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This illustrated version brings the words and story alive for a new generation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristina Rossetti is considered the foremost female poet of her time, and her poetry still resonates with women's lives today, as she entwines themes of sexuality, sisterhood, love and temptation in her work. All of these themes are encapsulated in Goblin Market. The book includes an introduction to the poem by novelist Kirsty Gunn, so all readers – for pleasure or study – can understand its riches.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205793317042,"sku":"9781849946940","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781849946940_07fffdb6-153c-4d31-9d12-df0baeb12c05.jpg?v=1786029051"},{"product_id":"9780571308927","title":"Infidelities","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new collection of stories offers  a candid peek at infidelity in all its guises. These are tales of lust,  deceit, resentment and regret - and of the secrets and lies that can  chip away at human relationships.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a series of interwoven  dramas, we find mothers yearning for adventure, for the exhilaration of  the open road or the anonymity of the forest; fathers absent in body or  mind; husbands who look the other way; complacency turned to spite and  apathy turned to betrayal. At the same time Gunn pursues the glorious  rush of a snap decision, the liberty of answering that siren call of a  better life elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with Gunn's trademark attention to nuances of behaviour, motive and even landscape, \u003ci\u003eInfidelity\u003c\/i\u003e is a temptingly beautiful work that asks 'What if?' and dares to find out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292189831541,"sku":"9780571308927","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571308927_c4110af7-13f4-43b7-86b6-810156c8a63d.jpg?v=1786014678"},{"product_id":"9780571339341","title":"Caroline's Bikini","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaroline’s Bikini \u003c\/i\u003eis the tale of a classic love affair; a swirling cocktail of obsession and imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe moment that Evan Gordonstone – a successful middle-aged financier – meets Caroline Beresford – a glamorous housewife, hostess and landlady – he falls into unrequited love, a story as old as Western literature itself. Evan recounts the tale of his infatuation to his friend Emily, and thus begins a hypnotic series of conversations set against the backdrop of West London bars, fuelled in intensity by endless G\u0026amp;Ts. From the depths of midwinter to July’s hot swelter, Evan’s retelling of his passion for Caroline will take him to the brink of his own destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292302979445,"sku":"9780571339341","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571339341_23f58e53-af4b-4d77-9209-6f9d6ea7b72f.jpg?v=1786015236"},{"product_id":"9780571282340","title":"The Big Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e'The hills only come back the same: I don't mind . . .' begins Kirsty Gunn's \u003ci\u003eThe Big Music,\u003c\/i\u003e a novel that takes us to a new understanding of how fiction can affect us. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresented as a collection of found papers, appendices and notes, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Music\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The Grey House', who is dying and creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it. Yet he has little idea of how his tune will echo or play out into the world - and as the book moves inevitably through its themes of death and birth, change and stasis, the sound of his solitary story comes to merge and connect with those around him. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this work of fiction, Kirsty Gunn has created something as real as music or as a dream. Not so much a novel as a place the reader comes to inhabit and to know, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Music\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary work of undeniable originality and power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292601626997,"sku":"9780571282340","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571282340_a986e212-2199-41b9-b68d-df8ac6995dea.jpg?v=1786014492"},{"product_id":"9781914236419","title":"Pretty Ugly - Kirsty Gunn","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309376287093,"sku":"9781914236419","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781914236419_fffeef9f-5411-49cb-bb81-8e0553de1fb7.jpg?v=1786030601"},{"product_id":"my-katherine-mansfield-project","title":"My Katherine Mansfield Project","description":"In 2009, Kirsty Gunn returned to spend the winter in her hometown of Wellington, New Zealand, also the place where Katherine Mansfield grew up. 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