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The Colour of Milk

Nell Leyshon

The Colour of Milk is the new novel by Orange longlisted author and playwright Nell Leyshon. 'this is my book and i am writing it by my own hand' The year is eighteen hundred and thirty one when fifteen-year-old Mary begins the difficult ...

Memoirs of a Dipper

Nell Leyshon

'A reading experience that hums with an electric energy that never gets boring and feels shockingly, painfully real.

Bedlam

Nell Leyshon

Set in the notorious 18th Century lunatic asylum that gives the play its name, Bedlam is the story of how a cruel and unusual institution starts to crumble, after the arrival of an unassuming country girl.

The Farm

Nell Leyshon

I'm doing what's always been done on this piece of land.' The farm is running at a loss, but Vic is determined to keep working. He'll do everything he can, work day and night, but he won't admit that his small farm has no future.

PICADOR SHOTS - 'The Voice'

Nell Leyshon

The Voice A daughter’s vigil for her mother, and her lost childhood. F Sharp Masako is married to Freya’s former boyfriend. The only other thing the two women have in common is the piano – though their experiences are worlds apart.

Devotion

Nell Leyshon

Written with subtlety and sensitivity, this deceptively simple tale pulls the reader closer with each page' Catherine O'Flynn, author of What Was Lost 'Detailed and free-flowing; the shocking, emotional ending will leave you gasping for air ...

Black Dirt

Nell Leyshon

Frank lies in bed, his dying dreams haunted by memories of one long-ago summer, the sticky heat of night, and the stories his father told about Christ, the red-breasted robin, and kings Arthur and Alfred.

Glass Eels

Nell Leyshon

Suffused with the austere poetry of the West Country, Glass Eels tells the story of a girl's sexual awakening as she struggles to free herself from the shadows of her childhood and the stifling atmosphere of an all-male household.

The Voice

Nell Leyshon

"The Voice" A daughter's vigil for her mother, and her lost childhood. "F Sharp" Masako is married to Freya's former boyfriend. The only other thing the two women have in common is the piano - though their experiences are worlds apart.

Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

Nell Stevens

They pop up in her novel, too, and in other fictional pieces that dot the book. It seems that there is nowhere Nell can run—an island or the pages of her notebook—to escape the big questions of love, art and ambition.

Best Served Cold

Jimmie Ruth Evans

When Wanda Nell Culpepper's brother shows up in town after ten years, Wanda Nell wants to heal the rift between them, but Rusty has other scores to settle in town and will barely talk to her.

Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the ...

Nell Irvin Painter

Nell Irvin Painter will be featured in the PBS multipart series The Progressive Era with Bill Moyers, which coincides with the release of the updated edition of this acclaimed work.

Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

Nell Stevens

But as Nell gets to work on her novel--a delightful Dickensian fiction she calls Bleaker House--she discovers that an excruciatingly erratic Internet connection and 1100 calories a day (as much food as she could carry in her suitcase, ...

The Girl from Gadsby's

Harriet Hudson

Nell Watkins doesn't appear to be the ordinary star-struck girl to the burly doorman barring her way to the dressing room of beautiful musical comedy star Melissa Hargreaves. 'Tell her,' Nell insists, 'I'm the girl from Gadsby's.

The Best American Short Stories ... and the Yearbook of the ...

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She was a Morris — Laura Nell Morris. I won't bore you by telling you what a beautiful creature Laura Nell was. Suffice it to say that it was love at first sight for me. And suffice it to say, on another score, that she bore only the very slightest family ...

Battling Nell: The Life of Southern Journalist Cornelia ...

Alexander Leidholdt

Through the extraordinary story of "Battling Nell," Leidholdt reveals how the complex issues of gender, labor, and race intertwined to influence the convulsive events that shaped the course of early twentieth-century southern history.

Southern History across the Color Line

Nell Irvin Painter

gender & american culture Coeditors Thadious M. Davis Linda K. Kerber Editorial Advisory Board Nancy Cott Cathy N. Davidson Jane Sherron De Hart Sara Evans Annette Kolodny Wendy Martin Nell Irvin Painter Janice Radway Mary Kelley ...