The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories. Main, Paperback - Amos Tutuola

Their very titles - from 'The Duckling Brothers and their Disobedient Sister' to 'Don't Pay Bad for Bad' - are evocative of a unique blend of tradi...

Very modern ghost stories from the Booker-nominated author of The Wall.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): John LanchesterNumber of pages: 240Public...

This is the story of Adebisi, a brave African huntress who sets out for the Jungle of the Pigmies to rescue her four brothers. By employing her str...

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the hear...

Reissue of Amos Tutola's debut novel, the supernatural story of an alcoholic man's search for his dead wine tapster. Regarded as a seminal work of ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe author ranks as one of the foremost living traditional African storytellers - as recognised by the acclaim of his first book, The Pa...

Reducere. When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African Y...

This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern's short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. McGahern has long been recognized...

Each story in Sara Maitland's collection enacts a daring kind of alchemy, fusing together raw elements of scientific theory with ancient myth, folk...

A compelling and moving memoir about saving lives in one of the most dangerous regions in the worldPublisher: Canongate Books LtdAuthor(s): James M...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): S T JoshiNumber of pages: 480Collection: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication date: 2005Dimensions: 198 x 128 ...

A selection of weird and wonderful stories from the pages of Doctor Who Annual, featuring the first six Doctors and their companions. The Fourth Do...

Reducere. "The dreams were wholly beyond the pale of sanity . . . " Plagued by insane nightmare visions, Walter Gilman seeks help in Miskatonic University's ...

Village Witch describes life as a Village Wisewoman in the wilds of West Cornwall. The first part of the book documents the tortuous and sometimes ...

This volume unites four of Wells' liveliest and most engaging tales of the strange evolution and behaviour of animals - including human beings. The...

Reducere. The sweltering heat of the Florida sun breaks as a chill runs down your spine. A dark shadow looms from a nearby tourist trap--you didn't expect to...

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Reducere. "Scenes from Village Life is like a symphony, its movements more impressive together than in isolation. There is, in each story, a particular chord...

Reducere. Fresh out of training, Dr. Chuck Radis moves with his wife and daughter to Peaks Island, Maine, to fulfill a Public Health scholarship obligation. ...

From one of America's greatest living crime writers, a razor-sharp collection of killer short stories, in a gorgeous hardback edition.Publisher: Fa...

Publisher: Outland EntertainmentAuthor(s): Brynneth Nimue BrownNumber of pages: 300Collection: Hopeless, MainePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 140...

The essays in How Not to Be a Doctor combine erudition with humour, candour, and the human touch. They show how, in medicine, you cannot separate p...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas RobisheauxOn the night of the festive holiday of Shrove Tuesday in 1672 Anna Fessler died after eating one of her ne...

Reducere. DescriptionServiceNow has grown gigantic in the last years and have taken the leading role as the Enterprise Service Management system for the futu...

Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Amit ChaudhuriNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 196 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softba...

A beguiling, short and yet sweeping prose-poem, Afternoon Raag is the account of a young Bengali man studying at Oxford University and caught in co...

Special ADF agents Nicholas Briggs, Matthew Waterhouse, Louise Jameson and Jon Culshaw read five tales of adventure - The Fugitive, Assassination S...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A terrifying ordeal begins, as the village is torn between those who want to save Jane's life and those who claim they want to save her soul. Inspi...

Reducere. Ben K. Green takes us back to the deep Southwest and the never-a-dull-moment years he spent as a practicing horse doctor along the Pecos and the Ri...

Reducere. Get whisked away into the history of some of the most controversial women in history: witches. Tracing as far back as the Stone Age, witches have f...

Reducere. DescriptionStrange characters cast long shadows over the Old West. There was Paul Bunyan. There was Pecos Bill. Strangest of all was the giant moun...

'[A] compelling meditation on Indian and Western art-making.' The New YorkerFinding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's revelatory exploration of North In...

Fall under the spell of witches throughout the ages in this magical illustrated guide.

A friendly, fascinating book about how to work in the medical industry, written by NHS GP and TV presenter Dr Punam Krishan. Do you have what it ta...

A friendly, fascinating book about how to work in the medical industry, written by NHS GP and TV presenter Dr Punam Krishan. Do you have what it ta...

An inspiring story of doctors who changed the health care of an African nation Dr. Dilan Ellegala arrives in Tanzania, shocked to find the entire c...

Reducere. DescriptionThe story of Waterville and its surrounds is one of astonishingly rapid growth and prosperity. The city flourished on the wave of the Se...

Reducere. Edited and produced with the goal of making it student-friendly, this handbook has application to all three licensing courses currently offered in ...

Reducere. A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcend...

Reducere. Shamanic practice seeks healing and wisdom from realms that overlap the everyday world. The use of plant and animal medicines, vision quests, tranc...

Publisher: Prince ClassicsAuthor(s): Leo TolstoyNumber of pages: 358Collection: Prince ClassicsPublication date: 2019Dimensions: 146 x 222 x 30Cove...

Bringing the iconic plays of Stan Lai to an English-language readershipPublisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Stan LaiIllustration(s...

Reducere. Colonial Village was written by John Eldridge Frost in 1947 to document the history of homes and other structures built in the village of Kittery P...

Reducere. DescriptionStrange characters cast long shadows over the Old West. There was Paul Bunyan. There was Pecos Bill. Strangest of all was the giant moun...