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Portobello Voices

Author : Blanche Girouard
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752499599
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Portobello Voices written by Blanche Girouard and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portobello Market has been going since 1860. It boasts the largest antiques street market in the world, is a source of inspiration for fashion designers, song writers and film directors, receives over a million visitors a year... and is at risk. In Portobello Voices, Blanche Girouard introduces us to the intoxicating mix of characters that make the market buzz - from the antique dealer to rubbish collector, sausage seller to fur coat vendor, Afghan battery seller to public school entrepreneur. Listening to their stories, learn how to spot a fake, store a fur and make a tin pan; find out what lies behind an obsession with collecting, a passion for buttons and the gusset in boxer shorts and hear how experiences of loss, abandonment and estrangement lead to a life as a market trader. Read the book, rediscover the market and become part of the solution to preserving the wonder that is Portobello.

Portobello Voices

Author : Blanche Girouard
Publisher : Voices
ISBN 13 : 9780752499369
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Portobello Voices written by Blanche Girouard and published by Voices. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portobello Market has been going since 1860. It boasts the largest antiques street market in the world, is a source of inspiration for fashion designers, song writers and film directors, receives over a million visitors a year ...and is at risk. In Portobello Voices, Blanche Girouard introduces us to the intoxicating mix of characters that make the market buzz - from the antique dealer to rubbish collector, sausage seller to fur coat vendor, Afghan battery seller to public school entrepreneur. Listening to their stories, learn how to spot a fake, store a fur and make a tin pan; find out what lies behind an obsession with collecting, a passion for buttons and the gusset in boxer shorts and hear how experiences of loss, abandonment and estrangement lead to a life as a market trader.Read the book, rediscover the market and become part of the solution to preserving the wonder that is Portobello.

Portobello

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439150400
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Portobello written by Ruth Rendell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rendell delivers a captivating and intricate tale that weaves together the troubled lives of several people in the gentrified neighborhood of one of London's most intriguing neighborhoods, Notting Hill--and the dangers beneath its newly posh veneer.

The Voice of the Past

Author : Paul Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199335478
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Voice of the Past written by Paul Thompson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words. And in giving a past, it also helps them towards a future of their own making. Oral history and life stories help to create a truer picture of the past and the changing present, documenting the lives and feelings of all kinds of people, many otherwise hidden from history. It explores personal and family relationships and uncovers the secret cultures of work. It connects public and private experience, and it highlights the experiences of migrating between cultures. At the same time it can bring courage to the old, meaning to communities, and contact between generations. Sometimes it can offer a path for healing divided communities and those with traumatic memories. Without it the history and sociology of our time would be poor and narrow. In this fourth edition of his pioneering work, fully revised with Joanna Bornat, Paul Thompson challenges the accepted myths of historical scholarship. He discusses the reliability of oral evidence in comparison with other sources and considers the social context of its development. He looks at the relationship between memory, the self and identity. He traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of a movement which has become international, with notably strong developments in North America, Europe, Australia, Latin America, South Africa and the Far East, despite resistance from more conservative academics. This new edition combines the classic text of The Voice of the Past with many new sections, including especially the worldwide development of different forms of oral history and the parallel memory boom, as well as discussions of theory in oral history and of memory, trauma and reconciliation. It offers a deep social and historical interpretation along with succinct practical advice on designing and carrying out a project, The Voice of the Past remains an invaluable tool for anyone setting out to use oral history and life stories to construct a more authentic and balanced record of the past and the present.

The Witch of Portobello

Author : Paulo Coelho
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061877824
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Witch of Portobello written by Paulo Coelho and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves—even if we are unsure of who we are? That is the central question of international bestselling author Paulo Coelho's profound new work, The Witch of Portobello. It is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her well—or hardly at all. Like The Alchemist, The Witch of Portobello is the kind of story that will transform the way readers think about love, passion, joy, and sacrifice.

Mr Portobello's Morning Paper

Author : Amanda Prowse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1801108579
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Mr Portobello's Morning Paper written by Amanda Prowse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophia has everything she thought she wanted – so she should be happy, right? From bestselling author Amanda Prowse comes a heart-warming short story about new friends and missed connections. Sophia Perkins gives up her job as a teacher to realise a life-long dream of owning a second-hand bookshop. Free from the wearying monotony of marking until the early hours and swallowing the disappointment of trying to educate disinterested young minds, she embraces her new life. Still in the throes of grief, having recently lost both of her parents, Sophia is delighted by the daily visits of Mr Portobello, the shop's former occupant, and their unexpected friendship blooms into something beautiful. In the process of learning about the eccentric eighty-year-old, Sophia learns as much – if not more – about herself. Mr Portobello makes her question her life, her choices and even how she grieves for those she has lost. This new story with a warm vintage feel brings to mind the age-old saying: Be careful what you wish for...

The Portobello Road and Other Stories

Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789519371634
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book The Portobello Road and Other Stories written by Muriel Spark and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ways Of Staying

Author : Kevin Bloom
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1846273609
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Ways Of Staying written by Kevin Bloom and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a journalist, Kevin Bloom had witnessed and reported on the rising tide of violence in post-Apartheid South Africa. But when his own cousin was killed in a vicious random attack, the questions he'd been asking about the troubling political and social changes in his country took on a sickeningly personal urgency. Suddenly, it felt as though this South Africa was no longer the place he'd grown up in or the place which felt like home. Still stunned by the loss, Bloom begins to trace the path of violence from the murder of his cousin in the hills of Zululand to the fatal shooting of the historian David Rattray, linking these individual crimes to the riven political landscape, and the riots and xenophobic attacks of 2008. Visceral, complicated and compassionate, Ways of Staying is an eloquent account of how the white community is coping with black majority rule, and in particular how one family is coping in the aftermath of their own private tragedy.

Masonic Voice and Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Masonic Voice and Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sound Effects: The Object Voice in Fiction

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004304401
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Sound Effects: The Object Voice in Fiction written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound Effects combines literary criticism and psychoanalytic theory in eleven original articles which explore the potential of the object voice as an analytic tool to approach fiction. Alongside the gaze, the voice is Jacques Lacan’s original addition to the set of partial objects of classical psychoanalysis, and has only recently been theorised by Mladen Dolar in A Voice and Nothing More (2006). With notable exceptions like Garrett Stewart’s Reading Voices (1990), the sonorous element in fiction has received little scholarly attention in comparison with poetry and drama. Sound Effects is a contribution to the burgeoning field of sound studies, and sets out to fill this gap through selective readings of English and American fiction of the last two hundred years. Contributors: Fred Botting, Natalja Chestopalova, Mladen Dolar, Matt Foley, Alex Hope, Phillip Mahoney, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Marcin Stawiarski, Garrett Stewart, Peter Weise, and Bruce Wyse.

The Lost Storyteller

Author : Amanda Block
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1529360811
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Storyteller written by Amanda Block and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A powerful novel about the bond between fathers and daughters, and how stories connect us all. I loved it' Jenny Colgan THE LOST STORYTELLER is the heartwarming and evocative debut novel from a stunning new voice in fiction, Amanda Block. Perfect for fans of Ruth Hogan, Jessie Burton and Diane Setterfield. Rebecca hasn't seen her father Leo since she was six. Her family never talk about him, and she has long since pushed him firmly to the back of her mind. All she knows is that, once upon a time, he was a well-loved children's TV star. But when a journalist turns up uninvited at her office, asking questions about her once-famous father, Rebecca starts to wonder whether there is more to Leo's absence than she realised. Then, looking for answers, she unearths a book of fairy tales written by Leo and dedicated to her - but what use are children's stories to her now, all these years later? Tentatively, Rebecca tries to piece together her father's life, from the people he used to know and her own hazy memories. Yet her mind keeps returning to the magical, melancholic fairy tales, which seem to contain more truth than make-believe. Perhaps they are the key to unlocking the mystery of her father, the lost storyteller; to revealing who he was, what he went through - and even where he might be now... THE LOST STORYTELLER celebrates the power and resilience of imagination. 'Absolutely beautiful . . . A cleverly wrought tale of fathers and daughters, and a bond buried so deep that it is lost to folklore' Polly Crosby, author of The Illustrated Child 'Captivating, moving and profound. I loved it! A spellbinding novel about the power of the stories we tell both to ourselves and to others' Tracey Emerson, author of She Chose Me 'Incredibly moving . . . A genuinely beautiful must-read' Buki Papillon, author of An Ordinary Wonder

Your Voice in My Head

Author : Emma Forrest
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408822067
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Your Voice in My Head written by Emma Forrest and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling and devastating memoir exploring breakdown and obsessive love, in a voice unlike any other

The Sound of Sirens

Author : Ewan Gault
Publisher : Leamington Books
ISBN 13 : 1914090381
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Sirens written by Ewan Gault and published by Leamington Books. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a dead-beat coastal town in North East Scotland, seventeen-year-old Malky Campbell is desperate to help his pregnant and heroin addicted girlfriend. DI Stark, a middle-aged detective, alarmed by the rise of teenage crime in Port Cawdor, uncovers the operations of a county line gang that are flooding the area with drugs and engaging in a vicious turf war with a local family. Malky has just started working on his family's trawler with his cousin Johnny, when their boat pulls up Johnny's brother in its nets. The rest of the crew, the tightly-knit community and the police start to suspect that the cousins are responsible for his death. With his brother dead, Johnny inherits the family trawler, which he plans to use to smuggle drugs into the country for the county line gang, giving him enough money to start a new life. Ewan Gault's debut, The Sound of Sirens is a tough, modern crime novel, presenting the complexities of young life in a town at the end of the line.'The Sound of Sirens reads like Irvine Welsh blended with Ian Rankin. A fast paced and darkly addictive crime story, exploring what it means to be young, male and on the peripheries of 21st century Scotland.' G. R. Halliday, author of Dark Shadows and From the Waters 'Beautifully and darkly written, The Sound of Sirens is redolent with the reek of the boats and ports of the North East coast, and the stench of crime. Ewan Gault's writing perfectly shows the hardship of life at sea, and disaffected youth struggling to survive on dry land, where the only escape is addiction.' Mark Leggatt, author of The Silk Road and The London Cage 'A gritty, murderous crime novel? A Bildungsroman? A scathing indictment of wasted youth in contemporary Scotland? This excellent page turner is all of these and more, and is guaranteed to please to the last breath.' Craig Gibson, One O'Clock Gun

The Trial at Bar of Sir Roger C.D. Tichborne, Bart

Author : Arthur Orton (defendant.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Trial at Bar of Sir Roger C.D. Tichborne, Bart written by Arthur Orton (defendant.) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Voice of the Voiceless

Author : Mini VS
Publisher : Bodhi Centre for Literary Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Voice of the Voiceless written by Mini VS and published by Bodhi Centre for Literary Studies. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of select papers from the national webinar entitled Poetic Nations of the Soul: The Voice of World Women Poets held at the Dept. of English, St. Xavier’s College for Women, Aluva, on 14 and 15 February 2022.

The Modern Irish Sonnet

Author : Tara Guissin-Stubbs
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030532429
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Irish Sonnet written by Tara Guissin-Stubbs and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara Guissin-Stubbs argues for the significance of the Irish sonnet as a discrete entity within modern and contemporary poetry, and shows how the Irish sonnet has become a debating chamber for discussions concerning the relationship between Irish and British culture, poetry and gender, and revision and rebellion. The text reshapes the poetic and critical field, exploring canonical and non-canonical poems by male and female poets so as to challenge outmoded views of the thematic and formal limitations of the sonnet.

Still Small Voice

Author : Victoria Goddard
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1805147196
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Still Small Voice written by Victoria Goddard and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One death, two victims – one seen, one hidden A thrilling rollercoaster, combining a multi-layered crime drama with an emotionally charged family saga, Still Small Voice looks at a fractured marriage and the fatal consequences of love, lust, and obsession. It’s a sweltering August day in 1998, and the body of a missing woman, best-selling author Nicky Butler, is discovered in an empty house in South West London. DI John Burroughs and his tenacious partner, DS Lucy Burton, are assigned to the case and it is immediately clear that all is not what it seems. Do they suspect Nicky’s controlling husband, James Scott, a hundred miles away in a dreary hotel room, contemplating a grim future, or the mysterious man seen entering the house the previous evening? As the detectives delve deeper into the investigation without a clear suspect, nothing seems to add up and there is a strong chance they will convict the wrong man. Why was Nicky at her brother-in-law’s house on the night of the murder while he was out of the country? And who is the shadowy figure hovering on the edge of the action, watching and waiting. The heart-stopping final twist will leave you gasping.