Author : Charlie Haylock
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781853068775
Sloightly on Th' Huh!
Author : John Connolly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743298853
A 12-year-old boy, mourning the death of his mother, takes refuge in the myths and fairytales she always loved--and finds that his reality and a fantasy world start to meld.
Author : Charlie Haylock
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781846741241
Caw'd a Hell - Thas Suffen Good!
Author : Edward Wilson
Publisher : Arcadia Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1911350870
A thrilling spy novel by a former special forces officer who is 'poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' 'The thinking person's John le Carré' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' Irish Independent 'More George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers' Publishers Weekly 1941: a teenage William Catesby leaves Cambridge to join the army and support the war effort. Parachuted into Occupied France as an SOE officer, he witnesses tragedies and remarkable feats of bravery during the French Resistance. 2014: now in his nineties, Catesby recounts his life to his granddaughter for the first time. Their interviews weave together the historical, the personal and the emotional, skipping across different decades and continents to reveal a complex and conflicted man. Catesby's incredible story recounts a life of spying and the trauma of war, but also lost love, yearning, and hope for the future. Praise for Edward Wilson: 'Stylistically sophisticated . . . Wilson knows how to hold the reader's attention' W.G. Sebald 'A reader is really privileged to come across something like this' Alan Sillitoe 'All too often, amid the glitzy gadgetry of the spy thriller, all the fast cars and sexual adventures, we lose sight of the essential seriousness of what is at stake. John le Carré reminds us, often, and so does Edward Wilson' Independent
Author : Neil Storey
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0750952253
The Little Book of Suffolk is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people and events from the county. Armed with this fascinating book, the reader will have such knowledge of the county, its landscape, pleasures and pursuits that they will never be short of some frivolous fact to enhance a conversation or quiz!A quick reference and a quirky guide, this can be dipped into time and again to reveal something new about the heritage, the secrets and the enduring fascination of Suffolk, making it essential reading for visitors and locals alike.
Author : James B. Flaherty
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532030994
THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME is about a young woman who is a nobody from nowhere. She re-invents herself, marries a princely man. and lives an extravagant life, overcoming tough hurdles. This is a story about having the guts to overcome, the ability to re-identify yourself, a story about love and death, loss and redemption. Ultimately it is a story about the brilliant and enduring strength of womens friendships.
Author : Jean Craighead George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 2001-05-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0593115007
"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book
Author : Sloane Crosley
Publisher : MCD
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374711801
Sloane Crosley returns to the form that made her a household name in really quite a lot of households: Essays! From the New York Times–bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There—a brand-new collection of essays filled with her trademark hilarity, wit, and charm. The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back, but with a newfound coat of maturity. A thin coat. More of a blazer, really. Fans of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number know Sloane Crosley’s life as a series of relatable but madcap misadventures. In Look Alive Out There, whether it’s playing herself on Gossip Girl,scaling active volcanoes, crashing shivas, befriending swingers, or staring down the barrel of the fertility gun, Crosley continues to rise to the occasion with unmatchable nerve and electric one-liners. And as her subjects become more serious, her essays deliver not just laughs but lasting emotional heft and insight. Crosley has taken up the gauntlets thrown by her predecessors—Dorothy Parker, Nora Ephron, David Sedaris—and crafted something rare, affecting, and true. Look Alive Out There arrives on the tenth anniversary of I Was Told There’d be Cake, and Crosley’s essays have managed to grow simultaneously more sophisticated and even funnier. And yet she’s still very much herself, and it’s great to have her back—and not a moment too soon (or late, for that matter).
Author : Max Barry
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2004-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 140007634X
A wickedly satirical and outrageous thriller about globalization and marketing hype, Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever. "Funny and clever.... A kind of ad-world version of Dr. Strangelove.... [Barry] unleashes enough wit and surprise to make his story a total blast." --The New York Times Book Review "Wicked and wonderful.... [It] does just about everything right.... Fast-moving, funny, involving." --The Washington Post Book World Taxation has been abolished, the government has been privatized, and employees take the surname of the company they work for. It's a brave new corporate world, but you don't want to be caught without a platinum credit card--as lowly Merchandising Officer Hack Nike is about to find out. Trapped into building street cred for a new line of $2500 sneakers by shooting customers, Hack attracts the barcode-tattooed eye of the legendary Jennifer Government. A stressed-out single mom, corporate watchdog, and government agent who has to rustle up funding before she's allowed to fight crime, Jennifer Government is holding a closing down sale--and everything must go.
Author : Charlie Haylock
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 144566383X
Discover the many twists and turns through history that led to the language, accents and turns of phrase which make up modern English
