Download or read book Attention All Shipping written by Charlie Connelly and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour. Since its first broadcast in the 1920s it has inspired poems, songs and novels in addition to its intended objective of warning generations of seafarers of impending storms and gales. Sitting at home listening to the shipping forecast can be a cosily reassuring experience. There's no danger of a westerly gale eight, veering southwesterly increasing nine later (visibility poor) gusting through your average suburban living room, blowing the Sunday papers all over the place and startling the cat. Yet familiar though the sea areas are by name, few people give much thought to where they are or what they contain. In ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING Charlie Connelly wittily explores the places behind the voice, those mysterious regions whose names seem often to bear no relation to conventional geography. Armchair travel will never be the same again.
Download or read book For the Love of Radio 4 written by Caroline Hodgson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radio 4 provides the soundtrack to life for millions of Britons. In Radio 4: An Unofficial Companion, Rosie Dillon celebrates all that’s best about the nation’s favourite spoken-word station, taking us on a tour through its history, its key personalities and programmes, and countless memorable moments from the archives.
Download or read book A World of Love written by Elizabeth Bowen and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2003-08-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a writing career that spanned the 1920s to the 1960s, Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen created a rich and nuanced body of work in which she enlarged the comedy of manners with her own stunning brand of emotional and psychological depth. In A World of Love, an uneasy group of relations are living under one roof at Montefort, a decaying manor in the Irish countryside. When twenty-year-old Jane finds in the attic a packet of love letters written years ago by Guy, her mother’s one-time fiance who died in World War I, the discovery has explosive repercussions. It is not clear to whom the letters are addressed, and their appearance begins to lay bare the strange and unspoken connections between the adults now living in the house. Soon, a girl on the brink of womanhood, a mother haunted by love lost, and a ruined matchmaker with her own claim on the dead wage a battle that makes the ghostly Guy as real a presence in Montefort as any of the living.
Download or read book Spoonface Steinberg written by Lee Hall and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2000-02-03 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cast age: child.
Download or read book The Rector s Daughter written by F. M. Mayor and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-10T14:54:00Z with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rector’s Daughter is the story of Mary Jocelyn, a woman who fears life is passing her by. Having lost her mother and her beloved invalid sister, Mary shares her days in sleepy Dedmayne with her father, the severe and distant Canon Jocelyn. Then, with the arrival in the village of Robert Herbert, her quiet, ordered existence is changed forever.
Download or read book BBC Radio 4 Brain of Britain Ultimate Quiz Book Collins Puzzle Books written by Russell Davies and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pit your wits against some of the brightest minds in Britain by taking up the challenge of this ultimate quiz of 2000 questions from the Brain of Britain archives.
Download or read book The People s Act Of Love written by James Meek and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1919, Siberia . . . Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal is on his trail. Only Anna, a beautiful young widow, trusts his story. When a local shaman is found dead suspicion and terror engulf the isolated community, which harbours a secret of its own . . .
Download or read book Love Radio written by Ebony LaDelle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince Jones, a self-professed teen love doctor known for his radio segment on the local hip-hop station, believes he can get the bookish, anti-romance Dani Ford to fall in love with him in three dates.
Download or read book The Forgotten Waltz A Novel written by Anne Enright and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 Andrew Carnegie Award for Excellence in Fiction "A tour de force."—Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review "A new, unapologetic kind of adultery novel. Narrated by the proverbial other woman—Gina Moynihan, a sharp, sexy, darkly funny thirtysomething IT worker—The Forgotten Waltz charts an extramarital affair from first encounter to arranged, settled, everyday domesticity…This novel’s beauty lies in Enright’s spare, poetic, off-kilter prose—at once heartbreaking and subversively funny. It’s built of starling little surprises and one fresh sentence after another. Enright captures the heady eroticism of an extramarital affair and the incendiary egomania that accompanies secret passion: For all their utter ordinariness, Sean and Gina feel like the greatest lovers who’ve ever lived." —Elle
Download or read book Sweet Sorrow written by David Nicholls and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love--and how just one summer can forever change a life. Now: On the verge of marriage and a fresh start, thirty-eight year old Charlie Lewis finds that he can't stop thinking about the past, and the events of one particular summer. Then: Sixteen-year-old Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. He's failing his classes. At home he looks after his depressed father--when surely it should be the other way round--and if he thinks about the future at all, it is with a kind of dread. But when Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope. In order to spend time with Fran, Charlie must take on a challenge that could lose him the respect of his friends and require him to become a different person. He must join the Company. And if the Company sounds like a cult, the truth is even more appalling: The price of hope, it seems, is Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet learned and performed in a theater troupe over the course of a summer. Now: Charlie can't go the altar without coming to terms with his relationship with Fran, his friends, and his former self. Poignant, funny, enchanting, devastating, Sweet Sorrow is a tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and the confusion of family life, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, searing explosion of first love that can only be looked at directly after it has burned out.
Download or read book Your Chinese Horoscope for Each and Every Year written by Neil Somerville and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Chinese Horoscope for Each and Every Year is a helpful and informative guide on Chinese horoscopes. Built on the long-standing success of Your Chinese Horoscope, this new book gives insights into each of the Chinese signs as well as special success tips to help readers make the most of their sign.
Download or read book For the Love of The Archers written by Beth Miller and published by Summersdale. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling guide to all things Ambridge is back Bringing together a wealth of fascinating facts, amusing insights and expert trivia about characters, controversies and country customs – now fully revised and updated to include recent developments – this unofficial companion is the perfect gift for avid addicts and keen newcomers alike.
Download or read book Variations on Normal written by Dominic Wilcox and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingenious and amusing illustrated inventions from the brilliant mind of Dominic Wilcox 'I love this book. Laugh-out-loud funny. I want a salty thumb lolly now!' Harry Hill As we go about our day-to-day business, we see the same stuff every day. The bath, the fridge, the lamp post, the bicycle, the tree... so far, so humdrum. But not if you are Dominic Wilcox. Dominic sees things a little differently. For him, inside each of these everyday things are hundreds of surprising ideas waiting to be discovered. The Portable Bottom Seat, the Sick Bag Beard, Wrist Nets for the Butterfingered – Dominic's unexpected inventions, conflations and modifications promise to make your life that little bit easier, or at least more amusing. Normal will never seem quite so normal again.
Download or read book For the Love of Radio written by Ed Man and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Ed, a young, Californian obsessed with a life on the radio during the 1980s, and the many women who came along for the ride. His life took left turns on the wrong river from day one, which deposited (or found, or left) him on the shores of personal and professional disaster, but at the bottom of the rapids were the seeds of redemption and true love.
Download or read book For the Love of Radio 4 written by Caroline Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the original Goons? When did I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue first invite us to enjoy "the antidote to panel games?" Why do nuclear submarine commanders tune in to Radio 4 every day without fail? How accurate are "the pips" on your digital radio? From Farming Today at sunrise to the gentle strains of "Sailing By" and the Shipping Forecast long after midnight, Radio 4 provides the soundtrack to life for millions of Britons. In Radio 4: An Unofficial Companion, Caroline Hodgson celebrates all that's best about the nation's favorite spoken-word station, taking us on a tour through its history, its key personalities and programs, and countless memorable moments from the archives.
Download or read book Tom and Maggie Tulliver written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-03 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dear heart!" said Mrs. Tulliver, "how can you talk so, Mr. Tulliver? However, ifTom's to go to a new school, I should like him to go where I can wash him andmend him; else he might as well have calico as linen, for they'd be one as yallow asth' other before they'd been washed half a dozen times. And then, when the box isgoin' backards and forrards, I could send the lad a cake, or a pork-pie, or an apple.""Well, well, we won't send him out o' reach o' the carrier's cart, if other things fitin," said Mr. Tulliver. "But you mustn't put a spoke i' the wheel about the washin' ifwe can't get a school near enough. But it's an uncommon puzzling thing to knowwhat school to pick."
Download or read book And Now on Radio 4 written by Simon Elmes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And Now on Radio 4 offers an enthusiast's guide to the shows that have made Radio 4 what it is, and also explores some of the wonderful corners of the network's history that are long forgotten by all but a few. Who, for instance, now recalls Ronnie Barker's starring role on Radio 4 in a sophisticated cabaret-cum-sketch-show called Lines from My Grandfather's Forehead? What about Spike Milligan's intimate, soul-bearing account of his upbringing in colonial India, Plain Tales from the Raj? And who now remembers that Start the Week was once hosted by Russell Harty, a bit of programming compared by one insider to letting Graham Norton run Newsnight. In order to reflect the way devotees listen to Radio 4, the book is organised not on simple chronological lines but in the form of a typical day. Chapter by chapter, the day evolves, from Farming Today, through the daily feast that is Today, through the morning menu of conversation, Woman's Hour, documentary and comedy. Lunchtime brings The World at One. The early evening, of course, yields The Archers. And finally there's Book at Bedtime and Sailing By. An addictive mix of history, biography, anecdote and occasional useless fact, this is the perfect book for Radio 4 aficionados.
