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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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‘A completely harrowing and stark account of poverty … written in clear and violent language’ – Cyril Connolly
Gordon Comstock, poet manqué and author of Mice (which the Times Literary Supplement said showed ‘exceptional promise’) gives up a ‘good job’ in an advertising agency to become a part time bookshop assistant, thereby gaining the time to write. Despite some modest success with his poetry, he embarks on a long, deliberate slide into penury which results in a solitary, squalid existence. The symbol of everything he rebels against is the ugly aspidistra, which for him represents dull, lifeless respectability and submission to the tyranny of the ‘money-god’. Gordon’s voyage of self-discovery takes him to the depths of the abyss, to the dismay of his family and the ever-faithful Rosemary, whose offer of love and security challenges his commitment to his chosen way of life. With characteristic irony and perception, Orwell traces the disaffection with society and the desire to renounce contemporary values which he himself experienced.
‘Orwell’s strength and significance is that… he never looked for the familiar deodorant of self-deception or sought out the sweetened balms of elegant literary evasion. He sniffed and wrote on the same quivering reflex’ – Dennis Potter
Keeper of Genesis: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind
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In Keeper of Genesis, Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval present a tour de force of historical and scientific detective work:
· When and where did history begin?
· When was the genesis of civilisation in Egypt?
· How and why were the Great Sphinx and the three pyramids of Giza designed to serve as parts of an immense three-dimensional model of the sky of ”First Time”?
· What is contained in the rectangular chamber that seismic surveys have located in the bedrock far below the paws of the sphinx?
· What lies behind the mysterious doors recently discovered at the end of a previously unexplored shaft inside the Great Pyramid?
· Does mankind have a rendezvous with destiny – a rendezvous not in the future, but in the distant past – at a precise place and time?
Using sophisticated computer simulations of the ancient skies to crack the millennial code that the monuments transcribe, Bauval and Hancock set out a startling new theory of the Pyramid Texts and other archaic Egyptian scriptures.
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”Reads like a detective story, with the reader enthusiastically trying to outguess the writers” Literary Review
”Start the book in the early evening and continue uninterrupted till you complete it in the small house. The effect is wonderful . . . Your entire world view has been shifted a hundred yards . . . You fall asleep thinking that nothing will ever be the same again” Sunday Telegraph
Kenmore Microwave Cooking
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Complete Instructions, Fully Illustrated, Over 200 Tested Recipes, 33 Charts, How to Convert Your Own Recipes. From Applesauce to Zucchini Lasagna, you’re sure to find many old favorites and many intriguing new dishes to try. Over 130 illustrations (95 in full color) help teach microwave basics and advanced cooking techniques, many presented for the first time in this book. To top it off, 33 charts have easy-to-follow instructions for nearly 300 items.