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STARBORN BOOKS welcomes you to its website and invites you to browse through its Online Shop where you can find among other things fiction, non-fiction (biography, travel, etc.), poetry and educational materials for the teaching of english, etc., also music for the classical guitar, chamber music and CDs including the musicfor the new musical "Atlantis - The Way Into The Future". Also Roger Winfield's unique recordings of music for aeolian harp.

NEW in November 2009 from Starborn!

REVOLVER NIGHT
by Peter Oram and Diane Walkey
This beautiful book is the first hardback from Starborn Books, and though it is in the style of an illustrated children's book it is not specifically aimed at children, for it describes a kind of journey into the 'dark night of the soul'. It is in the form of an extended poem, with each line or couplet illustrated by a full colour painting by Diane Walkey.

VALAISIAN QUATRAINS
by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Peter Oram
The great German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) spent the last years of his life in the Canton of Valais, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, where he completed his two greatest works, the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies. But during this time he also wrote four cycles of short poems in French, as a kind of homage to the region that had now become his home, and it is one of these cycles, the Valaisian Quatrains, that is presented in this book, both in the original language and, together with and parallel to it, an English verse translation by Peter Oram.

These poems reveal a spacious, light-filled landscape that is not only a portrait of this part of Switzerland but is also Rilke’s vision of a transfigured countryside that lies beyond the merely physical and geographical. The apparent simplicity which may be the impression of a first reading is deceptive, and each time one comes back to these verses one is rewarded with rare new insights into a transcendent world.

Our list also includes contemporary fiction, thrillers, travel, humour,autobiography and poetry, and a range of books for education and for young children in general.