![]() ![]() The Code of the Woosters is among the most widely read Jeeves novels, and one of his best. All of which have introduced him to a new generation of readers, as well as reminding the rest of us why re-reading him is such a delight. There's been the BBC adaption of Blandings, the BBC4 biopic Wodehouse in Exile, Sebastian Faulks's Jeeves and the Wedding Bells, and the West End adaptation of the 1938 novel The Code of the Woosters. The last 12 months have seen him flourishing in the popular imagination to an extent perhaps unmatched since the height of his success in the 1930s. Whether the lost upper-class Edwardian world of Bertie Wooster and the Drones club, or the pastoral haven of Blandings Castle, his work conjures a timeless myth of quintessential Englishness. Few writers evoke the notion of 'comfort' like PG Wodehouse. ![]()
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Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. ![]() ![]() The Washington Post Book World The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. ![]() ![]() Follow Jem and see, against the backdrop of the Shadow Market's dark dealings and festival, Anna Lightwood's doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild's great sin, and Tessa Gray as she is plunged into a world war. And Jem is searching through the Shadow Markets, in many different cities over long years, for a relic from his past. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is a sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters' world. ![]() ![]() There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. Ghosts of the Shadow Market is a Shadowhunters novel. 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