Field Work
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
What does it take to make a living from the land in modern Britain?
Bella Bathurst Books
Bella Bathurst is a writer and photographer celebrated for her distinctive literary works. Her writing often delves into the unusual aspects of history and human experience, revealing a deep fascination with themes connected to Scotland and its unique heritage. Bathurst skillfully blends meticulous research with compelling narrative, offering readers fresh perspectives on both familiar and lesser-known stories.
The Lighthouse Stevensons
The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson
- 284 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Robert Louis Stevenson was the most famous of the Stevensons, but not by any means the most productive. The Lighthouse Stevensons built every lighthouse round Scotland, were responsible for a slew of inventions in both construction and optics, and achieved feats of engineering in conditions that would be forbidding even today. The same driven energy which Robert Louis Stevenson puts into writing, his ancestors put into lighting the darkness of the seas. This text tells their tale.
Special
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
A group of teenaged schoolgirls are on a field trip to the Forest of Dean, where the the reader bears witness to the development and disintegration of relationships. Nothing is quite what you expect. Soon enough, something dark and sinister begins to move underneath the surface.
Balla Bathurst beschreibt die Entstehung der schottischen Leuchttürme im 18./19. Jahrhundert und die Gefahren der Seefahrt. Sie erzählt auch von der Ingenieursfamilie Stevenson, die den Leuchtturm-Bau prägte, und verbindet Technik- und Seefahrtgeschichte mit einer Familiensaga.
Weekenders 2. Racconti UK da Calcutta
- 299 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Dopo l'esperienza africana di Weekenders, ancora una volta il Daily Telegraph ha riunito lrvine Welsh, Monica Ali, Michel Atherton, Bella Bathurst, Jenny Colgan, Simon Garfield, W. F. Deedes, Tony Hawks, Victoria Glendinning, Sam Millet e Colm Toibin per catapultarli a Calcutta: dal confort e dalla modernità delle loro occidentalissime città, Londra e Edimburgo, a un luogo dove il passato parla ancora e il futuro chiama più forte che mai. Da quell'esperienza sono nati i racconti compresi in questa antologia che, mescolando la fiction al reportage di viaggio, riflettono modi diversi di vedere una metropoli che è nel mondo simbolo di povertà e miseria e che i suoi abitanti chiamano la Città della Gioia.
