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Bright young things
'Bright Young Things wanted for Big Project.' They're in the prime of their lives but our bright young things are all burnt out. Six sparky twenty-somethings just out of university and working dead-end jobs, they are all bored to tears with their lives and looking for a way out. When a mysterious job is advertised in the newspaper, they all apply. What they least expect is to find themselves prisoners on a deserted island. There's food in the fridge and they have a bedroom each, but there's no telephone, no television, and no way to escape.
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Joyce, Galway and the Spanish Armada
James Joyce visited Galway and the Aran Islands in 1912 and took advantage of the occasion to write two articles in Italian that he published in Il Piccolo della Sera in 1912. I analyse the vision that Joyce conveyed of the Spanish Armada both in these articles and later in Ulysses (1922) and in Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce’s knowledge of the 1588-Armada episode and of the shipwrecks of several Spanish vessels in the vicinity of Galway are the result of both the propagandistic narration usually provided by pro-British historiography and by his presumed readings on the history of the city and the nearby Aran Islands. In such writings, Joyce may have intended, on the one hand, to reflect his tacit acceptance of the imperialism exercised by post-Victorian Britain over Ireland, fully convinced that the decline of the Spanish Empire had begun with the Armada’s defeat against Elizabethan England in 1588. He believed this event gave rise to the birth of the British Empire. On the other hand, Joyce reflects in them his only moderate Irish pride for the supposed humanitarian actions of the population of Galway (the birthplace of Nora), a city he described both as “Spanish” and as sympathetic towards the Armada castaways in Ireland. Joyce’s employment of the Irish chapter of the Gran Armada’s historical episode contributes with a relevant insight about his perception of British imperialism in Ireland.
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The stars my destination
Gully Foyle, Mechanic's Mate 3rd Class, is the only survivor on his drifting, wrecked spaceship. When another space vessel, the Vorga, ignores his distress flares and sails by, Foyle becomes a man obsessed with revenge. He endures 170 days alone in deep space before finding refuge on the Sargasso Asteroid and then returning to Earth to track down the crew and owners of the Vorga. But, as he works out his murderous grudge, Foyle also uncovers a secret of momentous proportions.
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Children of the whales
In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past. Chakuro is the archivist for the Mud Whale, diligently chronicling the lives and deaths of his people. But the steady pace of their isolated existence on the Mud Whale is abruptly shattered when a scouting party discovers a mysterious young girl who seems to know more about their home than they do -- Back cover.
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A Map for Wrecked Girls by Jessica Taylor (review)
The combination of relationship drama with a survival story may be well-worn territory, but that’s because it works, forcing characters to either rebuild lost trust or face impossible choices.The back-and-forth storytelling, alternating between present time on the island and the circumstances leading up to their estrangement, produces two lines of narrative tension: will they all survive despite Henri’s efforts at sabotage, and what wrecked the sisters’ relationship so badly that she would put their lives at risk in the first place? A resolution both wise and humane provides the map promised in the title.
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Terrific
Nothing seems to go right for Eugene, even when he wins a free trip to Bermuda, but while he is stranded on a tiny, deserted island after being shipwrecked, a broken-winged parrot tells him how to build a boat so that they can both be rescued.
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The Swiss Family Robinson
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Don't you sometimes feel that this is the kind of life we were meant to live on this earth? Everything we need, everything, right here, right at our fingertips. '' Don't you sometimes feel that this is the kind of life we were meant to live on this earth? Everything we need, everything, right here, right at our fingertips. 'Said to be inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Wyss' tale of a family stranded at sea and washed up on a tropical island has become a much-loved classic. As the Swiss pastor, his wife and four sons struggle to create a life for themselves on the island, they soon learn to use their own ingenuity and rely upon the natural resources supplied by the nature that surrounds them. Daily challenges and struggles test the family, but each member discovers how to harness their own unique skills and qualities to overcome any obstacle. Said to be inspired by Daniel Defoe' s Robinson Crusoe, Wyss' tale of a family stranded at sea and washed up on a tropical island has become a much-loved classic. As the Swiss pastor, his wife and four sons struggle to create a life for themselves on the island, they soon learn to use their own ingenuity and rely upon the natural resources supplied by the nature that surrounds them. Daily challenges and struggles test the family, but each member discovers how to harness their own unique skills and qualities to overcome any obstacle.
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Children of the whales
In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past. Chakuro is the archivist for the Mud Whale, diligently chronicling the lives and deaths of his people. But the steady pace of their isolated existence on the Mud Whale is abruptly shattered when a scouting party discovers a mysterious young girl who seems to know more about their home than they do -- Back cover.
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