Coley Talking: Realities of life in old Reading Ghislaine LeungNineteenth and early twentieth century Reading prospered from the canal, the railway, brewing and biscuit making, but massive population growth in the middle years of the nineteenth century brought with it many problems. Coley Talking lifts the lid on a dark aspect of Readings, and Englands, history. Memories, photographs, maps and archives, tell the story of how life was lived in one of its poorest communities. All the symptoms of extreme poverty
the second in the Children of the Ghetto trilogy
Robert Nye
The story reveals the raw complexity of gender dynamics in a society still hobbled by the demands forced on its people through war and ideology and rapid modernization
the third instalment of McCabe's journey through London's Magnificent Seven
The story speaks fiercely to the contemporary moment and for all who share a sense of loneliness through having found themselves isolated by politics
Su Tong offers a glimpse behind the curtain into the workings of a keen mind that helped shape the literary and popular culture of modern China
This substantial volume is a tribute to the maturing voice of an essential poet
temptations and tears
Valerio Magrelli
There are the authors enjoying moments of adulation after years of creative isolation and the star-struck public allowed to mingle with their cultural icons
Our response to the sufferings of others and to the ongoing destruction of the natural world is limited by the consuming demands of our everyday lives (‘Metsu’s Women’)
Henry has always been a serious
