Download or read book Portsmouth Fairy Tales for Grown ups written by Sarah Cheverton and published by . This book was released on with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portsmouth Fairy Tales for Grown Ups written by Sarah Cheverton and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fairy tales for grown-ups contains dark moral tales, historical fiction, sci-fi, comedy, fantasy, crime, memoir and surreal fiction. All the stories have been freshly-written and all are set in and around the UK's only island city. No chocolate box visions or soppy princesses in sight, the writers have used this magical genre to explore grown-up dilemmas, such as money problems, fear of rivalry in a relationship, floods, memories and changing bodies. Find out why the real Guildhall clock is buried in an underground city to save time. Hear about the man who wished himself onto a ship in a whisky bottle. Discover why a Victorian detective joined forces with the circus to fight Spice Island's criminals. Embrace your bank statement or the ghost ship will get you. Some stories delve into the city's rich island geography, others focus on rural Hampshire, its cow pats, mushrooms and breweries. Some have taken their favourite urban location and woven it into fantastical narratives that stretch back to Victorian times, or forward to a dystopian future. Raw, mischievous, dark and yet familiar, these tales showcase a city bubbling with literary minds. Authors are: Lynne E Blackwood, Tessa Ditness, Christine Lawrence, Zella Compton, Gareth Rees, Tom Harris, Tom Sykes, Sarah Cheverton, William Sutton, Diana Bretherick, Matt Wingett.
Download or read book Fairy Tales for Grown Ups written by Jennifer Rowe and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven wicked, funny, cheeky, magical fairy tales to keep you laughing. Better than 'The Blue Day Book' for bringing a smile to your face!
Download or read book Unhappily Ever After A Fairy Tale for Grown Ups written by Lucinda E. Clarke and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairyland is in chaos. It is nearly time for the Grand Royal Annual Ball and Cinderella, has had enough of Prince Charming and desperate to get a divorce
Download or read book Fairy Tales for Grown Ups written by Tobias G. Elliot and published by . This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unimaginable happens... An anti-American group of fundamentalist extremists within Saudi intelligence plans and executes the introduction of a contagious and incurable virus into the United States. Two weeks elapse before anyone sees clearly what has happened ... but by then it is too late. Innocent carriers of the virus have already spread it out into their various communities. Bigpox is unleashed ... with terrible consequences. The same fundamentalists assassinate thousands of members of the Saudi royal family at one stroke, this time with a fast-acting virus. Oil flows to the United States are stopped immediately, with one exception. A fundamentalist general from Malaysia now enters the stage. He is appointed to lead a United Nations force to restore order' in the United States, now that every part of its infrastructure is collapsing because of the silent but raging bigpox virus. The general's personal ambition to control the United States and secure his immortal place in history far exceeds his stated military mission and his religious zeal. At the eleventh hour, a small group of fiercely determined Americans brings an end to the general's regime and the country begins to get back on its feet.
Download or read book Wrightales written by Lisa Wright and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrightales are original fairy tales written by Lisa Wright for grownups who have never quite grown up. They take a whimsical, once-upon-a-time view of life's quandaries and travails. The search for happiness and fulfillment is explored with humor and imagination. This collection of nine tales includes the story of a dream deferred, a fable about the search for the secret of happiness, and a Solstice story to chase the dark away. There are wizards and dragons, wild geese and small white dogs, magic and trickery, and all varieties of love.
Download or read book The Cursed Frog written by Jason Antoon and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Antoon's modern fables are like the classic ones except funnier and nobody ever learns anything. Ten weird and wonderful tales of pickpockets, putzes and philandering politicians. Not for kids! "Jason Antoon is funny as hell." -- Topher Grace "His one-of-a-kind view of human behavior makes the rest of us writers cringe with envy. Damn his eyes." -- Kevin Pollak
Download or read book Castielle the Fair written by Maggy Gould and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she was a baby, her mother tried to murder her.While she was growing up, her father defied a magic wish just to see her.Now an adult, Princess Castielle has spent most of her life in safe and luxurious exile. A life that is turned upside down when she discovers magic has been slowly killing her beloved father - and time is running out for him.With her faithful bodyguard Belltain in tow, Castielle sets out on a quest to save him. A quest where she meets dragons, faeries, wytches and djenns. A quest where she discovers the fairy tales she was told as a child are actually real - and far more sinister than any fiction. A quest which leads her back to the last place she wants to be, and the last person she wants to confront.Contains strong language.
Download or read book Dining on Orchids written by L. K. Thomson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LK Thomson's uniquely fanciful collection of fairy tales for grown-ups transports you deeply inside the lives of characters whose eccentricities keep them searching on the borderline of reality for their own redemption.
Download or read book Uncommon Magic written by Tyger Schonholzer and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a frozen mermaid to an unhappy princess, from endangered dragons to seductive demons, from persecuted witches to rescued unicorns, you will meet the strange creatures of the fairy world. You'll find out how to catch a wave and why the ocean sings a song. You'll learn about magic beans and how to kill an ogre, why it is unwise to kiss a wizzard and why a fairy godmother is not such a good thing to have. You may look at common things in a new, uncommon way - a magical way
Download or read book Fairy Tales for Grown Ups written by Sarah Blake and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this trilogy of witty and beguiling tales, you'll meet a shy and scholarly prince, a salon storyteller with a secret, and a modern-day woman who has lost her faith in magic... be transported to a different world, full of wonder and enchantment (that perhaps isn't so very different from our own world, after all).The Botanical Prince - in a small European principality, the Botanical Prince hides his loneliness behind his academic studies... but is botany enough to save him?Madame - as a sophisticated salon storyteller, who tells fairy tales to naive young debutantes, Madame is quite certain she knows the difference between fact and fiction. However, when one of her young protégées decides on a different kind of life, the lines between the fact and fiction soon begin to blur...What You Wish For - aren't you just fed-up with fairy tales? The heroes and heroines are precocious, the fairy godmothers are flaky and none of it matters anyway, because magic doesn't exist... does it?Based upon the 'Fairy Tales for Grown Ups' sell-out stage show by Sarah Blake, whose previous theatre works also include: 'Five Clever Courtesans', 'The Ladies in the Garden', and 'The Molly Room'."Sarah Blake's stories are generated by the characters, which is the hardest kind of story telling - I felt quite envious." - Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Download or read book The Enchanted Truth written by Kym Petrie and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believe it or not, a girl can't count on Prince Charming to wake her from a hundred years of heavy sleep . . . and happily ever after doesn't always meet you at the end of the aisle.
Download or read book Gift of Story written by Carmen M Clark and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte's tidy and simple life gets turned on it's side when she loses a poker game to Juniper, a faerie. The anti? Juniper gets to move in with Charlotte while Charlotte writes out a story Juniper tells her: A story of the faerie Queen Arum, of the Dark King, of a magic crystal and of the O'Malley family, who find themselves in the middle of a battle between good and evil. Charlotte's now chaotic life forces her to stretch her limits both socially and emotionally and she finds that maybe she needs a little excitement after all.
Download or read book The Prince who Hiccupped written by Anthony Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glamour Job written by Doug Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2007-09-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chicago in the late 1990s, goblins, together with their half-human offspring, attempt to take control of the earth. Only a group of fairies, a gnome and a few humans who are aware of the plot stand in their way.
Download or read book Poem Central written by Shirley McPhillips and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In everything we have to understand, poetry can help. Tony Hoagland, Harper's , April 2013 In Poem Central: Word Journeys with Readers and Writers , Shirley McPhillips helps us better understand the central role poetry can play in our personal lives and in the life of our classrooms. She introduces us to professional poets, teachers, and students----people of different ages and walks of life---who are actively engaged in reading and making poems. Their stories and their work show us the power of poems to illuminate the ordinary, to nurture, inspire and stand alongside us for the journey. Poem Central is divided into three main parts-;weaving poetry into our lives and our classrooms, reading poems, and writing poems. McPhillipshas structured the book in short sections that are easy to read and dip into. Each section has a specific focus, provides background knowledge, shows poets at work, highlights information on crafting, defines poetic terms, features finished work, includes classroom examples, and lists additional resources. In Poem Central -; a place where people and poems meet-;teachers and students will discover how to find their way into a poem, have conversations around poems, and learn fresh and exciting ways to make poems. Readers will enjoy the dozens of poems throughout the book that serve to instruct, to inspire, and to send us on unique word journeys of the mind and heart.
Download or read book Once Upon a Curse written by Peter S. Beagle and published by . This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorgeous, haunting, and a wonder to read San Francisco Book Review An appealing way to rediscover the classic tales Publishers Weekly A beautiful addition to the adventurous fairy tale fan s shelf Portland Book Review STEP INTO THE WORLD OF MYTH AND MAGIC Fair maidens, handsome princes, witches, and fairy godmothers all show their dark and dangerous side in this anthology inspired by myths and fairy tales, retold by some of the best authors in this generation and by some upcoming new talents. Told with a dark twist, focused on the lure of the gorgeous evil, this collection will take the readers on a wild ride through magical realms of Ancient Greece, old Russia, medieval Europe, and modern day America.
