Author: Louise Levene
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140887878X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
'Brilliant' Spectator 'A whip-smart comedy, chock-full with glamour, secret agents and sun-drenched Californian orange groves – seriously, what could be more heavenly?' Saga 'A triumph' Financial Times It is September 1940 and Evelyn Murdoch, a translator from the Postal Censorship department, is uprooted from her home in wartime Woking and transferred to Hollywood. She is to assist a mysterious British agent in his attempts to outwit the Los Angeles German delegation and boost the British propaganda war effort. The unhappy young widow is supplied with a new Californian wardrobe, a Bel Air bungalow and her own desk in the writers' block of Miracle Studios. At first bewildered by the glamorous excesses of this strange new world, she is gradually seduced by the sunlight, orange groves and clever, fast-talking men. But, just as she begins to blossom, her new technicolor ending threatens to slip from her grasp.
Happy Little Bluebirds
Author: Louise Levene
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140887878X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
'Brilliant' Spectator 'A whip-smart comedy, chock-full with glamour, secret agents and sun-drenched Californian orange groves – seriously, what could be more heavenly?' Saga 'A triumph' Financial Times It is September 1940 and Evelyn Murdoch, a translator from the Postal Censorship department, is uprooted from her home in wartime Woking and transferred to Hollywood. She is to assist a mysterious British agent in his attempts to outwit the Los Angeles German delegation and boost the British propaganda war effort. The unhappy young widow is supplied with a new Californian wardrobe, a Bel Air bungalow and her own desk in the writers' block of Miracle Studios. At first bewildered by the glamorous excesses of this strange new world, she is gradually seduced by the sunlight, orange groves and clever, fast-talking men. But, just as she begins to blossom, her new technicolor ending threatens to slip from her grasp.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140887878X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
'Brilliant' Spectator 'A whip-smart comedy, chock-full with glamour, secret agents and sun-drenched Californian orange groves – seriously, what could be more heavenly?' Saga 'A triumph' Financial Times It is September 1940 and Evelyn Murdoch, a translator from the Postal Censorship department, is uprooted from her home in wartime Woking and transferred to Hollywood. She is to assist a mysterious British agent in his attempts to outwit the Los Angeles German delegation and boost the British propaganda war effort. The unhappy young widow is supplied with a new Californian wardrobe, a Bel Air bungalow and her own desk in the writers' block of Miracle Studios. At first bewildered by the glamorous excesses of this strange new world, she is gradually seduced by the sunlight, orange groves and clever, fast-talking men. But, just as she begins to blossom, her new technicolor ending threatens to slip from her grasp.
Rise Up, Little Bluebirds
Author: Kristy Boike
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781634894586
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781634894586
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Ten Little Bluebirds
Author: Emily Ford
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
ISBN: 9780545794411
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Readers count along as ten little bluebirds explore their environment throughout the day.
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
ISBN: 9780545794411
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Readers count along as ten little bluebirds explore their environment throughout the day.
Grammar & Not-grammar
Author: Gary Kibbins
Publisher: YYZ Books
ISBN: 9780920397336
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
There are two kinds of grammarians, those who describe and those who prescribe. In the academic world, the prescribers are usually viewed as the conservative old guard. The descriptarians are usually seen as the activists, young bucks who believe the task of grammarians is to map or chart how speakers use their language and note its changes over time.
Publisher: YYZ Books
ISBN: 9780920397336
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
There are two kinds of grammarians, those who describe and those who prescribe. In the academic world, the prescribers are usually viewed as the conservative old guard. The descriptarians are usually seen as the activists, young bucks who believe the task of grammarians is to map or chart how speakers use their language and note its changes over time.
The Blue Bird
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Blue Bird
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belgian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Mytyl and her brother, Tyltyl, are aided by the fairy, Bérylune, as they seek happiness in the simple things of life.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belgian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Mytyl and her brother, Tyltyl, are aided by the fairy, Bérylune, as they seek happiness in the simple things of life.
The Blue Bird for Children
Author: Georgette Leblanc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Ghastly Business
Author: Louise Levene
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408821907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
1929. A girl is strangled in a London alley, the mangled corpse of a peeping Tom is found in a railway tunnel and the details of the latest trunk murder are updated hourly in the evening papers. Into this world steps Dora Strang, doctor's daughter and filing clerk to the country's pre-eminent pathologist, Alfred Kemble. Thrilled by the post-mortems and court cases, Dora is further fascinated by Kemble himself, a glamorous and enigmatic war hero. But her job holds several surprises and as things take a distinctly ghastly turn the tabloid journalists sharpen their pencils in morbid anticipation...
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408821907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
1929. A girl is strangled in a London alley, the mangled corpse of a peeping Tom is found in a railway tunnel and the details of the latest trunk murder are updated hourly in the evening papers. Into this world steps Dora Strang, doctor's daughter and filing clerk to the country's pre-eminent pathologist, Alfred Kemble. Thrilled by the post-mortems and court cases, Dora is further fascinated by Kemble himself, a glamorous and enigmatic war hero. But her job holds several surprises and as things take a distinctly ghastly turn the tabloid journalists sharpen their pencils in morbid anticipation...
Bluebird's Nest
Author: Dorothea DePrisco
Publisher: Intervisual/Piggy Toes
ISBN: 9781581175042
Category : Bluebirds
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bluebird is gathering things for spring. What could she be making?
Publisher: Intervisual/Piggy Toes
ISBN: 9781581175042
Category : Bluebirds
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bluebird is gathering things for spring. What could she be making?
Hello, My Name Is Ruby
Author: Philip C. Stead
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596438096
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Ruby, a very small bird in a very big world, is looking for a friend, so she introduces herself in this stunning new picture book by Caldecott Medalist Stead ("A Sick Day for Amos McGee"). Full color.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596438096
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Ruby, a very small bird in a very big world, is looking for a friend, so she introduces herself in this stunning new picture book by Caldecott Medalist Stead ("A Sick Day for Amos McGee"). Full color.