Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett

Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still by Samuel BeckettThese four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life. In Company a solitary hearer lying in blackness calls up images from the far off past. Ill Seen Ill Said meditates upon an old woman living out her last days alone in an isolated snow bound cottage, watched over by twelve mysterious sentinels. In Worstward Ho, a breathless speaker unravels the sense of

and outwards into the natural and political world

breaks down myths and vaporises prejudice - I loved it

Compassionate and poignant

And will she be the key to their salvation or the architect of their downfall

12 Rules for Life is a lifeboat built solidly for stormy seas: ancient wisdom applied to our contemporary problems

Drawing on his family archives

At one degree - the world we are already living in - vast wildfires scorch California and Australia

founders of anti-racist advocacy and platform Everyday Racism

Although Elizabeth O'Toole is now ninety-six

artists and merchants who have made and remade the city we know and love by going beneath the many layers of twelve key streets where they lived and worked

her best friend Sophie tags along

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