"Behind the Bookshelves" Books Set in London (Podcast Episode 2018) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
There is something inextricable about queerness and city life, as a space of bustling activity and progressive attitudes. So it makes sense that many writers throughout history have set stories with queer protagonists in London. Nowadays it may feel as though London's gay population is disproporti...
Set in London in the late 19th Century, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an important examination of class, perspective, and the purpose of art – which was a noticeable talking point for society at the time. For students, The Picture of Dorian Gray offers so many interesting points of discus...
Set in London, both on its outskirts in Dorking and the suburb of Crystal Palace, the book tackles middle age, marriage, compromise and the delicate balance of relationships to the soundtrack of John Legend's 2004 album Get Lifted. 15. Walk Through Walls, Marina Abramovic Soul food. There'...
Bookswagon has no dearth of books for various categories and many Children and teen books in 2024 such as Moral Stories a Set of 20 books that can work for children and kids alike, these stories can work as anecdotes to brighten lives and make them colorful. The stories in this book are...
“—Library Journal “Secrets, lies, treachery, and passion…. I read this novel in a headlong rush.”—Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan’s Tale introduces ...
But this week I’m looking at three more movies set in dangerous places. There’s a witness in a prop plane in Alaska, a family in a haunted house, and two teens in a reform school that’s rotten to the core. Flight Risk Dir: Mel Gibson (Review: Hacksaw Ridge) Winston (Topher ...
Dune, if you have ever fancied a place in which politics, religion, and ecology somehow became intertwined: set on a desert planet known as Arrakis, the novel takes its story along with its central character Paul Atreides as he enters the brutal politicking of the interstellar empire when his...
The Books in Print (BIP) disc holds the entire 1986-87 five-volume set of Books in Print, Subject Guide to Books in Print, Books in Print Supplement, Forthcoming Books, and Subject Guide to Forthcoming Books. The disc also contains the complete names and addresses of book publishers. All ...
set in other worlds, or populated by non-humans, I probably wouldn’t have loved reading — just the way many young readers dislike reading when they’re force-fed a diet of “relationship” novels. In an essay called “The Pornography of Genre, or the Genre of Pornography”, which isn...