Author: Lucy Atkins
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 1681440504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
"A COMPLEX, CREEPY, AND INSIDIOUS NOVEL ABOUT AMBITION." --THE GUARDIAN "READERS OF RUTH WARE AND GILLIAN FLYNN WILL LOVE IT." --LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW) "FASCINATING, BRILLIANT, CREEPY." --GOOD HOUSEKEEPING If you had the perfect life . . . how far would you go to protect it? Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve the life of her dreams, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and historian, three children, and a talented husband. Only one other person knows that Olivia's perfect life is in fact a desperate tangle of lies: Vivian Tester, the socially awkward, middle-aged housekeeper of a Sussex manor who found the Victorian diary of a pioneering female surgeon on which Olivia's new biography is based. In a gripping narrative that shifts between London, Sussex, and the idyllic South of France, Olivia and Vivian will learn knife-edged truths about themselves and discover just how far each will go to protect her reputation.
The Night Visitor
Author: Lucy Atkins
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 1681440504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
"A COMPLEX, CREEPY, AND INSIDIOUS NOVEL ABOUT AMBITION." --THE GUARDIAN "READERS OF RUTH WARE AND GILLIAN FLYNN WILL LOVE IT." --LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW) "FASCINATING, BRILLIANT, CREEPY." --GOOD HOUSEKEEPING If you had the perfect life . . . how far would you go to protect it? Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve the life of her dreams, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and historian, three children, and a talented husband. Only one other person knows that Olivia's perfect life is in fact a desperate tangle of lies: Vivian Tester, the socially awkward, middle-aged housekeeper of a Sussex manor who found the Victorian diary of a pioneering female surgeon on which Olivia's new biography is based. In a gripping narrative that shifts between London, Sussex, and the idyllic South of France, Olivia and Vivian will learn knife-edged truths about themselves and discover just how far each will go to protect her reputation.
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 1681440504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
"A COMPLEX, CREEPY, AND INSIDIOUS NOVEL ABOUT AMBITION." --THE GUARDIAN "READERS OF RUTH WARE AND GILLIAN FLYNN WILL LOVE IT." --LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW) "FASCINATING, BRILLIANT, CREEPY." --GOOD HOUSEKEEPING If you had the perfect life . . . how far would you go to protect it? Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve the life of her dreams, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and historian, three children, and a talented husband. Only one other person knows that Olivia's perfect life is in fact a desperate tangle of lies: Vivian Tester, the socially awkward, middle-aged housekeeper of a Sussex manor who found the Victorian diary of a pioneering female surgeon on which Olivia's new biography is based. In a gripping narrative that shifts between London, Sussex, and the idyllic South of France, Olivia and Vivian will learn knife-edged truths about themselves and discover just how far each will go to protect her reputation.
1000 Years of Annoying the French
Author: Stephen Clarke
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453243585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
The author of A Year in the Merde and Talk to the Snail offers a highly biased and hilarious view of French history in this international bestseller. Things have been just a little awkward between Britain and France ever since the Norman invasion in 1066. Fortunately—after years of humorously chronicling the vast cultural gap between the two countries—author Stephen Clarke is perfectly positioned to investigate the historical origins of their occasionally hostile and perpetually entertaining pas de deux. Clarke sets the record straight, documenting how French braggarts and cheats have stolen credit rightfully due their neighbors across the Channel while blaming their own numerous gaffes and failures on those same innocent Brits for the past thousand years. Deeply researched and written with the same sly wit that made A Year in the Merde a comic hit, this lighthearted trip through the past millennium debunks the notion that the Battle of Hastings was a French victory (William the Conqueror was really a Norman who hated the French) and pooh-poohs French outrage over Britain’s murder of Joan of Arc (it was the French who executed her for wearing trousers). He also takes the air out of overblown Gallic claims, challenging the provenance of everything from champagne to the guillotine to prove that the French would be nowhere without British ingenuity. Brits and Anglophiles of every national origin will devour Clarke’s decidedly biased accounts of British triumph and French ignominy. But 1000 Years of Annoying the French will also draw chuckles from good-humored Francophiles as well as “anyone who’s ever encountered a snooty Parisian waiter or found themselves driving on the Boulevard Périphérique during August” (The Daily Mail). A bestseller in Britain, this is an entertaining look at history that fans of Sarah Vowell are sure to enjoy, from the author the San Francisco Chronicle has called “the anti-Mayle . . . acerbic, insulting, un-PC, and mostly hilarious.”
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453243585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
The author of A Year in the Merde and Talk to the Snail offers a highly biased and hilarious view of French history in this international bestseller. Things have been just a little awkward between Britain and France ever since the Norman invasion in 1066. Fortunately—after years of humorously chronicling the vast cultural gap between the two countries—author Stephen Clarke is perfectly positioned to investigate the historical origins of their occasionally hostile and perpetually entertaining pas de deux. Clarke sets the record straight, documenting how French braggarts and cheats have stolen credit rightfully due their neighbors across the Channel while blaming their own numerous gaffes and failures on those same innocent Brits for the past thousand years. Deeply researched and written with the same sly wit that made A Year in the Merde a comic hit, this lighthearted trip through the past millennium debunks the notion that the Battle of Hastings was a French victory (William the Conqueror was really a Norman who hated the French) and pooh-poohs French outrage over Britain’s murder of Joan of Arc (it was the French who executed her for wearing trousers). He also takes the air out of overblown Gallic claims, challenging the provenance of everything from champagne to the guillotine to prove that the French would be nowhere without British ingenuity. Brits and Anglophiles of every national origin will devour Clarke’s decidedly biased accounts of British triumph and French ignominy. But 1000 Years of Annoying the French will also draw chuckles from good-humored Francophiles as well as “anyone who’s ever encountered a snooty Parisian waiter or found themselves driving on the Boulevard Périphérique during August” (The Daily Mail). A bestseller in Britain, this is an entertaining look at history that fans of Sarah Vowell are sure to enjoy, from the author the San Francisco Chronicle has called “the anti-Mayle . . . acerbic, insulting, un-PC, and mostly hilarious.”
Vile Visitors
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780007501595
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Two hilarious stories from the bestselling and well-loved author Diana Wynne Jones, about the worst visitors in the world coming to stay. In Vile Visitors, we meet Angus Flint and Chair Person - the worst guests in the world. In Who Got Rid of Angus Flint? We meet a man so mean, he even insults the furniture! Despite the children's best pranks, he just won't leave. But when the furniture has had enough, it's time to rise up and get rid of this most vile of visitors... In Chair Person, that old armchair with the broken crystal ball spilled on it has been locked in the shed. But then the children find a mysterious visitor... Transformed into the most annoying visitor ever, they are desperate to get rid of him. But can they turn him back into a chair before he ruins them forever?
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780007501595
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Two hilarious stories from the bestselling and well-loved author Diana Wynne Jones, about the worst visitors in the world coming to stay. In Vile Visitors, we meet Angus Flint and Chair Person - the worst guests in the world. In Who Got Rid of Angus Flint? We meet a man so mean, he even insults the furniture! Despite the children's best pranks, he just won't leave. But when the furniture has had enough, it's time to rise up and get rid of this most vile of visitors... In Chair Person, that old armchair with the broken crystal ball spilled on it has been locked in the shed. But then the children find a mysterious visitor... Transformed into the most annoying visitor ever, they are desperate to get rid of him. But can they turn him back into a chair before he ruins them forever?
Short Stories
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2505
Book Description
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. This edition includes: An Adventure in Paris The Awakening Crash My Landlady The Horla Our Letters Profitable Business A Fashionable Woman The Donkey A Mother of Monsters A Family Affair The Mad Woman The Bandmaster's Sister The Cripple A Cock Crowed Words of Love Miss Harriet Two Friends Pierrot Countess Satan Mother Sauvage Coward A Duel The Corsican Bandit The Accent Always Lock the Door! Legend of Mont St. Michel The Fishing Hole A Vendetta Madame Hermet The Old Maid Am I Insane? Discovery The Child The Piece of String He? Madame Baptiste Madame Parisse Boule De Suif Magnetism The Christening A Stroll The Mustache Father Matthew Dead Woman's Secret A Father's Confession A Rupture A New Year's Gift Is He Mad? The Debt Mad The Trip of Le Horla The Parrot The Hermit The Dowry The White Lady The Dispenser of Holy Water The Rondoli Sisters Mademoiselle Cocotte The Lancer's Wife A Normandy Joke The Marquis De Fumerol Julie Romain The Model A Parricide Found on a Drowned Man Dreams Saint Anthony The Drunkard What Was Really the Matter with Andrew Regret The Cake My Uncle Sosthenes Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse The Inn The Test The Carter's Wench The Man with the Dogs The Diamond Necklace Ghosts Mother and Son Rose Sundays of a Bourgeois The Sequel to a Divorce The Farmer's Wife The Mountebanks The Dead Girl The Maison Tellier Monsieur Parent Julot's Opinion Mademoiselle Coco Mamma Stirling The Diary of a Madman Suicides The Wrong House A Good Match A Useful House Mademoiselle Fifi The Bed Mademoiselle Pearl...
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2505
Book Description
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. This edition includes: An Adventure in Paris The Awakening Crash My Landlady The Horla Our Letters Profitable Business A Fashionable Woman The Donkey A Mother of Monsters A Family Affair The Mad Woman The Bandmaster's Sister The Cripple A Cock Crowed Words of Love Miss Harriet Two Friends Pierrot Countess Satan Mother Sauvage Coward A Duel The Corsican Bandit The Accent Always Lock the Door! Legend of Mont St. Michel The Fishing Hole A Vendetta Madame Hermet The Old Maid Am I Insane? Discovery The Child The Piece of String He? Madame Baptiste Madame Parisse Boule De Suif Magnetism The Christening A Stroll The Mustache Father Matthew Dead Woman's Secret A Father's Confession A Rupture A New Year's Gift Is He Mad? The Debt Mad The Trip of Le Horla The Parrot The Hermit The Dowry The White Lady The Dispenser of Holy Water The Rondoli Sisters Mademoiselle Cocotte The Lancer's Wife A Normandy Joke The Marquis De Fumerol Julie Romain The Model A Parricide Found on a Drowned Man Dreams Saint Anthony The Drunkard What Was Really the Matter with Andrew Regret The Cake My Uncle Sosthenes Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse The Inn The Test The Carter's Wench The Man with the Dogs The Diamond Necklace Ghosts Mother and Son Rose Sundays of a Bourgeois The Sequel to a Divorce The Farmer's Wife The Mountebanks The Dead Girl The Maison Tellier Monsieur Parent Julot's Opinion Mademoiselle Coco Mamma Stirling The Diary of a Madman Suicides The Wrong House A Good Match A Useful House Mademoiselle Fifi The Bed Mademoiselle Pearl...
Ghostly visitors: a series of authentic narratives
Author: Spectre stricken (pseud.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
... Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant ...: Belami, Mademoiselle Pearl, and short stories
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Complete Works of Guy de Maupasant...
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Mysterious Visitor: Trixie Belden
Author: Julie Campbell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0593904656
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There's a new face in Sleepyside, and Trixie Belden is sure this stranger is up to no good. Too bad no one else believes her. But if anyone get can to the truth of this visitor's true motives, it's detective Trixie! Trixie Belden hasn’t talked to Diana Lynch in a long time—not since her family got incredibly rich…and snobby. But when Trixie and her best friend, Honey, spot Diana looking a little down, Trixie knows it is time to put old grievances in the past. Except the past is exactly the problem for Diana. Her long-lost uncle Monty has recently arrived from Arizona, and Diana is less than thrilled about the reunion. Monty insists on hosting lavish parties, he won’t stop pulling pranks, and he embarrasses Diana in front of all of her friends. Trixie isn’t charmed either. Monty may have fooled all of the adults, but his timing seems too good to be true. But can Trixie prove Uncle Monty is an imposter—or will Di be the one sent packing?
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0593904656
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There's a new face in Sleepyside, and Trixie Belden is sure this stranger is up to no good. Too bad no one else believes her. But if anyone get can to the truth of this visitor's true motives, it's detective Trixie! Trixie Belden hasn’t talked to Diana Lynch in a long time—not since her family got incredibly rich…and snobby. But when Trixie and her best friend, Honey, spot Diana looking a little down, Trixie knows it is time to put old grievances in the past. Except the past is exactly the problem for Diana. Her long-lost uncle Monty has recently arrived from Arizona, and Diana is less than thrilled about the reunion. Monty insists on hosting lavish parties, he won’t stop pulling pranks, and he embarrasses Diana in front of all of her friends. Trixie isn’t charmed either. Monty may have fooled all of the adults, but his timing seems too good to be true. But can Trixie prove Uncle Monty is an imposter—or will Di be the one sent packing?
A Radiant Little Girl
Author: Katharine Tynan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A Little Radiant Girl
Author: Katharine Tynan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description