The Glums
Author | : Frank Muir |
Publisher | : Robson Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : 9780860510802 |
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Author | : Frank Muir |
Publisher | : Robson Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : 9780860510802 |
Author | : C.R. Peraino |
Publisher | : Outskirts Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2015-05-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 147873289X |
Ian lives in an isolated town where people who believe that low a self-image, violence, and discontent come from failing. The town’s people create a group called the Protectors. Their job is to guard everybody’s self-image by discouraging new ideas and avoiding the frustration of failure. A drastic climate change that’s causing crop failures makes Ian realize that, unless the town’s people change what they’re doing, they’ll all die of starvation. He and a friend leave their village and sail across The Forbidden Sea. There they find a civilization, previously unknown to them, that believes that failure is part of learning. Shadows of Control follows Ian as he gains knowledge about this new way of thinking, and his attempts to save his people. Filled with natural disasters, wars, betrayal, and more, this novel puts the Ian through a gauntlet of trial and error in his quest to help his town survive.
Author | : Jeremy Robson |
Publisher | : Biteback Publishing |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2018-09-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1785904183 |
As an independent publisher, Jeremy Robson always punched above his weight with a roster of authors that have been the envy of many large publishers. As a poet, he has been at the centre of the poetry scene since the 1960s, with a number of highly praised volumes to his credit and the friendship of many leading poets and musicians. In this engrossing memoir, Robson looks back at both his publishing career and life as a poet. Stories abound; whether it be driving Muhammad Ali around Britain, coping with Michael Winner or working in the desert with David Ben-Gurion. Time spent joyously laughing with Maureen Lipman and Alan Coren while undertaking an exciting poetry reading tour with Ted Hughes, and packing the Royal Festival Hall for a historic poetry and jazz concert. Jeremy recounts treasured and life-long friendships with the poets and writers; Dannie Abse, Alan Sillitoe, Vernon Scannell, Laurie Lee, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Elie Wiesel and Frederic Raphael. Well known and celebrated as both publisher and poet, Jeremy Robson has produced a delicious memoir that will delight the reader.
Author | : Simon Morgan-Russell |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780719065569 |
Offers an analysis of the four collaborative sitcoms of Jimmy Perry and David Croft, 'Dad's Army', 'It Ain't half Hot, Mum!', 'Hi-de-Hi!' and 'You Rang M'Lord?'. Considers the themes and ideas that run through the series in terms of their representation of class and gender, and in terms of other sitcoms and cultures which produced them.
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Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1980 |
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Author | : David Kynaston |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 717 |
Release | : 2010-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802719643 |
As in his highly acclaimed Austerity Britain, David Kynaston invokes an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices to drive his narrative of 1950s Britain. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife Judy Haines, relishing the detail of suburban life, brings up her children in Chingford; the self-absorbed civil servant Henry St John perfects the art of grumbling. These and many other voices give a rich, unsentimental picture of everyday life in the 1950s. Well-known figures are encountered on the way, such as Doris Lessing (joining and later leaving the Communist Party), John Arlott (sticking up on Any Questions? for the rights of homosexuals) and Tiger's Roy of the Rovers (making his goal-scoring debut for Melchester). All this is part of a colourful, unfolding tapestry, in which the great national events - the Tories returning to power, the death of George VI, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the Suez Crisis - jostle alongside everything that gave Britain in the 1950s its distinctive flavour: Butlin's holiday camps, Kenwood food mixers, Hancock's Half-Hour, Ekco television sets, Davy Crockett, skiffle and teddy boys. Deeply researched, David Kynaston's Family Britain offers an unrivalled take on a largely cohesive, ordered, still very hierarchical society gratefully starting to move away from the painful hardships of the 1940s towards domestic ease and affluence.
Author | : Gyles Brandreth |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2021-09-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0241483735 |
The compelling, witty and remarkably honest autobiography from beloved star of Just a Minute, QI, Have I Got News For You and Celebrity Gogglebox THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hilarious, ribald, eye-popping, unforgettable, will make you laugh out loud' DAILY MAIL 'Warm, witty, charming. A moving and very affectionate family history. An enthusiast for life' THE TIMES ________ Enter the world of Gyles Brandreth - broadcaster, actor, writer, former politician - as he takes us on an extraordinary journey into his past. From growing up in an apparently well-to-do but strapped-for-cash middle-class English family to his adventures in swinging London, Gyles encounters princes, presidents, pop stars and prime ministers, gets involved in everything from setting up Scrabble championships to examining Danish sex shops, and thrills us with countless tales of family, friends and acquaintances, both famous and infamous. Filled with incredible and sometimes shocking stories, Odd Boy Out is the story of Gyles Brandreth's fascinating life told with his unique wit and charm. ________ 'Staggeringly brilliant, funny and touching, I loved it' JOANNA LUMLEY 'Light-hearted and dark events alike are described with his customary jaunty style, making them funny, moving an sometimes deeply shocking ' Sheila Hancock
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Booksellers' |
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Author | : Robert Paltock |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2019-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
'The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins' shares similarities with that of 'Robinson Crusoe', with a unique twist: The hero discovers and ultimately marries a woman who has the ability to fly. This captivating tale was highly praised by literary greats such as Walter Scott, Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, and Charles Lamb. The book, written by Paltock, has captured the hearts and imaginations of readers for generations.
Author | : Maggs Bros |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1028 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Antiquarian booksellers |
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