Tag: religion
The Book of Jem
Set in a future world that has banned religion in the aftermath of cataclysmic wars, Carole Hailey’s The Book of Jem portrays the implosion of an isol …
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Tutankhamun’s Wet Nurse Imagines Herself as the Goddess Nut
stars in my hair dragonflies padding each shoulder a blue mole cuddles each toe I hold two worlds together …
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The Works of Gwerful Mechain [A Broadview Anthology of British Literature edition]
As every schoolgirl or boy lucky enough to be introduced to Chaucer knows, sex and the sacred were sweaty bedfellows during the Medieval period. If th …
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What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life
With extensive experience in journalism and editing at the Nation, the American author seeks out her own topics of interest in this exciting insight i …
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Early Twentieth-century Welsh Plays in English, Vol 1: ‘A Dirty Broth’
The first volume of a two-book series devoted to Welsh writing for the theatre, A Dirty Broth, contains the complete texts of just three plays. You m …
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The Secret Glory
Arthur Machen’s The Secret Glory is a dark Gothic fantasy that has everything from breaking school rules to searching for the Holy Grail. Originally w …
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Parch (series 2)
The second series of the S4C drama, Parch, came to a hauntingly ambiguous end two Sundays ago, having delighted audiences for eight weeks with its fin …
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The Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias, a Welsh Jew in Palestine, by Jasmine Donahaye
Eluned Gramich sings in praise of readers of unkosher novels and among them, Lily Tobias, the subject of Jasmine Donahaye’s expert biography in Honno’ …
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The Chosen
Leah’s father sighed and shook the reins. Twenty-year-old Leah, next to him in the one-horse buggy, looked up from her Gospel book. She knew that bein …
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