The most beautiful poems for funerals - Pan Macmillan
2022年3月14日 — Poetry can bring comfort in the toughest of times. Here, we have curated a selection of poems, from The Picador Book of Funeral Poems, for anyone searching for a fitting funeral reading to pay tribute to a loved one.Hopefully these poems of parting and passing, of sorrow and healing, will find a deep echo within those who find themselves dealing with grief …
11 of the best Charles Dickens books (for every type of reader)
2024年5月20日 — Hard Times. by Charles Dickens. Buy the book. Set in Coketown, an imaginary town inspired by Preston, Hard Times is a novel of social and moral themes which George Bernard Shaw called a ‘passionate revolt against the whole industrial order of the modern world.’. A savage satire of the social and economic conditions of the time, it addresses ...
Ann Cleeves' Shetland series books in order - Pan Macmillan
2024年3月22日 — The Shetland series is a bestselling, critically-acclaimed series of crime novels by Ann Cleeves, which has also been made into a hit TV series on BBC One, now in its eighth series, originally starring Douglas Henshall as Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez and now Ashley Jensen as DI Ruth Calder. Set in the isolated Scottish Shetland Isles, Detective Inspector …
20 of the funniest books for a guaranteed laugh - Pan Macmillan
2023年7月7日 — by Nina Stibbe. Ten years after the publication of the prize-winning Love, Nina comes the author’s diary of her return to London in her sixty-first year. After twenty years, Nina Stibbe, accompanied by her dog Peggy, stays with writer Debby Moggach in London for a year.
Everything you need to know about the Theranos scandal
25/03/2024. 6minute to read. The Theranos scandal has dominated headlines, and both fascinated and appalled readers worldwide, since John Carreyrou’s shattering report first broke in 2015. With company founder Elizabeth Holmes now in prison after losing a bid to remain free while she appeals her convictions and eleven-year sentence, we reveal ...
Lucinda Riley's The Seven Sisters books in order - Pan Macmillan
2024年7月17日 — Lucinda Riley was the No.1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of the much-loved series, The Seven Sisters.Inspired by the Greek myth of the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters books have captivated readers across the globe. The series finale, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, came out in 2023, so whether you're a Lucinda Riley fan already, or are new …
30 of the best dystopian novels of all time - Pan Macmillan
2024年4月25日 — One of the best known dystopian novels of all time, 1984 is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime lead by The Party. The novel has a fascinating history, from the phenomenon the book became on publication to the impact it has had on the English language.
Ann Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope books in order - Pan Macmillan
2024年9月2日 — Beginning with The Crow Trap, the Vera Stanhope series is the bestselling and critically-acclaimed collection of crime novels set in Northumberland, written by award-winning author Ann Cleeves. The series has been made into a hit detective drama on ITV1, starring Brenda Blethyn as Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope of the Northumbria Police Force, which …
Sixteen essential books about the Holocaust - Pan Macmillan
2024年1月16日 — This is the moving story of Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert, written with her great-grandson Dov. When Lily was liberated at the end of the Second World War, a Jewish-American soldier handed her a banknote with the words ‘the start to a new life, good luck and happiness!’ written on it. Decades later, when Lily was 96, Dov decided to track ...
The dark original stories behind Disney films - Pan Macmillan
2024年1月31日 — Disney’s adaptations of fairy tales and stories have been casting a little bit of magic over our childhoods since their original animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in 1937.However, whether it’s Hans Christan Andersen’s original heartbreaking ending to The Little Mermaid or the brutal desperation of Cinderella’s stepsisters in the Brothers Grimm …