The children are out playing in the forest near Horsmanden about 30 miles south of London when the first Nuke hits the British capital...The worlds civilisation has come to an end and only a very few lucky and resourceful people survive.This story follows the children and others they meet as they try to get to somewhere safe to live.The novel is based in part on some of the authors adventures on his travels back in the late 1960’s up through to the present day.
This evocative study of a water Goddess among the Igbo of Lake Oguta in southeastern Nigeria, thoroughly explores the rituals, beliefs and social organization associated with rituals of women's power. A form of Mammy Wata found through coastal Western Africa...
These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault...
After enjoying years as a popular journalist and poet, intellectual and freethinker Gerald Massey turned his vast studies in the field of Egyptology into A Book of the Beginnings, a bold statement that the origin of all civilization lays in...