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New PDF release: Autumn: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons

By Melissa Harrison

ISBN-10: 1783962488

ISBN-13: 9781783962488

Autumn is a time of transformation. Crisp, transparent days mark summer’s shut and herald a brand new season with its wealthy scents and vibrant palette, leaves flaming crimson and gold via day, bonfires and fireworks lights up the lengthening nights. there's abundance, as people and animals make shops for the wintry weather; and there's decay, which supplies upward thrust to the following cycle of life.

In prose and poetry from around the British Isles, Autumn captures either the pleasure and the depression of this turning aspect within the yr. that includes unique writing by way of Horatio Clare, John Lewis-Stempel and Amy Liptrot, vintage extracts from the paintings of Ted Hughes, Helen Macdonald and Nan Shepherd, and a wealth of clean new voices, Autumn is an evocative social gathering of the year’s decline – and new beginnings.

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