The president at the novel's center possesses a personality whose high-speed alternations between charm and petulance, resoluteness and self-pity, continually energize and mystify the panoply of characters around him.
The twelfth collection of David Wagoner's poetry is divided into five sections: domesticated landscape, people and animals, the wildness of water, acceptance, and poems of the sea
On being bidden with the usual 'Come' sounding more than usually preoccupied, Johnson entered Pelham's cabin quietly, wishing not to disturb the captain's thought process until Pelham should look up and thus indicate he was fully ready ...
I loved the pace and verve of Alice's voyage from Shoreditch to suburbia, and the unexpectedness of the story as it swerves past the familiar into a dangerous and beautiful unknown' Helen Dunmore 'Compulsively readable' Independent on ...
Landfall
The president at the novel's center possesses a personality whose high-speed alternations between charm and petulance, resoluteness and self-pity, continually energize and mystify the panoply of characters around him.
Before the ships have even made landfall, old rivalries simmer and, without warning, one ship turns its weapons upon another.
It’s that colorful and alive. Urbani sweeps you up into her world and carries you through this gripping story about two young women affected by similar tragedies.” – Kerry Cohen, author of Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity
Landfall: A Channel Story
I'm absolutely hooked on this series......After finishing Low Tide, the very promising entry to the Forgotten Coast series, I was curious to see how Dawn Lee McKenna would follow up.
Landfall
The Earth is suffocating under toxic skies and there's only one way for those left behind to escape - the space elevator that sits atop the massive structure known as the Reach.