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The Earth writes its own story in the landscape. A novelist sets out on a journey to piece it together.
There are dinosaurs here, there, everywhere!It isn't every day that you find dinosaurs hiding all over your house.Can you find them and see what they are doing?Come and join us on an adventure and see what you discover.With dinosaurs, familiar objects, recognisable environments and simple rhymes, this picture book is perfect for toddlers and dinosaur-obsessed little ones.
For fans of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides, Landfall is a clear-eyed, witty and warm debut novel by former Granta editor Helen Gordon, that marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.Alice Robinson, art critic for a magazine so fashionable it's just gone out of business, finds herself agreeing to housesit for her parents. Moving back home to a suburbia she thought long behind her, she finds herself reconnecting with a different landscape, a fraught and painful past.For everywhere Alice turns she finds traces of her sister, who went missing as a teenager. Can she stop her old life intruding on the present? Should she even try? What does Alice's new future look like?'An intriguing novel . . . a hipster version of Margaret Atwood's Surfacing' Metro'A memorable novel. I loved the pace and verve of Alice's voyage from Shoreditch to suburbia, and the unexpectedness of the story as it swerves past the familiar into a dangerous and beautiful unknown' Helen Dunmore'Compulsively readable' Independent on Sunday'Fine writing . . . wrapped in an arresting evocation of timelessness' Guardian'Brooding and haunting' Tatler'Uplifting, witty, wonderfully unsettling' Psychologies'Beautifully descriptive, with a cliff-hanger finale' Easy LivingHelen Gordon was born in 1979 and grew up in Croydon. She currently lives in east London and is a former associate editor of Granta magazine. Landfall is her first novel.
This is a fascinating travel journey through the Sahara that began in 1912, by one of the most well- traveled women of the early twentieth century. Gordon paints the picture of the Sahara and its inhabitants through the eyes of a woman.
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