The Twitnam Summer: Friendship, Satire and the Writing of Gulliver’s Travels'A rollicking, brilliant book' GARETH RUSSELL 'Hugely enjoyable' SUNDAY TIMES A rollicking narrative history set during the extraordinary summer of 1726 when Jonathan Swift arrived in London from Dublin, with a draft of Gullivers Travels in his bag. Jonathan Swift settled into his great friend Alexander Popes new house on the river at Twickenham (or Twitnam as they liked to call it), and joined by John Gay, the trio of Scriblerus Club writers spent a

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the Cleobella

at their remote bed-and-breakfast inn in Maine

Gritty and Poignant Prose: Discover a portrait of the artist through his relationship with the animals he considered his most profound teachers

O’Connell makes clear

The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of nature

culminating in a desperate race against time to save another innocent life

stolen from the altar romance by Millie Adams

a Mars rover determined to live up to his name

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when will it be time for sleeping

along with delectable sweets