The Shades – A Novel

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Shades of the Prison House explores the history of imprisonment in the British Isles from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. A cracking read and a deft (and timely) unpicking of complex questions around atonement and accountability. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

In The Shades a daughter is killed in a car accident and her parents and brother are left to find their own way to cope.

MIT Press Direct is a distinctive collection of influential MIT Press books curated for scholars and libraries worldwide. Instead, she wrote, the books are notable not for transgressive sex but for how women are using technology to subvert gendered shame by exploring explicit sexual content privately using e-readers. I so loved this book that made me consider our choices made to get the life that we wish to live and whether the getting makes us happy or makes us long for a do over. He has also authored Edinburgh under Siege: 1571-1573 (2003), Blood Feud: The Stewarts and Gordons at War in the Age of Mary Queen of Scots (2002), Hanging and Heresy (1994) and Hanging in Judgment: Religion and the Death Penalty in England from the Bloody Code to Abolition (1993).

The backdrop of turn-of-the-century South Africa with the lure of the gold mines heightened the drama. The 11 February 2016 has finally arrived and with it the publication of my first book Shades of Grey. For anyone craving more Shades of Grey, Fforde has a site dedicated to the novel and world with a bestiary, vocab, gallery, and more, as well as a handful of "infoganda" segments on his Youtube. I think some of it might have been me personally as a reader because I'm coming to find I'm not a real fan of literary-types of fiction.A visceral look at what (intentional or not) carelessness looks like and its devastating consequences. The author has spoken of her shock at the success of the book: "The explosion of interest has taken me completely by surprise. Her keen understanding and appreciation of the South African landscape, its fauna and flora, as well as its peoples, is colourfully evident in her writing. An engaging survey of an important subject [and] an ambitious history of imprisonment for a general audience that counters what he believes to be the academy's overemphasis on social control. I have graduated high school and college, and I am on my way to graduating grad school before this novel comes out.