![]() ![]() ![]() His eyes have seen plenty bad things and survived the seeing. But these books are all about how one character sees the world, and, in Warden’s case, viewing is a pretty jaundiced experience. Sure, the Low Town novels form a trilogy, sure there are imagined worlds, Rigus and the Thirteen Kingdoms, and they’re inhabited by exotic people. He’s a man with shivs aplenty, not least the eponymous Straight Razor. ![]() In the Low Town novels that man is Warden, embittered war veteran, disgraced secret agent, drug lord, with baggage as big as a mountain, as big as the bag of Pixie’s Breath and Choke he’s about to flog to his equally disenfranchised clients on his blighted turf, a turf he will fight to the nails for. To my mind at least, in recent times, the landscape of secondary world fantasy has turned inwards, to the dystopic, disenfranchised of society: the new protagonist is an anti-hero. ![]() The map and the journey back then were huge: the roads went ever on, through trilogies, tetralogies and more… It’s nearly 80 years since Middle Earth arrived with its exotic landscapes populated by reluctant yet noble heroes, a myriad different races, histories older than time. The topography and culture of fantasy has changed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() “The Tipping Point” used experts and academic studies to explain everything from the comeback of Hush Puppies shoes to the drop in crime in New York City in the early 1990s. In 2000, Gladwell published his first book, “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference,” which examines the moment when an idea, product or behavior reaches the point where it tips, or spreads and gains critical mass. Starting in 1987, he worked as a reporter for The Washington Post, covering business and science, before being hired, in 1996, as a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. Raised in rural Ontario, Canada, where his English-born father was a university math professor and his Jamaican-born mother was a psychotherapist, Gladwell graduated from the University of Toronto in 1984 with a degree in history. Known for taking a counterintuitive look at questions about modern life, Gladwell’s writing has explored everything from IQ tests to why people choose Coke over Pepsi. On this day in 1963, Malcolm Gladwell, author of such non-fiction best-sellers as “The Tipping Point,” “Blink” and “Outliers,” is born in Fareham, Hampshire, England. ![]() ![]() She started the company in 2010 and she sells her work through her website and in Liberty, London, following success at their Best of British Open Call. ![]() "retail_price" : "14.95", "online_price" : "14.95", "our_price" : "14.95", "club_price" : "14.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0. What Delilah Did is the work of Sophie Simpson, who describes herself as a mildly eccentric girl with old fashioned values and a rather overactive imagination. So join Delilah in celebrating her favorite time of year with stitched decorations that are, quite simply, heirlooms in the making.", ![]() Traditionalists will opt for Classic and Cosy projects, including a Tiny Highland Village Garland. Stylish and Chic items, like Polar Parade Bunting, will delight sophisticates. Merry and Bright offers colorful, modernist geometric gems and a mini-sampler stocking. Title, Stitch the Halls: 12 decorations to make for Christmas Author, Sophie Simpson Edition, illustrated Publisher, Pavilion Books, 2014 ISBN, 1909397849. "item_description" : "Its time to celebrate Christmas in the magical world of What Delilah DidWhatever your holiday style, youll find something thats just right in these three themed collections. ![]() |