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Download or read book Missing written by Karin Alvtegen and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can murder and mercy go hand in hand? In The Grand Hotel, a homeless woman charms a businessman into paying for dinner and a room. When his dead body is discovered the following morning she becomes the prime suspect. When a second person is killed in similar circumstances, Sybilla, having left her comfortable middle-class upbringing for the anonymity of the streets, becomes the most wanted person in Sweden . . . Missing is a gripping, multi-faceted thriller; more than a murder-hunt, it is also something more profound : an individual's journey to self-awareness and hope.
Book Synopsis Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading by : Maureen Corrigan
Download or read book Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading written by Maureen Corrigan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful memoir, the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air reflects on her life as a professional reader. Maureen Corrigan takes us from her unpretentious girlhood in working-class Queens, to her bemused years in an Ivy League Ph.D. program, from the whirl of falling in love and marrying (a fellow bookworm, of course), to the ordeal of adopting a baby overseas, always with a book at her side. Along the way, she reveals which books and authors have shaped her own life—from classic works of English literature to hard-boiled detective novels, and everything in between. And in her explorations of the heroes and heroines throughout literary history, Corrigan’s love for a good story shines.
Book Synopsis Songs From the Barmy Army by : Paul Winslow
Download or read book Songs From the Barmy Army written by Paul Winslow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everywhere England go to play Test cricket, the Barmy Army follows, giving them unstinting support and always searching for the best songs, chants and banter to help their team overcome the opposition. This hilarious book collects the best and funniest songs and chants from almost 20 years of enthusiastic backing. The book not only reveals how the chants were created, but also how the players responded to hearing their names being sung and how much it meant to them. There are also revealing interviews with some of the Barmy Army's leading songwriters, who provide a fascinating insight into what makes for a truly great chant. Sometimes, of course, the Barmy Army targeted the opposition, and 'The Mitchell Johnson Song' helped England on their way to a famous Ashes triumph in 2010-11. From the classic 'Ball and Chain' to the more recent 'Swann Will Tear You Apart', this book is an ideal way to get into the true Barmy spirit.
Download or read book Going Solo written by Roald Dahl and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Going Solo, the world's favourite storyteller, Roald Dahl, tells of life as a fighter pilot in Africa. 'They did not think for one moment that they would find anything but a burnt-out fuselage and a charred skeleton, and they were astounded when they came upon my still-breathing body lying in the sand nearby.' In 1938 Roald Dahl was fresh out of school and bound for his first job in Africa, hoping to find adventure far from home. However, he got far more excitement than he bargained for when the outbreak of the Second World War led him to join the RAF. His account of his experiences in Africa, crashing a plane in the Western Desert, rescue and recovery from his horrific injuries in Alexandria, flying a Hurricane as Greece fell to the Germans, and many other daring deeds, recreates a world as bizarre and unnerving as any he wrote about in his fiction. 'Very nearly as grotesque as his fiction. The same compulsive blend of wide-eyed innocence and fascination with danger and horror' Evening Standard 'A non-stop demonstration of expert raconteurship' The New York Times Book Review Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Book Synopsis The Liverpool English Dictionary by : Tony Crowley
Download or read book The Liverpool English Dictionary written by Tony Crowley and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ‘Abbadabba’ to ‘Z-Cars’, this remarkable dictionary records the rich vocabulary that has evolved over the past century and a half, as part of the complex, stratified, multi-faceted and changing culture of Liverpool. The roots/routes, meanings and histories of the words of Liverpool are presented in a concise, clear and accessible format.
Download or read book Just for Now written by Richard Wall and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new recruit to the post office, finds himself working on Derby Station. What he finds there amazes him. He joins an array of weird and wonderful characters. Boozer and Gambler George responds to any criticism by saying - your not effing up my social life, claims that it is not his social life, it is his job fall on deaf ears. The Ghost Squad are often mentioned but never seen. A manager normally in charge is continually told to stop barking like a twat, get your fags out, and get those pissed up prats out of the pub. When George is arrested for drinking on duty he refuses to piss in the bottle or blow in the bag and the police beat a hasty retreat after being accused of postman prejudice. In the main office postmen are dying of overwork! And the “Sun” are investigating while calling the head postmaster - The butcher of Derby. A “Sun” back disguised as a postman, infiltrates a union meeting, is discovered stripped naked and thrown out into the street. He claims he was kidnapped by three beautiful women, robbed, raped and called a male chauvinist pig. The “Sun” loose interest in the head postmaster and concentrate instead on the indignities allegedly heaped on their reporter. Across the country police stations are besieged by legions of men claiming they have suffered similar ordeals. A battle involving post office management, the union, and British rail events rapidly progress from the strange to the down right bizarre.
Book Synopsis Utterly Uncle Fred by : P. G. Wodehouse
Download or read book Utterly Uncle Fred written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whenever Uncle Fred arrives in London, problems get solved, true lovers are reunited, and his nephew Pongo goes into spasms. Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred, is back “to spread sweetness and light” wherever he goes . . . much to the dismay of his nephew Pongo. Whether disguised as an eminent nerve specialist helping the ailing upper class, an anesthesiologist ready to help clip a parrot’s claws, a major returned from an exploration of Brazil, or simply George Robinson of 14 Nasturtium Road, East Dulwich, Uncle Fred is always available to help people in need (even more so if a false identity is involved). Included are three novels—Cocktail Time, Uncle Dynamite, and Service With a Smile—and the short story “Uncle Fred Flits By.”
Book Synopsis Hard Going by : Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Download or read book Hard Going written by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why was a local philanthropist murdered? Bill Slider investigates . . . A rare week off with his family is rudely interrupted when Slider is called in to investigate the murder of an elderly man, bashed on the head with a bronze statuette, in what Doc Cameron describes as ‘our old friend the Frenzied Attack’. Lionel Bygod, retired solicitor, was an old-fashioned gentleman, a pillar of society, who gave advice and help to all, from the highest to the lowest. But as Slider and his team investigate, they discover dark secrets at the heart of this mild and kindly man’s life. Shadows from the past – professional enemies – long-incubated revenge: what was it that sparked such unquenchable fury? The trail is old and cold, and Slider’s on the clock . . .
Book Synopsis They Call Her Dana by : Jennifer Wilde
Download or read book They Call Her Dana written by Jennifer Wilde and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seventeen-year-old Southerner rises from her dirt-poor roots to become a celebrated actress while searching for her past in Jennifer Wilde’s spellbinding New York Times–bestselling historical romance All Dana O’Malley wants is to escape the Louisiana bayou, where her stepfather and his two no-account sons treat her like a slave. Her prayers are answered when an act of violence forces her to flee her backwater town and she meets Creole aristocrat Julian Etienne. But he is only the first of four men who will bring her fame, love, and shattering heartbreak—a prophecy foretold by a hoodoo woman with the gift of second sight. As Dana rises up in the world and achieves untold success as an actress, her destiny comes full circle. Soon she will uncover the truth about her mysterious parentage—and at last solve the riddle of the recurring dream about a mist-shrouded stranger that has haunted her since childhood.
Book Synopsis Prittik's Will by : David Lewis Paget
Download or read book Prittik's Will written by David Lewis Paget and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Prittik has 8 weeks to live. Though wealthy, he is surrounded by barracudas who are only interested in his money. Then he meets Tina, and discovers the truth in the saying that there is always someone worse off than you. He designs a will that will discourage anyone from applying for the proceeds.
Book Synopsis You Never Get Out by : Roger Grainger
Download or read book You Never Get Out written by Roger Grainger and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes two experiences of life within a large English psychiatric hospitalthe first as a patient and the second as a member of staff; the first in the 1950s, before these hospitals opened their gates, the second at the end of their lives, when their main task was rehabilitation rather than incarnation. The author compares these two situations, focusing on the last gasps of institutional life, as seen from the point of view of the hospital chaplain.
Book Synopsis A Girl Next Door by : Mary Jane Staples
Download or read book A Girl Next Door written by Mary Jane Staples and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boots Adams celebrates his 60th birthday in style with an old-fashioned Cockney knees-up, even if Gemma, James and the rest of the younger people insist that the music has to be rock and roll. The new generation of the family are growing up quickly - Philip and Phoebe are spending a lot of time together, and Maureen has ambitions to become a model, having her picture taken for the newspapers as she hopes for fame and fortune. Meanwhile, there are changes on the way. A local company wants to take over Adams Fashions, and Boots and Sammy have difficult decisions to make. Rosie and Matt are thinking about selling the farm, but worry about Joe and Hortense, their loyal workers. While Felicity has resigned herself to never regaining her sight, Polly sees a familiar face that she can't place - a mysterious stranger who is being sheltered in Walworth. Anneliese encounters someone she never wished to see again, and turns to Boots for help.
Book Synopsis Death of a Swagman by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book Death of a Swagman written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cypher that looked like a child's game of noughts-and-crosses; a strip of hessian bag; the rhythmic clanging sound of the turning windmill suddenly breaking the silence of the night; the minister who seemed out of place as a churchman: these were some of the more puzzling aspects of the case of the murdered swagman noticed by the keen eyes of Robert Burns, alias Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, alias "Bony". Our distinctive student of violence arrives incognito at Merino, in western New South Wales, and, as a first move, provokes the local sergeant to lock him up. The method in Bony's madness is that while serving a semi-detention sentence and being made to paint the police station, he wears the best of all disguises... Here again is a first-rate Upfield mystery, made warm by humour, by the background characters and his portrayal of the natural background scene. - The Age Upfield at his best. - Adelaide News
Book Synopsis Brenton Plays: 1 by : Howard Brenton
Download or read book Brenton Plays: 1 written by Howard Brenton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Brenton is one of Britain's best-known and most controversial dramatists Christie in Love is based on the story of John Christie, the 19th century serial killer, "like Genet, [Brenton] feels for the outcast...But he's less sentimentally involved with his criminals, clearer about his ultimate strategy to show the unreality of straight lines in a curved universe, of the roles society forces on us." (Observer). "Doing our 'umble best, Ma'am to wreck society", Magificence puts the small people and their protests against the bourgeois state on stage; it was described as "A wonderful piece of theatre; annexing whole new chunks of modern life and presenting them in a style at once fruitful and magnified." (The Times) In The Churchill Play, Brenton brings Churchill back to life to view the future that he invented for England and "Brenton finds a way of making us look again at the past which has shaped the future into which he sees us drifting" (New Society). Weapons of Happiness is "a vision of revolution which is quite extraordinary in its creative ambiguity, its richness, its power to stimulate, to threaten and to inspire" (Sunday Times) while Epsom Downs "echoes Bartholomew Fair: a great public festival, held on common land and pulling in punters of every degree...a teaming, Bruegel-like composition" (The Times) The last play in this collection Sore Throats, is a witty and harsh examination of sexual proclivities from within and outside marriage: "No recent play compares for theatrical power and painful bravado." (Observer)
Book Synopsis Skylarks At Sunset by : Rita Bradshaw
Download or read book Skylarks At Sunset written by Rita Bradshaw and published by Headline. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does she dare to dream of a brighter future? Rita Bradshaw's Skylarks at Sunset is a heartrending story of one woman's struggle to keep her family safe during the dark days of the Depression and war. Perfect for fans of Pam Evans and Dilly Court. Hope's just a child when she's orphaned, and as she grows up her dream is always to have a family of her own. And so when she meets and falls in love with Daniel Fallow, son of a successful businessman, she's quick to accept his proposal of marriage. His family, though, are against the match, and so the young couple marry in secret. Grudging acceptance follows, and as the Depression worsens Daniel is persuaded to join the family business, unaware of his father's dodgy dealings. Tragedy is just around the corner, and worse is to come when war is declared in 1939: as Daniel leaves to fight and her children are evacuated, Hope wonders if she will ever have all her family around her again... What readers are saying about Skylarks at Sunset: 'Another wonderful story from Rita Bradshaw, a story that holds your attention from start to finish' 'Excellent from beginning to end. Couldn't put it down' 'Five stars'
Book Synopsis Dreaming of a Stranger by : Sheila O'Flanagan
Download or read book Dreaming of a Stranger written by Sheila O'Flanagan and published by Headline. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DREAMING OF A STRANGER by Sheila O'Flanagan - a bestselling novel about taking destiny into your own hands. If you enjoy the novels of Emily Bleeker and Jamie Beck, you'll love DREAMING OF A STRANGER. When Jane O'Sullivan meets blue-eyed Rory McLoughlin, she knows that he is who she's been waiting for. All she's ever dreamed of is falling in love and getting married, but until Rory no one has come close to the ideal man she imagined. And when Jane walks up the aisle to marry Rory, she believes all her dreams have come true. What Jane doesn't know is that she's not going to get the happy ending she expects. Dreams are not always what they seem...
Download or read book Barry and Bev written by Rita May and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenthorpe Working Men’s Club in the north of England is in dire financial difficulties. To try and help the situation, the Committee come up with emergency measures, including a top-class act booked for Saturday night concerts. The first concert is a brilliant success; the concert room is full to capacity by 6:30pm and the takings are up by 109%. As word spreads, the number of punters sharply increases. This causes problems for some of the members’ wives, as they can’t get into the club early enough to get a seat. The club’s ‘Men Only’ room is frequented by a few of the older club members, but Rule No. 57, which bars women from the room, still stands from when the club was built in 1932. The women decide to challenge this as seats are always available in the ‘Men Only’ room. The ladies’ section come up with the idea to make the ‘Men Only’ room into a ‘Members Only’ room. Never mind an outdated rule, this is the twenty-first century! The oldies fight against this and a committee vote backs them. In a final push, the women decide to fight for full membership. This is rejected so the women boycott the club in favour of a rival club, The Bluebell, taking all their activities (and takings) with them. This causes a rift between the men and women on both personal and private levels. Local and national newspapers, local radio and television take up their stories, making this worse. A standoff ensues, which ends in devastating consequences... Extremely funny, yet thought-provoking, Barry and Bev will appeal to those looking for a light-hearted tale with substance.
