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  Mary Butts - Six of the Best -...

  Mary Butts

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 
   
  1 - Six of the Best - Mary Butts - An Introduction 
  2 - Mary Butts - An Introduction 
  3 - With & Without Buttons by Mary Butts 
  4 - The Dinner Party by Mary Butts 
  5 - Angele Au Couvent by Mary Butts 
  6 - Brightness Falls by Mary Butts 
  7 - After the Funeral by Mary Butts 
  8 - In Bayswater - Part 1 by Mary Butts 
  9 - In Bayswater - Part 2 by Mary Butts

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  Summary of Kayleigh McEnany’s...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Kayleigh McEnany’s For Such a Time as This 
    
  If someone had told Kayleigh McEnany when she was in college that Donald Trump someday would ask her to become the White House press secretary, as a pandemic ravaged the world, she wouldn’t have believed it. 
  In For Such a Time as This (2021), McEnany traces her remarkable path from college into the media and politics. As she chronicles her time in the White House, she highlights the profound impact that Trump has had on her. She also stresses the importance of her faith as a Christian conservative, which guided her through all her experiences.

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  Autoportrait

  Jesse Ball

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  Jesse Ball has produced fourteen acclaimed works of deeply empathetic absurdism in poetry and fiction. Now, he offers listeners his first memoir, one that showcases his "humane curiosity" (James Wood) and invites the listener into a raw and personal account of love, grief, and memory. Inspired by the memoir Édouard Levé put to paper shortly before his death, Autoportrait is an extraordinarily frank and intimate work from one of America's most brilliant young authors. 
   
   
   
  The subtle power of Ball's voice conjures the richness of everyday life. In each chapter, half-remembered moments are woven together with the joys and triumphs—and the mistakes and humiliations, too—that somehow tell us who we are, why we are here. Held at the same height as tragic accounts of illness or death are moments of startling beauty, banality, or humor: "I wake in the morning, I sit, I walk long distances. If there is somewhere to swim, I may swim. If I have a bicycle, I will ride it, especially to meet someone. There is no more preparing for me to do, other than preparing for death, and I do that by laughing. Not laughing at death, of course. Laughing at myself." 
   
    
   
  An extraordinary memoir that reminds us what is possible, Autoportrait will leave you feeling utterly invigorated, inspired, and a little afraid.

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  William at 40 - The Making of a...

  Robert Jobson

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  ‘A landmark new book’ Daily MailPrince William, Duke of Cambridge, is destined one day to be king. Determined to serve his country as his grandmother, the Queen has so selflessly done for seven decades, William is the epitome of a loving husband to Catherine, and a devoted father to their three children: George, Charlotte and Louis. 
  In public, William appears calm, balanced and determined. He is passionate about safeguarding the environment and helping to protect species under threat of extinction. The Duke and his wife have also worked tirelessly to remove the stigma that continues to mark mental health problems. 
  In private, however, those close to him say that William, while being a dedicated servant of the Crown can defy his calm, family-guy public demeanour. 
  This is the definitive account – insightful and nuanced – of the life of the Duke of Cambridge as he approaches his milestone birthday. Jobson explores the complex character of the man who will one day reign as King William V. It is the story of the making of a king for our times. 
  THE STORY OF THE MAKING OF A MONARCH FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.

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  Mothercare - On Obligation Love...

  Lynne Tillman

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  Brilliantly original novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman became one of nearly 53 million Americans who care for a sick family member when her mother developed an unusual and little understood condition called Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. 
   
   
   
  Instantly, Tillman's independent and spirited mother went from someone she knew to someone else, a woman entirely dependent on her children—an eleven-year process through which her mother underwent many surgeries and some misdiagnoses, while the family navigated consultations and confrontations with doctors, adjusting to the complexity of her cognitive issues, including memory loss. 
   
   
   
  With her notoriously exquisite writing style and reputation as a "rich noticer of strange things" (Colm Toíbín), Tillman describes, without flinching, the unexpected, heartbreaking, and frustrating years of caring for a sick parent. 
   
   
   
  Mothercare is both a cautionary tale and sympathetic guidance for anyone who suddenly becomes a caregiver, responsible for the life of another—a parent, loved or not, or a friend. This story may be helpful, informative, consoling, or upsetting, but it never fails to underscore how impossible it is to get the job done completely right.

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  Abbey Girls - An Irish Boarding...

  Mary Behan, Valerie Behan

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  Abbey Girls: two sisters give a hilarious and poignant account of boarding school life in Ireland of the 1950s and 1960s. 
  Between the ages of 11 and 17, Mary and Valerie Behan attended a boarding school for Catholic girls in Dublin, Ireland called Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham. Founded in 1841, "The Abbey" served as the Mother House for the Loreto Order of nuns, who established convents throughout the world to provide education to thousands of young girls. Now in their sixties, Mary and Valerie began a correspondence about their years at the Abbey. Although they shared many of the same experiences, to their astonishment and delight, they found that their memories of boarding school were substantially different. Abbey Girls recounts Mary and Valerie's school days in a series of letters that describe a unique, cloistered world governed by religion and tradition.

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