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Fariha Róisín (born 1990) is an Australian-Canadian writer.She released her debut poetry collection How to Cure a Ghost in 2019 and her debut novel Like a Bird in 2020. Her first work of non-fiction was written in 2022, Who is Wellness For: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who it Leaves Behind.
The Haunting of Hill House: A Novel. Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, published in 1959, follows Dr. John Montague, a supernatural investigator, who looks into Hill House and invites ...
Chalet School, in books by Elinor Brent-Dyer; Greyfriars School, in books by Charles Hamilton writing as Frank Richards; Jade Mountain Academy, featured in Tui T. Sutherland's Wings of Fire series [2] The Little Female Academy, in Sarah Fielding's 1754 book. [3] Lowood Institution, in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë; Malory Towers, in books by ...
In 2010, Galveston earned him the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger, the French Academy's award for Best First Novel, Foreign. [8] It was also a 2010 Edgar Award finalist for best first novel. [ 13 ] Galveston also won third prize in the 2010 Barnes and Noble Discovery Award, and additionally won the 2011 Spur Award for Best First Novel from the ...
Ghost Bird — herself a copy of the biologist generated by Area X — encounters her original self, transformed into a staggeringly immense, hyper-sentient, whale-like creature, unbound by physical law and covered with eyes. Control, Ghost Bird, and Grace decide to return to the Tower, where Ghost Bird encounters the Crawler.
Wakefield was the third of four children of the clergyman Henry Russell Wakefield, who would become bishop of Birmingham in 1911. Born in Sandgate, Kent, he was educated at Marlborough College before attending University College, Oxford, where he took second-class honours in Modern History and played first-class cricket, golf, hockey and football.
H. Rider Haggard, KBE (/ ˈ h æ ɡ ər d /; 1856–1925) was a British writer, largely of adventure fiction, but also of non-fiction.The eighth child of a Norfolk barrister and squire, [1] through family connections he gained employment with Sir Henry Bulwer during the latter's service as lieutenant-governor of Natal, South Africa. [2]
Selections from R.H. Blyth, Zen and Zen Classics. Compiled and with Drawings by Frederick Franck, Vintage Books, 1978, ISBN 0-394-72489-5; Essentially Oriental. R. H. Blyth Selection, Edited by Kuniyoshi Munakata and Michael Guest, Hokuseido Press, 1994, ISBN 4-590-00954-4; The Genius of Haiku. Readings from R. H.Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen.