GARNER ALAN

Η ΤΕΧΝΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΠΙΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑΣ
Καθώς υπάρχουν πιθανόν χίλιοι τρόποι για να πούμε το ίδιο πράγμα, κι άλλοι τόσοι για να «ακούσουμε» αυτό που ο άλλος μας λέει, είναι φανερό πως η απλούστατη καθημερινή διαδικασία του «λέω κάτι σε κάποιον» δεν είναι τόσο απλή. Επειδή το σύνολο της λεκτικής επικοινωνίας μας είναι ουσιαστικά ο μοναδικός φορέας για να μεταφέρουμε -και επομένως να μοιραστούμε- τις ιδέες μας, τις προσδοκίες και τα συναισθήματά μας, είναι παραπάνω από σημαντικό πως, όσο πιο ξεκάθαροι και αμοιβαίοι είναι οι κώδικες της επικοινωνίας μας, τόσο πιο αποτελεσματική γίν...
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(P/B) TREACLE WALKER
An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds' eggs and plays with his marbles. When, one day, a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears, exchanging an empty jar of a cure-all medicine and a donkey stone for a pair of Joseph's pyjamas and a lamb's shoulder blade, a mysterious friendship develops between them. A fusion of myth, magic and the stories we make for ourselves, Treacle Walker is an extraordinary novel from one of our greatest...
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(P/B) WHERE SHALL WE RUN TO?
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England. 'The war went. We sang in the playground, "Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb's boom, and two big explosions." David's father came back from Burma and didn't eat rice. Twiggy taught by reciting "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and the thirteen times table. Twiggy was fat and short and he shouted, and his neck was as wide as his head. He was a bully, though he didn't take any notice of me.' In Wh...
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(P/B) ELIDOR
Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David, four Manchester children, are led into Elidor, a twilight world almost destroyed by fear and darkness. On a gloomy day in Manchester, Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David are lured into a ruined church, where the fabric of time and place is weak enough to allow them into the twilight world of Elidor. It is a place almost destroyed by fear and darkness, and the children are charged with guarding its Treasures while a way is sought to save the dying land. Then the evil forces find a path through to this world....
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