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Meet Liz: all she wants is some peace and quiet so she can read a book with her cat Henry, love of her life, by her side. But trampling all over this dream is a group of wild things also known as Liz's family. Namely Richard - a man, a husband, no serious rival to Henry; Thomas - their sensitive seven-year-old son, for whom life is a bed of pain already; and Evie - five-year-old acrobat, gangster, anarchist, daughter. And as if her family's demands weren't enough, Liz must also contend with the madness of parents, friends, bosses and at least one hovering nemesis. 

A wonderfully written account of a father's relationship with his troubled son, as told through his funny, tender letters. In 2007 Michael Maitland left home for university, and in the years that followed he developed depression, OCD and, almost fatally, anorexia. It was only when Michael was taken to hospital in 2012, his body shutting down and his organs failing, that the family realised exactly what was happening.

The Secrets We Keep is a literary memoir about grief, family silence, and the long arc of understanding—brought to life in the rich, unmistakable cadence of a South African voice. Growing up in suburban South Africa during the social shifts of the 1960s through the 1990s, Tania J. Wilson’s childhood is marked by both warmth and unspoken fracture. At the center of her story is the loss of her brother—an absence never fully acknowledged, yet quietly shaping the emotional climate of her family. What is not discussed becomes as powerful as what is.

When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as ‘hostages to fortune', the little-known garrison on Australia's tropic frontier has been left with no modern equipment, no lifeline to the outside, and no means of escape. Most are captured and killed in the sinking of the prison ship Montevideo Maru, which remains Australia's worst sea disaster. But the surviving soldiers and nurses carry on.

Questo diario è il terzo libro scritto da me, un’esplorazione degli ambienti cittadini ed extraurbani per osservare gli umani e gli oggetti moderni. Rappresentazioni in forma filosofica o matematica per riuscire a trovare la giusta quantità di moto, le prove che il bene è un più alto sentimento, senz’altro rispetto a un male, la giusta ripetizione di sempre le stesse cose per confermare, che qui non si può dire il falso e tanto meno realizzarlo.