Philippa Bernard – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

Mithras to Mormon

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:02 +0000

Chosen for Winter 2018 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction When the Romans settled in Britain in 43 CE they could hardly have imagined that the small agricultural settlement of Londinium on the Thames would eventually become one of the biggest cities in the world. Its people worshipped then in small buildings like the Mithraeum, but over the next two thousand years cathedrals…

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No End to Snowdrops

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:50 +0000

This authorised biography of the poet Kathleen Raine tells the story of how she developed from a small girl, who knew at the age of eight that she wanted only to write poetry, into a world-renowned poet and literary scholar. Philippa Bernard follows Kathleen Raine’s struggle against the constrictions of her suburban childhood to her exciting days at Girton College in the twenties…

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