Bücher von Tim Wright

Over the river and through the woods on another quest, he reluctantly goes! Thirteen-year-old Toby Baxter can't wait to pull out his sled and enjoy the massive snowfall. But his winter break is interrupted when a frightening warning draws him once again through his closet into River's home. The magical land from his last visit is dying of its life force-the sword has been taken by the trolls, threatening to destroy the river elves and their allies. Making matters worse, his arch nemesis, Clygon, the leader of the trolls, is ready and waiting for him, looking for a rematch. As Toby faces this new danger, he will again be challenged with the question : How will you your power? Will he choose to be wise, or will he give into his fears? Keeping with the spirit of Toby's first adventure, RiverHome for the Holidays is a humorous tongue-in-cheek middle school-age book. Tboy's Quest is filled with holiday fun, dangers, and inspiration sure to capture the imagination of lovers of fantasy adventures.

He's ready to leave kid-dom behind. But can he stand tall against an army of barf-inducing beasts?Toby Baxter can't wait to be a teenager. On the cusp of turning thirteen, the superhero-obsessed boy's jaw drops when a baffling stranger appears and begs him for help. But when he's led through a portal on a whirlwind trip to a magical land, he's terrified to be plunged mid-battle between elves and a legion of stinky trolls.Bewildered and queasy, Toby is confused when his new friends claim he is the hero who will lead them to victory. And now only his dangerous quest to retrieve a legendary slaying sword can save his skin... and turn the tide of war.Can this newly minted teen become a real warrior and rise up as the strange realm's savior?The Adventures of Toby Baxter: The River Elf, The Giant, and the Closet is a high-flying middle grade fantasy. If you like daring journeys, hilarious characters, and heartfelt lessons about confidence, then you'll love Tim Wright's timeless tale.

This first full-length volume draws from poems written over roughly ten years: prose sequences, sonnets or thereabouts, parody-homages, a metro poem, psychical collaborations, and drawn from small-print chapbooks. Combining a condensed lyricism, collage, and durational procedures, the collection works its way through days and the everyday (near accidents, a working salad, the assumptions of architecture)...The sense of fleeting glimpse, of provisionality, of actual sense-data taken in but not yet possessed, is terrific. Is it 'lyric'? Well, yes-but with a stylistic affiliation to Projective and subsequent aesthetics. And no-in the sense that Wright does not seek that laurel or that identification.The feeling given is of a spacey self-awareness. So many lines in these poems seem acts of orientation, verification of the subject's placement, vis-a-vis sounds, views, examinations-of the sky, of overhead wires, a bird, sounds of a nearby train or traffic, changes in the weather. A space both actual and mental.Ken Bolton, SoutherlyTim Wright is the author of The night's live changes (2014) and Weekend's end (2013).

This book provides an important contribution to the economic history of modern China. It examines the history of the coal mining industry - one of China's largest and most important - from the beginnings of modernisation around 1895 to the start of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937.