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  Hamish Henderson Volume 2 - A...

  Timothy Neat

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  The second volume of the comprehensive biography of the renowned twentieth-century Scottish poet and translator. A songwriter, poet, and pioneer in the field of folksong, Hamish Henderson was a towering figure in twentieth-century Scottish literature. He also translated poetry—from Gaelic, French, German, Latin, and Greek—much of it into Scots. His life spanned most of the twentieth century, including serving in North Africa and Italy with the 51st Highland Division during World War II. This book continues Timothy Neat’s major study of this charismatic and fascinating man, presenting both a detailed biography and an assessment of his place in the context of the twentieth century. It is based on firsthand interviews with those who knew Henderson both personally and professionally, as well as detailed research of published and unpublished sources.

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  The Witch of Eye

  Kathryn Nuernberger

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  This amazingly wise and nimble collection investigates the horrors inflicted on so-called “witches” of the past. The Witch of Eye unearths salves, potions, and spells meant to heal, yet interpreted by inquisitors as evidence of evil. The author describes torture and forced confessions alongside accounts of gentleness of legendary midwives. In one essay about a trial, we learn through folklore that Jesus’s mother was a midwife who cured her own son’s rheumatism. In other essays there are subtle parallels to contemporary discourse around abortion and environmental destruction. Nuernberger weaves in her own experiences, too. There’s an ironic look at her own wedding, an uncomfortable visit to the Prague Museum of Torture, and an afternoon spent tearing out a garden in a mercurial fit. Her researched material is eye-opening and lively. An absolutely thrilling collection.

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  Story Story! Story Come! - 12...

  Maimouna Jallow, Zukiswa Wanner

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  Journey from Mali to Gambia to Ghana, where you will pause and remember at the Door of No Return. Continue to Nigeria through Niger. When you can't take the heat, quench your thirst in the Nile in South Sudan. This will lead you through Kenya and onward past Africa's biggest mountain on your way to being sprayed by the waters of Mosi oa Tunya in Zambia. Finally, rest in South Africa, for we have come to the end of our journey and the end of our story. Through riddles and songs, myths and legends, both children and adults are invited to delve into parallel worlds where they are taught valuable lessons on friendship, hard work, bravery and much more.

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  Enemy Coast Ahead - The...

  Guy Gibson

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  A definitive new edition of a classic, World War II memoir, complete with more than 100 photographs, and notes from leading historians.   Guy Gibson was the leader of the famous Dambusters raid, and Enemy Coast Ahead is a vivid, honest account, widely regarded as one of the best books on the Second World War. It also provides an insider’s perspective, setting down in clear detail the challenges that the RAF faced in the war against Germany’s Luftwaffe.   Tragically, Gibson died in September 1944, when his Mosquito crashed near Steenbergen in the Netherlands. He was aged just 26. This new book has been published to mark the 75th anniversary of his death and includes an introduction by James Holland, a historian and broadcaster. It includes notes by Dr Robert Owen, the Official Historian of the No. 617 Squadron Association, and many images that have never before been published.  Published in association with the RAF Museum  Inspired the 1955 film The Dam Busters, starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave

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  Jimmy Carter: We Can Have Peace...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Former President Jimmy Carter discusses his new book on the Middle East peace process, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan that Will Work, with Margaret Warner.

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  Pure Wit - The Revolutionary...

  Francesca Peacock

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  A biography of the remarkable, and in her time scandalous, seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.'My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world' - Margaret CavendishMargaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to an aristocratic family. In 1644, as England descended into civil war, she joined the court of the formidable Queen Henrietta Maria at Oxford. With the rest of the court she went into self-imposed exile in France. Her family's wealth and lands were forfeited by Parliament. It was in France that she met her much older partner, William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a marriage that would remain at the heart of both her life and career.Cavendish was a passionate writer. She wrote extensively on gender, science, philosophy, and published under her own name at a time when women simply did not do so. Her greatest work was The Blazing World, published in 1666, a utopian proto-novel that is thought to be one of the earliest works of science fiction. Yet hers is a legacy that divides opinion. And history has largely forgotten her, an undeserved fate for a brilliant, courageous proto-feminist.In Pure Wit, Francesca Peacock shines a spotlight on the fascinating, pioneering, yet often complex and controversial life of Margaret Cavendish.

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