The Clothes They Stood Up In

The Clothes They Stood Up In PDF Author: Alan Bennett
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1782831525
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett's first story. Like Charles Dickens' novels which were first published in magazines, it originally appeared in the London Review of Books - which the author says 'seems to me (and not just because I occasionally contribute to it) the liveliest, most serious and also the most radical literary periodical we have'.

The Clothes They Stood Up In

The Clothes They Stood Up In PDF Author: Alan Bennett
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1782831525
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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Book Description
The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett's first story. Like Charles Dickens' novels which were first published in magazines, it originally appeared in the London Review of Books - which the author says 'seems to me (and not just because I occasionally contribute to it) the liveliest, most serious and also the most radical literary periodical we have'.

Telling Tales

Telling Tales PDF Author: Alan Bennett
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1846072603
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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The childhood memoir of one of Britain's best-loved writers.

Forty Years on

Forty Years on PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571316724
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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A Certain Age

A Certain Age PDF Author: Lynne Truss
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007355246
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 25

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Book Description
"Twelve highly original monologues about love, romance, friendship and family"--Back cover.

A Presumption of Death

A Presumption of Death PDF Author: Jill Paton Walsh
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 142998211X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Sixty years after Dorothy L. Sayers began her unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey novel, Thrones Dominations, Booker Prize finalist Jill Paton Walsh took on the challenge of completing the manuscript---with extraordinary success. "The transition is seamless," said the San Francisco Chronicle; "you cannot tell where Sayers leaves off and Walsh begins." "Will Paton Walsh do it again?" wondered Ruth Rendell in London's Sunday Times. "We must hope so." Jill Paton Walsh fulfills those hopes in A Presumption of Death. Although Sayers never began another Wimsey novel, she did leave clues. Drawing on "The Wimsey Papers," in which Sayers showed various members of the family coping with wartime conditions, Walsh has devised an irresistible story set in 1940, at the start of the Blitz in London. Lord Peter is abroad on secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, has taken their children to safety in the country. But war has followed them there---glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous land-girls scandalize the villagers, and the blackout makes the nighttime lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London. Daily life reminds them of the war so constantly that, when the village's first air-raid practice ends with a real body on the ground, it's almost a shock to hear the doctor declare that it was not enemy action, but plain, old-fashioned murder. Or was it? At the request of the overstretched local police, Harriet reluctantly agrees to investigate. The mystery that unfolds is every bit as literate, ingenious, and compelling as the best of original Lord Peter Wimsey novels.