This Is The Way of The World

Jul 5, 2025 1:42 PM

Author:Felix Dennis

This Is The Way Of The World is a collection of poems specially selected by the author to encourage adults who lack confidence in their reading skills and to introduce new readers to the world of poetry. Easy to read and charting life’s course from birth through to death, the poems deal with ‘real life’ issues. This Is The Way Of The World is Felix Dennis’s 8th book of verse and includes new poems as well as old favourites. In addition to containing a free spoken-word CD, the book contains many beautiful colour illustrations by Bill Sanderson.

Reviews

Here they come again, Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, skipping along their quantum string of planets like giddy schoolboys - and what a joy it is to have them back . . . it's a thrilling and ceaselessly entertaining ride.

—— SFX magazine

Imaginative, sense-of-wonder SF at its best . . . thrilling stuff from the masters.

—— INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

An ambitious, thought-provoking and engaging narrative

—— Jane Shilling , Evening Standard

Beautifully rendered

—— New York Times

Beautifully done

—— Viv Groskop , Red

Piercingly urgent and revelatory

—— Independent i

I Am China is a moving tale of life and fate, love and loss, that will stay with the reader long after the last page

—— New Internationalist

Dark, witty fiction

—— David Evans , Financial Times

Cleverly crafted

—— UK Press Syndication

A collection of punchy stories . . . Sold and sold

—— Esquire

Darkly amusing . . . Suffused with caustic wit, quirky descriptions and sharp details. We Live In Water never falls short of being highly engaging

—— Sunday Times

Delightful debut novel, beautifully written.

—— Hot Brands, Cool Places

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