Shifting Currents by Joanna Orwin
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
It is 1853. Widowed Lydia Boulcott has remarried, hoping to escape her shameful past. An isolated new life in the kauri forests of New Zealand’s Far North offers the chance of a respectable future for her and her five-year-old daughter, Hannah. To her dismay, Lydia discovers that one of her few neighbou ...Show more
Soviet Signs and Street Relics by Jason Guilbeau; Damon Murray (Editor); Stephen Sorrell (Editor); Clem Cecil (Introduction by)
Category: Non Fiction
French photographer Jason Guilbeau has used Google Street View to virtually navigate Russia and the former USSR, searching for examples of a forgotten Soviet empire. The subjects of these unlikely photographs are incidental to the purpose of Google Street View - captured by serendipity, rather than desi ...Show more
Unspeakable - The Things We Cannot Say by Harriet Shawcross
Category: Non Fiction
'Compassionate' Guardian'Extremely affecting' ScotsmanAs a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language.From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster to the taboo of coming o ...Show more