Mrs Weber's Diary
| Author | : Posy Simmonds |
| Publisher | : Fontana Press |
| Total Pages | : 60 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : English wit and humor, Pictorial |
| ISBN | : 9780006365433 |
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Mrs Weber's Diary
| Author | : Posy Simmonds |
| Publisher | : Jonathan Cape |
| Total Pages | : 72 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : English wit and humor, Pictorial |
| ISBN | : |
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Mrs Weber's Omnibus
| Author | : Posy Simmonds |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 2020-05-21 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 1448129419 |
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In May 1977 Posy Simmonds, an unknown young illustrator, started drawing a weekly comic strip for the Guardian. It began as a silly parody of girls' adventure stories, making satirical comments about contemporary life. The strip soon focused on three 1950s school friends in their later middle-class and nearly middle-aged lives: Wendy Weber, a former nurse married to polytechnic sociology lecturer George with a large brood of children; Jo Heep, married to whisky salesman Edmund with two rebellious teenagers; and Trish Wright, married to philandering advertising executive Stanhope and with a young baby. The strip, which was latterly untitled and usually known just as 'Posy', ran until the late 1980s. Collected here for the first time are the complete strips. Although celebrated for pinpointing the concerns of Guardian readers in the 1980s and their constant struggle to remain true to the ideals of the 1960s, they are in fact remarkably undated. They show one of Britain's favourite cartoonists, celebrated for Literary Life and Tamara Drewe, maturing into genius.
Cassandra Darke
| Author | : Posy Simmonds |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 2018-11-01 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 1409029050 |
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***WINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2020*** 'Simmonds is a copper-bottomed genius... she is as brilliant a writer as Britain has' Jenny Colgan, Mail Online Cassandra Darke is an art dealer, mean, selfish, solitary by nature, living in Chelsea in a house worth £7 million. She has become a social pariah, but doesn't much care. Between one Christmas and the next, she has sullied the reputation of a West End gallery and has acquired a conviction for fraud, a suspended sentence and a bank balance drained by lawsuits. On the scale of villainy, fraud seems to Cassandra a rather paltry offence - her own crime involving 'no violence, no weapon, no dead body'. But in Cassandra's basement, her young ex-lodger, Nicki, has left a surprise, something which implies at least violence and probably a body . . . Something which forces Cassandra out of her rich enclave and onto the streets. Not those local streets paved with gold and lit with festive glitter, but grimmer, darker places, where she must make the choice between self-sacrifice and running for her life.
Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear
| Author | : Katharine Weber |
| Publisher | : Broadway Books |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307587940 |
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Harriet Rose, 26, is an American photographer just winning recognition for her work. A travel fellowship brings her to visit her best friend and former roommate, Anne Gordon, in Switzerland. In an ongoing letter to her boyfriend, Harriet reports on strange developments in Anne's life, most notably her affair with a much older married man, which seems to be leading to a disastrous conclusion. Before she can rescue Anne, events take a series of unexpected turns, and Harriet must reexamine her own life and past, and come to terms with the difficulties and possibilities of human relationships. Already excerpted in The New Yorker, Katharine Weber's witty first novel of attraction and deception, a tale with the sensibility of a Margaret Atwood, pulses with cultural references and word games that echo Nabokov.
Pick of Posy
| Author | : Posy Simmonds |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
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Literary Life
| Author | : Posy Simmonds |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 74 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Authors |
| ISBN | : 0224072692 |
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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.
The Tiger in the Yard
| Author | : Barbara Weber |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2018-12-20 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781684331871 |
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The Tiger in the Yard is a powerful story about Barbara Weber, who's lived sixty-seven years with complex PTSD, managed to raise children, teach and complete her Ph.D. Barbara Weber is traumatized by childhood physical and sexual abuse resulting in PTSD. She successfully completes therapy in the early 1980's...
The Chronology of Water
| Author | : Lidia Yuknavitch |
| Publisher | : Hawthorne Books |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2011-04-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0983304904 |
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This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch, a lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful escapes her raging father and alcoholic and suicidal mother when she accepts a swimming scholarship which drug and alcohol addiction eventually cause her to lose. What follows is promiscuous sex with both men and women, some of them famous, and some of it S&M, and Lidia discovers the power of her sexuality to help her forget her pain. The forgetting doesn’t last, though, and it is her hard-earned career as a writer and a teacher, and the love of her husband and son, that ultimately create the life she needs to survive.
Life Is a Wheel
| Author | : Bruce Weber |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2015-03-17 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1451695020 |
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"Based on his popular series in the New York Times chronicling his cross-country bicycle trip, bestselling author Bruce Weber shares his adventures from his solo ride across the USA. Riding a bicycle across the US is one of those bucket-list goals that many dream about but few achieve. Bestselling author and New York Times reporter Bruce Weber made the trip, solo, over the summer and fall of 2011--at the age of fifty-seven. Expanding upon his popular series published in The New York Times, Life Is a Wheel is the witty and inspiring account of his journey, where he extols the pleasures of cycling and reflects on what happened on his adventure, in the world, in the country, and in his life. The story begins on the Oregon coast with a middle-aged man wondering what he's gotten himself into and ends in triumph on the George Washington Bridge, wondering how soon he might try it again. Part travelogue, part memoir, part paean to the bicycle as a simple and elegant mode of both mobility and self-expression--and part wry and panicky account of a fifty-seven-year-old man's attempt to stave off mortality--Life Is a Wheel is an elegant and entertaining escape for any armchair traveler"--
