Claire Llewellyn
Personal Information
Description
Claire Harman is a British literary critic and book reviewer who has written for the Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, Evening Standard, the Sunday Telegraph and other publications. Harman is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has taught English at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. She has taught creative writing at Columbia University, and been Professor of Creative Writing at Durham University since 2016. Harman won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1989 for her biography of poet Sylvia Townsend Warner. This was followed with eponymous biographies of Fanny Burney in 2000 and Robert Louis Stevenson in 2005.
Books
Touching
"I Know That! is a series developed to introduce non-fiction books to children in their first years at school. It gives young readers confidence by building on facts they already know and covers a variety of topics in a way that supports both learning and reading skills. Read this book to find out all you know about touch - and to discover lots more"--Back cover.
Exploring electricity
"A simple exploration of electricity that covers how we use electricity and how it is made, plus batteries and circuits. Includes activities"--Provided by publisher.
Exploring light
Through different activities, this book demonstrates how light is important in our everyday lives.
Food webs
Which shark is as big as a bus? Why do woodpeckers have long tongues? Which carnivores eat the most prey? Readers are drawn into the battle between predators and prey, discovering useful animal adaptions, the importance of plants, an dhow food chains and webs work.
Truck
The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and . . . gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track."All I wanted to do was fix my old pickup truck," says Michael Perry. "That, and plant my garden. Then I met this woman. . . ." Truck: A Love Story recounts a year in which Perry struggles to grow his own food ("Seed catalogs are responsible for more unfulfilled fantasies than Enron and Penthouse combined"), live peaceably with his neighbors (one test-fires his black powder rifle in the alley; another's best Sunday shirt reads 100 PERCENT WHUP-ASS), and sort out his love life. But along the way, he sets his hair on fire, is attacked by wild turkeys, takes a date to the fire department chicken dinner, and proposes marriage to a woman in New Orleans. As with Population: 485, much of the spirit of Truck: A Love Story may be found in the characters Perry meets: a one-eyed land surveyor, a paraplegic biker who rigs a sidecar so that his quadriplegic pal can ride along, a bartender who refuses to sell light beer, an enchanting woman who never existed, and half the staff of National Public Radio.By turns hilarious and heartfelt, a tale that begins on a pile of sheep manure, detours to the Whitney Museum of American Art, and returns to the deer-hunting swamps of northern Wisconsin, Truck: A Love Story becomes a testament to the surprising and unintended consequences of love.1006