Download or read book Two Quid Kid written by Anne Olle and published by Beachcomber Books. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Two Quid Kid" is a tale of a young boy's journey from humble beginnings of neglect and loneliness to finding his way in a hostile world. Edward is a character whose struggles and triumphs will linger long after you close the book. ""I so enjoyed this warm, albeit at times heart-wrenchingly sad account of a boy growing up without a family in 1960s Melbourne. Eddie O'Loughlin's story is vivid social history for people wanting a glimpse into the not-so-distant past."" Maureen McCarthy, Bestselling Author of "Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life," "The Convent" and "Stay with Me" ""Sometimes funny, sometimes confronting and often moving, this swift-footed tale of family, loss, love and redemption is written with the vivid honesty of memoir."" Myke Bartlett, Author of the Text Prize winning "Fire in the Sea" ""An inspiring tale of a young boy's battle to build a successful life."" June Loves, Bestselling author of "The Shelly Beach Writers' Group""
Download or read book Gone Missing written by Jill Painter and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his young son Toby steals GBP200 and runs away from school, Elliott Decona abandons his new promising business venture to find him. His desperate search has many twists and turns that are both connected and unconnected to the mystery.
Download or read book Quid Pro Quo written by Vicki Grant and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quid Pro Quo is a high-stakes, fast-moving legal thriller about real people, and funny ones at that. Cyril MacIntyre's mother is an ex-street kid who dragged her son to all her law-school classes, then proceeded to get kidnapped. That aside, Cyril's life isn’t too different from that of other thirteen-year-olds. He has all the usual adolescent issues to deal with: parent problems, self-esteem problems, skin and hair problems, and girl problems. But he has legal problems too. And he's got to solve them if he wants to save his mother's life. Quid Pro Quo won the Arthur Ellis Award and the cbc Young Canada Reads 2009 award. It has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Edgar Allan Poe and the Ann Connor Brimer. This 2018 edition has been updated with a new cover.
Download or read book The Strand Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secrets of a Schoolyard Millionaire written by Nat Amoore and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding a million dollars in your backyard - every kid's dream, right? That's what me and my best friend Toby thought too. Jumping castles at school. Lollipops for our adoring fans. Wearing sunglasses indoors ('cos that's what all the millionaires do). There's a lot you can get with a million dollars . . . including a whole lot of trouble. BONUS TIPS ON HOW TO BE A SCHOOLYARD MILLIONAIRE INSIDE!
Download or read book The Gun Ringer written by Geoff Allen and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Immigrant Boy written by Marion Houldsworth and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Clark came to Townsville with his family in 1912 from England. Within a few weeks of arrival the father died and twelve-year old Joe has to become a bread-winner to support his family. His first job was at Rooneys’ Sawmill, sweeping sawdust. He is a likeable lad and though he feels himself to be a despised ‘Pommy’, the men soon take to him. They share their midday crib and pass the hat around when he sings. Other jobs follow, feeding the plumber’s horse; creating the sound effects at the open-air Picture-Show and nippering on the railway to the new meatworks at Alligator Creek. Through it all Joe’s keen eye and lively mind don’t miss much that is going on in the Townsville of the day, the local characters, the opium dens, the illegal gambling and the shanties of Flinders Lane. There isn’t a thing he doesn’t know about every engine in town so it seems appropriate when at length his mother makes the financial sacrifice necessary to have him apprenticed at the railway. A boy’s-eye view of Townsville in the early years of the Twentieth Century
Download or read book Hell Is Round the Corner written by Tricky and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Bookended by tragedy, shot through with violence, ultimately uplifting' Guardian 'An insight into a singular artist' New Statesman 'Fierce, funny and indomitable' Observer 'My tears were relentlessly pricked by Tricky's memoir' Daily Telegraph Tricky is one of the most original music artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years. His signature sound, coupled with deep, questioning lyrics, took the UK by storm in the early 1990s and was part of the soundtrack that defined the post-rave generation. This unique, no-holds barred autobiography is not only a portrait of an incredible artist - it is also a gripping slice of social history packed with extraordinary anecdotes and voices from the margins of society. Tricky examines how his creativity has helped him find a different path to that of his relatives, some of whom were bare-knuckle fighters and gangsters, and how his mother's suicide has had a lifelong effect on him, both creatively and psychologically. With his unique heritage and experience, his story will be one of the most talked-about music autobiographies of the decade.
Download or read book Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star written by Rick Wakeman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Postman Pat, Tommy Cooper, Norman Wisdom and George Best have in common with being abandoned in a Costa Rican jungle after a severe bout of flatulence? Indeed, how are they also connected to trying to buy an Australian brewery just to get a beer, owning twenty-two cars, an American soccer team and a Swiss mail-order pornography company? The common feature is of course a certain Richard Wakeman. The Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star takes you, the privileged reader, on a trip of absurd excess, a cultural car crash of side-splitting hilarity and an unforgettable glimpse (again) into the life of one of Britain's most legendary showmen, rock stars and all-time great raconteurs.
Download or read book Child X written by Mick Lee and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1999 and the glorious Millennium is approaching. Ray is a struggling private investigator and compulsive gambler whose debt has spiralled out of control. His violent creditors have run out of patience. A retired gangster offers to square his debt if he tracks a man down.
Download or read book The Cruel Peak written by Gil Hogg and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glacier on the virtually unclimbable peak of Mt Vogel in the southern alps of New Zealand has yielded a secret, a notebook which casts doubt on the achievement of Ernest Ashton a wealthy landowner who has for many years basked in the fame of being the first person to reach the summit. His son Stuart has built a reputation as a fine mountaineer and TV personality very much boosted by his father’s achievement. Now the son sees his own reputation jeopardised by his father’s disgrace. The smouldering animosity of lifetime is reignited. At this time, Tom Stavely, a close friends of Stuart’s, returns from England for the wedding of the rather neglected daughter he had with Stuart’s sister from whom he is now divorced. Tom stays with the Ashton’s on the sheep station and is inevitably involved with the family as the disaster unfolds at the wedding. He has to search his own heart about how far he should help Stuart, and finds himself the prime suspect in a murder.
Download or read book From Sixpences to Dollars written by Janet Lee and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonny Texas came from an unconventional but close-knit Midlands family and developed a fascination with all forms of gambling from a young age. He grew up learning how to be a wheeler dealer and in his twenties, with a young family to support, the challenge of beating the odds to make large sums of money became even greater. As he grew older, his life was to become a rollercoaster of highs and lows as he moved from one wild money spinning venture to another, making huge amounts and then losing them, unable to resist any gambling opportunity. The two constants in his life have been his family and poker and, at times, they have made uneasy bedfellows. But somehow, Jonny has managed to pull off the unimaginable, repeatedly pulling himself back from the brink of disaster and turning himself into a winner, appearing on TV and in the public eye. From Sixpences to Dollars documents the extraordinary story of one man's obsession with gambling and how he has ultimately turned it to his advantage.
Download or read book You ll Win Nothing With Kids written by Jim White and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Sunday mornings Jim White has the following choice: visit the supermarket, buy trellising at B'n'Q, or stand on the sidelines of a muddy municipal football pitch, his trouser cuffs wetter than a weekend in Llandudno, shoulder-to-shoulder with a motley crew of mums, dads, step-parents and same-sex life partners all screaming at their beleaguered offspring. You'll find Jim in the same place every week, failing to organise a bunch of lads into something resembling a team while on the far side of the park his opposite number, a wannabe Mourinho in brashly monogrammed tracksuit, struts the sidelines, shouting - always shouting. This is the hilarious story of Jim White's time as manager of his son's football team: the highs, the lows, and the dog turd in the centre circle. At this level, winning spirit is not so much about passion, pride and belief as praying that your star centre forward has remembered his boots. Most importantly, it's about the enduring relationship between fathers, sons and football. This is the story no one who has ever watched his or her child play sport will want to miss.
Download or read book Giant Squid written by Candace Fleming and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A nonfiction picture book exploring the mysterious life of the elusive giant squid"--
Download or read book Still Breathing written by Anthony Donnelly and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brothers Anthony and Christopher Donnelly were raised in, and grew up surrounded by, what was allegedly one the UK's most legendary and elusive crime families - Manchester's Quality Street Gang. How they found riches and fame as celebrated fashion kings is one of the most astonishing stories in the history of the rag trade. In their early twenties, as Acid House and street clothing pioneers, they were called both 'ambassadors for a generation' by Vivienne Westwood and 'a menace to society' by Parliament. Their fashion label, Gio-Goi, became a worldwide hit at the height of the 'Madchester' phenomenon, sported by the Happy Mondays, New Order, The Stone Roses and many more. Then, in 1994, Anthony and Chris were arrested as part of a huge police investigation into the Quality Street Gang, and the Donnelly Brothers lost everything amid lurid 'drugs and guns' headlines. After years in the wilderness, they made a remarkable comeback in 2005 with Pete Doherty (then dating Kate Moss) designing a high-profile collection for the re-launched Gio-Goi. Further attention-grabbing headlines featuring Robbie Williams, Arctic Monkeys, Liam Gallagher, Kasabian, Rihanna, Amy Winehouse, Plan B, Calvin Harris and Deadmau5 emphasised the label's runaway success. The Donnelly Brothers were more notorious than ever as Gio-Goi hit the top of The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 in 2009 with a £19 million turnover (and would peak at £40 million annual turnover). They bought a pub, promoted club nights in Ibiza with Cream, made award winning pop videos and launched new fashion label, Your Own [YO]. Gio-Goi was hit by further scandal in 2013 and a spectacular crash saw investors, including The Donnelly Brothers, lose millions. The saga of the brand continues. Anthony and Christopher's journey from creeping and rifling safes, ticket touting and bootlegging pop merchandise to the front page of Vogue is told here for the first time - in their own words.
Download or read book Above the Fold written by Peter Yeldham and published by For Pity Sake Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-16 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Peter Yeldham's historical fiction pedigree is one the best in the country." Sunday Telegraph -------- Luke Elliott and Claudia Marsden have fallen in love at a perilous time. The Second World War is raging in the Pacific, barbed wire and gun emplacements are strung along the northern beaches of Sydney in preparation for invasion. As the war moves closer, their ‘sextet’ of loyal school friends is splintering as individual career dreams are pursued. Luke yearns to be a writer, but a start in journalism is proving challenging. The war’s end unexpectedly provides Luke’s big break, but the pursuit of his dream will keep him away from Australia and Claudia, with surprising consequences for them both. -------- "Written with meticulous detail, this is an engaging story spanning a tumultuous period in Australian history.” - Nicole Alexander, The Great Plains
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