En julsaga i Stowford
Nora och hennes man, Simon, har drivit den vackra bokhandeln med ekbjälkar i sin lilla brittiska by i trettio år. Men tiderna är tuffa och butiken hotas av stängning – kommer den här julen att bli deras sista? När en äldre man besöker butiken och köper en present till sitt sjuka barnbarn, ger det Nora en idé. Hon och Simon ska skicka ut böcker till de som känner sig ensamma i jul. Kanske kan de inte rädda sin bokhandel, men de får åtminstone en sista chans att genom kärleken till böcker sprida glädje till andra. Efter att ha samlat in nomineringar online levererar Nora och Simon böcker till sex invånare i byn som behöver lite uppmuntran. Samtidigt som staden förbereder sig för en vit jul börjar böckerna ge mottagarna hopp, en efter en. Men med bokhandelns framtid fortfarande hotad kommer Nora och Simon att behöva ett julmirakel – eller kanske lite hjälp från människorna vars liv de har berört – för att hitta sitt eget lyckliga slut.
En julsaga i Stowford
Nora och hennes man, Simon, har drivit den vackra bokhandeln med ekbjälkar i sin lilla brittiska by i trettio år. Men tiderna är tuffa och butiken hotas av stängning – kommer den här julen att bli deras sista? När en äldre man besöker butiken och köper en present till sitt sjuka barnbarn, ger det Nora en idé. Hon och Simon ska skicka ut böcker till de som känner sig ensamma i jul. Kanske kan de inte rädda sin bokhandel, men de får åtminstone en sista chans att genom kärleken till böcker sprida glädje till andra. Efter att ha samlat in nomineringar online levererar Nora och Simon böcker till sex invånare i byn som behöver lite uppmuntran. Samtidigt som staden förbereder sig för en vit jul börjar böckerna ge mottagarna hopp, en efter en. Men med bokhandelns framtid fortfarande hotad kommer Nora och Simon att behöva ett julmirakel – eller kanske lite hjälp från människorna vars liv de har berört – för att hitta sitt eget lyckliga slut.
Six Tales of Christmas
'Heartfelt and lovely' JENNY COLGAN Happy ever after is only a page away. . . It's almost Christmas and snow is falling the Cotswolds. Simon and Nora might be gearing up for the festive season - but their beloved bookshop is in trouble! So Nora is...
Christmas at the Movies
'I adored this magical heartwarming family story with my two favourite ingredients at Christmas - movies and the Cotswolds!' Helen Rolfe 'This was such a beautiful and sweet romance!' ????? _____________________________ A Christmas film festival. ...
Christmas by the Book
'A heartfelt and lovely Christmas tale for book lovers everywhere '--Jenny Colgan, author of The Bookshop on the Shore In small-town England, two booksellers facing tough times decide to spread some Christmas cheer through the magic of anonymous book deliveries in this uplifting holiday tale for book lovers everywhere. Nora and her husband, Simon, have run the beautiful oak-beamed book shop in their small British village for thirty years. But times are tough and the shop is under threat of closure--this Christmas season will really decide their fate. When an elderly man visits the store and buys the one book they've never been able to sell, saying it's the perfect gift for his sick grandson, it gives Nora an idea. She and Simon will send out books to those feeling down this Christmas. Maybe they can't save their bookstore, but at least they'll have one final chance to lift people's spirits through the power of reading. After gathering nominations online, Nora and Simon quietly deliver
You Deserve Better
Sometimes it feels so hard to love yourself. We worry that we're not good enough or we're being selfish if we take time to prioritise what we need. But self-love is so important and even if we're our own biggest critic, it can be done! You deserve...
Magical Unicorn Society: Unicorns, Myths and Monsters
From the Magical Unicorn Society's Department of Unicorns, Myths and Monsters comes this all-new collection of stories dedicated to the amazing mythical creatures - good and bad - that exist alongside unicorns. Introduced by department head and in...
Magical Unicorn Society: Baby Unicorns
The Magical Unicorn Society is opening its doors once again to reveal eight brand-new stories about the world's most magical and elusive creatures. This time, the stories reveal the little-known facts about young unicorns, which are notoriously se...
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding how space works in narrative and narrative theory and how narratives work in real space. Thus far, space has traditionally been viewed by narratologists as a backdrop to plot. This study argues that space serves important but under-explored narrative roles: It can be a focus of attention, a bearer of symbolic meaning, an object of emotional investment, a means of strategic planning, a principle of organization, and a supporting medium. Space intersects with narrative in two principal ways: Narrating space considers space as an object of representation, while spatializing narrative approaches space as the environment in which narrative is physically deployed. The inscription of narrative in real space is illustrated by such forms as technology-supported locative narratives, street names, and
Narrative as Virtual Reality 2
Is there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, or is there a trade-off between the immersive "world" aspect of texts and their interactive...
Avatars of Story
Since its inception, narratology has developed primarily as an investigation of literary narrative fiction. Linguists, folklorists, psychologists, and sociologists have expanded the inquiry toward oral storytelling, but narratology remains primari...
Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory
In this important contribution to narrative theory, Marie-Laure Ryan applies insights from artificial intelligence and the theory of possible worlds to the study of narrative and fiction. For Ryan, the theory of possible worlds provides a more nua...
Narrative Across Media
Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media...
Multicultural Horizons
The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites is considered in this timely analysis of how the 'New Britain' of the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined as multicultural. Introducing the concept of 'multicultural intim...
Saladin
Working simultaneously on two levels, Saladin represents the best kind of biography-a portrait of a man who is said to have made an age, and the most complete account we have to date of an age that made the man. Unlike biographies that focus on Sa...
Governing Women
Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers - Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year - have raised expe...
China as a Polar Great Power
China has emerged as a member of the elite club of nations who are powerful at both global poles. Polar states are global giants, strong in military, scientific, and economic terms. The concept of a polar great power is relatively unknown in inter...
China as a Polar Great Power
China has emerged as a member of the elite club of nations who are powerful at both global poles. Polar states are global giants, strong in military, scientific, and economic terms. The concept of a polar great power is relatively unknown in inter...
Affective Economies, Neoliberalism, and Governmentality
Advanced capitalism is characterized by a level of symbolic production that not only results in a dematerialization of labor, but also increasingly relies on highly emotional components, ranging from consumption desire to workforce management. Fee...
