STORY OF COVENTRY
Author : MARY DORMER. HARRIS
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781033727348
Author : MARY DORMER. HARRIS
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781033727348
Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374717435
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.
Author : Peter Walters
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0750956631
The Story of Coventry traces the evolution of the city, from the myths of Godiva, through to the issues, challenges and opportunities facing it in the twenty-first century. Exploring Coventry's heritage through records, architectural developments and anecdotes, it reveals a fascinating and much misunderstood city, whose history is often overshadowed by its bombing during the Second World War. Peter Walters, well known for his numerous newspaper features and active role in local heritage, shows that there is a great deal more to the history of Coventry than first meets the eye. This beautifully illustrated text will delight both residents and visitors alike.
Author : Mary Dormer Harris
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Cities and towns, Medieval
ISBN :
Author : Harris Mary Dormer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 1901
Category :
ISBN : 9780259618966
Author : Peter Walters
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0750992816
The Little History Of Coventry packs into its pages the colour and incident of a thousand years, telling the story of a city that has perhaps been overlooked by mainstream historians, but has often been at the heart of this country's great events. From the testing ground of the saintly Godiva to fourteenth-century boom town, from Second World War Blitz victim to the next UK City of Culture, Coventry has always been an inventive place with an unerring ability to bounce back from misfortune and make its mark. This is a truly eye-opening journey through the events and characters that have shaped its story and made the city one of England's hidden jewels.
Author : M. Harris
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 1974-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780811508483
Author : David Hart Dyke
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Destroyers (Warships)
ISBN : 9781407410029
In March 1982, the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron of ships on exercise off Gibraltar. By the end of April that year, she was sailing south in the vanguard of the Task Force towards the Falklands. On 25 May, Coventry was attacked and hit by three bombs. The explosions tore out most of her port side and killed nineteen of the crew, leaving many others injured. Within twenty minutes, she had capsized, and was to sink early the next day. In her final moments, when all those not killed by the explosions had been evacuated from the ship, her Captain, David Hart Dyke, himself badly burned, climbed down her starboard side and into a life-raft. This is his compelling and moving story.
Author : Becky Cochrane
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
ISBN : 9780821780428
Escaping to Coventry, Texas, for the holidays, Keelie is in for a Christmas that's as unpredictable as it is merry. When the local vet starts making house calls to check on Keelie's under-the-weather hamster, Keelie wonders if this Christmas might bring what she's always wanted: true love. Original.
Author : Peter Walters
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0750956631
The Story of Coventry traces the evolution of the city, from the myths of Godiva, through to the issues, challenges and opportunities facing it in the twenty-first century. Exploring Coventry’s heritage through records, architectural developments and anecdotes, it reveals a fascinating and much misunderstood city, whose history is often overshadowed by its bombing during the Second World War. Peter Walters, well known for his numerous newspaper features and active role in local heritage, shows that there is a great deal more to the history of Coventry than first meets the eye. This beautifully illustrated text will delight both residents and visitors alike.