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  It's Too Late Now - The...

  A. A. Milne

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  With characteristic self-deprecating humour, A.A. Milne recalls the formative events of his life: from a blissfully happy childhood to the writing of Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin. 
   
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  In his classic memoirs A. A. Milne, with his characteristic self-deprecating humour, recalls a blissfully happy childhood in the company of his brothers, and writes with touching affection about his father whom he adored. 
   
  From Westminster School he won a scholarship to Cambridge University where he edited the university magazine, Granta. He then went out into the world, determined to be a writer. He was assistant editor at Punch Magazine and enjoyed great success with his novels, plays and stories. And of course he is best remembered for his children's novels and verses featuring Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin. 
   
  This is both an account of how a writer was formed and a charming period piece on literary life – Milne met countless famous authors including H. G. Wells, J. M Barrie of Peter Pan fame and Rudyard Kipling. 
   
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  * Praise for It’s Too Late Now * 
   
  ‘A funny book, beautifully written’ NEIL GAIMAN 
   
  ‘A fascinating and insightful read into one of the greatest authors’ INDEPENDENT 
   
  ‘Warm and candid’ NEW YORK TIMES

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  The Liminal Space

  Carrie Voigt Schonhoff

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  In her first book of poems, Carrie Voigt Schonhoff captures the spirit of her native Wisconsin not only through poignant descriptions of landscape, but in how she reveals the emotional interiors of people and places. This work will resonate deeply with readers who have grown up in Wisconsin and give an insight of what it means to live, survive, prosper, and be a woman of the Midwest. Her characters are drawn from life, and her subjects, not only the experiences that change our lives suddenly, but also those that shape us over long periods and come to define memory.

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  The Great Skene Mystery

  Bernard Capes

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  "The Great Skene Mystery" by Bernard Capes is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows Richard Gaskett, whose life is entangled in themes of identity, familial relationships, and social class as he navigates his inheritance and connections to the distinguished Skene family. The narrative introduces a sense of mystery and intrigue, particularly regarding the secrets of Richard's origins and his complicated relationship with Lady Skene, who does not acknowledge him as her son. 
  At the beginning of the story, Richard reflects on his upbringing in a family marked by disdain and emotional coldness. He struggles with the contempt of Lady Skene, his mother, who raised him with emotional detachment, and he has complicated feelings towards his stepfather. Simultaneously, Richard becomes involved in the world of Clapham, where a mix of past decisions, present ambitions, and complex relationships begins to unfold. This is highlighted by his manipulative encounters with characters such as Mother Carey and Miss Christmas, as well as his ambitions and questionable intentions regarding the legacy of the Skene name. 
  The opening sets a dark tone, filled with tension and hints of unfolding drama and conflict, engaging readers with its rich characterizations and psychological depth.

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  Two Boys' Amazing Inspiring...

  William Andrew Maximus Wallace

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  In this book, readers will not only learn the "secrets" of serenity, contentment, healthy values, mission-focused aspirations, and healthy living, but they will also be empowered to learn the formula that these two boys used repeatedly to achieve success in all their endeavors through joyful determination, undefeatable motivation, and inspiration to better themselves."Two Boys' Amazing, Inspiring Journey" is a warm and touching novel that encourages zenith morals, ethics, family values, and working toward one's goals and endeavors with courage, resolve, good judgment, confidence, and undefeatable determination to be the best one can be in life to positively influence and motivate all those around them to live and act responsibly and to strive to be a harmonious team player in order to achieve spellbinding, amazing, extraordinary, exceptional, unhindered, and cooperative accomplishments in life that one could never fathom achieving by themself or alone and could never imagine possible.

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  The Irish Goodbye - Micro-Memoirs

  Beth Ann Fennelly

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  A new, genre–defying volume that explores family, marriage, motherhood, place, and coming of age with singular wit and emotional clarity. 
   
  What can we learn from an ordinary life observed with extraordinary skill? In The Irish Goodbye, Beth Ann Fennelly writes of the small moments that shape a life, whether moving or perplexing or troubling or gladdening, in the process dignifying the diminutive through the act of attention. Fennelly explores her roles as a friend, wife, mother, and daughter, documenting a brush with an old flame or the devastating death of her sister in crystalline, precise sentences. 
   
  The longer essays concern Fennelly’s relationships―with a beloved mother-in-law, a decades-long friendship between five former college roommates, an artist who paints a series of nude portraits in Fennelly’s town, for which she poses. Interspersed between these longer memoirs are sections of flash nonfiction, a form Fennelly innovated in the genre-defying Heating & Cooling. With dazzling verve and wit, they capture the interstitial interactions―encounters with strangers, quirky observations, unexpected flights of fancy―that make up a richly lived life. 
   
  The Irish Goodbye offers a rare pleasure: intimacy. With emotional clarity and nimble prose, Fennelly invites readers to share her affirming worldview―one in which even our smallest interactions are rife with possibility.

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  Coloured - How Classification...

  Tessa Dooms, Lynsey Ebony Chutel

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  'This is a book for Coloured people, by Coloured people, a book of Coloured and colourful stories from varied corners of the South African vista, past, present and future.'
  What does it mean to be Coloured? Who are Coloured people? Are they San or Khoe, Malay or mixed, and where in South Africa do they fit in? And then the enduring, but also insulting, question:
  do Coloured people even have a culture?
  In this book, Tessa Dooms and Lynsey Ebony Chutel challenge the notion that Coloured people do not have a distinct heritage or culture – that they are neither Black nor White enough – and present a different angle to that narrative. They delve into the history of Coloured people as descendants of indigenous Africans and as a people whose identity has been shaped by colonisation and slavery, and unpack the racial and political hierarchies these forces created.
  Although this book examines a difficult history, it is also about the culture that Coloured communities have created for themselves through food, music and shared lived experiences. This culture is an act of defiance and resilience.
  Coloured is a reflection on, and celebration of, Coloured identities as lived experiences. It is a call to Coloured communities to reclaim their identity – and an invitation to understand the history of Coloured people and their place in the making of South Africa's future.

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