Download or read book The Secret Vanguard written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful minor poet, Philip Ploss, lives a peaceful existence in ideal surroundings, until his life is upset when he hears verses erroneously quoted as his own. Soon afterwards, he is found dead in the library with a copy of Dante's Purgatory open before him.

Download or read book Scabby Queen written by Kirstin Innes and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better nation' A.L. Kennedy A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR Three days before her fifty-first birthday Clio Campbell - one-hit wonder, political activist, lifelong love and one-night-stand - kills herself in her friend Ruth's spare bedroom. And, as practical as she is, Ruth doesn't know what to do. As the news spreads around Clio's collaborators and comrades, lovers and enemies, the story of her glamorous, chaotic life spreads with it - from the Scottish Highlands to the Genoa G8 protests, from an anarchist squat in Brixton to Top of the Pops. Sifting through half a century of memories and unanswered questions, everyone who thought they know her is forced to ask: who was Clio Campbell?

Download or read book The Daffodil Affair written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector Appleby's aunt is most distressed when her horse, Daffodil - a somewhat half-witted animal with exceptional numerical skills - goes missing from her stable in Harrogate. Meanwhile, Hudspith is hot on the trail of Lucy Rideout, an enigmatic young girl has been whisked away to an unknown isle by a mysterious gentleman. And when a house in Bloomsbury, supposedly haunted, also goes missing, the baffled policemen search for a connection. As Appleby and Hudspith trace Daffodil and Lucy, the fragments begin to come together and an extravagant project is uncovered, leading them to South American jungle.

Download or read book The Wreck of the Mary Deare written by Hammond Innes and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland 1124 1290 written by Alice Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of Scottish royal government in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ever to have been written. It uses untapped legal evidence to set out a new narrative of governmental development. Between 1124 and 1290, the way in which kings of Scots ruled their kingdom transformed. By 1290 accountable officials, a system of royal courts, and complex common law procedures had all been introduced, none of which could have been envisaged in 1124. The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 argues that governmental development was a dynamic phenomenon, taking place over the long term. For the first half of the twelfth century, kings ruled primarily through personal relationships and patronage, only ruling through administrative and judicial officers in the south of their kingdom. In the second half of the twelfth century, these officers spread north but it was only in the late twelfth century that kings routinely ruled through institutions. Throughout this period of profound change, kings relied on aristocratic power as an increasingly formal part of royal government. In putting forward this narrative, Alice Taylor refines or overturns previous understandings in Scottish historiography of subjects as diverse as the development of the Scottish common law, feuding and compensation, Anglo-Norman 'feudalism', the importance of the reign of David I, recordkeeping, and the kingdom's military organisation. In addition, she argues that Scottish royal government was not a miniature version of English government; there were profound differences between the two polities arising from the different role and function aristocratic power played in each kingdom. The volume also has wider significance. The formalisation of aristocratic power within and alongside the institutions of royal government in Scotland forces us to question whether the rise of royal power necessarily means the consequent decline of aristocratic power in medieval polities. The book thus not only explains an important period in the history of Scotland, it places the experience of Scotland at the heart of the process of European state formation as a whole.

Download or read book Big Hair written by James Innes-Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning, there was the hair. And some of the hair was bad, but it was small. As men and women everywhere worked to improve and increase their lot, however, they stumbled onto some of humankind's most miraculous innovations: spray, gel, mousse, crimping irons, and of course, the perm. With these new tools, people everywhere suddenly found themselves able to coax their lank, lifeless tresses toward glorious new heights. The age of big hair had begun. Now, the greatest of these bouffants, afros, rakes, beehives, and Flock-of-Seagulls have been plucked from their spots in hairdressers' windows and given the respect they so clearly demand. Bigger and badder than you ever dreamed possible, Big Hair goes out to all those people of yesteryear who were unafraid to think BIG.

Download or read book Riches and Reform written by Bess Rhodes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottish Reformation is often presumed to have had little economic impact. Traditionally, scholars maintained that Scotland’s late medieval church gradually secularised its estates, and that the religious changes of 1560 barely disrupted an ongoing trend. In Riches and Reform Bess Rhodes challenges this assumption with a study of church finance in Scotland’s religious capital of St Andrews, a place once regarded as the ‘cheif and mother citie of the Realme’. Drawing on largely unpublished charters, rentals, and account books, Riches and Reform argues that in St Andrews the Reformation triggered a rapid, large-scale, and ultimately ruinous redistribution of ecclesiastical wealth. Communal assets built up over generations were suddenly dispersed through a combination of official policies, individual opportunism, and a crisis in local administration, leading the post-Reformation churches and city of St Andrews into ‘poverte and decay’.

Download or read book His Missing Pieces written by M. A. Innes and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maddox was drawn to Bryan the first time they met...but something was missing.Best friends, maybe more, they did almost everything together. They had classes together...studied together...hung out together...They were inseparable. But as close as they were, Maddox knew he was missing something about Bryan. Some kind of missing piece that would explain so much. If Bryan wasn't in the closet, why was he so quiet about his sexuality? If he was out, why didn't he date? Why couldn't he see Maddox as more than just a friend? Bryan had no idea what to do. As much as he felt for Maddox, he'd never be able to tell him because that would mean letting him in on Bryan's deepest secret. Maddox is the best but he'd never understand what Bryan needed...how he wanted to be loved. Right now he has Maddox's friendship and that will have to be enough. If Maddox finds out what Bryan really wants in a relationship, he might lose even that. 60k wordsStory Contains: M/m Sexual Content, mild BDSM, Age Play, Mild ABDL*Authors Note* This is not a standalone book. The book ends with an HEA ending. However, there was so much more to their journey, I couldn't put it in one book. The rest of their story will continue in My Perfect Fit, Our Perfect Puzzle, and Their Perfect Future.My Perfect Fit ~ Currently AvailableOur Perfect Puzzle ~ Currently AvailableTheir Perfect Future ~ Currently Available

Download or read book Country Kitchens written by Jocasta Innes and published by Reed Mitchel Beazley. This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals through evocative photographs and informative text the beauty of kitchens designed for real-life cooks and their families, as well as displaying the rich diversity of country style.

Download or read book The First Scottish Enlightenment written by Kelsey Jackson Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first book-length study to systematically challenge that notion. Instead, it argues that the era between approximately 1680 and 1745 was a 'First' Scottish Enlightenment, part of the continent-wide phenomenon of early Enlightenment and led by the Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics of north-eastern Scotland. It makes this argument through an intensive study of the dramatic changes in historiographical practice which took place in Scotland during this era, showing how the documentary scholarship of Jean Mabillon and the Maurists was eagerly received and rapidly developed in Scottish historical circles, resulting in the wholesale demolition of the older, Humanist myths of Scottish origins and their replacement with the foundations of our modern understanding of early Scottish history. This volume accordingly challenges many of the truisms surrounding seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish history, pushing back against notions of pre-Enlightenment Scotland as backward, insular, and intellectually impoverished and mapping a richly polymathic, erudite, and transnational web of scholars, readers, and polemicists. It highlights the enduring cultural links with France and argues for the central importance of Scotland's two principal religious minorities--Episcopalians and Catholics--in the growth of Enlightenment thinking. As such, it makes a major intervention in the intellectual and cultural histories of Scotland, early modern Europe, and the Enlightenment itself.

Download or read book Getting to Ma ana written by Miranda Innes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1996, former Country Living garden editor Miranda Innes decided to change her life completely. Tired of urban living, bored of her career, out of love with her long-standing partner, she and her son spied a romantic ruin in Andalusia amid its own olive groves, and made an offer. What happened next - selling her London house, and handing in her notice at the magazine - was going to be straightforward, or so she thought. She had not counted on the sudden emergence of a New Man in her life, the plans of Arsenal football ground to purchase her back garden, a badly slipped disc and the logistics involved in moving a lifetime's possessions. Nor had she realised what a struggle re-building the house, room by room, or planting a garden in the hostile terrain of southern Spain would be. But helped by her new husband, Dan, and an assortment of eccentric locals, not least by the worldly wisdom of Juan the builder, she made it, and over the ensuing four years, the house and pool were built and the garden began to take shape. This is the story of how Miranda got to manana, of her love affair with Spain, and a countryside where 'great jagged peaks range above little fields, white villages tumble like sugar cubes down the sides of hills, and white houses grow room by room in a puzzle of rectangles, topped by corrugated cinnamon-brown terracotta tiles moulded on a man's thigh'."--Publisher's description.

Download or read book Green Lion written by Henrietta Rose-Innes and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A zookeeper grows obsessed with a lioness in this 'muscular and lyrical' [The Telegraph] story about species loss, bereavement and the human desire for connection. 'Great characters … superb lyrical writing' The Literary Sofa When a lion at a breeding park mauls an old school friend of his, Con must step in as the keeper of Sekhmet, the last remaining black-maned lioness in the world. In a Cape Town where fences keep people and wildlife apart, park officials and investors fret about their flagship big-cat project. And while Con grows steadily more bonded to his enigmatic charge, a cult of animal lovers seek to claim her as their own.

Download or read book Randall and Hudson written by M. A. Innes and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randall isn't looking for love.When someone likes being watched and wicked things turn them on, nice guys avoid them like the plague. Randall has learned his lesson. He looks too vanilla and sweet for people to accept that what he wants is...embarrassing and dirty. Hudson isn't looking for love.He doesn't have anything against it. He just doesn't have time for it. Growing the family business and keeping everything under control is taking up more time than he'd ever anticipated. But sometimes, fate has other plans...like finding an innocent, submissive, naughty little thing and dropping him right in Hudson's lap.Hudson knows he and Randall are opposite sides of the same coin and would be perfect for each other. He just has to convince Randall that what he wants isn't dirty or shameful, and that it's okay to stand up for himself.60k WordsStory Contains: M/m sexual content, spanking, exhibitionism, consensual humiliation play, and BDSM elements.Authors Note: This is a sweeter version of humiliation play. It is completely consensual and both main characters are enthusiastic about their desires. The heat level is higher than some of my other books, but it is very much a romance at heart. Each book in the series will be a standalone story.

Download or read book Myself and Michael Innes written by John Innes Mackintosh Stewart and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1988 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a humorous, colorful account of an Oxford academic's coexistence with his alter ego, the author of detective novels, and provides an intimate look at his circle of Oxford-bred literary figures and friends

Download or read book The Decoupage Sourcebook written by Jocasta Innes and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the techniques and equipment required for decoupage, and provides pages of ready to use decoupage motifs.

Download or read book Nineveh written by Henrietta Rose-Innes and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A weird, elusive tale' [Sunday Telegraph] about people, places – and pests – by one of South Africa’s most exciting writers. ‘Focused and fresh' Stylist An elegant and evocative novel about people, place – and pests – by one of South Africa’s most exciting writers. Katya Grubbs, like her father before her, deals in ‘the unlovely and unloved’. Yet in contrast to her father, she is not in the business of pest extermination, but pest relocation. Katya’s unconventional approach brings her to the attention of a property developer whose luxury estate on the fringes of Cape Town, Nineveh, remains uninhabited thanks to an infestation of mysterious insects. As Katya is drawn ever deeper into the chaotic urban wilderness of Nineveh, she must confront unwelcome intrusions from her own past.

Download or read book Scotland and the Crusades 1095 1560 written by Alan Denis Macquarrie and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: