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Brixton Beach

Author : Roma Tearne
Publisher : Gallic Books
ISBN 13 : 1910709549
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Brixton Beach written by Roma Tearne and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as 'rich and satisfying' by The Times, Brixton Beach is the story of an artistic young girl forced to leave war-torn Sri Lanka, only to find that the shadow of violence has followed her to London. 'An ambitious, lyrical novel' TLS Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child's struggle to come to terms with loss. London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs bring the capital to a halt. Simon Swann, a medic from one of the large teaching hospitals, is searching frantically amongst the chaos and the rubble. All around police sirens and ambulances are screaming but Simon does not hear. He is out of breath because he has been running, and he is distraught. But who is he looking for? To find out we have first to go back thirty years to a small island in the Indian Ocean where a little girl named Alice Fonseka is learning to ride a bicycle on the beach. The island is Sri Lanka, with its community on the brink of civil war. Alice's life is about to change forever. Soon she will have to leave for England, abandoning her beloved grandfather, and accompanied by her mother Sita, a woman broken by a series of terrible events. In London, Alice grows into womanhood. Trapped in a loveless marriage, she has a son. Slowly she fulfils her grandfather's prophecy and becomes an artist. Eventually she finds true love. But London in the twenty first century is a mass of migration and suspicion. The war on terror has begun and everyone, even Simon Swann, middle class, rational, medic that he is, will be caught up in this war in the most unexpected and terrible way.

Horizons

Author : Jakeson Eudela
Publisher : Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9390414741
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Horizons written by Jakeson Eudela and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horizon is basically defined as the junction between the heaven and the earth. A border that separates the celestial from the earthly. The line between the sky and the ground. The horizon shows us the different contrasts of life. The high and the low. The divine and the mortal. It shows the totality of life, which is not purely of spirit and of flesh but rather of both. Every short story written in this anthology expresses their own unique identity and flavor, showing the different tapestry of life. Just as how the horizons emphasize the contrasts of nature, this short story anthology tries to demonstrate the diversity not only of genre or setting, but of themes and aspects of human life. The contrasts of the personal and the political, of romance and friendship, of the sacred and the secular. Life is like a collection of short stories. Each page turns into a different dimension and a different setting. No two short stories, just like the real life they represent, are alike.

The Lido Guide

Author : Janet Wilkinson
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783527447
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book The Lido Guide written by Janet Wilkinson and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive photographic guide to over 120 open-air pools in the UK. From beautiful Art Deco lidos to humble, fiercely loved community pools, this is the definitive photographic guide to around 130 lidos in the UK and Channel Islands. This unique collection has been updated, and each entry details what makes the pool special and what swimming there is like, as well as providing information about refreshments, accessibility and much more. This guide is organised geographically and includes information on how to find the lidos, it also suggests other nearby pools so you can plan your own lido road trips.

The Camera Never Lies

Author : Joe Elvin
Publisher : Joe Elvin
ISBN 13 : 1094659487
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book The Camera Never Lies written by Joe Elvin and published by Joe Elvin. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine having a key that unlocks the female mind... How would your life change if you understood why women lose interest in men, how to spark attraction when you meet them, how to text them in an engaging way, how to set up first dates so that sex happens nearly every time? These are among the lessons Joe Elvin learned while filming his entire dating life for national TV. Every date. Every text message exchanged. The cringey chat-up lines. The painful rejections. The tales of debaucherous sex. Throughout this eye-opening social experiment, Joe’s weaknesses with women were exposed. By watching them back on camera, he learned 17 brutal lessons about seduction, female psychology and life. This book captures the dirty truth about modern dating. If you want to learn... * The most effective method of meeting women that guys never try. * How to never run out of things to say when approaching a woman. * A fool-proof strategy to have sex on the first date nearly every time. * The most common mistake that INSTANTLY REPELS women. * A unique method of texting women that makes them EXCITED TO REPLY. * The huge disadvantage of being gentlemanly that most people don’t know about. * The honest truth about taking chances and following your dreams. * The surprising psychology behind why women play ‘hard to get’. * Why online dating and speed dating are among the worst platforms to meet women. * Why it’s good if some people see you as a COMPLETE ASSHOLE. * How to always have an AWESOME time on solo nights out. * The LIES society feeds you about relationships and ‘happily ever afters’. ...this is the book for you. Be prepared to be taken on a rollercoaster that includes some epic sex stories, a world tour, surprise career change and discovery of what love really means. Joe had already spent years studying the secrets of female psychology in his efforts to become an established dating and relationships writer. By filming every intimate detail of his love life, his knowledge expanded to incredible depths. Perhaps the most important lesson of all is: you don’t need to be rich, tall or good-looking to take advantage of this information. When you understand women, you can seduce women. By reading ‘The Camera Never Lies’, you can take your understanding of the fairer sex to new heights, without the huge inconvenience of bringing a TV camera on every date. If you enjoy books by Tucker Max, Mark Manson, Robert A Glover, Neil Strauss, Paul Arden and David Deida, you'll LOVE this.

All the Tiny Moments Blazing

Author : Ged Pope
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 178914308X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book All the Tiny Moments Blazing written by Ged Pope and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Evelyn Waugh to P. G. Wodehouse and Lawrence Durrell, a sweeping celebration of literature set in and inspired by the suburbs of London. The London suburbs have, for more than two hundred and fifty years, fired the creative literary imagination: whether this is Samuel Johnson hiding away in bucolic preindustrial Streatham, Italo Svevo cheering on Charlton Athletic Football Club down at The Valley, or Angela Carter hymning the joyful “wrongness” of living south-of-the-river in Brixton. From Richmond to Rainham, Cockfosters to Croydon, this sweeping literary tour of the thirty-two London Boroughs describes how writers, from the seventeenth century on, have responded to and fictionally reimagined London’s suburbs. It introduces us to the great suburban novels, such as Hanif Kureishi’s Bromley-set The Buddha of Suburbia, Lawrence Durrell’s The Black Book, and Zadie Smith’s NW. It also reveals the lesser-known short stories, diaries, poems, local guides, travelogues, memoirs, and biographies, which together show how these communities have long been closely observed, keenly remembered, and brilliantly imagined.

Representations of War, Migration, and Refugeehood

Author : Daniel H. Rellstab
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134656831
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Representations of War, Migration, and Refugeehood written by Daniel H. Rellstab and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War, migration, and refugeehood are inextricably linked and the complex nature of all three phenomena offers profound opportunities for representation and misrepresentation. This volume brings together international contributors and practitioners from a wide range of fields, practices, and backgrounds to explore and problematize textual and visual inscriptions of war and migration in the arts, the media, and in academic, public, and political discourses. The essays in this collection address the academic and political interest in representations of the migrant and the refugee, and examine the constructed nature of categories and concepts such as ‘war,’ ‘refuge(e),’ ‘victim,’ ‘border,’ ‘home,’ ‘non-place,’ and ‘dis/location.’ Contributing authors engage with some of the most pressing questions surrounding war, migration, and refugeehood as well as with the ways in which war and its multifarious effects and repercussions in society are being framed, propagated, glorified, or contested. This volume initiates an interdisciplinary debate which re-evaluates the relationship between war, migration, and refugeehood and their representations.

Behind Open Doors

Author : INGRID MACLEAN
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244702497
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Behind Open Doors written by INGRID MACLEAN and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, the Acid Messiah of 101 Cromwell Road: His life and times. 101 has become legendary over the decades, being regarded as the hub of Swinging London, where the Beautiful People went to turn on and tune in. But NOT drop out! With a cast of thousands, including Beatles, Stones, aristocrats and secret agents, this colourful account of a brief moment that changed the world will entertain and enthral. Not only do we learn who took the acid, we also discover how - and why - it came to London in the first place. Conspiracy and control, liberation and love. All human life is here!

Sea Sagas of the North

Author : Jules Pretty
Publisher : Hawthorn Press
ISBN 13 : 1912480824
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Sea Sagas of the North written by Jules Pretty and published by Hawthorn Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book’s stories and sagas cover three central themes : living with environmental change around the North Sea and the Atlantic; story-telling through history in these lands; reconnecting with nature and our ancient heritages so as to live well and responsibly.

Building Homes for Tomorrow

Author : Rob Bowden
Publisher : Evans Brothers
ISBN 13 : 0237536471
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Building Homes for Tomorrow written by Rob Bowden and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series focuses on the environmental impact of resource-based industries around the world, today and in the future. How can the growing demand for raw materials be balanced with the increasingly urgent need to reduce the footprint that is left when natural resources are taken from the Earth and developed for worldwide consumption? It is highly illustrated, with an emphasis on presenting a balanced argument about marrying global development with sustainability.

The Road to Urbino

Author : Roma Tearne
Publisher : Gallic Books
ISBN 13 : 1910709603
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Road to Urbino written by Roma Tearne and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 'finely crafted novel' [The Independent], Roma Tearne tells the story of a Tamil exile awaiting trial for art thievery. 'Accomplished ... painterly' New York Times A story of obsession, love and art set in Tuscany, Sri Lanka and London. Ras, a Sri Lankan who fled his country as a child following the violent death of his mother and his father's disappearance, has committed a crime. Dogged by his past and unable to come to terms with the killing of his mother, he struggles to make a new life for himself in the UK.

Speaking Politically

Author : Eleni Philippou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000369021
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Speaking Politically written by Eleni Philippou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monograph Theodor Adorno’s philosophy engages with postcolonial texts and authors that emerge out of situations of political extremity – apartheid South Africa, war-torn Sri Lanka, Pinochet’s dictatorship, and the Greek military junta. This book is ground-breaking in two key ways: first, it argues that Adorno can speak to texts with which he is not historically associated; and second, it uses Adorno’s theory to unlock the liberatory potential of authors or novels traditionally understood to be "apolitical". While addressing Adorno’s uneven critical response and dissemination in the Anglophone literary world, the book also showcases Adorno’s unique reading of the literary text both in terms of its innate historical content and formal aesthetic attributes. Such a reading refuses to read postcolonial texts exclusively as political documents, a problematic (but changing) tendency within postcolonial studies. In short, the book operates as a two-way conversation asking: "What can Adorno’s concepts give to certain literary texts?" but also reciprocally, "What can those texts give to our conventional understanding of Adorno and his applicability?" This book is an act of rethinking the literary in Adornian terms, and rethinking Adorno through the literary.

Literature, Memory, Hegemony

Author : Sharmani Patricia Gabriel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811090017
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Literature, Memory, Hegemony written by Sharmani Patricia Gabriel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book considers the need for the continued dismantling of conceptual and cultural hegemonies of ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the humanities and social sciences. Cutting across a wide range of literature, film and art from different contexts and ages, this collection seeks out the interpenetrating dynamic between both terms. Highlighting the inherent instability of East and West as oppositional categories, it focuses on the ‘crossings’ between East and West and this nexus as a highly-charged arena of encounter and collision. Drawing from varied literary contexts ranging from Victorian literature to Chinese literature and modern European literature, the book covers a diverse range of subject matter, including material drawn from psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory and studies related to race, religion, diaspora, and gender, and investigates topical social and political issues —including terrorism, nationalism, citizenship, the refugee crisis, xenophobia and otherness. Offering a framework to consider the salient questions of cultural, ideological and geographical change in our societies, this book is a key read for those working within world literary studies.

The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader

Author : Dr Helen Cousins
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409478904
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader written by Dr Helen Cousins and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 2004, daytime television presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan launched their book club and sparked debate about the way people in Britain, from the general reader to publishers to the literati, thought about books and reading. The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader brings together historians of the book, literature scholars, and specialists in media and cultural studies to examine the effect of the club on reading practices and the publishing and promotion of books. Beginning with an analysis of the book club's history and its ongoing development in relation to other reading groups worldwide including Oprah's, the editors consider issues of book marketing and genre. Further chapters explore the effects of the mass-broadcast celebrity book club on society, literature and its marketing, and popular culture. Contributors ask how readers discuss books, judge value and make choices. The collection addresses questions of authorship, authority and canon in texts connected by theme or genre including the postcolonial exotic, disability and representations of the body, food books, and domesticity. In addition, book club author Andrew Smith shares his experiences in a fascinating interview.

A Dictionary of London Place-Names

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 019956678X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction

Author : Ruvani Ranasinha
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137403055
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction written by Ruvani Ranasinha and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran Desai, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali, Kamila Shamsie and Jhumpa Lahiri from a feminist perspective. It charts the significant changes these writers have produced in postcolonial and contemporary women’s fiction since the late 1990s. Paying careful attention to the authors’ distinct subcontinental backgrounds of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka – as well as India - this study destabilises the central place given to fiction focused on India. It broadens the customary focus on diasporic writers’ metropolitan contexts, illuminates how these transnational, female-authored literary texts challenge national assumptions and considers the ways in which this new configuration of transnational, feminist writers produces a postcolonial feminist discourse, which differs from Anglo-American feminism.

The Threat Level Remains Severe

Author : Rowena Macdonald
Publisher : Gallic Books
ISBN 13 : 1910709328
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Threat Level Remains Severe written by Rowena Macdonald and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize, The Threat Level Remains Severe charts the collision of three unlikely characters in a classically British novel. 'A funny, observational comedy' Sunday Express Grace Ambrose, Brett Beamish and Reuben Swift appear to have little in common, but as each of them negotiates metropolitan life, they find their fates entwined. Arty, liberal-minded House of Commons secretary Grace has been counting the tea breaks in the same dull job for approaching a decade and feels she could do something better ...if only she knew what. New recruit Brett, a smooth, high-flying Australian, is on a mission to shake up the dusty backrooms of power - and on a collision path with Grace. Office life begins to look up when Grace receives an email from an admirer with musical and poetic talents ...but is soulful, enigmatic Reuben Swift really who he says he is?

South-Asian Fiction in English

Author : Alex Tickell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137403543
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book South-Asian Fiction in English written by Alex Tickell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as the more firmly established canon of contemporary Indian literature, and features chapters on important new and emergent forms such as the graphic novel, genre fiction and the short story. It also contextualizes some key ‘transformative’ aspects of recent fiction such as border and diaspora identities; new middle-class narratives and popular genres; and literary response to terror and conflict. Edited and designed with researchers and students in mind, the book updates existing criticism and represents a readable guide to a dynamic, rapidly changing area of global literature.