The Secrets of Greystone House by Marcus Attwater

We begin in archaic Greece, with a story which was already old when Homer composed his epics. By following these stories and the changes they underwent through the centuries Straightforward attempts to answer two related questions: 'When and why did the heterosexual ideal become normative in our narrative tradition?' and 'What was there before?' It is a study not of the loves of real people, but of the ideal of love as it found expression in stories, stories which were often retold and reimagined by new generations and new cultures. He then spent five years researching and writing a non-fiction project, resulting in the international publication of Straightforward in 2019. When he was eleven years old, Jack Riley spent two golden months at Greystone House with Gwendolyn, Ian. Marcus Attwater made his first foray into publishing his own fiction in 2013. A Tale in Four Reconstructions Marcus Attwater. Covenant House: Lifeline to the StreetBruce Ritter, Visit Mission Espada in. Straightforward examines how we got from there to here. Attwater Books is a small (very small) English language publishing house in the Netherlands. 44 Secrets for Great Soccer Dribbling SkillsMirsad Hasic, Attraction and. The reason for this is also not hard to find: as it does now, 'love' in the ancient world meant the affection of equals, and given the inferior position of women in Greek and Roman society, between the sexes is not usually where love is to be found. Very few will come up with a classical example, and the reason for this is simple: when you say archetypal, it is assumed you mean love between a man and a woman, and instances of this in classical accounts are rare. The Arrow Garden is a delicately-wrought tale of truth, selfhood, and acceptance, which transcends time in its lyrical exploration of what it means to live.When asked to name an archetypal love story, most people will reply 'Romeo & Juliet', although some say 'Tristan & Isolde' instead. To visit the past or the future, even in imagination, is to change it. Setting out on a hike to a mountain village shrine, away from the charred city, she begins a life to which she is not sure she is entitled, a life which feels like living on the other side of the sky. Visit s Marcus Attwater Page and shop for all Marcus Attwater books. In wartime Tokyo, Tanaka Mie finds herself wandering the burned-out ruins of her dead parents' fire-bombed home with only hazy recollections of how she survived. When lonely and socially isolated translator, Gareth, takes up traditional Japanese archery in 1990s Bristol, he learns that to study Kyudo is to reach out, to another culture, another time, other people… But when one of them reaches back, two lives that should never have touched become strangely entangled.

The Secrets of Greystone House by Marcus Attwater