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Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions)

Author : Wilson Harris
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571368050
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions) written by Wilson Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ... 'My new all time favourite book ... A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.' T sitsi Dangarembga 'An exhilarating experience ... Makes visions real and reality visions ... Genius.' Jamaica Kincaid 'A masterpiece: I love this book for its language, adventure and wisdoms.' Monique Roffey 'Revel in the inviolate, ever-deepening mystery of Wilson Harris's work.' Jeet Thayil 'The Guyanese William Blake . Such poetic intensity.' Angela Carter I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ... A crew of men are embarking on a voyage up a turbulent river through the rainforests of Guyana. Their domineering leader, Donne, is the spirit of a conquistador, obsessed with hunting for a mysterious woman and exploiting indigenous people as plantation labour. But their expedition is plagued by tragedies, haunted by drowned ghosts: spectres of the crew themselves, inhabiting a blurred shadowland between life and death. As their journey into the interior - their own hearts of darkness - deepens, it assumes a spiritual dimension, guiding them towards a new destination: the Palace of the Peacock ... A modernist fever dream; prose poem; modern myth; elegy to victims of colonial conquest: Wilson Harris' masterpiece has defied definition for over sixty years, and is reissued for a new generation of readers. 'One of the great originals ... Visionary ... Dazzlingly illuminating.' Guardian 'Amazing ... Masterly ... Near-miraculous.' Observer 'Staggering ... Both brilliant and terrifying.' The Times 'The most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean.' Fred D'Aguiar 'Extraordinary ... Courageous and visionary ... It speaks to us in tongues.' Pauline Melville

The Peacock Palace Hotel

Author : Angeli Dayal
Publisher : Pegasus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781903490860
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Peacock Palace Hotel written by Angeli Dayal and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twist of fate entwines the lives of three people who ordinarily would never have crossed paths. Robby, a product of Hollywood is fraught with emotional issues. Sundri makes her humble, rural beginnings in the shadow of the glamorous, world-famous, Peacock Palace Hotel. Saloni is a carefree, vivacious Delhi girl with a thirst for adventure. Their dramatic lives unfold in a saga of secrets, romance, heart-break and hope.

The Peacock Palace

Author : George Blake
Publisher : London : Collins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Peacock Palace written by George Blake and published by London : Collins. This book was released on 1958 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Where the Peacocks Sing

Author : Alison Singh Gee
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 125002837X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Where the Peacocks Sing written by Alison Singh Gee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you travel for love? In her sparkling memoir, journalist Alison Singh Gee learns that love, riches, and a place to call home can be found in the most unexpected places. Alison Singh Gee was a glamorous magazine writer with a serious Jimmy Choo habit, a weakness for five-star Balinese resorts, and a reputation for dating highborn British men. Then she met Ajay, a charming and unassuming Indian journalist, and her world turned upside down. Traveling from her shiny, rapid-fire life in Hong Kong to Ajay's native village, Alison learns that not all is as it seems. Turns out that Ajay is a landed prince (of sorts), but his family palace is falling to pieces. Replete with plumbing issues, strange noises, and intimidating relatives, her new love's ramshackle palace, Mokimpur, is a broken-down relic in desperate need of a makeover. And Alison wonders if she can soldier on for the sake of the man who just might be her soul mate. This modern-day fairytale, WHERE THE PEACOCKS SING, takes readers on a cross-cultural journey from the manicured gardens of Beverly Hills, to the bustling streets of Hong Kong and finally to the rural Indian countryside as Alison comes to terms with her complicated new family, leaves the modern world behind, and learns the true meaning of home.

Exploring the Palace of the Peacock

Author : Joyce Sparer Adler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766401405
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Palace of the Peacock written by Joyce Sparer Adler and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joyce Sparer Adler lived in Guyana for five years teaching at the University of Guyana, where she developed a lifelong interest in the Guyanese novelist, poet and surveyor Wilson Harris. Her profoundly insightful essays on Harris's books, originally published in various journals, are collected for the first time in this volume and now available to a wider audience.

Palace of the Peacock

Author : Wilson Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Palace of the Peacock written by Wilson Harris and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death in the Air

Author : Shane Peacock
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 0887769284
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Death in the Air written by Shane Peacock and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the harrowing experience of losing his mother while solving a brutal murder in London’s East End, young Sherlock Holmes commits himself to fighting crime … and is soon involved in another case. While visiting his father at the magnificent Crystal Palace, Sherlock stops to watch a remarkable and dangerous trapeze performance high above, framed by the stunning glass ceiling of the legendary building. Suddenly, the troupe’s star is dropping, screaming and flailing, toward the floor. He lands with a sickening thud just a few feet away, and rolls up almost onto the boy’s boots. Unconscious and bleeding profusely, his body is grotesquely twisted. In the mayhem that follows, Sherlock notices something that no one else sees — something is amiss with the trapeze bar! He knows that foul play is afoot. What he doesn’t know is that his discovery will put him on a frightening, twisted trail that leads to an entire gang of notorious criminals. Wrapped in the fascinating world of Victorian entertainment, its dangerous performances, and London’s dark underworld, Death in the Air raises The Boy Sherlock Holmes to a whole new level. Be sure not to miss Eye of the Crow, The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His First Case.

Mr Peacock's Possessions

Author : Lydia Syson
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 147140370X
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Mr Peacock's Possessions written by Lydia Syson and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate, intense and beautifully realised novel of possession, power and the liberating loss of innocence, this will delight fans of MISTER PIP and THE POISONWOOD BIBLE. Oceania, 1879. For two years the Peacocks, a determined family of settlers, have struggled to make a remote volcanic island their home. At last, a ship appears. The six Pacific Islanders on board have travelled over eight hundred miles in search of new horizons. Hopes are high, until a vulnerable boy vanishes. In their search for the lost child, settlers and newcomers together uncover far more than they were looking for. The island's secrets force young Lizzie Peacock to question her deepest convictions, and slowly this tiny, fragile community begins to fracture . . . 'Intelligent, beautifully written' The Times 'Historical fiction fans, meet your new favourite author' Stella Magazine 'Beautifully written, immaculately researched and powerfully imagined' Lancashire Evening Post

The Paper Garden

Author : Molly Peacock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608195236
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Paper Garden written by Molly Peacock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and accomplishments of septuagenarian artist Mary Delany, describing her invention of the art of collage late in life after two heart-breaking marriages, in an account that also evaluates the roles of her relationships with such figures as Jonathan Swift, the Duchess of Portland and King George III. 35,000 first printing.

The Peacock Elite

Author : Major Owens
Publisher : Granthouse Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781935316381
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Peacock Elite written by Major Owens and published by Granthouse Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Peacock Palace Elephant

Author : Patricia Earl
Publisher : Mokipearl
ISBN 13 : 9780994197542
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Peacock Palace Elephant written by Patricia Earl and published by Mokipearl. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Peacock Palace had no idea that an elephant named Xanadu wanted to rent a room...and he is no ordinary elephant. Xanadu's mischievous ways lead to all sorts of chaos. The Peacock King isn't impressed, but eventually they become friends and travel back to Elephant Land together.

Peacocks Dancing

Author : Sharon Maas
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007118473
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Peacocks Dancing written by Sharon Maas and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2001 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another magical saga by the author of Of Marriageable Age. How many of us think as adults we've lost the vitality of childhood? And how many manage to find it again? This is Rita Maraj's dilemma. Living in a ramshackle house in Georgetown, leader of the local neighbourhood gang, Rita collects people like she does dogs, cats, ants, and even an unwanted police horse. But then her father remarries: her stepmother is determined to tidy up house, husband and stepdaughter, and move into respectable society. Rita's charm and liveliness become compressed by the pressure to conform, and the duty to find a suitable husband. But then a messenger arrives, searching for a possible heir to the distant family estates. Suddenly liberated, and determined to search for her roots, Rita's sense of adventure is reawakened first by the formidable personage of her distant relative, but even more by the tragedies of her long lost, romantic cousin. Her early life -- saving half the wildlife of her neighbourhood -- is only preparation for the destiny that awaits her. Dramatic and vivid, moving and exotic, Peacocks Dancing is a captivating story, a joy to read.

The Ghost of Memory

Author : Wilson Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571341627
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost of Memory written by Wilson Harris and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had been shot. A bullet in my back. I fell. Where did I fall? I fell from a great height, it seemed, into a painting in a gallery in a great City. I found myself returning across centuries and generations to the end of my age. I had been caught by the Artist in what seemed the womb of unexpected being in which one becomes sensitive to the end one has reached and to a new beginning. It was an end, it was a new beginning one was called upon to probe and discover. We may dream, while still alive, of dying. But the dream is soon forgotten as are the edges and corners of a re-lived life of which we dream. It is buried in the unconscious. We know that life fades into death but, in what degree, does life re-live itself as it dreams of dying? The Ghost of Memory is a novel about life and death or rather - to put it somewhat differently - about the close, almost indefinable cross-culturalities between moments of life and death. This is played out through a man who is mistakenly shot as a terrorist - he sees himself

The Curse of Damini

Author : Debajani Mohanty
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482851067
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book The Curse of Damini written by Debajani Mohanty and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world seemed not enough for free spirited Renuka, when she married the highly educated Shashank hailing from the mightiest Zamindars of Bengal. However, soon her life turned upside down when a neighbor revealed her of their sinister past. Its a mysterious supernatural curse cast on their family almost a century back. Generation by generation, Damini's enraged curse had passed on, declining their family clan from hundreds to a handful few. Who would be Damini's next victim? And why innocent lives are at a stake for a crime committed by an ancestor a hundred years back? Renuka would not settle until she finds an answer and in her quest she struggles to eradicate all the evils that come in her way. Would she ever win a battle against an unseen enemy? Would the wrong done to Damini be ever avenged? Set against the nostalgic era of 1940s, the story narrates the arduous journey of Renuka Pal, the protagonist, from a rash teen age freedom fighter to the seasoned writer of the 21st century India. In this thrilling saga of death, betrayal and power plays the narrative would cover a large chunk of twentieth century history. The passing of time, historical events and the changing country is so well-woven to the story that one would hardly differentiate between fact and fiction.

Legacy

Author : Robert Maxxim
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499038550
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Legacy written by Robert Maxxim and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel 30 years in the making, "Legacy" is a story, set in the future, of mankinds previous sojourns through this and countless other worlds, as experienced by the author. It describes one man's incredible journey through several lifetimes as far back as a million years, his blunders and triumphs, and the many worlds and places where these experiences took place. The book also highlights advanced scientific and spiritual concepts, written in lyrical, romantic prose. But most of all, it is a powerful love story deeply rooted in his unquenchable, desperate search through the vastness of space and time for his one; his soul mate. In Episode I, the main character, a geologist on Mars, stumbles upon benign underground Martian civilizations and establishes a close relationship with a Martian woman who, unbeknown to him, is his long lost one. Theirs is love at first sight, yet kept secret from each other. Martians, and envoys from other worlds, offer to teach Earth the true science of life, but wicked parties hastily draw plans to deceive and exploit aliens. He holds true to his alien friends and his one, in spite of endless guile. Lifestyles change, weapons vanish, and love fosters on Earth under alien guidance. But his heart must also change by facing horrible deeds he committed in past lives he now ignores. Of these, none compare in iniquity to his role as The Destroyer; a cosmic oppressor that terrorized the galaxy in the name of an evil space Alliance based in Orion.

Eye of the Crow

Author : Shane Peacock
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 1770490787
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Eye of the Crow written by Shane Peacock and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes, just thirteen, is a misfit. His highborn mother is the daughter of an aristocratic family, his father a poor Jew. Their marriage flouts tradition and makes them social pariahs in the London of the 1860s; and their son, Sherlock, bears the burden of their rebellion. Friendless, bullied at school, he belongs nowhere and has only his wits to help him make his way. But what wits they are! His keen powers of observation are already apparent, though he is still a boy. He loves to amuse himself by constructing histories from the smallest detail for everyone he meets. Partly for fun, he focuses his attention on a sensational murder to see if he can solve it. But his game turns deadly serious when he finds himself the accused — and in London, they hang boys of thirteen. Shane Peacock has created a boy who bears all the seeds of the character who has mesmerized millions: the relentless eye, the sense of justice, and the complex ego. The boy Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating character who is sure to become a fast favorite with young readers everywhere.

Peacock Palace Scoop

Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780434947089
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Peacock Palace Scoop written by Elizabeth Laird and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zippi and Zac, the two toucans, are always ready to fly to the aid of animals in distress. This book, which is full of jokes and word play would be useful for slower readers.