful balance of ingenuity and humour, Crispin lays out all the clues. Can you solve the case before Professor Fen? First-published posthumously in 1979, Fen Country is Edmund Crispin's second collection of short stories.
Author | : William Henry Wheeler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 665 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108066410 |
This expanded 1896 second edition gives a detailed history of the reclamation and drainage of the Fens of South Lincolnshire.
Author | : Gautam Sen |
Publisher | : Central Avenue Publishing |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 2010-01-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1926760255 |
The Fens are a most unusual family. Father and Mother Fen are rather ordinary, but their children? First, there's Mumbo, an elephant; Baby Panda, a giant panda bear, Koala, a koala (of course), and Pinchu and Panchu who are very, very small. When the Fens move into their new house, a curious neighbor drops in, and while the visit starts well enough, on spotting Mumbo, she faints. When she finally leaves, she makes it her job to make this gentle family public enemies. What will become of the Fens? Find out in this wonderful tale of this fantastic and fabulous family.