![]() ![]() I actually picked this book only having skimmed through the description, with its main attraction for me being that it is by a Tunisian author and incorporates some of its culture. The book celebrates Tunisia’s rich oral culture, using wry, fatalistic humour. ![]() ![]() The story explores what happens in a country shaken by a revolution, once the world stops watching. But along the way, he passes through a country struggling with its new reality after the Arab Spring. Finding that a swarm of mysterious hornets is responsible, he sets out to find where they came from. One morning he wakes up to find his hives attacked and all their inhabitants destroyed, leaving him brokenhearted. The Ardent Swarm tells of Sidi, who lives a hermetic life, on the outskirts of a desolate north African village, and is a ‘bee whisperer’. He has written several novels of which The Ardent Swarm or L’Amas ardent was the first to be translated into English. Manai is a Tunisian born author who currently lives in Paris and explores interactions between past and present and tradition and technology in his writings. Today’s pick is The Ardent Swarm (2017) by Tunisian author Yamen Manai and translated by Lara Vergnaud. I tried not to be greedy but did end up picking up three of the books offered which stood out to me for different reasons. Today’s post is about a relatively recent entrant on my shelves, acquired from the offerings on World Book Day earlier this year. ![]()
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![]() Miss Juul is the voice of the novel, a diminutive Danish woman who enters into employment with the Caetani family in Italy before the birth of Sveva, stays with them through twenty-five years of seclusion at their home in Vernon, and past the death of Ofelia. Based on the true story of the Caetanis, Italian nobility driven out of their home by the rise in fascism who chose exile in Vernon, BC, Rosnau brings to life Ofelia Caetani, her daughter Sveva Caetani and their personal secretary, Miss Juul. ![]() ![]() In this captivating and intricate novel Laisha Rosnau introduces us to three women, each of whom is storied enough to have their own novel and who, together, make for an unforgettable tale. ![]() ![]() Afterwards, she seemed quite distressed and, apparently, made a new will-which no one can find. On the day she was killed, Emily Inglethorp was overheard arguing with someone, most likely her husband, Alfred, or her stepson, John. Mary-from the heiress's fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital dispensary. ![]() Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorpe, and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. With impeccable timing, Hercule Poirot, the insightful retired detective, makes his dramatic entrance to solve a most baffling case. ![]() When Emily's sudden heart attack is found to be attributable to strychnine, Hastings, who had runs into his old friend, the Belgian Hercule Poirot, he recruits him to aid in the local investigation. Late one night, the residents of Styles wake to find Emily Inglethorp dying. ![]() Emily's two stepsons, John and Lawrence Cavendish, as well as John's wife Mary and several other people, also live at Styles. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed old aunt Emily, she of a sizeable fortune, to a suspicious younger man, Alfred Inglethorp, twenty years her junior. Set in the summer of 1917 in an Essex country estate, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to the Styles St. ![]() ![]() If you have not received your delivery following the estimated timeframe, we advise you to contact your local post office first, as the parcel may be there awaiting your collection.Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() She entered into a highly eroticized relationship with a young theologian known as Padre Peters-urging him to dispense upon her, in the privacy and sanctity of the confessional box, what the two of them referred to as the "special blessing." Having convinced those under her charge that she was having regular visions and heavenly visitations, Maria Luisa began to lead and coerce her novices into lesbian initiation rites and heresies. ![]() What the subsequent investigation by the Church's Inquisition uncovered were the extraordinary secrets of Sant'Ambrogio and the illicit behavior of the convent's beautiful young mistress, Maria Luisa. In 1858, a German princess who had been recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and that she feared for her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() The shape and color of the bottle, which has a neck injected with violet crystal, created a technical difficulty for the Lalique artisans in the factory in Alsace, ensuring that the crystal be evenly distributed to offer a transparency that would magnify the amber-coloured whisky inside. Realizing the artist’s vision for Eight Decades required an immense amount of design work, from drawings to mold manufacturing, hot glass trials and prototypes. ![]() Following the launch of two perfume bottles and beautiful light panels, this is the third time James Turrell has collaborated with Lalique, creating a perfect triptych it is the first time that he has created pieces of art on a small scale, as his works are usually large-scale, immersive, temporary or in situ. The Eight Decades decanter is an ultra-limited-edition – just eighty worldwide – created as a celebration of the artist’s eightieth year and a poetic tribute to generations of craftsmanship – both The Glenturret distillery (since 1763), and Lalique’s master glassmakers (since 1888). It is the first time the celebrated artist has worked on a whisky decanter, presented for the first time at the new Lalique Art Gallery in Burlington Arcade, London on May 16th. ![]() The Glenturret, Scotland’s Oldest Working Distillery, released Eight Decades, a collaboration with Lalique and renowned American artist James Turrell, who is famed worldwide for working with light and space to create artworks that engage viewers with the limits and wonder of human perception. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was dumbfounded at the manipulation and selfishness of Adrienne’s mother. Adrienne’s desire to protect her mother-a deeply flawed but undeniably magnetic woman-and her blindness to the inappropriateness of her mother’s actions is heart-wrenching. In Wild Game, Malabar pursues an affair with her disabled husband’s best friend, using her daughter, Adrienne, as a distraction, confidante, and accomplice to keep her relationship a secret and ensure its success. ![]() ![]() The ways in which Malabar repeatedly crossed lines that should never be crossed was unconscionable. Maybe that explains my shock and utter dismay over this true story of the author Adrienne’s relationship with her mother, Malabar. As a mother of three kids, I’m acutely aware of the role I have in their life and appreciate the sacred gift to usher them into adulthood. I’m not a big nonfiction reader, but I devoured Wild Game (pun intended). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He can’t control sand magic to the same degree as his father, and has to try to find his place after everything he has known since childhood is destroyed. The story is pretty straight forward: a young man who believes himself to be good for nothing. ![]() He can barely handle the most basic sand manipulation, and he barely survives the attack which left dead-including his father-most of the sand masters. The main character, Kenton, is considered a disgrace by his sand master father. “White Sand” volume 1 by Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, and Julius Gopez.I had heard Brandon Sanderson talking about White Sand Volume 1 for years, so it was great to finally be able to read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() When her dream honeymoon turns into a hilarious tropical nightmare, Joanna’s first thought is survival. Why are they alone on this forsaken island? What happened to Joanna’s husband? Even more so when their flight is caught in the perfect storm and Joanna wakes up stranded on a desert island with Connor, the very man she hoped she would never have to see again. ![]() So it’s just a misfortune they have to sit next to each other for a six hour plane ride. He is a country boy who has a no-nonsense approach to life, more scars than he’d like to admit, and he hates city girls. She loves her job as a book editor, she just married Liam, high profile bestselling author and the man of her dreams, and she’s headed to the Caribbean to enjoy two weeks of paradise for her luxurious honeymoon.Ĭonnor Duffield is a gruff, grumpy rancher from the Midwest. Joanna Price is a city girl with the perfect life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Watching her beloved cousin Bea become dangerously obsessed with the forbidden. It’s taboo to speak of.įorced into silence, Alex nevertheless must face the consequences of this astonishing event: a mother more protective than ever an absentee father the upsetting insistence that her aunt never even existed and ![]() Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex’s beloved aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex doesn’t know. In the first adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Ogress and The Orphans, Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, except for its most seminal event: the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales, and talons left a trail of fiery destruction in their path and took to the skies. "Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny." -Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry A fiery feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman’s place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are. ![]() |