The Last Landlady

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Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783525037
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Landlady by : Laura Thompson

Download or read book The Last Landlady written by Laura Thompson and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for Harper's Bazaar Book of the Year 2019 A Guardian, Spectator and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2018 'A lyrical portrait of a fast-vanishing way of life . . . Thompson is a terrific writer'New Statesman Laura Thompson’s grandmother Violet was one of the great landladies. Born in a London pub, she became the first woman to be given a publican’s licence in her own name and, just as pubs defined her life, she seemed in many ways to embody their essence. Laura spent part of her childhood in Violet’s Home Counties establishment, mesmerised by her gift for cultivating the mix of cosiness and glamour that defined the pub’s atmosphere, making it a unique reflection of the national character. Her memories of this time are just as intoxicating: beer and ash on the carpets in the morning, the deepening rhythms of mirth at night, the magical brightness of glass behind the bar... Through them Laura traces the story of the English pub, asking why it has occupied such a treasured position in our culture. But even Violet, as she grew older, recognised that places like hers were a dying breed, and Laura also considers the precarious future they face. Part memoir, part social history, part elegy, The Last Landlady pays tribute to an extraordinary woman and the world she epitomised.

The Landlady (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 1405910917
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Landlady (A Roald Dahl Short Story) written by Roald Dahl and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Landlady is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. In The Landlady, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a young man in need of room meets a most accommodating landlady . . . The Landlady is taken from the short story collection Kiss Kiss, which includes ten other devious and shocking stories, featuring the wife who pawns the mink coat from her lover with unexpected results; the priceless piece of furniture that is the subject of a deceitful bargain; a wronged woman taking revenge on her dead husband, and others. 'Unnerving bedtime stories, subtle, proficient, hair-raising and done to a turn.' (San Francisco Chronicle ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Tamsin Greig. 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.

Tenemental

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Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1936932229
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (369 download)

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Book Synopsis Tenemental by : Vikki Warner

Download or read book Tenemental written by Vikki Warner and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartfelt coming-of-age memoir about taking the unbeaten path, owning a home, and holding it all—including yourself—together. Detouring from the traditional timeline of marriage-kids-house, twenty-six-year-old Vikki Warner skips straight to homeownership. She buys a downtrodden three-story house in Providence, Rhode Island, and suddenly finds herself responsible for a rotating cast of colorful tenants. Adulthood comes with unforeseen challenges: backed-up sewage, gentrification, global economic downturn. A candid portrait of how sharing space profoundly reshapes our lives, and forces us to grow into ourselves. “Forget the marriage plot; 26-year-old Warner is after a plot of land…. [An] ebullient memoir.”—O, The Oprah Magazine “Refreshingly original reading.”—Kirkus Reviews “A thoughtful meditation on communal living and urban identity…. Quirky and fun.”—The Providence Monthly “Wry, smart, personal, and pretty damn punk rock.”—Kate Schatz, author of Rad Women Worldwide “Cheers to Vikki Warner, whose tenacious and inspiring coming-of-age story gives voice to a new generation of independent women and grown-ass boss ladies.”—Margot Kahn, coeditor of This is the Place “Full of color, life, and that special type of real, earned wisdom that only comes with taking risks and trusting completely in your own young self.”—Kate Bolick, author of Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own “An ode to the messiness of life, Tenemental is the incredibly raw, touching, and laugh-out-loud story of a woman figuring out how to get by in the world.”—Emma Ramadan, co-owner of Riffraff Bookstore

The Last Madam

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497658500
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Last Madam written by Chris Wiltz and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “raunchy, hilarious, and thrilling” true story of the incomparable Norma Wallace, proprietor of a notorious 1920s New Orleans brothel (NPR). Norma Wallace grew up fast. In 1916, at fifteen years old, she went to work as a streetwalker in New Orleans’ French Quarter. By the 1920s, she was a “landlady”—or, more precisely, the madam of what became one of the city’s most lavish brothels. It was frequented by politicians, movie stars, gangsters, and even the notoriously corrupt police force. But Wallace acquired more than just repeat customers. There were friends, lovers . . . and also enemies. Wallace’s romantic interests ran the gamut from a bootlegger who shot her during a fight to a famed bandleader to the boy next door, thirty-nine years her junior, who became her fifth husband. She knew all of the Crescent City’s dirty little secrets, and used them to protect her own interests—she never got so much as a traffic ticket, until the early 1960s, when District Attorney Jim Garrison decided to clean up vice and corruption. After a jail stay, Wallace went legitimate as successfully as she had gone criminal, with a lucrative restaurant business—but it was love that would undo her in the end. The Last Madam combines original research with Wallace’s personal memoirs, bringing to life an era in New Orleans history rife with charm and decadence, resurrecting “a secret world, like those uncovered by Luc Sante and James Ellroy” (Publishers Weekly). It reveals the colorful, unforgettable woman who reigned as an underworld queen and “capture[s] perfectly the essential, earthy complexity of the most fascinating city on this continent” (Robert Olen Butler).

Sauntering

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1912559250
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Sauntering written by Duncan Minshull and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest collection of walking literature from Notting Hill Editions celebrates the allure of the Continent. On foot the world comes our way. We get close to the Continent’s alpine ranges, arterial rivers, expansive coastlines. Close to its ancient cities and mysterious thoroughfares; and close to the walkers themselves—the Grand Tourers and explorers, strollers and saunterers, on their hikes and quests, parades and urban drifts. Sauntering features sixty walker-writers—classic and current—who roam Europe by foot. Twenty-two countries are traversed. We join Henriette d’Angeville, the second woman to climb Mont Blanc; Nellie Bly roaming the trenches of the First World War; Werner Herzog on a personal pilgrimage through Germany; Hans Christian Andersen in quarantine; Joseph Conrad in Cracow; Rebecca Solnit reimagining change on the streets of Prague; and Robert Macfarlane dropping deep into underground Paris. Contributors include: Patrick Leigh Fermor; John Hillaby; Robert Walser; Henriette d’Angeville; Joseph Roth; Joanna Kavenna; Richard Wright; Werner Herzog; Robert Antelme; George Sand; Rainer Maria Rilke; Robert Macfarlane; Rebecca Solnit; Kate Humble; Nicholas Luard; Edith Wharton; Elizabeth von Armin; Joseph Conrad; D. H. Lawrence; Vernon Lee; Guy Debord, Mark Twain, Thomas Coryat, and more.

Shakespeare's Landlord

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Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1625675976
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Landlord by : Charlaine Harris

Download or read book Shakespeare's Landlord written by Charlaine Harris and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author behind HBO’s hit series True Blood and NBC’s Midnight, Texas, the first in a series of mysteries that hits as hard as its heroine... Lily Bard has no illusions about her little town being safe, or peaceful, or full of goodness. Shakespeare, Arkansas, was nothing but a name on a map when she moved here. But Lily has kept her head down in Shakespeare for four years: cleaned houses, blocked unwelcome memories, and honed her body into a weapon with goju karate. It’s as long as she’s lasted anywhere since the nightmare that changed her life, and she’s willing to dust around the skeletons in her neighbors’ closets—provided they mind their business about her past, too. But when a dead body is dumped practically in her front yard, she can’t look away and leave it to innocents to find. And as the investigation creeps closer to Lily, her clients, and the secrets they all keep, she knows her hard-fought peace is in danger. She’s living in close quarters with a murderer. The police are sniffing around her history. And once again, all eyes are on Lily Bard. She could leave town, and give up on the home she’s begun to make. Or she could stay, and root out the killer herself...

The Landlady

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ISBN 13 : 9780399115073
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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The Hoarder

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Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1782118500
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hoarder by : Jess Kidd

Download or read book The Hoarder written by Jess Kidd and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB CHOICE SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD Unintentional psychic Maud Drennan arrives to look after Cathal Flood, a belligerent man hiding in his filthy, cat-filled home. Her job is simple: clear the rubbish, take care of the patient. But the once-grand house has more to reveal than simply its rooms. There is a secret here, and whether she likes it or not, Maud may be the one to finally uncover what has previously been kept hidden . . . * In the US, this book is published under the title Mr Flood's Last Resort

After Leaving Mr Mackenzie

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Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780141183947
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book After Leaving Mr Mackenzie written by Jean Rhys and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Martin is at the end of her rope in Paris. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after leaving her lover, she is running out of luck. A visit to London to see her ailing mother and distrustful sister bring her stark life into full focus.

Take Six Girls

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784970883
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Book Synopsis Take Six Girls by : Laura Thompson

Download or read book Take Six Girls written by Laura Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Wonderfully readable... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them' MAIL ON SUNDAY. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah. Born into country-house privilege, they became prominent as 'bright young things' in the high society of interwar London. Then, as the shadows crept over 1930s Europe, the stark – and very public – differences in their outlooks came to symbolise the political polarities of a dangerous decade. The intertwined stories of their lives – recounted in masterly fashion by Laura Thompson – hold up a revelatory mirror to upper-class English life before and after World War II.

Kiss Myself Goodbye

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472979427
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Kiss Myself Goodbye written by Ferdinand Mount and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aunt Munca never told the truth about anything. Calling herself after the mouse in a Beatrix Potter story, she was already a figure of mystery during the childhood of her nephew Ferdinand Mount. Half a century later, a series of startling revelations sets him off on a tortuous quest to find out who this extraordinary millionairess really was. What he discovers is shocking and irretrievably sad, involving multiple deceptions, false identities and abandonments. The story leads us from the back streets of Sheffield at the end of the Victorian age to the highest echelons of English society between the wars. Kiss Myself Goodbye is both an enchanting personal memoir like the author's bestselling Cold Cream, and a voyage into a vanished moral world. An unconventional tale of British social history told backwards, its cryptic and unforgettable protagonist Munca joins the ranks of memorable aunts in literature, from Dickens' Betsy Trotwood to Graham Greene's Aunt Augusta --

Kiss, Kiss

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ISBN 13 : 9780600555711
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book Kiss, Kiss written by Roald Dahl and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lady from Nowhere

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Lady from Nowhere written by Fergus Hume and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Landlady's Daughter

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ISBN 13 : 9780963126115
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis The Landlady's Daughter by : Edward K. Burbridge

Download or read book The Landlady's Daughter written by Edward K. Burbridge and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A bookseller of the last century, being some account of the life of J. Newbery, and of the books he published, with a notice of the later Newberys

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Total Pages : 416 pages
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Dolly Dingle, Lesbian Landlady

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Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 0758288328
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Book Synopsis Dolly Dingle, Lesbian Landlady by : Monica Nolan

Download or read book Dolly Dingle, Lesbian Landlady written by Monica Nolan and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Magdalena Arms Residence for Women, desires are awakened, passions run hot, and love might be waiting just a few doors away. . . Dorian "Dolly" Dingle has been footloose and flighty for long enough. At last, she's resolved to focus on her showbiz career and move out of the Magdalena Arms. Then landlady Mrs. DeWitt breaks her hip, and Dolly reluctantly agrees to fill in as temporary housemother. While she grapples with home repairs and holiday preparations, Dolly tends to the needs of her diverse tenants, including: Jackie – The aspiring actress always puts on an impressive performance Kay – Dolly's old friend is an accomplished clarinetist--and she's hoping they'll make sweet music together. . . Arlene – She's a buxom theater designer with some very dramatic secrets Ramona – The former bad girl is back in Bay City and making tongues wag again When the high-spirited residents learn of a scheme to shut down their beloved rooming house, they rally together to raise funds. Can a Christmas variety show save the only home Dolly has ever known? And will she finally find the perfect girl to occupy her heart?

The Canadian Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: