Download or read book Glasdrum written by Fiona Macbain and published by Fionamacbain.com. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is not easy for the women of Glasdrum. A skeleton is unearthed, too many walkers are falling to their deaths off mountain cliffs, and the local pub doesn't know how to make a decent daiquiri. As the women battle through daily life, the spectre of death looms over the Highland town. Could one of them be living with a killer?
Download or read book Daughter Disappeared written by Fiona MacBain and published by Fionamacbain.com. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, death, culture clash, escape... set in North Africa, Daughter Disappeared is a story of family survival for anyone who loves a hard-hitting 'women in jeopardy' thriller.
Download or read book Morvern Transformed written by Philip Gaskell and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1980-05-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Gaskell's pioneering study of social and economic change in a west Highland parish during the last century has come to be regarded as a classic of local history, a book which raises issues that are still of general and indeed of national importance. But Morvern Transformed is more than a study of history: it is (to quote Professor R. H. Campbell's new Introduction) 'a fascinating portrayal of a way of life which, only a century old, is already as different from the present as it was in its own day from the way of life another century before.'
Download or read book By the Lake written by John McGahern and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces its natural rhythms and the inner lives of its people. Here are the Ruttledges, who have forsaken the glitter of London to raise sheep and cattle, gentle Jamesie Murphy, whose appetite for gossip both charms and intimidates his neighbors, handsome John Quinn, perennially on the look-out for a new wife, and the town’s richest man, a gruff, self-made magnate known as “the Shah.” Following his characters through the course of a year, through lambing and haying seasons, market days and family visits, McGahern lays bare their passions and regrets, their uneasy relationship with the modern world, their ancient intimacy with death.
Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book That They May Face the Rising Sun written by John McGahern and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major motion picture: the Booker-shortlisted author's last novel: a 'masterpiece' ( Observer) by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come to Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play. We are introduced, with deceptive simplicity, to a complete representation of existence - an enclosed world has been transformed into an Everywhere. 'McGahern brings us that tonic gift of the best fiction, the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own.' John Updike
Download or read book The Belfast Gazette written by Northern Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genealogy and History of the Norfolk McCall Family and Associate Descendants 1796 1946 written by Delbert Thomas McCall and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John McGahern written by Željka Doljanin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creative writing and literary criticism, to offer new insights into the writer, his work and his legacy. Featuring a range of distinguished contributors, including Roy Foster, Paula Meehan, Frank McGuinness and Melvyn Bragg, along with a previously unpublished McGahern interview, the collection enhances the existing body of criticism, extending the McGahern conversation into new areas and deepening appreciation of the considerable achievements of this great writer. The volume, which also features an original poem by Paula Meehan written in honour of McGahern, will stimulate the interest of students, researchers and general readers of Irish literature and culture.
Download or read book Frozen Charlotte written by Alex Bell and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this young adult horror novel, a girl staying on a remote island suspects the tiny Victoria-era dolls in her family’s old mansion are up to murder. When her best friend dies under mysterious circumstances, Sophie sets off to stay with her cousins on the remote Isle of Skye. It’s been years since she last saw them—brooding Cameron with his scarred hand; Piper, who seems too perfect to be real; and peculiar little Lilias with her fear of bones. Still, Sophie never expected the strange new rules the family now lives by: Make no mention of Cameron’s accident. Never leave the front gate unlocked. Above all, don’t speak of the girl who’s no longer there, the sister whose death might have closer ties to Sophie’s past—and more sinister consequences for her future—than she ever knew. A wondrously haunting and modern thriller, Frozen Charlotte drips with mystery and madness, secrets and survival, and the chilling sense that the impossible might be all too real. “Teens looking for a novel to keep them up at night will find it in this one.” —School Library Journal “Gothic ghosts combine with crime for a fast read.” —Kirkus
Download or read book The Lost Rainforests of Britain written by Guy Shrubsole and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023 The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year As seen on Countryfile ‘If anyone was born to save Britain’s rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole’ Sunday Times
Download or read book Imagining Irish Suburbia in Literature and Culture written by Eoghan Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of critical essays explores the literary and visual cultures of modern Irish suburbia, and the historical, social and aesthetic contexts in which these cultures have emerged. The lived experience and the artistic representation of Irish suburbia have received relatively little scholarly consideration and this multidisciplinary volume redresses this critical deficit. It significantly advances the nascent socio-historical field of Irish suburban studies, while simultaneously disclosing and establishing a history of suburban Irish literary and visual culture. The essays also challenge conventional conceptions of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing and art and reveal that, though Irish suburban experience is often conceived of pejoratively by writers and artists, there are also many who register and valorise the imaginative possibilities of Irish suburbia and the meanings of its social and cultural life.
Download or read book Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland written by Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lochs of Scotland written by Stuart Fisher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are at least 31,460 freshwater lochs in Scotland, and hundreds of sea lochs. This stunning book showcases more than 50 of the most popular, interesting and beautiful, and is a perfect guide for anyone visiting or exploring Scotland, or wanting to find out about these iconic and breathtaking locations, sometimes sitting by spectacular coast and other times nestled in between towering mountains. Take in the classics such as Loch Ness and Loch Lomond, then meander round Loch Fyne (where red squirrels were first reintroduced to Scotland in 1847), the long Loch Long (20km and the straightest in Scotland), the fjord-like Loch Goil, and Scotland's oldest inhabited castle at Loch Sween. Discover the stunning Loch Awe (with its less attractive legend of the goddess who created it being transformed into an immortal hag), Loch Linnhe (bordered by the stunning railway line used for the filming of Harry Potter's Hogwart's Express) and Loch Nevis (Europe's deepest sea loch). This book is absolutely crammed with intriguing and surprising information. Packed with maps and information on local facilities, this book is the perfect guide for walkers, boaters and anyone wanting to know more about these iconic and breathtaking locations. Each chapter is beautifully illustrated with remarkable colour photography, as well as absorbing text on the landscape, wildlife and history.
Download or read book Britain s Habitats written by Sophie Lake and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and lavishly illustrated photographic guide—now in a handy field-guide format This lavishly illustrated photographic guide provides a comprehensive overview of the natural history of wildlife habitats in Britain and Ireland. Now completely redesigned in a handy field-guide format, and featuring revised and updated text throughout, this new edition of Britain’s Habitats guides readers through all the main habitat types, presenting information on their characteristics, extent, geographical variation, key species, cultural importance, origins and conservation. It aims to help visitors to the countryside recognize the habitats around them, understand how they have evolved and what makes them special, and imagine how they might change in the future. This new edition includes updated maps and additional photographs throughout, and covers a new habitat—gardens. The perfect companion for anyone travelling in Britain and Ireland, the book is essential reading for all wildlife enthusiasts, professional ecologists and landscape architects. Individual sections on all the main habitat types found in Britain and Ireland More than 680 evocative colour photographs, including images from around Britain and Ireland in all seasons Details and photographs of key species and features associated with the different habitats Up-to-date information—including maps—on the distribution, extent and importance of all habitat types Features new to this edition include a field-guide format, updated maps, more photographs throughout and coverage of an additional habitat—gardens
