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Book Dictionary of English Queens  Kings  Wives  Celebrated Paramours  Handfast Spouses and Changelings

Download or read book Dictionary of English Queens Kings Wives Celebrated Paramours Handfast Spouses and Changelings written by J. L. Carr and published by . This book was released on 1977-03-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Royal Family of America  from Jamestown to the American Revolution

Download or read book The English Royal Family of America from Jamestown to the American Revolution written by Michael A. Beatty and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For about a century and a half after they arrived from England, America's first permanent colonists considered themselves to be English. They were proud of their heritage and loyal to their country. England's royal family truly was the royal family of America--until the era of the American Revolution, when the colonies fought for their independence from England and its rulers. Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II, William III and Mary II, Anne, George I, George II, and George III--the English royals who were also the royals of early America--are all covered in this work. It begins with Queen Elizabeth I, as it was during her rule that Sir Walter Ralegh established his settlements in America, and ends with King George III, as it was during his rule that the American Revolution began. A biographical sketch is provided for each royal and his or her spouse and legitimate children. Brief mention is made of mistresses and illegitimate children.

Book Halfway to Hollywood  Diaries 1980  1988

Download or read book Halfway to Hollywood Diaries 1980 1988 written by Michael Palin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title The second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the bulk of the 1980s, a decade in which the ties binding the Pythons loosened—they made their last film Monty Pyton's Meaning of Life in 1983. For Michael, writing and acting took over much of his life, culminating in his appearances in A Fish Called Wanda, in which he played the hapless, stuttering Ken, and won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor. Halfway to Hollywood follows Palin's torturous trail through seven movies and ends with his final preparations for the documentary that was to change his life—Around the World in 80 Days. During these years he co-wrote and acted in Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits as well as spearing in Gilliam's follow-up success Brazil. Palin co-produced, wrote and played the lead in The Missionary opposite Maggie Smith, who also appeared with him in A Private Function, written by Alan Bennett. In television the decade was memorable for East of Ipswich, inspired his links with Suffolk. Such was his fame in the US, he was enticed into once again hosting the enormously popular show Saturday Night Live. He filmed one of the BBC's Great Railway Journeys as well as becoming chairman of the pressure group Transport 2000. His life with Helen and the family remains a constant, as the children enter their teens. Palin's joy of writing is evident once more in Halfway to Hollywood as he demonstrates his continuing sense of wonder at the world in which he finds himself. A world of screens large and small.

Book The Last Englishman

Download or read book The Last Englishman written by Byron Rogers and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the English educator, dictionary writer, and celebrated author of A Month in the Country. J.L. Carr was the most English of Englishmen: headmaster of a Northamptonshire school, cricket enthusiast and campaigner for the conservation of country churches. But he was also the author of half a dozen utterly unique novels, including his masterpiece, A Month in the Country, and a publisher of some of the most eccentric—and smallest—books ever printed. Byron Roger’s acclaimed biography reveals an elusive, quixotic and civic-minded individual with an unswerving sympathy for the underdog, who led his schoolchildren through the streets to hymn the beauty of the cherry trees and paved his garden path with the printing plates for his hand-drawn maps, and whose fiction is quite remarkably autobiographical. Much more than the life of a thoroughly decent man, The Last Englishman is a comic and touching anatomy of the best kind of Englishness. Praise for The Last Englishman “A miniature masterpiece of social history.” —Simon Jenkins, The Times (UK) “A fine biography. . . . Rogers has done a wonderful job.” —Daily Telegraph (UK) “Conveying the significance of the author of Carr’s Dictionary of Extraordinary Cricketers to anyone unfamiliar with his books, or what may now fairly be called his myth, was always going to be difficult. Somehow, Roger’s has managed it.” —D. J. Taylor, Sunday Times (UK) “A great success, and more life-affirming than F. R. Leavis’s entire output.” —Independent on Sunday (UK)

Book Northamptonshire Past   Present

Download or read book Northamptonshire Past Present written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Northamptonshire Past and Present

Download or read book Northamptonshire Past and Present written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British National Bibliography

Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Private Press Books

Download or read book Private Press Books written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Punch

Download or read book Punch written by Mark Lemon and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contemporary Novelists

Download or read book Contemporary Novelists written by Noelle Watson and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains entries for each author with a biography, a list of separately published books, and an essay.

Book The Bookseller

Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F A  Cup

Download or read book How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F A Cup written by J.L. Carr and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the greatest football novels ever written and a comic masterpiece' DJ Taylor 'But is this story believable? Ah, it all depends upon whether you want it to believe it.' J.L. Carr In their new all-buttercup-yellow-stripe, Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, who usually feel lucky when their pitch is above water-level, are England's most obscure team. This uncategorizable, surreal and extremely funny novel is the story of how they start the season by ravaging the Fenland League and end it by going all the way to Wembley. Told through unreliable recollection, florid local newspaper coverage and bizarre committee minutes, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup is both entertaining and moving. There will never be players again like Alex Slingsby, Sid 'the Shooting Star' Swift and the immortal milkman-turned-goalkeeper, Monkey Tonks.

Book Book Review Index

Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.

Book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades  Journal

Download or read book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Books in Print

Download or read book British Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 2066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: