Author: Ann Bridge
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448211484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Author of best-selling novel Peking Picnic, Ann Bridge brings us her second novel set amongst the diplomatic circle of Peking. First published in 1934, The Ginger Griffin tells the story of a young English woman who comes to Peking to live with her diplomatic uncle, on a quest to get over an unhappy love affair she soon finds herself falling into another. The Ginger Griffin combines romance and adventure during the times when expatriates and diplomats enjoyed privileged and cosseted lives in the Far East.
The Ginger Griffin
Author: Ann Bridge
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448211484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Author of best-selling novel Peking Picnic, Ann Bridge brings us her second novel set amongst the diplomatic circle of Peking. First published in 1934, The Ginger Griffin tells the story of a young English woman who comes to Peking to live with her diplomatic uncle, on a quest to get over an unhappy love affair she soon finds herself falling into another. The Ginger Griffin combines romance and adventure during the times when expatriates and diplomats enjoyed privileged and cosseted lives in the Far East.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448211484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Author of best-selling novel Peking Picnic, Ann Bridge brings us her second novel set amongst the diplomatic circle of Peking. First published in 1934, The Ginger Griffin tells the story of a young English woman who comes to Peking to live with her diplomatic uncle, on a quest to get over an unhappy love affair she soon finds herself falling into another. The Ginger Griffin combines romance and adventure during the times when expatriates and diplomats enjoyed privileged and cosseted lives in the Far East.
The Ginger Griffin
Author: Ann Bridge
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 409
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 409
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Adopting Ginger
Author: Linda Griffin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781479393558
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"Ginger is fearful. She hides in bushes and refuses to walk or eat. What will Ginger's new family do? This is a story about Ginger's journey from a shelter to a loving home. Adopting Ginger is a story about compassion, cooperation, and responsibility."--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781479393558
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"Ginger is fearful. She hides in bushes and refuses to walk or eat. What will Ginger's new family do? This is a story about Ginger's journey from a shelter to a loving home. Adopting Ginger is a story about compassion, cooperation, and responsibility."--Page 4 of cover.
The Ginger Griffin
Author: Ann Bridge
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Miscellaneous Papers, Etc
Author: Library Binding Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library
Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders
Author: Kate Griffin
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 057130270X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Limehouse, 1880: Dancing girls are going missing from 'Paradise' - the criminal manor with ruthless efficiency by the ferocious Lady Ginger. Seventeen-year-old music hall seamstress Kitty Peck finds herself reluctantly drawn into a web of blackmail, depravity and murder when The Lady devises a singular scheme to discover the truth. But as Kitty's scandalous and terrifying act becomes the talk of London, she finds herself facing someone even more deadly and horrifying than The Lady. Bold, impetuous and blessed with more brains than she cares to admit, it soon becomes apparent that it's up to the unlikely team of Kitty and her stagehand friend, Lucca, to unravel the truth and ensure that more girls do not meet with a similar fate. But are Kitty's courage and common sense and Lucca's book learning a match for the monster in the shadows? Their investigations take them from the gin-fuelled halls and doss houses of the East End to the champagne-fuelled galleries of the West End. Take nothing at face value: Kitty is about to step out on a path of discovery that changes everything . . .
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 057130270X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Limehouse, 1880: Dancing girls are going missing from 'Paradise' - the criminal manor with ruthless efficiency by the ferocious Lady Ginger. Seventeen-year-old music hall seamstress Kitty Peck finds herself reluctantly drawn into a web of blackmail, depravity and murder when The Lady devises a singular scheme to discover the truth. But as Kitty's scandalous and terrifying act becomes the talk of London, she finds herself facing someone even more deadly and horrifying than The Lady. Bold, impetuous and blessed with more brains than she cares to admit, it soon becomes apparent that it's up to the unlikely team of Kitty and her stagehand friend, Lucca, to unravel the truth and ensure that more girls do not meet with a similar fate. But are Kitty's courage and common sense and Lucca's book learning a match for the monster in the shadows? Their investigations take them from the gin-fuelled halls and doss houses of the East End to the champagne-fuelled galleries of the West End. Take nothing at face value: Kitty is about to step out on a path of discovery that changes everything . . .
Embassies in the East
Author: James Hoare
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780700705122
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Tracks the key events and people shaping the British view of Asia by tracing the history of three Far Eastern embassies - in Japan, China and Korea - through the vicissitudes of war and revolution against the background of an apparent steady decline of western influence in Asia.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780700705122
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Tracks the key events and people shaping the British view of Asia by tracing the history of three Far Eastern embassies - in Japan, China and Korea - through the vicissitudes of war and revolution against the background of an apparent steady decline of western influence in Asia.
Empire and Honor
Author: W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101602171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
October 1945. The war is over. The OSS has been disbanded. But for Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS, the fight goes on… In the closing months of the war, the United States made a secret deal with Reinhard Gehlen, head of German intelligence’s Soviet section. In exchange for a treasure trove of intelligence on the Soviets and their spies within the U.S. atomic bomb program, Gehlen’s people would be spirited to safety in Argentina. Only a handful of people know about the deal. If word got out, all hell would break loose—and the U.S. would lose some of the most valuable intelligence sources they possess. It is up to Frade and company to keep them safe. But some people have other ideas...
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101602171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
October 1945. The war is over. The OSS has been disbanded. But for Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS, the fight goes on… In the closing months of the war, the United States made a secret deal with Reinhard Gehlen, head of German intelligence’s Soviet section. In exchange for a treasure trove of intelligence on the Soviets and their spies within the U.S. atomic bomb program, Gehlen’s people would be spirited to safety in Argentina. Only a handful of people know about the deal. If word got out, all hell would break loose—and the U.S. would lose some of the most valuable intelligence sources they possess. It is up to Frade and company to keep them safe. But some people have other ideas...
The Author's & Writer's Who's who
Author: Edward Martell
Publisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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