Jean Webb: 3 books

Introducing Children's Literature is an ideal guide to reading children's literature through the perspective of literary history. Focusing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each period and the ways in which these concerns influence...

Maria Boulding was a highly-respected spiritual writer and translator, notably of St Augustine. Her testimony, as a contemplative nun, is eloquent and forceful: “love is the mightiest source of power in the world, and because of the solidarity of mankind contemplatives believe that lives handed...

No Mistaking The Truth. Wanzo Was Dead. THE little foxes that gnaw at the vines. That phrase from the Bible kept running through Mike Barkley’s head. Turbulent eddies of feeling washed over him as he watched the progress of those clock hands over the jury room door. Not that either the District...