Author: Rebecca Shaw
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409140199
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A delightful slice of Turnham Malpas gossip, intrigue and conflict from the Sunday Times bestselling author. With the Rector Peter Harris and his family back from Africa, the villagers of Turnham Malpas heave huge sighs of relief - everything seems to be back to normal. But Peter has other ideas, and decides to return to Africa to fulfil his promise of working there for a year, leaving his family behind. The villagers are also missing Peter's guidance, especially when the store is the target of petty theft and violence. Everyone is relying on Peter's return to help restore harmony. But will he make it back before things get out of hand?
A Village Feud
Author: Rebecca Shaw
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409140199
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A delightful slice of Turnham Malpas gossip, intrigue and conflict from the Sunday Times bestselling author. With the Rector Peter Harris and his family back from Africa, the villagers of Turnham Malpas heave huge sighs of relief - everything seems to be back to normal. But Peter has other ideas, and decides to return to Africa to fulfil his promise of working there for a year, leaving his family behind. The villagers are also missing Peter's guidance, especially when the store is the target of petty theft and violence. Everyone is relying on Peter's return to help restore harmony. But will he make it back before things get out of hand?
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409140199
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A delightful slice of Turnham Malpas gossip, intrigue and conflict from the Sunday Times bestselling author. With the Rector Peter Harris and his family back from Africa, the villagers of Turnham Malpas heave huge sighs of relief - everything seems to be back to normal. But Peter has other ideas, and decides to return to Africa to fulfil his promise of working there for a year, leaving his family behind. The villagers are also missing Peter's guidance, especially when the store is the target of petty theft and violence. Everyone is relying on Peter's return to help restore harmony. But will he make it back before things get out of hand?
A Summerstoke Affair
Author: Caroline Kington
Publisher: Eye Books (US&CA)
ISBN: 1785630970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
In the village of Summerstoke, as autumn beckons, it seems the fireworks party is not the only thing set to go with a bang.Juliet Peters, soap star, publicity junkie and all-round flirt, and Isabelle Garnett, ex-artist, neglected housewife and mother of two, seem to have nothing in common. But when both women end up trying to build a new life in the country, they soon discover there are no such things as secrets in village life.Their husbands seem to be on a collision course too. One, the new MP returned to the rural vale he grew up; the other the local newspaper editor ever on the lookout for scandal, and the story that could help him make it big. Add to the mix a wild-child teenager, a reformed rogue, a social-climbing couple who'll stop at nothing and four old ladies with a manor house and an ear for gossip, and you've got a recipe for trouble.As the days grow colder, passions only grow warmer. Before the year is out Juliet, Isabelle and their new neighbours must discover if their heart really is in the country, and in the right hands. Packed with intrigue, humour and spirit, Caroline Kington's delightful novel serves up an affair to remember.
Publisher: Eye Books (US&CA)
ISBN: 1785630970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
In the village of Summerstoke, as autumn beckons, it seems the fireworks party is not the only thing set to go with a bang.Juliet Peters, soap star, publicity junkie and all-round flirt, and Isabelle Garnett, ex-artist, neglected housewife and mother of two, seem to have nothing in common. But when both women end up trying to build a new life in the country, they soon discover there are no such things as secrets in village life.Their husbands seem to be on a collision course too. One, the new MP returned to the rural vale he grew up; the other the local newspaper editor ever on the lookout for scandal, and the story that could help him make it big. Add to the mix a wild-child teenager, a reformed rogue, a social-climbing couple who'll stop at nothing and four old ladies with a manor house and an ear for gossip, and you've got a recipe for trouble.As the days grow colder, passions only grow warmer. Before the year is out Juliet, Isabelle and their new neighbours must discover if their heart really is in the country, and in the right hands. Packed with intrigue, humour and spirit, Caroline Kington's delightful novel serves up an affair to remember.
The Last Days
Author: Barry Pilkington
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789016762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A personal account of a boyhood spent in a typical English village in the Cotswolds. The text is generously illustrated with photographs from the period and illustrations by the author. It will be of particular interest to those who have lived in or around this part of England. The Last Days is a personal memoir of the author’s early life in the picturesque Cotswold village of Chedworth during the period 1940 to 1959. Barry Pilkington has a clear recollection of characters and events, describing them in an engaging and lively manner, and including many personal memories and anecdotes of his family and those living in the village at the time. These individual stories add a human interest and make the book very readable, while his expressive description of the countryside shows his affection for the area in which he spent his early years. Like Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie, the book describes life in a Gloucestershire village when traditional country life was emerging into the ‘modern world’. In the early years of this period, agriculture and its supporting services and trades provided the main sources of occupation; horses were still widely used, water was drawn from wells and evenings were lit by oil lamps. The community was close-knit and centred around the church, school and local pub. Life was hard and the cottages lacked many facilities. Most country people, by necessity, shared a self-reliance which was not taught, but learnt over a lifetime, while tackling the daily tasks that needed to be done. The book also traces how local life was affected by such major changes as the arrival of electricity, the spread of car ownership and changes in farming practice in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789016762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A personal account of a boyhood spent in a typical English village in the Cotswolds. The text is generously illustrated with photographs from the period and illustrations by the author. It will be of particular interest to those who have lived in or around this part of England. The Last Days is a personal memoir of the author’s early life in the picturesque Cotswold village of Chedworth during the period 1940 to 1959. Barry Pilkington has a clear recollection of characters and events, describing them in an engaging and lively manner, and including many personal memories and anecdotes of his family and those living in the village at the time. These individual stories add a human interest and make the book very readable, while his expressive description of the countryside shows his affection for the area in which he spent his early years. Like Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie, the book describes life in a Gloucestershire village when traditional country life was emerging into the ‘modern world’. In the early years of this period, agriculture and its supporting services and trades provided the main sources of occupation; horses were still widely used, water was drawn from wells and evenings were lit by oil lamps. The community was close-knit and centred around the church, school and local pub. Life was hard and the cottages lacked many facilities. Most country people, by necessity, shared a self-reliance which was not taught, but learnt over a lifetime, while tackling the daily tasks that needed to be done. The book also traces how local life was affected by such major changes as the arrival of electricity, the spread of car ownership and changes in farming practice in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Macmillan's Magazine
Author: David Masson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The Evolution of War
Author: Maurice R. Davie
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486162214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Thorough, highly informative and exhaustive study presents an exceptional collection of cases examining such topics as warfare as the business of one sex, religion as a cause of war, and war for the sake of glory. Cannibalism, human sacrifice, blood-revenge, and other factors in warfare among primitive peoples are also expertly examined.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486162214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Thorough, highly informative and exhaustive study presents an exceptional collection of cases examining such topics as warfare as the business of one sex, religion as a cause of war, and war for the sake of glory. Cannibalism, human sacrifice, blood-revenge, and other factors in warfare among primitive peoples are also expertly examined.
The Cat of Bubastes
Author: George Alfred Henty
Publisher: London : Blackie & Son
ISBN:
Category : Bast (Egyptian deity)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher: London : Blackie & Son
ISBN:
Category : Bast (Egyptian deity)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Grotonian
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Modernism and Physical Illness
Author: Peter Fifield
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198825420
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Considers to the role of physical illness in modernist writing and explores works by D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Dorothy Richardson, and Winifred Holtby to show how illness is used as an altered, heightened type of experience and can be a framework for gender, racial, and class-based othering.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198825420
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Considers to the role of physical illness in modernist writing and explores works by D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Dorothy Richardson, and Winifred Holtby to show how illness is used as an altered, heightened type of experience and can be a framework for gender, racial, and class-based othering.
The North-East Frontier Agency of India
Author: Leo E. Rose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arunāchal Pradesh (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arunāchal Pradesh (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Journeys Into Madness
Author: Gemma Blackshaw
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857454587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud's investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this 'territory' in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art works produced by patients and writers were developing innovative literary techniques to convey a character's interior life. This collection of essays uses the framework of journeys in order to highlight the diverse artistic, cultural and medical responses to a peculiarly Viennese anxiety about the madness of modern times. The travellers of these journeys vary from patients to doctors, artists to writers, architects to composers and royalty to tourists; in engaging with their histories, the contributors reveal the different ways in which madness was experienced and represented in 'Vienna 1900'. Gemma Blackshaw is Reader in Art History at Plymouth University. She is currently working on a Leverhulme-funded book on portraiture in Vienna circa 1900. She co-curated the exhibition Madness and Modernity: Art, Architecture and Mental Illness in Vienna 1900 (London and Vienna, 2009-10) and co-edited the exhibition catalogue. Sabine Wieber is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Glasgow. She has published on German and Austrian design culture, German national identity and constructions of gender in Vienna circa 1900. She co-curated the exhibition Madness and Modernity: Art, Architecture and Mental Illness in Vienna 1900 (Vienna, 2010).
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857454587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud's investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this 'territory' in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art works produced by patients and writers were developing innovative literary techniques to convey a character's interior life. This collection of essays uses the framework of journeys in order to highlight the diverse artistic, cultural and medical responses to a peculiarly Viennese anxiety about the madness of modern times. The travellers of these journeys vary from patients to doctors, artists to writers, architects to composers and royalty to tourists; in engaging with their histories, the contributors reveal the different ways in which madness was experienced and represented in 'Vienna 1900'. Gemma Blackshaw is Reader in Art History at Plymouth University. She is currently working on a Leverhulme-funded book on portraiture in Vienna circa 1900. She co-curated the exhibition Madness and Modernity: Art, Architecture and Mental Illness in Vienna 1900 (London and Vienna, 2009-10) and co-edited the exhibition catalogue. Sabine Wieber is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Glasgow. She has published on German and Austrian design culture, German national identity and constructions of gender in Vienna circa 1900. She co-curated the exhibition Madness and Modernity: Art, Architecture and Mental Illness in Vienna 1900 (Vienna, 2010).