Author: Tim Bradford
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 1848317069
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
For fifteen years, Tim Bradford has meandered round the quiet streets of his North London home, seeking out the ordinary and the extraordinary, the sublime and the ridiculous. A London Country Diary documents his wanderings – he attempts to rescue a deer in Clissold Park, talks to a magical old man in Holloway, breaks up a fight in Stoke Newington and has issues with foxes in Highbury. And that's just the beginning. All of life is in these pages. Well, some. OK, just a little bit. But with its idiosyncratic wit and charming illustrations, this book is a timely reminder that you can find beauty, humour and life, wherever you call home.
A London Country Diary
Author: Tim Bradford
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 1848317069
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
For fifteen years, Tim Bradford has meandered round the quiet streets of his North London home, seeking out the ordinary and the extraordinary, the sublime and the ridiculous. A London Country Diary documents his wanderings – he attempts to rescue a deer in Clissold Park, talks to a magical old man in Holloway, breaks up a fight in Stoke Newington and has issues with foxes in Highbury. And that's just the beginning. All of life is in these pages. Well, some. OK, just a little bit. But with its idiosyncratic wit and charming illustrations, this book is a timely reminder that you can find beauty, humour and life, wherever you call home.
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 1848317069
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
For fifteen years, Tim Bradford has meandered round the quiet streets of his North London home, seeking out the ordinary and the extraordinary, the sublime and the ridiculous. A London Country Diary documents his wanderings – he attempts to rescue a deer in Clissold Park, talks to a magical old man in Holloway, breaks up a fight in Stoke Newington and has issues with foxes in Highbury. And that's just the beginning. All of life is in these pages. Well, some. OK, just a little bit. But with its idiosyncratic wit and charming illustrations, this book is a timely reminder that you can find beauty, humour and life, wherever you call home.
Country Diary Drawings
Author: Clifford Harper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904596004
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
36 new illustrations from the now legendary anarchist illustrator, together with an introduction from thte writer Richard Boston.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904596004
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
36 new illustrations from the now legendary anarchist illustrator, together with an introduction from thte writer Richard Boston.
Wild Flowers
Author: Sarah Hollis
Publisher: Penguin Press HC
ISBN: 9781854714015
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Press HC
ISBN: 9781854714015
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Becoming a Londoner
Author: David Plante
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140883975X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The first volume of David Plante's extraordinary diaries of a life lived among the artistic elite, both a deeply personal memoir and a hugely significant document of cultural history
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140883975X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The first volume of David Plante's extraordinary diaries of a life lived among the artistic elite, both a deeply personal memoir and a hugely significant document of cultural history
Small Town England
Author: Tim Bradford
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407031465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Tim Bradford is growing up in a small town in Lincolnshire in the 1970s. Market Rasen is not the most exciting place, but to his teenage mind it was the centre of the universe. Tim is at that in-between phase between childhood and adolescence, where you are trying to be grown up and get your first snogs whilst at the same time still playing with airfix models and making dens. Tim takes us through his first crushes, falling in love with the local beauty queen and an elusive Gallic beauty on a French exchange. His first attempts at getting drunk and trying to impress girls, forming bands which churned out endless numbers of rubbish songs and trying to avoid deckings by the local hards. Tim and his equally hapless friends are gradually working towards breaking free of their childhoods and moving away from their roots. Life in this small town was a rollercoaster of mundane happenings. Small Town paints a portrait of the energy and melancholy at the heart of our generation, the inability to live for now and the feeling that something better is just around the corner. Too young (just) to be baby boomers and too English and uncool to call itself Generation X. It's a universal tale about dreams, ambitions, brass bands, cubs, rugby songs, football stickers, tractors, young love and valve amplifiers connected up to cheap distortion pedals, set at a time of political change and pudding basin hair.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407031465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Tim Bradford is growing up in a small town in Lincolnshire in the 1970s. Market Rasen is not the most exciting place, but to his teenage mind it was the centre of the universe. Tim is at that in-between phase between childhood and adolescence, where you are trying to be grown up and get your first snogs whilst at the same time still playing with airfix models and making dens. Tim takes us through his first crushes, falling in love with the local beauty queen and an elusive Gallic beauty on a French exchange. His first attempts at getting drunk and trying to impress girls, forming bands which churned out endless numbers of rubbish songs and trying to avoid deckings by the local hards. Tim and his equally hapless friends are gradually working towards breaking free of their childhoods and moving away from their roots. Life in this small town was a rollercoaster of mundane happenings. Small Town paints a portrait of the energy and melancholy at the heart of our generation, the inability to live for now and the feeling that something better is just around the corner. Too young (just) to be baby boomers and too English and uncool to call itself Generation X. It's a universal tale about dreams, ambitions, brass bands, cubs, rugby songs, football stickers, tractors, young love and valve amplifiers connected up to cheap distortion pedals, set at a time of political change and pudding basin hair.
The Country Diaries
Author: Alan Taylor
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847673260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The unique beauty of the British countryside has been celebrated down the ages in music, poetry, and art. It has also been celebrated in countless private diaries. This delightful treasury gathers together the very finest - from Rev Gilbert White's journal of life at his famous home in Selborne to Beatrix Potter's holiday diaries from Perthshire. Elsewhere, the thoughts of Dorothy Wordsworth and John Fowles rub shoulders with the words of Queen Victoria, Siegfried Sassoon and Roger Deakin. Together, these private records, which have been arranged as a diary of the calendar year, paint a rich and surprising portrait of a landscape and a life we think we know so well.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847673260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The unique beauty of the British countryside has been celebrated down the ages in music, poetry, and art. It has also been celebrated in countless private diaries. This delightful treasury gathers together the very finest - from Rev Gilbert White's journal of life at his famous home in Selborne to Beatrix Potter's holiday diaries from Perthshire. Elsewhere, the thoughts of Dorothy Wordsworth and John Fowles rub shoulders with the words of Queen Victoria, Siegfried Sassoon and Roger Deakin. Together, these private records, which have been arranged as a diary of the calendar year, paint a rich and surprising portrait of a landscape and a life we think we know so well.
The Desperate Diary of a Country Housewife
Author: Daisy Waugh
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007347529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
If you've ever dreamt of a new life in the country, this highly entertaining and candid account of country living might make you think again...
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007347529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
If you've ever dreamt of a new life in the country, this highly entertaining and candid account of country living might make you think again...
British Diaries
Author: William Matthews
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520320719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520320719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.
North Country Diaries
Author: John Hodgson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Becoming Virginia Woolf
Author: Barbara Lounsberry
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813048818
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Encompassing thirty-eight handwritten volumes, Virginia Woolf’s diary is her longest work, her longest sustained, and last work to reach the public. In the only full-length work to explore deeply this luminous and boundary-stretching masterpiece, Barbara Lounsberry traces Woolf’s development as a writer through her first twelve diaries—a fascinating experimental stage, where the earliest hints of Woolf’s pioneering modernist style can be seen. Starting with fourteen-year-old Woolf’s first palm-sized leather diary, Becoming Virginia Woolf illuminates how her private and public writing was shaped by the diaries of other writers including Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, the French Goncourt brothers, Mary Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Woolf’s “diary parents”—Sir Walter Scott and Fanny Burney. These key literary connections open a new and indispensable window onto the story of one of literature’s most renowned modernists.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813048818
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Encompassing thirty-eight handwritten volumes, Virginia Woolf’s diary is her longest work, her longest sustained, and last work to reach the public. In the only full-length work to explore deeply this luminous and boundary-stretching masterpiece, Barbara Lounsberry traces Woolf’s development as a writer through her first twelve diaries—a fascinating experimental stage, where the earliest hints of Woolf’s pioneering modernist style can be seen. Starting with fourteen-year-old Woolf’s first palm-sized leather diary, Becoming Virginia Woolf illuminates how her private and public writing was shaped by the diaries of other writers including Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, the French Goncourt brothers, Mary Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Woolf’s “diary parents”—Sir Walter Scott and Fanny Burney. These key literary connections open a new and indispensable window onto the story of one of literature’s most renowned modernists.