Download or read book A Man of Few Words The Short Humour of Swan Morrison written by Swan Morrison and published by Swan Morrison. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With today's busy lifestyles there can barely be time to read anything. Fears have been expressed that English literature might become the preserve of a few specialist academics, as texts in cuneiform script and hieroglyphic writing. The answer could be Short Humour, which can be read at any time and almost anywhere. Far Eastern, low cost, pirate versions of The Oxferd Inglish Ducksionery explain Short Humour as 'Non-serious writing that is not too long'. Swan Morrison defined 'not too long' as around 500 words, and stories, poems and the like began to be written that could be read in their entirety in less than ninety seconds. A Man of Few Words is a collection of one hundred such examples of SH by Swan Morrison with a connecting theme of life in contemporary Britain. In addition, The Short Humour Site has been created at www.short-humour.org.uk. This site aims to promote the reading and writing of SH both in Britain and throughout the world and to showcase the work of writers of the genre.
Download or read book A Man of a Few More Words More Short Humour by Swan Morrison written by Swan Morrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2006, Swan Morrison published A Man of Few Words, a collection of one hundred examples of Swan’s Short Humour with a connecting theme of life in the modern world.This book is a second such collection and includes one hundred further comedy stories, dialogues, poems, letters, spoof news reports,articles and songs.Also in 2006, The Short Humour Site was created at www.short-humour.org.uk.This site continues to promote the reading and writing of Short Humour,both in Britain and throughout the world. The Writers’ Showcase onthe Site now includes hundreds of pieces by numerous writers.
Download or read book A Man of Yet a Few More Words written by Swan Morrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the third and final part of the Short Humour trilogy by Swan Morrison. The first book was called A Man of Few Words and that was followed by A Man of a Few More Words. In common with the previous two books, this volume contains one hundred comedy stories, dialogues, poems, letters, spoof news reports, articles and songs with a connecting theme of life in the modern world.
Download or read book The Swan Morrison Songbook written by Swan Morrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten of the best loved comedy songs of Swan Morrison with guitar chords.
Download or read book People of Few Words Volume 4 written by Swan Morrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People of Few Words - Volume 4 is the fourth collection of work by contributors to the Short Humour Site from across the world. It contains one piece of 500 word 'Short Humour' by each of fifty writers, together with a brief biography of each writer.
Download or read book People of Few Words Volume 3 Fifty More Writers from the Writers Showcase of the Short Humour Site written by Swan Morrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book People of Few Words Volume 2 Fifty More Writers from the Writers Showcase of the Short Humour Site written by Swan Morrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People of Few Words - Volume 2 is the second collection of work by contributors to the Short Humour Site from across the world. It contains one piece of 500 word 'Short Humour' by each of fifty writers, together with a brief biography of each writer.
Download or read book People of Few Words Fifty Writers from the Writers Showcase of the Short Humour Site written by Swan Morrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-13 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Short Humour stories from contributors to The Writers' Showcase of The Short Humour Site: http://www.short-humour.org.uk.
Download or read book Bunny written by Mona Awad and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Soon to be a major motion picture "Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter "A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." —Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times "Awad is a stone-cold genius." —Ann Bauer, The Washington Post The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination. Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library
Download or read book David Mitchell Back Story written by David Mitchell and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on moustache in That Mitchell and Webb Look, has written a book about his life.
Download or read book Talking Dead written by Neil Rollinson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize Like Neil Rollinson’s earlier books, Talking Dead is a refreshment of the senses: lifting the lid on the human condition in a heartfelt celebration of the act of being, whether in moments of love or mortality, sex or feasting. In the central sequence of the book – a meditation on the space between life and death – the dead speak of their final earthly moments with a liberating sense of fascination, and a luminous awe. Elsewhere we enjoy al fresco sex, astronomy via many pints in the Cat and Fiddle, and the deliverance of an Indian monsoon after weeks of thirst and drought. In ‘Christmas in Andalucia’ two lovers Skype each other achingly across hundreds of miles – ‘I am full of loss and longing,’ the poet says, ‘the heart is hewn from elm and oak and mistletoe.’ As provocative, sensual and subversive as ever, these poems seek and find the numinous in the everyday: some element of ritual or wonder that transforms experience. Although the spectre of darkness is never far away, it is the spirit of pleasure that endures, and we discover to our delight, as D. H. Lawrence did, that the Dionysian finally prevails over the Apollonian.
Download or read book Heat and Dust written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1987 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Booker Prize as best novel of the year in 1983, Heat and Dust was also made into a major motion picture starring Julie Christie, now regarded by many as a classic.
Download or read book The Character of Rain written by Amelie Nothomb and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amelie Nothomb's new novel, The Character of Rain, we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first tow and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state. "I remember everything that happened to me after the age of two and one-half," the narrator tells us. She means this literally. Once jolted out of her plant-like , tube-like trance (to the ecstatic relief of her concerned parents), the child bursts into existence, absorbing everything that Japan, where her father works as a diplomat, has to offer. Life is an unfolding pageant of delight and danger, a ceaseless exploration of pleasure and the limits of power. Most wondrous of all is the discovery of water: oceans, seas, pools, puddles, streams, ponds, and, perhaps most of all, rain-one meaning of the Japanese character for her name. Hers is an amphibious life. The Character of Rain evokes the hilarity, terror, and sanctity of childhood. As she did in the award-winning, international bestesller Fear and Trembling, Nothomb grounds the novel in the outlines of her experiences in Japan, but the self-portrait that emerges from these pages is hauntingly universal. Amelie Nothomb's novels are unforgettable immersion experiences, leaving you both holding your breath with admiration, your lungs aching, and longing for more.
Download or read book The Swan Book written by Alexis Wright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Australia: Giramondo, 2013.
Download or read book The Buddha s Bone written by Leilanie Stewart and published by Leilanie Stewart. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Kimberly Thatcher wasn't an English teacher. She wasn't a poet. She wasn't an adventurer. Now she wasn't even a fiancée. But when one of her fellow non-Japanese colleagues tried to make her a victim, she said no. Cremation In Japan on a one-year teaching contract at a private English language school, and with her troubled relationship far behind her in London, Kimberly set out to make new friends. She would soon discover the darker side of travelling alone - and people's true intentions. Rebirth As she came to question the nature of all those around her - and herself - Kimberly was forced to embark on a soul-searching journey into emptiness. What came next after you looked into the abyss? Could Kimberly overcome the trauma - of sexual assault and pregnancy loss - blocking her path to personal enlightenment along the way, and forge a new identity in a journey of- Death. Cremation. Rebirth.
Download or read book The Forgotten Mission written by Jonathan Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AMAZON'S BEST SELLING AUTHOR The year was 1968, Scott Salvador, a fresh Harvard Graduate had just landed his dream job at NASA. His life so far had brought him all he could wish for, the finely tuned image, the cars, the hot girls and the money. He was now part of the Apollo Missions, this was it, he was living his dream. An event from the past, had his future all mapped out, without him even knowing. Leading him down path he wasn't expecting. This turn of events shattered his naivety, yet opened his mind. Everything he'd ever believed in, or thought to be true, had suddenly been pulled out from under his feet, his unblemished innocence, stolen by what was about to happen. Scott couldn't believe the things that had been going on under our noses throughout history, that was until he became part of it all. His suspicious nature had got him into a predicament he just couldn't escape from. Whether he likes it or not, he's now in so deep he can't get out! His real Mission has only just begun... 5 STAR REVIEWJonathan Taylor is author of a fascinating science fiction/historical fiction called The Forgotten Mission. The novel, written in non-linear sequence and spanned over more than 100 years, tells the story of Scott Salvador, who has been handpicked to complete a top-secret government project that has been in progress for more than 20 years. Centered around Area 51, Roswell, and other not-so-top-secret areas, this novel is sure to be a favorite among science fiction fans and conspiracy theorists. 5 STAR REVIEW
Download or read book A Life in Words written by Ismat Chugtai and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Life in Words, the first complete translation of Ismat Chughtais celebrated memoir Kaghazi hai Pairahan, provides a delightful account of several crucial years of her life. Alongside vivid descriptions of her childhood years are the conflicted experiences of growing up in a large Muslim family during the early decades of the twentieth century. Chughtai is searingly honest about her fight to get an education and the struggle to find her own voice as a writer. The result is a compellingly readable memoir by one of the most significant Urdu writers of all time.
