When the first Asham Award was launched in 1996 - in honour of Asham House, the house in Sussex where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived - nearly a thousand unknown women writers took part. The first anthology of winning stories, published a year later and entitled The Catch, demonstrated not only the rich cultural mix of our society today, but the huge range of largely untapped talent in towns a…
Kisah ini bertutur tentang perempuan cantik dari keluarga kaya, Connie, yang merasa tak bahagia dalam pernikahannya. Suaminya, seorang bangsawan bernama Clifford Chatterley, menderita lumpuh permanen akibat perang. Ketidakbahagiaan Connie berangsur susut tatkala dia menemukan keteduhan batin di bawah rengkuhan Olivers Mellors, penjaga kebun di pekarangan luas milik Chatterlye. Bersama si tukang…
Readers have long wondered what befell the Emerson clan during the years before and the truth revealed of a perilous journey to a secret and myterious place hidden deep in the heart of the unforgiving desert. An adventure prompted by loyalty to an endangered friend-and spurred on by lies and treachery-leads Amelia Peabody and her intrepid family into a nest of vipers lying in wait at a remote m…
The Making of Mark Twain tells of his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, of his mastering the printer's craft and his first crude experiments in humor, of his wanderings as an eighteen-year-old journeyman printer, of his four years of piloting on the Mississippi River at the height of the steamboat era, of his absurd adventures as an amateur Confederate soldier at the outbreak of the Civil War, and…
Sixteen-year-old triplets princesses Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz, each with her own secret skill and wish, begin arranged marriages to princes of neighboring nations to fulfill their mother's intention to reign over the continent.