A bright farthing
Author : Mrs. Sydney Mary SITWELL
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Page : 140 pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : Mrs. Sydney Mary SITWELL
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Page : 140 pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : Isla Sitwell
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Page : 127 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 1885
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Page : 978 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Jo Walton
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 2006-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429944404
One summer weekend in 1949—but not our 1949—the well-connected "Farthing set", a group of upper-crust English families, enjoy a country retreat. Lucy is a minor daughter in one of those families; her parents were both leading figures in the group that overthrew Churchill and negotiated peace with Herr Hitler eight years before. Despite her parents' evident disapproval, Lucy is married—happily—to a London Jew. It was therefore quite a surprise to Lucy when she and her husband David found themselves invited to the retreat. It's even more startling when, on the retreat's first night, a major politician of the Farthing set is found gruesomely murdered, with abundant signs that the killing was ritualistic. It quickly becomes clear to Lucy that she and David were brought to the retreat in order to pin the murder on him. Major political machinations are at stake, including an initiative in Parliament, supported by the Farthing set, to limit the right to vote to university graduates. But whoever's behind the murder, and the frame-up, didn't reckon on the principal investigator from Scotland Yard being a man with very private reasons for sympathizing with outcasts...and looking beyond the obvious. As the trap slowly shuts on Lucy and David, they begin to see a way out—a way fraught with peril in a darkening world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Page : 904 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 1902
Category : British periodicals
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Author : Catherine Isabel Dodd
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : Amy Stennett
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 1872
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Author : Richard Pryce
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Page : 270 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : Boys
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 1881
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Author : Mark Roland Langdale
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1785891766
‘Once upon a time many, many moons ago there was a girl named Penny who imagined she was a fairytale dragonfly princess who could fly, and this is her far-fetched fairy story.’ Set in 1978 in the small village of Pleasington in Lancashire, Penny Farthing spends her days riding her pink penny farthing and speaking to the man in the moon. An imaginative, sparky young girl, Penny decides to enter herself into the prestigious Pleasington’s penny farthing race, alongside members of the Pleasington Penny Farthing Preservation Society. With the help of the man in the moon, Penny hopes to win the race and be the best penny farthing rider around! Penny Farthing and the Man in the Moon is a unique fairytale for children aged 9 and over as it encompasses issues surrounding autism and dyslexia, something which the protagonist, Penny, is diagnosed with. This story will appeal to children who enjoy light-hearted fairy stories, but also to parents looking for a story with hidden depths.