![]() Inside illustrations are by Jan McCafferty, and the cover by Mark Beech (2014). Will it be the Land of Spells, the Land of Treats, or the Land of Do-As-You-Please? Discover the magic!įirst published in 1939, this edition contains the original text. Join them and their friends Moonface, Saucepan Man and Silky the fairy as they discover which new land is at the top of the Faraway Tree. When Jo, Bessie and Fanny leap over a ditch near their new house in the country, they find themselves in an Enchanted Wood where trees whisper their secrets and magic is everywhere. ![]() Joe, Beth and Frannie find the Enchanted Wood on the doorstep of their new home, and when they discover the Faraway Tree they fall into all sorts of adventures! The first magical story in the Faraway Tree series by one of the world's most popular children's authors, Enid Blyton. Major feature film of The Magic Faraway Tree to come from Neal Street Studios. The Magic Faraway Tree has been one of the bestselling and most beloved of Enid Blyton's books for over 80 years. ![]() Enid Blyton has been a global bestseller for over 80 years - more than 500 million books sold worldwide. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() We learn about the bookstore’s bothersome ghost: Flora, a devoted customer who while alive – as a white woman – craved approval from Tookie and her “fellow Indigenes.” Now Flora’s ghost won’t leave, knocking over displays and splaying books. Louise Erdrich’s 'The Night Watchman' is a rich novel of Native American family, community ![]() Here a reader might wonder if "The Sentence" is on-trend autofiction, but in fact, the novel, in which “Louise” registers only occasionally, is more sidelong and interesting. In fact, exactly like that one, and where “Louise” interviews and hires her. These elements inform both the story and the telling of "The Sentence." Tookie finds her ideal job at a Minneapolis bookshop, a small independent store not unlike the one Erdrich owns in real life. In our own Anishinaabewomin, it includes intricate forms of human relationships and infinite ways to joke.” It’s a pleasure to spend time inside the singular mind of Tookie as narrator, a prickly and devoted Ojibwe woman: “Even though most of us don’t speak our Native languages, many of us act out of a handed-down sense of that language. ![]() ![]() Now, beings claiming to be the Greek gods inhabit a terraformed Mars and have recreated the Iliad in the flesh. Humanity experienced a posthumanist singularity, including an event vaguely alluded to as “the rubicon,” and mastered nanotechnology and quantum tunnelling/quantum teleportation. It’s a couple of thousand years into the future. ![]() Summarizing Ilium is not an easy task, but I’ll do my best. Yet I have no doubt he is actually a great SF author, one of the greats of our age, even if he isn’t one of my favourites. I doubt I’ll ever refer to Simmons as one of my favourite authors, or even as one of my favourite SF authors. In my review for the final book of that cycle, The Rise of Endymion, I commented, “Even if you don’t like the series, it is hard to dispute the scope and style of it.” Simmons lives up to this judgment with Ilium, which does for the Iliad what Hyperion did for Keats and Romantic poetry (although I’d argue it goes further than that). I didn’t like The Terror or Drood, but I warmed up to Simmons through his epic Hyperion Cantos. ![]() ![]() Longtime readers of my reviews will recall I have a tumultuous relationship with Dan Simmons’ books. ![]() |