JOAN LINGARD

Willa is a polite and respectable young woman, trying to cope with the tedium of her life whilst her husband is away on a year-long cruise with the Navy. Living with a controlling mother-in-law only serves to fuel her sense of claustrophobia. Her only escape is to submerge herself in books, and at her local library she meets Richard, a charming and intelligent young writer who shares her passion for reading. As their relationship blossoms, it begins to change Willas life. Despite her initial reluctance, she allows herself to enjoy the taste of a different existence, yet all the while struggling with the knowledge that Tommys steady progress will eventually bring him back home...

Cormac, born and brought up in Belfast, living now in Edinburgh with his wife and children, is an art teacher, an admirer of Rodin and a sculptor himself. When he tries to transmit his enthusiasm for Rodin to his students he finds his words tend to fall on stony ground, except when it comes to Clarinda Bain.Fifteen years old, beautiful and fiercely intelligent, Clarinda is his keenest and most ardent student. On a school trip to Paris she becomes obsessed by the work and life of Gwen John, in particular by her affair with Rodin. She then begins to mirror this relationship by becoming obsessed herself with her own mentor, which throws Cormacs life as a teacher and husband into confusion.Compelling and exquisitely written, The Kiss is a study of artistic and sexual obsession by a writer at the height of her powers.

It is 1920 and the beautiful village of Yegen, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, awakens to a new year and two events that are to change the pueblo for ever: the birth of Encarnita, a beautiful dark-eyed girl; and the arrival of the British writer Gerald Brenan and his string of artistic and literary visitors, including Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington. Growing up in Yegen, and taught English by Brenan, the beautiful Encarnita longs for the world outside the small pueblo - the stories Brenan and his friends tell her spark her imagination. And so begins her long journey, from the Sierra to Edinburgh, where eighty years after her birth, she will have one last story to tell. Exquisitely written, Encarnitas Journey is a tale as beautiful as its Spanish setting, with touches of true insight into the lives of its literati cast and dark-eyed heroine.

It's 1939, and Spain is a country torn apart by civil war. Nick has come from Scotland in search of his father - who left the family home three years ago to fight in Spain. He never came back.

Kevin and Sadie both know their relationship is dangerous. In these terrifying times in Belfast, no Catholic boy and Protestant girl go out together without resentment and even violence flaring up around them. So what will happen if they insist on seeing each other? This is the second of Joan Lingard's stories about the young Belfast couple Kevin and Sadie. It can be enjoyed on its own or read as part of the series.

El interés principal de este libro es examinar el modo en que los procesos globales transforman la política educativa en todo el mundo, en un abanico de formas complicadas, complejas, conmensuradas y contradictorias. Pretende proveer una nueva introducción a los estudios políticos sobre educación, aportando información proveniente de nuestras recientes experiencias en la elaboración y evaluación de políticas, y con nuestro compromiso académico con la literatura diseñada para comprender los procesos de globalización.