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She chose love. The price she paid was war.A stunning combination of history and mythology - ''an intriguing, luxuriously realised novel'' FINANCIAL TIMESREADERS on LAVINIA:''Utterly compelling'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Clever twist'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Super'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn''t be given, wouldn''t be taken, but chose my man and my fate''Lavinia is the daughter of the King of Latium, a victorious warrior who loves peace; she is her father''s closest companion. Now of an age to wed, Lavinia''s mother favours her own kinsman, handsome, heroic, everything a young girl should want. Instead, Lavinia dreams of mighty Aeneas, a man she has heard of only from a ghost of a poet, who comes to her in the gods'' holy place and tells her of her future, and Aeneas'' past... If she refuses to wed her mother''s choice, Lavinia knows she will start a war...''Subtly moving, playful...a novel that brought me to tears more than once. Lavinia is a delightful heroine'' GUARDIAN

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If Lavinia Greenlaw''s Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, ''the circle round our house'', the road between two lives. Its title recalls a phrase of Robert Lowell''s to describe Elizabeth Bishop -- one of the book''s presiding spirits, with her insistence on the provisional, on the moment in which perception is formed, on landscape as action rather than description. The Casual Perfect continues Lavinia Greenlaw''s explorations of light and the borders of vision, which include a journey to the four corners of Britain to observe the solstices and equinoxes, and a cycle about the East Anglian landscape which is nine-tenths sky. Questions of travel hover around many of these poems, or questions which need to be ''travelled fully'' rather than answered -- and which involve the overheard and the glimpsed, what is gleaned from traces and external signs. The result is a collection that is under-stated, spare but inclusive, which invites our presence as readers.

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Poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw''s poetic reflections on William Morris''s Icelandic Journal, one of the overlooked masterpieces of travel literatureThe great Victorian designer and decorative artist William Morris was fascinated by Iceland and wrote a book documenting his travels there. He gets caught up with questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of leaving or arriving, to hurry and delay, what it means to dread a place you’ve never been to or to encounter the actuality of a long-held vision. He is sensitive to the emotional landscape of his band of travelers and, above all, continuously analyzing and fixing this “most romantic of all deserts.” Lavinia Greenlaw follows in his footsteps, and interposes his prose with her own “questions of travel.” The result is a new and composite work that brilliantly explores our conflicted reasons for not staying at home.

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Dámské pantofle ALDO LAVINIA s elegantní koženou mašlí na svršku a nízkým podpatkem nabízejí pohodlí a sofistikovaný vzhled.

Objev podobné jako ALDO LAVINIA Dámské pantofle, hnědá, velikost 39

Dámské pantofle ALDO LAVINIA s elegantní koženou mašlí na svršku a nízkým podpatkem nabízejí pohodlí a sofistikovaný vzhled.

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Dámské pantofle ALDO LAVINIA s elegantní koženou mašlí na svršku a nízkým podpatkem nabízejí pohodlí a sofistikovaný vzhled.

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Dámské pantofle ALDO LAVINIA s elegantní koženou mašlí na svršku a nízkým podpatkem nabízejí pohodlí a sofistikovaný vzhled.

Objev podobné jako ALDO LAVINIA Dámské pantofle, hnědá, velikost 40

Dámské pantofle ALDO LAVINIA s elegantní koženou mašlí na svršku a nízkým podpatkem nabízejí pohodlí a sofistikovaný vzhled.

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Dámské pantofle ALDO LAVINIA s elegantní koženou mašlí na svršku a nízkým podpatkem nabízejí pohodlí a sofistikovaný vzhled.

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''[Greenlaw] wields her erudition lightly.'' Sunday Times‘Remarkable, visionary.’ CELIA PAUL‘Indescribably brilliant.’ Daily Telegraph‘Kaleidoscopic.’ Guardian‘A rare pleasure . . . rewarding and thought-provoking.’ Irish TimesFrom the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is a constellation of “exploded essays” about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each is a record of how thought builds and ideas emerge, aligning art, myth, strange voyages and scientific scrutiny with a poet’s response so that they cast light upon each other.In this original and illuminating work, Lavinia Greenlaw invites us to observe our world and beyond with a new sensitivity.

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The first monograph to examine Lavinia Fontana’s work in over two decades, and the first to focus on her striking portraits

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALCOTT PRIZEThis Selected Poems offers the perfect introduction to a distinguished body of work that has established Lavinia Greenlaw as one of the most perceptive and original poets of her generation. From her arresting debut, Night Photograph (1993), through five further collections, the poems reflect a lifelong preoccupation with perception: how we describe what we see or envisage what we can’t see, and how we locate ourselves in place and time and in relation to one another. The selection also documents a poet moving through life from young love and early parenthood to the years of uncertainty, endurance, reflection and loss. The book comes to rest on The Built Moment (2019) with its heart-breaking sequence about her father’s dementia and what it means to disappear into the present tense. Yet even here we are shown that among the broken and the fragmented, the provisional and the changeable, there is always something left from which to build. ''. . . the sensuousness of her thought and her ability to move between the abstract and the precisely observed remain as potent as ever.’ William Wotton, Guardian‘. . . a poet who is pushing for a style that is taut, ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway . . . the music attracted and repelled, organised and disturbed and then let us into the night, clusters of emotion ready to dissolve into sleep.In The Importance of Music to Girls, Lavinia Greenlaw tells the story of the adventures that music leads us into: getting drunk, falling in love, dying of boredom, cutting our hair, terrifying our parents, wanting to change the world. This is a vivid memoir unlike any other, recalling the furious passion of being young, female, and coming alive through music.

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A follow-up to the best-selling biography ‘Chink’, this selection from private letters and intimate war diary has the impact of a fresh ‘no holds barred’ autobiography. Dorman-Smith the man – flesh and blood – comes alive here on the page. Provocative, irreverent, caustic and witty, his disdain for Churchill – and for the Establishment in general – increases as his military career unravels. Egotistical? Yes. Arrogant? Certainly. His own worst enemy? Perhaps. But Dorman Smith’s grasp of tactics and strategy was unsurpassed, as his exchanges with Basil Liddell-Hart demonstrate. Full of contradictions, he was externally reserved and inwardly super-sensitive. Growing up in style in Ireland and educated at public school in England, his religion was Catholic and he scorned any Anglo-Irish tag. His private life while rising up the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers proved colourful, while a brief dalliance with the IRA in the 1950s never endangered his vow of silence over the Enigma/Ultra secret. This book gives a marvellous picture of personal war experience in two world wars, from RMC Sandhurst and life in the trenches, via the Staff College to high command in Egypt and India between the wars, until service in North Africa under Wavell began, and working ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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O nebezpečí lavin na Hané aneb Hořké humoresky ve sladkokyselém nálevu zahrádkářů hanácké krabatinyKousek za městem podřimuje ve stínu olší zahrádkářská kolonie čítající na tucet zahradních domků, boudy na nářadí, záhonky dělené růžemi i stinná zákoutí kompostů střídajících se po vzoru šachovnice s výhřevy pilně kosených trávníků. K tomu plácek s rezavou pumpou a po stranách rezavé branky, z nichž jednou může poutník jít rovnou za nosem, a pokud ho má jen trochu rovný, nad očekávání brzy dojde k náměstí městečka. Druhou lze vejít do polí požehnaných úrodou a zatoulat se třebas až k vykopávkám lužické kultury mizerné proslulosti a nevalného významu. Odtud je jen krok k mokřadům meandry řeky, po níž se jmenuje celá země bystrých lišek, loupeživých rytířů a králů v ječmeni zrozených.V krátkých povídkách, vzájemně prorůstajících a míšených halabala ve sledu karet haléřového mariáše štamgastů bistra vzdáleného od kolonie jen co by kamenem dohodil, ožívají postavy a příběhy z bohatého kotlíku Hané. A třebaže žádný z příběhů není nekonečný, mnohé mají trvání. Neboť jsme to pořád my, jenom tváře máme jiné. Sníme stejné sny a po stejných cestách spějeme k cílům, jež se nemění, co svět světem stojí. A ještě něco: zahrádkáři jsou specifické etnikum. Stejně jako ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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A Place for Us is an original Lent course based on the recent film production of West Side Story directed by Steven Spielberg and featuring the songs of Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein. Through study and discussion of key scenes from the movie, related to Lent passages from scripture, Lavinia Byrne and Jane McBride help us to reflect on fear, love, betrayal, death, and reconciliation.The course is based on five weekly sessions exploring the following themes:BelongingOtherness and DifferenceThe Gift of LoveThe Promise of a Place for UsThe Tragedy of BetrayalFor each session, preparatory material including a Gospel reading is provided for the reader to reflect on the themes before meeting with a study group. Resources are then offered for the group, including a suggested film clip, discussion points and questions, exercises, a Psalm, and a poem by Phil Lane.

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An account drawn from primary sources and the firsthand accounts of survivors that chronicles the fierce and ungovernable rise of the Christian right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision Evangelicals are trying to enforce on our democracy.All across America, a storm is gathering: from book bans in school libraries to anti-trans laws in state legislatures; firebombings of abortion clinics and protests against gay rights. The Christian right, a political force in America for more than half a century, has never been more powerful than it is right now--and they won''t stop until they''ve refashioned America in their own image.In Wild Faith: The Christian Right, Theocracy, and the Battle for America, author Talia Lavin goes deep into the beliefs that motivate the Christian right, from its segregationist past to a future riddled with apocalyptic visions. Along the way, she explores what motivates anti-abortion terrorists; the Christian Patriarchy movement, with its desire to place all women under absolute male control; the twisted theology that leads to rampant child abuse; and the ways conspiracy theorists and extremist Christians influence each other to mutual benefit. Readers will meet "deliverance ministers" who carry out exorcisms by the hundred; modern-day, self-proclaimed prophets ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONMinsk, Lavinia Greenlaw''s third collection, was shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection. From London Zoo to an Essex village and the Arctic Circle, Greenlaw explores questions of place - the childhood landscapes we leave behind, those we travel towards, and those like ''Minsk'' which we believe to be missing from our lives. Greenlaw''s restless, inquisitive tone builds to make Minsk a hypnotic collection from one of the leading poets of her generation.

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