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Essays on London provide an acute and perceptive insight into early twentieth century city life. Including profound meditations on the rhythm of life on Oxford Street and the consumerism that drives it, vivid descriptions of the epic cathedrals that pave the streets and the place of religion in contemporary society, and an intimate sketch of a charming woman who is a Londoner to her core, these eloquent snapshots of the city are told with Woolf’s trademark intimacy and self-awareness.

In the dark and uncertain days of 1941 and 1942, when Rommel's tanks were sweeping towards Suez, a handful of daring raiders were making history for the Allies. They operated deep behind the German lines, often driving hundreds of miles through the deserts of North Africa. They hid by day and struck by night, destroying aircraft, blowing up ammunition dumps, derailing trains, and killing many times their own number.

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The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's haunting tale about a naïve young woman's sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast. In symbolic, lyrical, and intoxicating prose, her outward journey begins to mirror her internal voyage into adulthood as she searches for her personal identity, grapples with love, and learns how to face life intellectually and emotionally. Its wit and exquisiteness, and its profound depth and insight into humanity, will capture the imagination of the listener.

Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis - meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back and forth from the shore. The book follows them as they develop from childhood to maturity and follow different passions and ambitions; their voices are interspersed with interludes from the timeless and unifying chorus of nature.

Bookish, snarky, and fiercely independent Nate Boudreaux leads a solitary life. Between teaching classes at the university and working toward his PhD, he doesn’t need a partner to occupy his time, and he certainly doesn’t need a man like Alistair Drake complicating his future. Alistair Drake, black sheep of the tremendously wealthy Drake family, is more interested in adding another notch to his bedpost than another zero to his bank account.

1560. Adrastée de Nemours, noble heredera francesa, debe abandonar la corte para casarse con un Highlander, por orden de la reina María Estuardo de Escocia, entonces soberana de Francia. Darren MacLennan, Laird de la isla North Uist, está obligado a aceptar esa unión para llenar las arcas de oro y así poder enfrentarse a los clanes rivales. Prisioneros de ese matrimonio que nunca quisieron, ¿lograrán superar sus prejuicios, mientras sus enemigos esperan en las sombras?

Il giorno in cui lascia il collegio londinese nel quale ha studiato, Claire Marshall è felicissima: non vede l’ora di tornare nel Derbyshire per riabbracciare il padre, al quale è legata da un profondo affetto. Il destino, però, ha in serbo per lei due eventi non proprio piacevoli: l’incontro, o meglio lo scontro, con Lord Braxton Cornwell, che ha da poco ereditato il titolo di duca di Woburn, e la scoperta che suo padre, vedovo da tempo, si è risposato all’improvviso con una perfetta sconosciuta, anche lei vedova e con una figlia di diciassette anni.

Londra, 1814. Althea Hope è tutto fuorché un’eroina romantica: ha quasi trent’anni, porta gli occhiali, e il suo guardaroba non contiene un solo abito che non sia terribilmente fuori moda. In più, ricopre la classica professione delle zitelle senza speranza: fa l’istitutrice e la chaperon di una ragazza alla sua prima Stagione. Il suo compito è quello di accompagnare la ricchissima e bellissima Greta agli eventi mondani, tenendola sotto controllo ma rimanendo sullo sfondo come una severa tappezzeria.

Londra. 1812. Lord Lancelot Devon – una canaglia come pochi, ormai quasi sul lastrico – si trova dinanzi a un terribile bivio: finire sommerso dai debiti o trovare una moglie ricca. La sua avversione nei confronti del vincolo matrimoniale è tale che quasi preferirebbe la galera. Tuttavia, persuaso dalla sua amica Cassie, una prostituta dallo spirito materno, decide di andare a caccia della signorina più danarosa fra le molte debuttanti della Stagione.

Lesson from Gwammie tells the story of a grandmother explaining faith and church to her three grandchildren: Bumble Bee, Doodle Bug, and Chipmunk. After arriving to spend the day with Gwammie, the three children ask a series of questions to understand why Gwammie is so happy. Gwammie explains why going to church and spending time with God brings her peace and happiness. This leads to a series of questions about God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, church, religion, faith, and how to live and be yourself.

9 Mile Road is the official podcast of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Each episode brings together Masonic leaders, scholars, and community voices to explore the timeless principles, living traditions, and civic impact of Freemasonry across the Commonwealth and beyond. Whether you are a Mason, a friend of the Craft, or simply curious about its history, philosophy, and role in today’s world — this is a space for open conversation, education, and reflection. Join us as we discuss leadership, service, history, and the pursuit of light — values that connect us...

'It’s Me. Your Brain.' is a podcast about how your nervous system quietly shapes how you think, decide, lead, and adapt in a high-velocity world. Hosted by Virginia Palm, founder of Augment Mind and former management consultant specializing in neuroscience-driven leadership, the show translates brain science and psychology into grounded insights on attention, stress, judgment, and sustainable performance in modern work. For thoughtful leaders and curious minds who want to work with their brain, not constantly push against it.

Kyran Loyal is the last heir to the lost throne of a forgotten planet, the figurehead of a nomadic people fleeing the galactic tyranny of a brutal regime. Davia Sifane is the unrecognized daughter of an imperial despot. When happenstance pits them against each other in battle, neither expects the outcome: they are the only two people to survive. Marooned on a barren moon, their only hope of survival is to rely on each other, but what they learn will either kill them or change the galaxy forever.

Night and Day, is a story about a group of young people trying to discover what it means to fall in love. It asks all the big questions: What does it mean to fall in love? Does marriage grant happiness? What is happiness? Night and Day is a conventional novel; however, it maps out for us the world of Virginia Woolf in its wondrous prose: for her it was the beginning, leading on to a prolonged engagement with her search for the means to express the 'inner life'.

Virginia Woolf's semi-biographical novel, inspired by her life changing love affair with Vita Sackville-West, takes us on an exhilarating, fantastical roller coaster, tracing 400 years of English history, in the company of her shape-shifting, gender-bending, time-travelling hero Orlando, whose inner conflicts and triumphs challenge our preconceptions of the nature of love, the battle of the sexes, posing socal and metaphysical questions including what we now call climate change.

It is a June day in London in 1923, and the lovely Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Whom will she see? Her friend Peter, back from India, who has never really stopped loving her? What about Sally, with whom Clarissa had her life’s happiest moment? Meanwhile, the shell-shocked Septimus Smith is struggling with his life on the same London day.

The collected BBC dramatisations of the fiction of Virginia Woolf, with star casts including Kristin Scott-Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Juliet Stevenson, Laura Fraser, Robert Glenister and Fenella Woolgar....

Jacob’s Room is Virginia Woolf’s own modernist manifesto. Jacob Flanders is a mere point of contact between a crowd of people, appearing and disappearing in a tableau in which all is flux, without certainty and without a controlling viewpoint. But it seems that the author could not maintain this rigorous impersonality, and the radical technique breaks down, so that we finally see Jacob as a person, just as his world is blown apart.