Bella Bathurst Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

What does it take to make a living from the land in modern Britain?

Dopo l'esperienza africana di Weekenders, ancora una volta il Daily Telegraph ha riunito lrvine Welsh, Monica Ali, Michel Atherton, Bella Bathurst, Jenny Colgan, Simon Garfield, W. F. Deedes, Tony Hawks, Victoria Glendinning, Sam Millet e Colm Toibin per catapultarli a Calcutta: dal confort e dalla modernità delle loro occidentalissime città, Londra e Edimburgo, a un luogo dove il passato parla ancora e il futuro chiama più forte che mai. Da quell'esperienza sono nati i racconti compresi in questa antologia che, mescolando la fiction al reportage di viaggio, riflettono modi diversi di vedere una metropoli che è nel mondo simbolo di povertà e miseria e che i suoi abitanti chiamano la Città della Gioia.

Set against the backdrop of a field trip to the English countryside, the story explores the complex dynamics among a group of schoolgirls and their teachers as they encounter the allure and dangers of a world filled with alcohol, drugs, and sex. The narrative delves into themes of vulnerability, cruelty, and the intense social pressures that shape their friendships and identities. With echoes of Lord of the Flies, it chillingly examines the fragility of civilization and the emotional scars that can result from adolescent struggles for power and acceptance.

Robert Louis Stevenson was the most famous of the Stevensons, but not by any means the most productive. The Lighthouse Stevensons built every lighthouse round Scotland, were responsible for a slew of inventions in both construction and optics, and achieved feats of engineering in conditions that would be forbidding even today. The same driven energy which Robert Louis Stevenson puts into writing, his ancestors put into lighting the darkness of the seas. This text tells their tale.