Sarah Avery rated W.B. Yeats: 5 stars
W.B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats ([Phoenix poetry series])
A collection of the poetry of W. B. Yeats, famed Irish poet whose early poems are strongly influenced by the …
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Writer of epic and contemporary fantasy. Winner of 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Escaped academic.
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Sarah Avery rated NurtureShock: 5 stars
NurtureShock by Po Bronson
Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in …
Sarah Avery rated Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: 4 stars
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot’s playful cat poems have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were first …
Sarah Avery rated Tao Te Ching: 5 stars
Tao Te Ching by Laozi
The Tao Te Ching (UK: , US: ; simplified Chinese: 道德经; traditional Chinese: 道德經; pinyin: Dàodé Jīng [tâu tɤ̌ tɕíŋ] …
Sarah Avery rated Complete Novels of Jane Austen: 5 stars
Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane …
Sarah Avery rated Holes: 5 stars
Holes by Louis Sachar (Holes, #1)
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. …
Sarah Avery rated An ABC of witchcraft past & present: 5 stars
Sarah Avery rated Handmaid's Tale: 5 stars
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and …
Sarah Avery rated The white goddess: 1 star
The white goddess by Robert Graves
Examines the language of ancient Celtic and Mediterranean poetic myths, probing the role of the all-encompassing female figure, the White …
Sarah Avery rated North and South: 4 stars
North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in …
Sarah Avery rated The Lorax: 5 stars
Sarah Avery rated A Book of Luminous Things: 5 stars
A Book of Luminous Things by Czesław Miłosz
A collection of 300 poems from writers around the world, selected and edited by Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz
Czesław Miłosz's …
Sarah Avery rated Sabriel (The Abhorsen Trilogy): 5 stars
Sabriel (The Abhorsen Trilogy) by Garth Nix
First in the Old Kingdom/Abhorsen series.
Sarah Avery rated A Coney Island of the mind: 5 stars
Sarah Avery rated Le Morte D'Arthur: 5 stars
Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory
Presents the epic story of King Arthur, the wizard Merlin, his Knights of the Round Table, the sword Excalibur, and …