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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and the Rathbones Folio Prize Winner of the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature A Washington Post "Lily Lit" Book Club Selection
Author : Diana Evans
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631498138
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and the Rathbones Folio Prize Winner of the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature A Washington Post "Lily Lit" Book Club Selection
Author : Abigail Balfe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0241508800
'I REALLY love it. Buy it for your kids, your parents, your grandparents. Mostly buy it for yourself' Holly Smale, author of the Geek Girl series 'This book is what I needed as a kid! Empathetic, joyful and beautifully authentic. I loved it!' Elle McNicoll, author of A Kind of Spark *The beautiful true story of one girl's journey growing up autistic - and the challenges she faced in the 'normal' world* I'm not like the other children in my class . . . and that's an actual scientific FACT. Hi! My name is Abigail, and I'm autistic. But I didn't know I was autistic until I was an adult-sort-of-person*. This is my true story of growing up in the confusing 'normal' world, all the while missing some Very Important Information about myself. There'll be scary moments involving toilets and crowded trains, heart-warming tales of cats and pianos, and funny memories including my dad and a mysterious tub of ice cream. Along the way you'll also find some Very Crucial Information about autism. If you've ever felt different, out of place, like you don't fit in . . . this book is for you. *I've never really felt like an actual-adult-person, as you'll soon discover in this book... 'Funny, fascinating . . . a rewarding and highly entertaining read' Guardian Told through the author's remarkable words, and just as remarkable illustrations, this is the book for those who've never felt quite right in the 'normal' world.
Author : William Tyldesley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351558307
Without doubt, Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was the most successful composer of English opera in the mid nineteenth century. During his lifetime he enjoyed an international reputation and worked with some of the leading singers of the time, including Jenny Lind, Malibran and Grisi. Drawing on previously unused source materials such as letters, legal documents and playbills, this biography of Balfe and in-depth study of his English operas overturns many of the previously accepted 'facts' of the composer's lifestyle. Using London as his base, Dublin-born Balfe spent long periods in Paris and travelled widely in Europe. William Tyldesley discusses the continental influences evident in Balfe's operas and offers new suggestions as to the draw that Paris held for the composer. Far from leading a fairly prosperous and unexceptional life, Balfe is shown to have found himself in financial straits on more than one occasion, and to have employed possibly unethical means of extracting himself from them. Those wishing to perform Balfe's works or to do further research into them, will find Tyldesley's re-examination of the composer a necessary first port of call.
Author : Charles Lamb Kenney
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 1875
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : William Alexander Barrett
Publisher : London : Remington
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Composers
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Author : William John Lawrence
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Composers
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Author : William Alexander Barrett
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Composers
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Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
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Author : Antoin E. Murphy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 1987-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191521442
This is a study of Irish-born Richard Cantillon, eighteenth century banker and economist whose Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General (1755), published twenty-one years after his death, remains a significant contribution to the development of monetary theory. Cantillon's life was an exciting story of involvement in high-level international banking, and speculation in foreign exchanges, commodities and stocks at the time of the South Sea Bubble. His death occurred in mysterious circumstances.