Clarke: 1777 books

'Owls call now in the hazy afternoon, and curlews get up in the night and join their voices with the plovers' lost cries. Small birds, distracted by the fury of mating, fly hedge-high in flight and pursuit and brush past one's ear, indifferent to human presence.There is a common belief that when sight...

Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers’s Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America’s slaveholding South. That book presented the letters of the prominent Presbyterian minister...

In this collection, award-winning author Austin Clarke has caught, in his characters, a sweet longing for youth and an anxiety-stricken rage at old age; an immigrant's longing for a placid, lost home and his lust for a new high-speed motorcar life; and an intellectual's sense of empowerment by black...

As changes in technology, policy and management put an increasing emphasis on processes and procedures in nursing and health care, how do we continue to make room for compassion, the ancient human value that calls most nurses to the profession? In Spiritual Care in Everyday Nursing Practice,...

Happily ever after begins with two words, ‘I do!’ But along the way many married couples experience a change of heart. When the reality of married life settles in, a promise made at the altar becomes an unrealistic notion. Getting married is easy, but staying married requires the grit of real...

Que faire quand le Brexit est à l'horizon... To be or not to be un Européen ? Et devons-nous nous réjouir que la Perfide Albion veuille s'extraire de l'Europe ? Telles sont les interrogations au cœur de la nouvelle comédie de Stephen Clarke, auteur du bestseller mondial God save la France. La...

‘Before the Fall’ is a retelling of Henry James’ ‘The Golden Bowl’, but with a twist as it involves the gay lovers, Marty Townsend and Carlton Aspern, seducing and manipulating the widowed Australian millionaire Clara de Veer and her daughter Maggie. The precious vase, with its almost invisible...

On the verge of committing suicide, Cécile, a middle-aged woman, suffering from Multiple Sclerosis, contemplates her life in Townsville, and with that of her husband, Alain – whom in hindsight she believes to have made a mistake in marrying. Cécile believes her marriage to be flawed because Alain...

In the distant future, a man downloads an ancient novel and instead of instantly transferring the novel into his brain, the man does something profound, he reads the text. As he reads the novel set in 1940s Townsville, he is involved in the story of Mr. Wilbur’s immoral desires for Sam. 'The Cat'...

Inspired by a real-life 19th century scandal, Clarke deftly writes about the privileged world of the Victorian upper-class, where Hugh is forced by his overbearing mother, Lady Lillian, to conform to society’s views concerning sex. Hugh’s inquisitive and rebellious nature leads Lady Lillian to...

'Death in Xanadu' is a savage indictment against the movie industry, and in this world of celluloid fantasy, the ultimate power belongs to the studio mogul Carlton Hislop, who can either destroy careers or create them – on the condition that they submit themselves to him. Author Aaron...

Critical Voices is a fascinating account of women writing about art in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Meaghan Clarke employs extensive original research in order to demonstrate the significant contribution made by women to the art world and draws on a diversity of sources, including...

It often happens that teenagers and young adults, with the whole world before them, become lost and wonder what they are going to do when they grow up and mature. In Determined, author and teacher Cyril Clarke provides a guidebook to help teenagers and young adults map out a life plan for success. Determined...

Ten years ago, the former Ironworker experienced the beginning of tumultuous Kundalini awakening that flooded his being with energy, shaking him to the core. An Irish immigrant, he came to America in 2001 and worked in New York City as part of the Ironworkers union. As he struggled to comprehend the...