Pick of Posy
Author | : Posy Simmonds |
Publisher | : Fontana Press |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780006368779 |
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Author | : Posy Simmonds |
Publisher | : Fontana Press |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1984 |
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ISBN | : 9780006368779 |
Author | : Posy Simmonds |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : 0224072692 |
This book consists of approximately fifty 'Literary Life' cartoons which were serialised weekly every Saturday in the Guardian's Review section from November 2002 until December 2004, and two short stories, 'Murder at Matabele Mansions' and 'Cinderella'. Posy Simmonds examines the pretensions of the literary world with her customary flair for light, witty satire and social observation. Women writers suffer 'Rustic Block' after moving to the countryside, type their sexual fantasies into their laptop, and (in 'Enemies of Promise') juggle the dilemmas of feminism and motherhood. Male authors are shown suffering the ego-perils of coming into contact with the public at book signings, and complain about reviewers and 'media hoops'. Jealousies and rivalries emerge out of reading groups; struggling small booksellers have to deal with recalcitrant customers or sales reps pushing the latest celebrity book. Simmonds' penchant for literary pastiche and parody is given full rein, as in 'Murder at Matebele Mansions'. And she wickedly suggests a family's fixed smiles as a young girl explains the plot of her Harry Potter book ... Funny, insightful and beautifully drawn, Literary Life will delight fans of Gemma Bovery.
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Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.
Author | : Annie Trumbull Slosson |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2019-12-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Story-Tell Lib by Annie Trumbull Slosson is about a gifted young storyteller named Elizabeth York and her adventures in the quaint town of Greenhills. Excerpt: "That was what everybody in the little mountain village called her. Her real name, as she often told me, ringing out each syllable proudly in her shrill sweet voice, was Elizabeth Rowena Marietta York. A stately name, indeed, for the little crippled, stunted, helpless creature, and I could never think of her by any name but the one the village people used, Story-tell Lib. I had heard of her for two or three summers in my visits to Greenhills."
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Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1918 |
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Author | : William Hadden Whyte |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0198716125 |
In the last two centuries Britain has experienced a revolution in higher education, with the number of students rising from a few hundred to several million. Yet the institutions that drove - and still drive - this change have been all but ignored by historians. Drawing on a decade's research, and based on work in dozens of archives, many of them used for the very first time, this is the first full-scale study of the civic universities - new institutions in the nineteenth century reflecting the growth of major Victorian cities in Britain, such as Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, York, and Durham - for more than 50 years. Tracing their story from the 1780s until the 2010s, it is an ambitious attempt to write the Redbrick revolution back into history. William Whyte argues that these institutions created a distinctive and influential conception of the university - something that was embodied in their architecture and expressed in the lives of their students and staff. It was this Redbrick model that would shape their successors founded in the twentieth century: ensuring that the normal university experience in Britain is a Redbrick one. Using a vast range of previously untapped sources, Redbrick is not just a new history, but a new sort of university history: one that seeks to rescue the social and architectural aspects of education from the disregard of previous scholars, and thus provide the richest possible account of university life. It will be of interest to students and scholars of modern British history, to anyone who has ever attended university, and to all those who want to understand how our higher education system has developed - and how it may evolve in the future.
Author | : Mari Strachan |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2007-11-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1847675557 |
Gwenni Morgan is not like any other girl in this small Welsh town. Inquisitive, bookish and full of spirit, she can fly in her sleep and loves playing detective. So when a neighbour mysteriously vanishes, and no one seems to be asking the right questions, Gwenni decides to conduct her own investigation. Mari Strachan's unforgettable novel was one of the most acclaimed and successful debuts of 2009. It is a heart-breaking and hugely enjoyable story.
Author | : Tony Brown |
Publisher | : Cadenza Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781846851506 |
This volume contains a collection of over 40 short stories split into two sections. The 'light' section contains light hearted tales that are amusing, quirky, and surreal. The 'dark' section contains tales that are altogether darker, thoughtful and more poignant.
Author | : Sophie May |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2020-08-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752419407 |
Reproduction of the original: Little Pitchers by Sophie May
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Total Pages | : 782 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : American wit and humor |
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