In the Castle of My Skin

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241296080
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin' Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief crab catching, teasing preachers and playing among the pumpkin vines. His sleepy fishing village in 1930s Barbados is overseen by the English landlord who lives on the hill, just as their 'Little England' is watched over by the Mother Country. Yet gradually, G. finds himself awakening to the violence and injustice that lurk beneath the apparent order of things. As the world he knows begins to crumble, revealing the bruising secret at its heart, he is spurred ever closer to a life-changing decision. Lyrical and unsettling, George Lamming's autobiographical coming-of-age novel is a story of tragic innocence amid the collapse of colonial rule. 'Rich and riotous' The Times 'Its poetic imaginative writing has never been surpassed' Tribune

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Author: Shirley Jackson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822212263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86

Book Description
THE STORY: The home of the Blackwoods near a Vermont village is a lonely, ominous abode, and Constance, the young mistress of the place, can't go out of the house without being insulted and stoned by the villagers. They have also composed a nasty s

Natives of My Person

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064670
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
This allegorical novel tells the story of a journey of a slave ship toward San Christobal during the early colonial period.

The Emigrants

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
A compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people

The Pleasures of Exile

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
An examination of the effects of colonialism on those who are held in check

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Author: Shirley Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castles
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

Castle of Lies

Author: Kiersi Burkhart
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ®
ISBN: 1541546814
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Thelia isn't in line to inherit the crown, but she's been raised to take power however she can. She's been friends with Princess Corene her whole life, and she's scheming to marry Bayled, the heir to the throne. But her plans must change when an army of elves invades the kingdom. Thelia, her cousin Parsifal, and Corene become trapped in the castle. An elf warrior, Sapphire, may be Thelia's only hope of escape, but Sapphire has plans of their own. Meanwhile, an ancient magic is awakening within the castle, with the power to destroy the whole kingdom. Can Thelia find a way to protect her future—and her life?

I Capture the Castle

Author: Dodie Smith
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466842121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
One of the 20th century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts, Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle! “This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.” -- J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series Adapted to a feature film in 2003, I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has "captured the castle"-- and the heart of the reader-- in one of literature's most enchanting entertainments.

Season of Adventure

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472066551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Caribbean novelist George Lamming's classic novel of magic, politics, and cultural identity

Tuesdays at the Castle

Author: Jessica Day George
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408831988
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
A magical castle with a life of its own ... and a plucky princess who will defend it at all cost