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La storia lo ricorderà come Samuel Beckett\r\n«Abile... coraggioso... Una storia straordinaria» - The Guardian\r\n«In questo degno successore di Longbourne House, Backer cattura perfettamente il mondo di Beckett, il ritmo della sua prosa essenziale, l'originalità del suo punto di vista» - Publisher Weekly\r\n\r\nQuando nel settembre del 1939 Samuel Beckett, a dispetto del conflitto appena dichiarato, ritorna a Parigi dalla sua compagna Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, preferendo i minacciosi venti di guerra francesi all'aria placida ma soffocante della nativa Irlanda, è un uomo apatico e sfiduciato. La scrittura non procede, la traduzione in francese di Murphy neppure. E l'ombra del grande e pomposo James Joyce, al cui servizio ha trovato impiego come segretario, incombe sulla sua creatività. A Parigi stimolato dalla compagnia di intellettuali e artisti, da Francis Picabia a Marcel Duchamp, forse riuscirà a trovare la sua voce e a dare risposta al terribile quesito di sua madre: \"di quale utilità penseresti mai di essere, tu?\". Ma l'occupazione tedesca della città spariglia le priorità. Ora quel che conta è sopravvivere, al minimo grado. E tuttavia Beckett ha in mente la stessa paralizzante domanda materna quando decide di abbracciare la resistenza, con l'incarico di raccogliere e confrontare i messaggi in codice dei compagni - per poi nasconderli fra le pagine del manoscritto su cui sta arrancando, \"di gran lunga il posto più sicuro in cui tenere qualcosa che non vuol far leggere a nessuno\". E quando la sua cellula viene scoperta e cominciano gli arresti - cui l'\"irlandese\" riesce a sfuggire solo grazie a una buona dose di imprevedibile intraprendenza - la sola opzione per lui e Suzanne resta la fuga. Il lungo, estenuante viaggio verso il sud della Francia, affrontato a piedi e con mezzi di fortuna, è una vivida rappresentazione scenica della tirannia del corpo, fra piedi dolenti, denti malfermi e morsi della fame, e dell'inanità di ogni aspettativa. \"Domani monsieur verrà senz'altro\", propone Samuel per addolcire l'attesa di un aiuto salvifico, e Suzanne, anticipando il Vladimir di \"Aspettando Godot\", sentenzia: \"Oggi è già domani\". Sembra la fine di tutto. Quale spazio può conservare l'arte in un mondo attanagliato dall'orrore della guerra? Eppure la scrittura si rivela essere un bisogno più primario di quel che lo stesso Beckett avesse immaginato. E quella che sembrava la fine diventa l'inizio: di una nuova estetica, se non altro. Avvicinandosi al venerato autore di \"Aspettando Godot\", Jo Baker ripete l'operazione già compiuta con \"Longbourn House\": frugare nel dietro-le-quinte di una biografia arcinota e illuminarne elementi inediti. Ne emerge un'opera che è insieme storia d'avventura, romanzo di formazione e narrazione storica.

Sarah è a servizio a Longbourn House da quando era bambina, ma non si è ancora rassegnata a certi compiti ingrati quali lavare la biancheria e svuotare i pitali dei signori. Questa pesante routine senza svaghi la opprime: non vuole accontentarsi di mandare avanti la casa d'altri come Mrs Hill, la governante, fa da sempre. Perciò, quando un giorno di settembre Mr Bennet assume a sorpresa un nuovo valletto, la gioia per la novità è grande. James ha il fisico asciutto e gli avambracci scuriti dal sole. Lavora di buon umore, fischiettando, ed è gentile, ma dà poca confidenza. Sembra sapere tante cose, eppure sul suo passato è stranamente vago. Ama i cavalli e dorme nel solaio della stalla: li, su una mensola, ha dei libri e, sotto il letto, una sacca scolorita piena di conchiglie. È un mondo intero quello che apre per Sarah, una nuova geografia di orridi, vallette in fiore e campi di battaglia. Ispirato al non detto di \"Orgoglio e pregiudizio\", \"Longbourn House\" ricostruisce con tono brioso la vita della servitù nell'Inghilterra di inizio Ottocento, facendo emergere tra le righe la fatica e le disuguaglianze su cui si reggeva il bel mondo. All'interno di questo affresco storico, che oltre alla campagna dell'Hertfordshire include la Spagna sconvolta dalle guerre napoleoniche e i porti commerciali sull'altra sponda dell'Atlantico, Jo Baker dona pensieri ed emozioni autentici alle ombre che nel celebre romanzo di Jane Austen si limitavano a passare sullo sfondo rapide e silenziose.

'Impressive and satisfying . . . a novel that succeeds both in creating pages that turn themselves, and in continually feeding the reader's sense of wonder' Daily Telegraph\n\nIt is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother who never returned from France, she is working hard to keep her own little life ticking over: holding down a dull typist job at the Ministry of Information, sharing gin and confidences with her best friend Elena, and dodging her difficult father. She has good reason to keep her head down and stay out of trouble. She knows what happens when she makes a nuisance of herself.\n\nOn her way to work she often sees the boy who feeds the birds - a source of unexpected joy amidst the rubble of the Blitz. But every day brings new scenes of devastation, and after yet another heartbreaking loss Charlotte has an uncanny sense of foreboding. Someone is stalking the darkness, targeting her friends. And now he is following her.\n\nShe no longer knows who to trust. She can't even trust herself. She knows this; her family have told so her often enough. As grief and suspicion consume her, Charlotte's nerves become increasingly frayed, and soon her very freedom is under threat . . .\n\nRiveting and deeply moving, The Midnight News is a tour de force from Sunday Times bestselling author Jo Baker - a breathtaking story of friendship, love and war.\n\n'Intriguing and thrilling . . . it had me by the throat' EMMA DONOGHUE\n'A marvel of storytelling . . . your heart will be in your mouth as you read' FRANCIS SPUFFORD\n'Immersive and utterly enthralling' CATHY RENTZENBRINK\n'Riveting and moving . . . masterful' NINA STIBBE\n'I stayed up late reading and was glad' SARAH MOSS

Sarah è a servizio a Longbourn House da quando era bambina, ma non si è ancora rassegnata a certi compiti ingrati quali lavare la biancheria e svuotare i pitali dei signori. Questa pesante routine senza svaghi la opprime: non vuole accontentarsi di mandare avanti la casa d'altri come Mrs Hill, la governante, fa da sempre. Perciò, quando un giorno di settembre Mr Bennet assume a sorpresa un nuovo valletto, la gioia per la novità è grande. James ha il fisico asciutto e gli avambracci scuriti dal sole. Lavora di buon umore, fischiettando, ed è gentile, ma dà poca confidenza. Sembra sapere tante cose, eppure sul suo passato è stranamente vago. Ama i cavalli e dorme nel solaio della stalla: li, su una mensola, ha dei libri e, sotto il letto, una sacca scolorita piena di conchiglie. È un mondo intero quello che apre per Sarah, una nuova geografia di orridi, vallette in fiore e campi di battaglia. Ispirato al non detto di \"Orgoglio e pregiudizio\", \"Longbourn House\" ricostruisce con tono brioso la vita della servitù nell'Inghilterra di inizio Ottocento, facendo emergere tra le righe la fatica e le disuguaglianze su cui si reggeva il bel mondo. All'interno di questo affresco storico, che oltre alla campagna dell'Hertfordshire include la Spagna sconvolta dalle guerre napoleoniche e i porti commerciali sull'altra sponda dell'Atlantico, Jo Baker dona pensieri ed emozioni autentici alle ombre che nel celebre romanzo di Jane Austen si limitavano a passare sullo sfondo rapide e silenziose.

BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LONGBOURN\n\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2017\n\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2017 \n\n'Skilful . . . daring . . . extraordinary' The Guardian\n\n'A fascinating fictional account of Samuel Beckett's wartime years' IAN RANKIN\n\n'Beautifully written, empathetic and unflinching, it is very, very good' Daily Mail\n\n'Marvellous, spare, moving' FRANCIS SPUFFORD\n\n'Insightful . . . beautifully paced . . . authentic’ The Irish Times\n\nParis, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. Soon, he will put is own life and those of his loved ones in mortal danger by joining the Resistance...\n\nSpies, artists, deprivation, danger and passion: this is a story of life at the edges of human experience, and of how one man came to translate it all into art.\n\nSunday Express Book of the Month\n\nPraise for Jo Baker's LONGBOURN:\n'Intoxicating' Guardian\n'Engrossing' Sunday Times\n'Audacious' New York Times

Set against the rolling backdrop of a century of British history from WWI to the 'War on Terror', this is an intimate family portrait captured in snapshots. First there is William, the factory lad who loses his life in Gallipoli, then his son Billy, a champion cyclist who survives the D-Day Landings on a military bicycle, followed by his crippled son Will who becomes an Oxford academic in the 1960s, and finally his daughter Billie, an artist in contemporary London. Just as the names - William, Billy, Will, Billie - echo down through the family, so too the legacy of choices made, chances lost, and secrets kept. \n\nRich in drama and sensuous in detail, The Picture Book is a beautifully crafted story about parents and children, about fate and repetition, and about the possibility of breaking free.

---A GUARDIAN BEST SUMMER READ---\n\n'A very modern interrogation of violent fiction. Fiendishly readable' SARAH MOSS, GUARDIAN\n'Powerful and moving' ERIN KELLY, author of He Said/She Said\n______________\n\nWhen a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countryside, it's meant to be a fresh start. But when one of her students starts sending in chapters from his novel that blur the lines between fiction and reality, the professor recognises herself as the main character in his book - and he has written her a horrific fate.\n\nWill she be able to stop life imitating art before it's too late?\n\nAt once a breathless battle-of-wits and a disarming exploration of sexual politics, The Body Lies is an essential book for our times.\n___________________\n\n'Outstanding' CLARE MACKINTOSH\n\n'A literary exploration of consent, entitlement and how narratives can be bent, misappropriated and wrested back. I loved it' SARAH VAUGHAN\n\n'A propulsive #MeToo thriller.' GUARDIAN\n\n'Gripping. The perfect marriage of risky literary fiction and full-on thriller' MARIA SEMPLE\n\n'Page-turning thriller and examination of how women's bodies are treated, in life and in fiction.' THE BOOKSELLER\n\n'A novelist with a gift for intimate and atmospheric storytelling' FINANCIAL TIMES\n\n'Baker's heroine is one of the most believable I've seen on the page in a long time...nuanced, non-linear, lifelike' TLS\n\n'Gripping and fast-paced' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

'Impressive and satisfying . . . a novel that succeeds both in creating pages that turn themselves, and in continually feeding the reader's sense of wonder' Daily Telegraph\n\nIt is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother who never returned from France, she is working hard to keep her own little life ticking over: holding down a dull typist job at the Ministry of Information, sharing gin and confidences with her best friend Elena, and dodging her difficult father. She has good reason to keep her head down and stay out of trouble. She knows what happens when she makes a nuisance of herself.\n\nOn her way to work she often sees the boy who feeds the birds - a source of unexpected joy amidst the rubble of the Blitz. But every day brings new scenes of devastation, and after yet another heartbreaking loss Charlotte has an uncanny sense of foreboding. Someone is stalking the darkness, targeting her friends. And now he is following her.\n\nShe no longer knows who to trust. She can't even trust herself. She knows this; her family have told so her often enough. As grief and suspicion consume her, Charlotte's nerves become increasingly frayed, and soon her very freedom is under threat . . .\n\nRiveting and deeply moving, The Midnight News is a tour de force from Sunday Times bestselling author Jo Baker - a breathtaking story of friendship, love and war.\n\n'Intriguing and thrilling . . . it had me by the throat' EMMA DONOGHUE\n'A marvel of storytelling . . . your heart will be in your mouth as you read' FRANCIS SPUFFORD\n'Immersive and utterly enthralling' CATHY RENTZENBRINK\n'Riveting and moving . . . masterful' NINA STIBBE\n'I stayed up late reading and was glad' SARAH MOSS

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER\nA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK\n'Utterly engrossing' Guardian\n\nIt is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled with a tender heart and an iron will by Mrs Hill the housekeeper, is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a new footman, bearing secrets and the scent of the sea.\n\nWhat readers are saying:\n\n'A novel to be savoured'\n'Highly recommended'\n'Very enjoyable exploration of the background to Pride and Prejudice'

Sarah è a servizio a Longbourn House da quando era bambina, ma non si è ancora rassegnata a certi compiti ingrati quali lavare la biancheria e svuotare i pitali dei signori. Questa pesante routine senza svaghi la opprime: non vuole accontentarsi di mandare avanti la casa d'altri come Mrs Hill, la governante, fa da sempre. Perciò, quando un giorno di settembre Mr Bennet assume a sorpresa un nuovo valletto, la gioia per la novità è grande. James ha il fisico asciutto e gli avambracci scuriti dal sole. Lavora di buon umore, fischiettando, ed è gentile, ma dà poca confidenza. Sembra sapere tante cose, eppure sul suo passato è stranamente vago. Ama i cavalli e dorme nel solaio della stalla: li, su una mensola, ha dei libri e, sotto il letto, una sacca scolorita piena di conchiglie. È un mondo intero quello che apre per Sarah, una nuova geografia di orridi, vallette in fiore e campi di battaglia. Ispirato al non detto di \"Orgoglio e pregiudizio\", \"Longbourn House\" ricostruisce con tono brioso la vita della servitù nell'Inghilterra di inizio Ottocento, facendo emergere tra le righe la fatica e le disuguaglianze su cui si reggeva il bel mondo. All'interno di questo affresco storico, che oltre alla campagna dell'Hertfordshire include la Spagna sconvolta dalle guerre napoleoniche e i porti commerciali sull'altra sponda dell'Atlantico, Jo Baker dona pensieri ed emozioni autentici alle ombre che nel celebre romanzo di Jane Austen si limitavano a passare sullo sfondo rapide e silenziose.

'Impressive and satisfying . . . a novel that succeeds both in creating pages that turn themselves, and in continually feeding the reader's sense of wonder' Daily Telegraph\n\nIt is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother who never returned from France, she is working hard to keep her own little life ticking over: holding down a dull typist job at the Ministry of Information, sharing gin and confidences with her best friend Elena, and dodging her difficult father. She has good reason to keep her head down and stay out of trouble. She knows what happens when she makes a nuisance of herself.\n\nOn her way to work she often sees the boy who feeds the birds - a source of unexpected joy amidst the rubble of the Blitz. But every day brings new scenes of devastation, and after yet another heartbreaking loss Charlotte has an uncanny sense of foreboding. Someone is stalking the darkness, targeting her friends. And now he is following her.\n\nShe no longer knows who to trust. She can't even trust herself. She knows this; her family have told so her often enough. As grief and suspicion consume her, Charlotte's nerves become increasingly frayed, and soon her very freedom is under threat . . .\n\nRiveting and deeply moving, The Midnight News is a tour de force from Sunday Times bestselling author Jo Baker - a breathtaking story of friendship, love and war.\n\n'Intriguing and thrilling . . . it had me by the throat' EMMA DONOGHUE\n'A marvel of storytelling . . . your heart will be in your mouth as you read' FRANCIS SPUFFORD\n'Immersive and utterly enthralling' CATHY RENTZENBRINK\n'Riveting and moving . . . masterful' NINA STIBBE\n'I stayed up late reading and was glad' SARAH MOSS

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER\nA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK\n'Utterly engrossing' Guardian\n\nIt is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled with a tender heart and an iron will by Mrs Hill the housekeeper, is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a new footman, bearing secrets and the scent of the sea.\n\nWhat readers are saying:\n\n'A novel to be savoured'\n'Highly recommended'\n'Very enjoyable exploration of the background to Pride and Prejudice'

When Rachel sets off alone for her mother's isolated country house, she promises herself that the business of packing up and selling will only take a couple of weeks, and then she'll be home again, and back to normal. But from the moment she steps through the front door, Rachel feels that the house contains more than she had expected: along with the memories of her mother, there is something else, a presence - not quite tangible - trying to make itself felt. As Rachel struggles to put her mother's affairs in order, she grows ever more convinced that the house holds a message for her. Can the ghosts of the past be forcing their way into the present, or is Rachel really beginning to lose her mind?

Sarah è a servizio a Longbourn House da quando era bambina, ma non si è ancora rassegnata a certi compiti ingrati quali lavare la biancheria e svuotare i pitali dei signori. Questa pesante routine senza svaghi la opprime: non vuole accontentarsi di mandare avanti la casa d'altri come Mrs Hill, la governante, fa da sempre. Perciò, quando un giorno di settembre Mr Bennet assume a sorpresa un nuovo valletto, la gioia per la novità è grande. James ha il fisico asciutto e gli avambracci scuriti dal sole. Lavora di buon umore, fischiettando, ed è gentile, ma dà poca confidenza. Sembra sapere tante cose, eppure sul suo passato è stranamente vago. Ama i cavalli e dorme nel solaio della stalla: li, su una mensola, ha dei libri e, sotto il letto, una sacca scolorita piena di conchiglie. È un mondo intero quello che apre per Sarah, una nuova geografia di orridi, vallette in fiore e campi di battaglia. Ispirato al non detto di \"Orgoglio e pregiudizio\", \"Longbourn House\" ricostruisce con tono brioso la vita della servitù nell'Inghilterra di inizio Ottocento, facendo emergere tra le righe la fatica e le disuguaglianze su cui si reggeva il bel mondo. All'interno di questo affresco storico, che oltre alla campagna dell'Hertfordshire include la Spagna sconvolta dalle guerre napoleoniche e i porti commerciali sull'altra sponda dell'Atlantico, Jo Baker dona pensieri ed emozioni autentici alle ombre che nel celebre romanzo di Jane Austen si limitavano a passare sullo sfondo rapide e silenziose.

'Impressive and satisfying . . . a novel that succeeds both in creating pages that turn themselves, and in continually feeding the reader's sense of wonder' Daily Telegraph\n\nIt is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother who never returned from France, she is working hard to keep her own little life ticking over: holding down a dull typist job at the Ministry of Information, sharing gin and confidences with her best friend Elena, and dodging her difficult father. She has good reason to keep her head down and stay out of trouble. She knows what happens when she makes a nuisance of herself.\n\nOn her way to work she often sees the boy who feeds the birds - a source of unexpected joy amidst the rubble of the Blitz. But every day brings new scenes of devastation, and after yet another heartbreaking loss Charlotte has an uncanny sense of foreboding. Someone is stalking the darkness, targeting her friends. And now he is following her.\n\nShe no longer knows who to trust. She can't even trust herself. She knows this; her family have told so her often enough. As grief and suspicion consume her, Charlotte's nerves become increasingly frayed, and soon her very freedom is under threat . . .\n\nRiveting and deeply moving, The Midnight News is a tour de force from Sunday Times bestselling author Jo Baker - a breathtaking story of friendship, love and war.\n\n'Intriguing and thrilling . . . it had me by the throat' EMMA DONOGHUE\n'A marvel of storytelling . . . your heart will be in your mouth as you read' FRANCIS SPUFFORD\n'Immersive and utterly enthralling' CATHY RENTZENBRINK\n'Riveting and moving . . . masterful' NINA STIBBE\n'I stayed up late reading and was glad' SARAH MOSS

---A GUARDIAN BEST SUMMER READ---\n\n'A very modern interrogation of violent fiction. Fiendishly readable' SARAH MOSS, GUARDIAN\n'Powerful and moving' ERIN KELLY, author of He Said/She Said\n______________\n\nWhen a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countryside, it's meant to be a fresh start. But when one of her students starts sending in chapters from his novel that blur the lines between fiction and reality, the professor recognises herself as the main character in his book - and he has written her a horrific fate.\n\nWill she be able to stop life imitating art before it's too late?\n\nAt once a breathless battle-of-wits and a disarming exploration of sexual politics, The Body Lies is an essential book for our times.\n___________________\n\n'Outstanding' CLARE MACKINTOSH\n\n'A literary exploration of consent, entitlement and how narratives can be bent, misappropriated and wrested back. I loved it' SARAH VAUGHAN\n\n'A propulsive #MeToo thriller.' GUARDIAN\n\n'Gripping. The perfect marriage of risky literary fiction and full-on thriller' MARIA SEMPLE\n\n'Page-turning thriller and examination of how women's bodies are treated, in life and in fiction.' THE BOOKSELLER\n\n'A novelist with a gift for intimate and atmospheric storytelling' FINANCIAL TIMES\n\n'Baker's heroine is one of the most believable I've seen on the page in a long time...nuanced, non-linear, lifelike' TLS\n\n'Gripping and fast-paced' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

When Rachel sets off alone for her mother's isolated country house, she promises herself that the business of packing up and selling will only take a couple of weeks, and then she'll be home again, and back to normal. But from the moment she steps through the front door, Rachel feels that the house contains more than she had expected: along with the memories of her mother, there is something else, a presence - not quite tangible - trying to make itself felt. As Rachel struggles to put her mother's affairs in order, she grows ever more convinced that the house holds a message for her. Can the ghosts of the past be forcing their way into the present, or is Rachel really beginning to lose her mind?

Set against the rolling backdrop of a century of British history from WWI to the 'War on Terror', this is an intimate family portrait captured in snapshots. First there is William, the factory lad who loses his life in Gallipoli, then his son Billy, a champion cyclist who survives the D-Day Landings on a military bicycle, followed by his crippled son Will who becomes an Oxford academic in the 1960s, and finally his daughter Billie, an artist in contemporary London. Just as the names - William, Billy, Will, Billie - echo down through the family, so too the legacy of choices made, chances lost, and secrets kept. \n\nRich in drama and sensuous in detail, The Picture Book is a beautifully crafted story about parents and children, about fate and repetition, and about the possibility of breaking free.

BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LONGBOURN\n\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2017\n\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2017 \n\n'Skilful . . . daring . . . extraordinary' The Guardian\n\n'A fascinating fictional account of Samuel Beckett's wartime years' IAN RANKIN\n\n'Beautifully written, empathetic and unflinching, it is very, very good' Daily Mail\n\n'Marvellous, spare, moving' FRANCIS SPUFFORD\n\n'Insightful . . . beautifully paced . . . authentic’ The Irish Times\n\nParis, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. Soon, he will put is own life and those of his loved ones in mortal danger by joining the Resistance...\n\nSpies, artists, deprivation, danger and passion: this is a story of life at the edges of human experience, and of how one man came to translate it all into art.\n\nSunday Express Book of the Month\n\nPraise for Jo Baker's LONGBOURN:\n'Intoxicating' Guardian\n'Engrossing' Sunday Times\n'Audacious' New York Times

La storia lo ricorderà come Samuel Beckett\r\n«Abile... coraggioso... Una storia straordinaria» - The Guardian\r\n«In questo degno successore di Longbourne House, Backer cattura perfettamente il mondo di Beckett, il ritmo della sua prosa essenziale, l'originalità del suo punto di vista» - Publisher Weekly\r\n\r\nQuando nel settembre del 1939 Samuel Beckett, a dispetto del conflitto appena dichiarato, ritorna a Parigi dalla sua compagna Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, preferendo i minacciosi venti di guerra francesi all'aria placida ma soffocante della nativa Irlanda, è un uomo apatico e sfiduciato. La scrittura non procede, la traduzione in francese di Murphy neppure. E l'ombra del grande e pomposo James Joyce, al cui servizio ha trovato impiego come segretario, incombe sulla sua creatività. A Parigi stimolato dalla compagnia di intellettuali e artisti, da Francis Picabia a Marcel Duchamp, forse riuscirà a trovare la sua voce e a dare risposta al terribile quesito di sua madre: \"di quale utilità penseresti mai di essere, tu?\". Ma l'occupazione tedesca della città spariglia le priorità. Ora quel che conta è sopravvivere, al minimo grado. E tuttavia Beckett ha in mente la stessa paralizzante domanda materna quando decide di abbracciare la resistenza, con l'incarico di raccogliere e confrontare i messaggi in codice dei compagni - per poi nasconderli fra le pagine del manoscritto su cui sta arrancando, \"di gran lunga il posto più sicuro in cui tenere qualcosa che non vuol far leggere a nessuno\". E quando la sua cellula viene scoperta e cominciano gli arresti - cui l'\"irlandese\" riesce a sfuggire solo grazie a una buona dose di imprevedibile intraprendenza - la sola opzione per lui e Suzanne resta la fuga. Il lungo, estenuante viaggio verso il sud della Francia, affrontato a piedi e con mezzi di fortuna, è una vivida rappresentazione scenica della tirannia del corpo, fra piedi dolenti, denti malfermi e morsi della fame, e dell'inanità di ogni aspettativa. \"Domani monsieur verrà senz'altro\", propone Samuel per addolcire l'attesa di un aiuto salvifico, e Suzanne, anticipando il Vladimir di \"Aspettando Godot\", sentenzia: \"Oggi è già domani\". Sembra la fine di tutto. Quale spazio può conservare l'arte in un mondo attanagliato dall'orrore della guerra? Eppure la scrittura si rivela essere un bisogno più primario di quel che lo stesso Beckett avesse immaginato. E quella che sembrava la fine diventa l'inizio: di una nuova estetica, se non altro. Avvicinandosi al venerato autore di \"Aspettando Godot\", Jo Baker ripete l'operazione già compiuta con \"Longbourn House\": frugare nel dietro-le-quinte di una biografia arcinota e illuminarne elementi inediti. Ne emerge un'opera che è insieme storia d'avventura, romanzo di formazione e narrazione storica.

I don't recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets.\n\nThere were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other.\n\n\n\n\n\nSo begins Reggie Chamberlain-King's introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and compelling collection of specially commissioned stories that explore the emotional geography of growing up and living in Northern Ireland.\n\n\n\nThe fourteen stories gathered here criss-cross coast, border and city as they map a 'strange' territory of in-between states and unstable realities in which understanding is unreliable. Obsessions, death and rebirth, violence, sexuality, retribution and apocalypse are all part of the rich fabric of The Black Dreams.\n\n\n\nBringing together some of Northern Ireland's finest writers, along with some of the best new talents, The Black Dreams celebrates and extends the rich tradition of the weird, surreal and dream-like in Northern Irish writing. It is also a powerful act of imagining and storytelling - a vibrant, vivid and exhilarating exploration of a world we cannot, or choose not, to see.\n\n\n\nContributors: Jo Baker, Jan Carson, Reggie Chamberlain-King, Aislinn Clarke, Emma Devlin, Moyra Donaldson, Michelle Gallen, Carlo Gebler, John Patrick Higgins, Ian McDonald, Gerard McKeown, Bernie McGill, Ian Sansom, \n\nSam Thompson

I don't recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets.\n\nThere were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other.\n\n\n\n\n\nSo begins Reggie Chamberlain-King's introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and compelling collection of specially commissioned stories that explore the emotional geography of growing up and living in Northern Ireland.\n\n\n\nThe fourteen stories gathered here criss-cross coast, border and city as they map a 'strange' territory of in-between states and unstable realities in which understanding is unreliable. Obsessions, death and rebirth, violence, sexuality, retribution and apocalypse are all part of the rich fabric of The Black Dreams.\n\n\n\nBringing together some of Northern Ireland's finest writers, along with some of the best new talents, The Black Dreams celebrates and extends the rich tradition of the weird, surreal and dream-like in Northern Irish writing. It is also a powerful act of imagining and storytelling - a vibrant, vivid and exhilarating exploration of a world we cannot, or choose not, to see.\n\n\n\nContributors: Jo Baker, Jan Carson, Reggie Chamberlain-King, Aislinn Clarke, Emma Devlin, Moyra Donaldson, Michelle Gallen, Carlo Gebler, John Patrick Higgins, Ian McDonald, Gerard McKeown, Bernie McGill, Ian Sansom, \n\nSam Thompson

Lavern Baker / Esther Phillips "you'd Better Find Yourself.c/w Mo Jo Hannah" R&b

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. This exciting Graphic Texts pack includes action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction, carefully selected poetry and comprehensive guided reading support to meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development.\nEach book contains inside cover notes with advice on supporting older children with their reading, ideas for follow-up activities and higher-level comprehension questions.\nProject X Origins guided reading notes offer step-by-step teaching support for each book with guidance about comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, spelling, punctuation, grammar and writing. Each set of notes has in-built assessment and is fully correlated to all UK curricula. \nThis pack contains 1 set of guided reading notes and 4 reading books, 1 each of: The Jurchen Recruits, Treasure Island, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Great Space Explorers.

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. This exciting Graphic Texts pack includes action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction, carefully selected poetry and comprehensive guided reading support to meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development.\nEach book contains inside cover notes with advice on supporting older children with their reading, ideas for follow-up activities and higher-level comprehension questions.\nProject X Origins guided reading notes offer step-by-step teaching support for each book with guidance about comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, spelling, punctuation, grammar and writing. Each set of notes has in-built assessment and is fully correlated to all UK curricula. \nThis pack contains 1 set of guided reading notes and 4 reading books, 1 each of: The Jurchen Recruits, Treasure Island, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Great Space Explorers.

This beautiful new baking book is full of foolproof and delicious recipes where ingredients can be substituted to suit all dietary requirements and eating preferences.\n\n The latest title in the highly successful Flexible Ingredients series, in this book award-winning food writer and chef Jo Pratt presents a wide and delicious range of bakes including sweet & savoury, cakes & traybakes, biscuits & cookies, pastries, puddings & deserts.\n\n Each recipe also includes flexible adaptations that can help cater for a variety of allergies, intolerances and lifestyle choices.\n\nThe recipes include delights such as\n\nSmoky bacon scones with salted maple butter, \nFestive almond, olive oil and orange cake, \n Sweet onion and blue cheese swirls, \n Chicken & chorizo sausage rolls, \n 'Sourdough' for the impatient, \n Multi-millionaire's shortbread, \n Warming Pecan pumpkin pie and \n Salted honey & pistachio puddings. \n\n\nEach page also includes a clear dietary index covering everything from gluten-free, nut-free, dairy-free cooking and veganism, so the reader can see at a glance which recipe suits their requirements, without compromising flavour or appeal.\n\n There is always something deeply satisfying about the act of baking, from preparation through to the beautifully baked finished product. With Jo's new book, you can also be guaranteed to create something delicious and moreish every time.

This beautiful new baking book is full of foolproof and delicious recipes where ingredients can be substituted to suit all dietary requirements and eating preferences.\n\n The latest title in the highly successful Flexible Ingredients series, in this book award-winning food writer and chef Jo Pratt presents a wide and delicious range of bakes including sweet & savoury, cakes & traybakes, biscuits & cookies, pastries, puddings & deserts.\n\n Each recipe also includes flexible adaptations that can help cater for a variety of allergies, intolerances and lifestyle choices.\n\nThe recipes include delights such as\n\nSmoky bacon scones with salted maple butter, \nFestive almond, olive oil and orange cake, \n Sweet onion and blue cheese swirls, \n Chicken & chorizo sausage rolls, \n 'Sourdough' for the impatient, \n Multi-millionaire's shortbread, \n Warming Pecan pumpkin pie and \n Salted honey & pistachio puddings. \n\n\nEach page also includes a clear dietary index covering everything from gluten-free, nut-free, dairy-free cooking and veganism, so the reader can see at a glance which recipe suits their requirements, without compromising flavour or appeal.\n\n There is always something deeply satisfying about the act of baking, from preparation through to the beautifully baked finished product. With Jo's new book, you can also be guaranteed to create something delicious and moreish every time.

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