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Island of the aunts
As they get older, several sisters decide that they must kidnap children and bring them to their secluded island home to help with the work of caring for an assortment of unusual sea creatures.
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Review: Comment: When love flourished in M for medical textbooks: Two weeks ago, Rachel Cooke sparked a nationwide debate by standing up for libraries under threat of closure by penny-pinching bureaucrats. Now, we publish a personal account of how libraries have the power to change lives for the better
We came to London in 1934, a bedraggled party consisting of my fey, poetic mother, my irascible grandmother and confused aunt, and rented rooms in a dilapidated house in Belsize Park which, in those days, was a seedy, run-down part of the city. The house was full of suddenly impoverished refugees facing exile. On every floor were lonely and muddled professors, doctors and lawyers, mostly from German-speaking countries. I had no friends, no school yet, nowhere to play. Dr [Herr Doktor Heller] came very early in the morning and did not leave until the library closed. He came with a pile of medical books - The Diseases of the Knee , The Malfunctions of the Lymphatic system .The books were in English because this eminent specialist, who had been head of the department of obstetrics in Berlin's most famous maternity hospital, was not allowed to practise medicine in Great Britain without resitting every one of his medical exams in English. The morning after my daughter's birth, there was a certain stirring in the ward, an air of expectation. The nurses stood up straighter, checked the bedclothes, patted the patients into tidiness. Matron rose from the chair behind her desk. And the procession entered. It was the specialist, the Great Man himself, come to do his morning round. No one will believe me when I describe what went on in those days when the specialist came into the ward. Spotless in his white coat, he was flanked by his registrar, his houseman and at least two students eager for his every word.
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Monster mission
As they get older, three sisters decide that they must kidnap children and bring them to their secluded island home to help with the work of caring for an assortment of unusual sea creatures.
Spirit of place
Advice to writers on how to approach atmosphere and locale in a novel is offered. Places give stories uniqueness and resonance.
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Journey to the river sea
In 1910, orphaned Maia, sent with her governess to live with eccentric relatives in Manaus, Brazil, endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River.
The secret of platform 13
Odge Gribble, a young hag, joins an old wizard, a gentle fey, and a giant ogre on a journey from their magical kingdom to London to rescue the young prince who was stolen as an infant nine years before.
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Journey to the river sea
Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River.
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THEATRE STREET
Her name was Madame Lavarre. Trained at La Scala. she had danced in all the capitals of Europe, taught with her famous countryman. Cecchetti. in Russia.
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