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Wit, compassion and insight combine in this entertaining novel that explores the politics and human comedy behind writers’ festivals and the publishing industry. Writers’ festivals can be hotbeds of literary and romantic intrigue, and the Oceania is up there with the best of them. Rookie director Rae McKay, recently returned from New York, fears she has bitten off more than she can chew. Pressure comes not only from local and international writers but also from the prestigious Opus Book Award, which this year is being hosted by the festival. Add to that high-level diplomatic fallout surrounding a dissident Chinese writer, Rae’s slowly disintegrating private life and ongoing dramas involving much loved characters of The Writing Class, and the result is a wise and witty novel that explores the contemporary phenomenon of the public face of the writer. This lively, stand-alone novel is as ‘intelligent, tender and funny’ as readers found The Writing Class. '. . . a book that's sophisticated, witty and - best of all - generous in its attitudes to its characters. It's a love letter to reading and writing and things readers and writers share, especially the mutual effort to understand the world and the people in it.' - Paul Little, North & South on The Writing Class
The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates the environmental and economic impact termites inflict on human societies in this fascinating examination of one of nature’s most misunderstood insects. Are we more like termites than we ever imagined? In Underbug, the award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli introduces us to the enigmatic creatures that collectively outweigh human beings ten to one and consume $40 billion worth of valuable stuff annually—and yet, in Margonelli’s telling, seem weirdly familiar. Over the course of a decade-long obsession with the little bugs, Margonelli pokes around termite mounds and high-tech research facilities, closely watching biologists, roboticists, and geneticists. Her globe-trotting journey veers into uncharted territory, from evolutionary theory to Edwardian science literature to the military industrial complex. What begins as a natural history of the termite becomes a personal exploration of the unnatural future we’re building, with darker observations on power, technology, historical trauma, and the limits of human cognition. Whether in Namibia or Cambridge, Arizona or Australia, Margonelli turns up astounding facts and raises provocative questions. Is a termite an individual or a unit of a superorganism? Can we harness the termite’s properties to change the world? If we build termite-like swarming robots, will they inevitably destroy us? Is it possible to think without having a mind? Underbug burrows into these questions and many others—unearthing disquieting answers about the world’s most underrated insect and what it means to be human.
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Jam Bakery Pastry Chef, Isabelle Becker has a choice to make; move with her parents to Florida or stay in Fulton River, Vermont. Either way, her parent's house where she lives, is going to be sold out from under her feet. As the deadline for her decision rapidly approaches, she becomes reacquainted with an old high school friend, Gilbert Darrow. But it's cuffing season and his interest increases her anxiety that he's just another guy intent on finding someone only for the holidays.Working on a project to repair woodwork in St. Brigid's Church, Gilbert Darrow is struggling to keep his furniture design and woodworking business afloat. He's pleasantly surprised to see Isabelle working at Jam Bakery. Catching up with the fair-haired beauty sparks a interest that rekindles the crush he had toward her all through grammar, junior-high and high school. When he's offered a six-month renovation project in New York with a six figure salary he's torn between continuing to grow his relationship with Isabelle or set his business on a solid financial footing.As feelings grow between the former classmates, Isabelle's anxiety over her choice escalates. Can she trust Gilbert will not bolt when cuffing season is over? Will Gilbert disappear for this woodwork renovation project, or stick around for a possible future with Caroline - if she decides to stay in Fulton River?