The Shroud Maker

Author: Kate Ellis
Publisher: Piatkus
ISBN: 1405515090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The Times A year on from the mysterious disappearance of Jenny Bercival, DI Wesley Peterson is called in when the body of a strangled woman is found floating out to sea in South Devon. The discovery mars the festivities of the Palkin Festival, held each year to celebrate the life of John Palkin, a fourteenth-century Mayor of Tradmouth who made his fortune from trade and piracy. It seems like death and mystery have returned to haunt the town. When archaeologist Neil Watson makes a grim discovery on the site of Palkin's warehouse, it looks as if history might have inspired a killer. It is only by delving into the past that Wesley can come close to uncovering the truth . . . Whether you've read the whole series, or are discovering Kate Ellis's DI Wesley Peterson novels for the first time, this is the perfect page-turner if you love reading Elly Griffiths and Ann Cleeves. PRAISE FOR KATE ELLIS: 'I loved this novel . . . a powerful story of loss, malice and deception' Ann Cleeves 'Haunting' Independent 'Unputdownable' Bookseller 'The chilling plot will keep you spooked and thrilled to the end' Closer 'A gripping read' Best 'A fine storyteller, weaving the past and present in a way that makes you want to read on' Peterborough Evening Telegraph

The Shroud Maker

Author: Ahmed Masoud
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786825309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 46

Book Description
Hajja Souad, an 80-year old Palestinian woman living on the besieged Gaza Strip, knows about business. She has survived decades of wars and oppression through making shrouds for the dead. A compelling black comedy that delves deep into the intimate life of ordinary Palestinians, the play weaves a highly distinctive path through Palestine's turbulent past and present. The Shroud Maker toured the UK as a one-woman comedy, with one female actress playing all the roles, in the tradition of a Palestinian story-teller. The Shroud Maker was part of @70: Celebration of Contemporary Palestinian Culture, a week-long festival of theatre, dance, films and talks commemorating the Palestinian experience of dispossession and loss of a homeland. It weaves comic fantasy and satire with true stories told first hand to the writer, and offers a vivid portrait of Palestinian life in Gaza underscored with gallows humour.

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 826

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Five Hundred Employments Adapted to Women

Author: Virginia Penny
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sexual division of labor
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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"The object of this work is to show women where the productive fields of labor are, and to enable every one to find the kind of employment best adapted to her tastes. It embraces the results of over three years' constant labor in perfecting its details. -- Miss Penny."--Title page.

Comic Songs

Author: Thomas Hudson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Songs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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Comic songs. Collection the first (-thirteenth).

Author: Thomas Hudson (grocer.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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The Sixth Station

Author: Katherine Carlman
Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN: 9780874401684
Category : Christian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Rumi's Little Book of Love and Laughter

Author: Coleman Barks
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN: 1571747613
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Rowdy, ecstatic, and sometimes stern, these teaching stories and fables reveal new and very human properties in Rumi's vision. Included here are the notorious "Latin parts" that Reynold Nicholson felt were too unseemly to appear in English in his 1920s translation. For Rumi, anything that human beings do#8212however compulsive#8212affords a glimpse into the inner life. Here are more than 40 fables or teaching stories that deal with love, laughter, death, betrayal, and the soul. The stories are exuberant, earthy, and bursting with vitality#8212much like a painting by Hieronymus Bosch or Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The characters are guilty, lecherous, tricky, ribald, and finally possessors of opened souls. Barks writes: "These teaching stories are a kind of scrimshaw#8212intricately carved, busy figures, confused and threatening, and weirdly funny. This is an entertaining collection from one of the greatest spiritual poets of all time, rendered by his most popular translator. "The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."#8212Rumi

Notes and Queries

Author: William Henry Egle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Walking to Jerusalem

Author: Justin Butcher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643132741
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
On the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, which was also the fiftieth anniversary of the since the Six-day War and the tenth anniversary of the Blockade of Gaza, Justin Butcher—along with ten other companions (and another hundred joining him at points along the way)—walked from London to Jerusalem as an act of solidarity, penance, and hope. Weaving in history of the Holy Land as he moves across Europe, from Balfour and Christian Zionism, to colonialism and Jerusalem Syndrome, from desert spirituality to the lives of his fellow travelers, Walking to Jerusalem is a chronicle of serendipity, the hilarious, the infuriating, and, occasionally, an encounter with the Divine.