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It is the age of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, when Europe burns with a passion for long-flowing locks. And when seven sisters, born into fatherless poverty in Ireland, grow up with hair cascading down their backs, to their ankles, and beyond, men are not slow to recognise their potential. It begins with a singing and dancing septet, with Irish jigs kicked out in dusty church halls. But it is not the sisters' singing or their dancing that fills the seats: it is the torrents of hair they let loose at the end of each show. And their hair will take dark-hearted Darcy, bickering twins Berenice and Enda, plain Pertilly, gentle Oona, wild Ida and fearful, flame-haired Manticory - the inimitable narrator of their on-and-off stage adventures - out of poverty, through the dance halls of Ireland, to the salons of Dublin and the palazzi of Venice. It will bring some of them love and each of them loss. For their past trails behind the sisters like the tresses on their heads, and their fame and fortune will come at a terrible price...

Product Description: Fogfinger rules Venice. His Fog Squad and spies are everywhere. The Venetians fear him and obey him. Every year one of their children is lost in a grisly Lambing ceremony. The child must climb the bell tower and let the Fate in the Box decide their destiny...read more

Product Description: 'Women's Wicked Wit' presents a collection sharp and acerbic comments on life uttered by a collection of women writers, actresses and celebrities, including Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, Jo Brand and Germaine Greer.

Product Description: Savage hyena-like creatures threaten Venice - the Ravageurs are on the prowl and seizing men, women and children. On the night of 30 June 1846 Talina's parents disappear and she and her cat, Drusilla, are forced to go and live with her Guardian and his three savage dogs in his lonely tower in the northernmost edge of the city...read more

Product Description: Venice is in peril. Bajamonte Tiepolo is back, and his baddened magic has spread across the globe, from the island of Hooroo in the South Pacific, all the way to London, where Queen Victoria lies dying.Now two cities need saving by Teo, the Undrowned Child, and Renzo, the Studious Son of a Venetian prophecy...read more

Product Description: Teodora has always longed to visit Venice, and at last she has her chance. But strange and sinister things are afoot in the beautiful floating city. Teo is quickly subsumed into a secret world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets, statues speak, rats read, and librarians fluidly turn into cats...read more

All over the world and throughout the ages people have accumulated the extraordinary objects of their affection. Some of these collections are museums. This work presents a pilgrimage to some of the world's oddest and interesting, which include museums of asparagus, lawnmowers, ships in bottles, the pets of American presidents, and burnt food.

Product Description: Featuring more than 600 quotations by famous foodies, this collection presents rude and highly entertaining criticism about cookery. From reviews about pretentious cuisine and lousy waitstaff to comments on vegetables, seafood, and desserts, these notable critics leave no culinary delight untouched and even offer cutting remarks about gourmet masters...read more

The turbulent love affair of Venetian actress Mimosina Docezza and Valentine Greatrakes, leader of London's medical underworld, is set against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Venice and London and reveals the remarkable health remedies of the era. By the author of The Floating Book. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Tailored for the literary-minded cat lover, this charming celebration of the relationship between cats and their smitten owners is packed with amusing and enticing quotes about human-feline relationships. People who may have a website devoted to their cats will find themselves in great company, with quotes from cat "slaves" Raymond Chandler, Edgar Allan Poe, Theodore Roosevelt, Martha Stewart, and Mark Twain...read more

Product Description: Christmas began with a good but harassed woman giving birth in difficult domestic circumstances. Somewhere between then and now, the circumstances have changed, but for women today, Christmas is still a time of joys garnered against the odds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

'More Women's Wicked Wit' contains nearly 2000 quotations from women of every kind, from royalty to rock stars.

In fifteenth-century Venice, a love triangle involving editor Bruno Uguccione, seductive scribe Felice Feliciano, and Sosia Simeon, a beautiful but heartless Dalmatian woman, is turned upside down by the decision of Wendelin von Speyer, a German publisher, to publish the first printed edition of Catullus using Gutenberg's revolutionary movable type. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: This handsome and elegant anthology of famous historical letters covers all aspects of human life—emotional, creative, and intellectual. Hundreds of letters organized by topic are featured from well-known men and women such as Joan of Arc, Hernán Cortés, Albert Einstein, and Virginia Woolf...read more

In this collection of over two thousand quotations from notable women, a breath of emotion and thought spotlighting sex, money, men, and the government explores the meaning of love, life, and laughter from a woman's perspective.

Product Description: Offering sample writings, historical examples, and practical advice, this invaluable and beautifully packaged book contains guidance for all occasions that call for eloquent and inspired love letters. Modern model letters to adapt and use in specific circumstances, tips on letter-writing techniques, and creative suggestions for packaging and delivering messages of love are peppered with fanciful, original Victorian illustrations, making the look of this volume as romantic as the letters within...read more

Product Description: Following the success of Women's Wicked Wit, this latest collection contains nearly 2000 scintillating quotations from some of the funniest or most outspoken women around. Grouped together around specific subjects or issues that are guaranteed to fire up these feisty dames, these quotes contain some of the most acerbic retorts, sharpest humour or most righteous wit imaginable...read more

Elusive and fantastical, Venice is a many-layered confection of history. The writers here have captured what is most important to them in pieces ranging from the city's foundation up to the present time.

Product Description: "Then let us pledge a friendshipwithout human tiesAnd meet again at thefar end of the Milky Way." "Li Po, translated by Joseph LeeThe ancient poets of the Far East have such a way with words and mental images. And so it is with the art from that region...read more

Product Description: This anthology of quotations, letters, poems, stories, and essay excerpts-delicately and elegantly illustrated with small silhouettes and old tinted photographs in sepia and pink-celebrates the love affair between women and cats. Insightful gems include "Of course, every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room"; "Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea"; and "Flirting, falling, and yawning anywhere, / Like women who want no contract...read more