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| Author | : William Kuhn |
| Publisher | : Harper Perennial |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2013-10-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780062208293 |
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An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn—author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books—Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the palace in search of a little fun, leaving behind a desperate team of courtiers who must find the missing Windsor before a national scandal erupts. Reminiscent of Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader, this lively, wonderfully inventive romp takes readers into the mind of the grand matriarch of Britain’s Royal Family, bringing us an endearing runaway Queen Elizabeth on the town—and leading us behind the Buckingham Palace walls and into the upstairs/downstairs spaces of England’s monarchy.
| Author | : William Kuhn |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 450 |
| Release | : 2011-11-29 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0307744655 |
Download Reading Jackie Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print as an editor at Viking and Doubleday during the last two decades of her life. Many Americans regarded Jackie as the paragon of grace, but few knew her as the woman sitting on her office floor laying out illustrations, or flying to California to persuade Michael Jackson to write his autobiography. William Kuhn provides a behind-the-scenes look at Jackie at work: commissioning books and nurturing authors, helping to shape stories that spoke to her. Based on archives and interviews with her authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie reveals the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous public image.
| Author | : William Kuhn |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2012-10-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062208306 |
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“A witty, contemporary story of the Downton Abbey-esque tensions between servants and employers, the young and the old, and tradition and modernity.” — Glamour An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn—author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books—Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the palace in search of a little fun, leaving behind a desperate team of courtiers who must find the missing Windsor before a national scandal erupts. After decades of service and years of watching her family's troubles splashed across the tabloids, Britain's Queen is beginning to feel her age. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an impromptu visit to a place that holds happy memories—the former royal yacht, Britannia, now moored near Edinburgh. Hidden beneath a skull-emblazoned hoodie, the limber Elizabeth (thank goodness for yoga) walks out of Buckingham Palace and heads for King's Cross to catch a train to Scotland. But a colorful cast of royal attendants has discovered her missing. In uneasy alliance a lady-in-waiting, a butler, an equerry, a girl from the stables, a dresser, and a clerk from the shop that supplies Her Majesty's cheese set out to bring her back before her absence becomes a national scandal. Comic and poignant, fast-paced and clever, Mrs Queen Takes the Train tweaks the pomp of the monarchy, going beneath its rigid formality to reveal the human heart of the woman at its center.
| Author | : William M. Kuhn |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004-04 |
| Genre | : Courts and courtiers |
| ISBN | : 9780715632307 |
Download Henry and Mary Ponsonby Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A unique insider's view of the mechanics of the British monarchy at one of its most unpopular moments in history, based on letters
| Author | : Gigi Levangie Grazer |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 387 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0743291999 |
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Prompting a media circus when he decides to divorce his ballerina wife so that he can marry his news anchorwoman mistress, New York real estate titan Jack Powers launches a plan to find his wife a new boyfriend so that their marriage can end amicably.
| Author | : Alan Bennett |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : 2007-09-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429934530 |
Download The Uncommon Reader Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From one of England's most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads to surprising and very funny consequences for the country at large. With the poignant and mischievous wit of The History Boys, England's best loved author Alan Bennett revels in the power of literature to change even the most uncommon reader's life.
| Author | : Georges Simenon |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017-10-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0241258553 |
Download The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian In this Georges Simenon classic, a Dutch clerk flees to Paris with his crooked boss’s money and meets the woman behind the man “A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion . . . disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers.” Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family man—until the day he discovers his boss has bankrupted the shipping firm he works for, and something snaps. Kees used to watch the trains go by on their way to exciting destinations. Now, on some dark impulse, he boards one at random, and begins a new life of recklessness and violence. The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By is a chilling portrayal of a man who breaks from society and goes on the run asks who we are, and what we are capable of.
| Author | : Joan D. Vinge |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 495 |
| Release | : 2015-10-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 076538177X |
Download The Snow Queen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the sea mers. But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin. All is not lost if Arienrhod, the ageless, corrupt Snow Queen, can destroy destiny with an act of genocide. Arienrhod is not without competition as Moon, a young Summer-tribe sibyl, and the nemesis of the Snow Queen, battles to break a conspiracy that spans space.
| Author | : William Shawcross |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 0743226763 |
Download Queen and Country Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This magnificently illustrated volume, produced in cooperation with BBC Books in London, combines an insightful text by noted historian Shawcross with personal recollections and over 100 remarkable images chronicling the half-century reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Full color and b&w.
| Author | : Annie Spence |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2017-09-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1250113881 |
Download Dear Fahrenheit 451 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A librarian's laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and breakup notes to the books in her life. If you love to read, and presumably you do since you’ve picked up this book (!), you know that some books affect you so profoundly they forever change the way you think about the world. Some books, on the other hand, disappoint you so much you want to throw them against the wall. Either way, it’s clear that a book can be your new soul mate or the bad relationship you need to end. In Dear Fahrenheit 451, librarian Annie Spence has crafted love letters and breakup notes to the iconic and eclectic books she has encountered over the years. From breaking up with The Giving Tree (a dysfunctional relationship book if ever there was one), to her love letter to The Time Traveler’s Wife (a novel less about time travel and more about the life of a marriage, with all of its ups and downs), Spence will make you think of old favorites in a new way. Filled with suggested reading lists, Spence’s take on classic and contemporary books is very much like the best of literature—sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes surprisingly poignant, and filled with universal truths. A celebration of reading, Dear Fahrenheit 451 is for anyone who loves nothing more than curling up with a good book...and another, and another, and another!
