Bøker av Charlotte Moore

"The perfect desert island book." Adam Nicolson"Reading a poem gives us a glimpse of past and future possibilities, other worlds and other lives. It makes a gift of unfamiliar words, and refreshes parts of the mind that other art forms cannot reach..."Charlotte Moore, a writer and former English teacher, has loved poetry all her life. Keen to be able to read and talk about poems with others, she set up a weekly poetry club for anyone interested to join her round her fireplace.This book brings together a selection of the Tuesday Afternoon Poetry Club's favourite poems, some well-known, some less so. The poems are grouped into themes - from home and lovers, to war and the planets - each framed with a little context from Charlotte and delightful insights from members of the group.The Magic Hour offers a source of lifelong pleasure and nourishment, with words to delight and console, while reminding us of moments of personal significance. It demonstrates how we can all benefit from a dose of poetry in our daily lives.

If you're not a black person, ask yourself, "How many black people do I really know?"In America, less than 15 percent of the population is black. You could go your whole day not ever personally interacting with people who identify as African American.This book, Benevolence In Black, offers a jumping-off point to get to know a select set of extraordinary black people-who they are, how they feel living in their skin, and the many ways some spend their days making worthy contributions to their communities.In Austin, Texas-where the people in this book live-around 8 percent of people identify as black. That's not very many people! In these pages, you'll find full-page, full-color images of some of the most benevolent of those human beings, and you'll read how they, themselves, describe what it's like to exist in the world in their black bodies.If you find you could go an entire day never personally interacting with a black person, this book is particularly for you. It's also for anyone who already appreciates the unique experience of living as a black person. Benevolence In Black is a heartfelt celebration of black people, the lives they live, and the contributions they make to our society.This book supports the Black Bodies Project.A portion of the proceeds of this book will support the Black Bodies Project, an Austin-based 501(c)(3) organization which uses multimedia-films, short videos, photography, written stories, and more-to educate the public about how systems of racism negatively impact our society.

Meet Heather the honeybee in this beautifully illustrated storybook. Unlike other book's this storybook has a twist! It has a story, bee facts and colouring pages throughout.

Charlotte Moore has three children: the two oldest, George and Sam, are autistic; the youngest Jake is not. In this extraordinary book, which combines personal memoir with the most recent known information on this most fascinating and elusive of conditions, she describes the circumstances of their birth, behaviour, diagnosis, treatment - and brilliantly conveys what daily life is like for a family with autism. It's an invaluable book for anyone with an interest in childhood and child development.

Hancox is the Tudor hall house in rural Sussex where Charlotte Moore grew up, and where she lives today. It's a time warp where little has changed since her family took it on in 1888. They were a diverse family of doctors and soldiers, liberal politicians and educational pioneers. What they all had in common though was a habit of writing everything down and never throwing anything away. Every cupboard and every drawer is crammed with relics of family history - letters, diaries, sketchbooks, photograph albums, even old shopping lists and chequebook stubs - which together constitute a huge archive of Victorian and Edwardian family life containing fascinating stories of love and jealousy, heroism and defeat, riches and poverty as well as snapshots of the wider world beyond of Hastings, London and the empire.Told with a novelist's vigour, Hancox offers a richly detailed portrait of a vanished way of life: an English country house at the turn of the twentieth century, just before the tragedy of the First World War, with its presiding family, its servants, its farm and its local village.

Her father murdered her mother and sent her away to live as a virtual prisoner with a distant relative. Not only did she bring peace and stability to a suffering people, she turned England from an insignificant little island into the most glorious and powerful country in Europe.