Download or read book When we Lived at Primrose Hill written by Diana Farmbrough and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-05-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana lovingly recreates Finchers, her family home and introduces her large extended family, going on to recall dramas and tragedies as they unfold.
Download or read book Dinner on Primrose Hill written by Jodi Thomas and published by Zebra. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes an excerpt of Sunday at the Sunflower Inn.
Download or read book The Forsyte Collection Complete 9 Books written by John Galsworthy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 3192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forsyte Saga is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize-winning English author John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of a large commercial upper middle-class English family, similar to Galsworthy's own. The second trilogy of the Forsyte Saga is A Modern Comedy, written in the years 1924 to 1928. This comprises a novel, The White Monkey, an interlude, A Silent Wooing, a second novel, The Silver Spoon, a second interlude, Passers By, and a third novel Swan Song. The third trilogy of the Forsyte Saga is End of the Chapter, comprising Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness, and Over the River (also known as One More River), chiefly dealing with Michael Mont's young cousin, Dinny Cherrell. The three trilogies are published under the collective title of The Forsyte Chronicles. In 1930 Galsworthy published On Forsyte 'Change which deals in the main with the older Forsytes before the events chronicled in The Man of Property. John Galsworthy (1867–1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
Download or read book Francis Plug written by Paul Ewen and published by Galley Beggar Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FRANCIS PLUG is back. The lovable misfit is now adjusting to life as a newly published author. Interviews and publicity are coming his way, not to mention considerable acclaim. But Francis can't understand why people think he was writing fiction... He also has plenty of other problems – and very little money. Fortunately, he's handed a lifeline when he lands a job as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Greenwich. Unfortunately, this involves interacting with more new people, which isn't exactly Francis's strong suit. Try as he might, the staff and students at the university seem to have great difficulty knowing what to make of Francis. (Not to mention the trouble that he has making sense of himself...). Oh – and now he also needs to hook in some big-name authors for the Greenwich Book Festival, and has to write his own campus novel. The urgent questions build and build – and Francis is in no state to answer them Will he keep his job? Will he be able to secretly sleep inside a university office? Will anyone find out that he did a wee in the corridor? ... Find out as Francis embarks on a new adventure, more intoxicating and hilarious than ever.
Download or read book The Land We Live in London its neighbourhood Kent and the South coast and South Wales written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Truth And Beauty The Story Of Pulp written by Mark Sturdy and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Sturdy traces the unlikely saga of Jarvis Cocker and his ever-changing band in meticulous detail, from schoolboy promise to semi-retirement. If Cocker's career was launched by a precocious session on John Peel's show, his stated ambition was always to be on Top Of The Pops... and despite his edgy lyrics and dour manner, he has often seemed more at home as media jester than serious pop performer. Illustrated and including a comprehensive discography.
Download or read book Smile The Story of Lily Allen written by Bella Wolfson and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her urban prom-queen style and West London punk attitude, Lily Allen is recognised worldwide as much for her quirky image and party-girl reputation as her music. Lily's meteoric rise to fame has been peppered with extreme highs and lows – no lower than when she tragically suffered a miscarriage in 2008. This, like every step of Lily's life, is charted in this new biography.
Download or read book Primrose Hill written by Charles N. Greenway and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-06-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sounds treachery, rape, and murder echo within the walls of the renowned plantation known as Primrose Hill in post civil war Virginia. After the death of her father, Caroline Cummings, the last member of the illustrious Primrose family, finds herself solely responsible for the running of the slave-less and impoverished estate. In a society where women have few legal rights, she must maneuver skillfully against Yankee interests as well as her own plotting husband. His conniving to gain control of her property almost succeeds. Aid comes finally in the hiring of a strangely- compelling gardener who shows her a new way of fighting to keep what’s hers. Filled with intrigue, romance, and courage, this story is well-stocked with colorful characters, each with a unique slant on life and love.
Download or read book Aliens written by Paul Dowswell and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The welcome given to refugees from fascist Europe is part of our fond nostalgia for Britain's role in the Second World War, nestling in our imagination next to images of evacuees clutching teddy bears, and milkmen picking their way through bomb rubble during the Blitz. But there is a darker side to this story. Then, as now, there was great suspicion, resentment and fear towards new arrivals, much of it kindled by the tabloid press. Then, as now, politicians dealt with a reluctance to accommodate refugees by hiding behind bureaucratic hurdles and obfuscation. Many of the 10,000 Kindertransport children who arrived here in the late 1930s have warm memories of the kindness they were shown, but half a million refugees were refused entry and most of them died as a result. And those who were accepted found their troubles far from over. While Britain fearfully awaited invasion in 1940, 30,000 Jews were interned as 'enemy aliens' and some were sent off to the colonies on dangerous and sometimes fatal voyages. Nor were Jews the only refugees clamouring for the thin gruel of public sympathy. Those fleeing fascism and civil war elsewhere in Europe found that whether they were met with kindness or hostility depended on the locals' political affiliations and newspapers of choice. Interweaving personal testimonies with historical sources, Paul Dowswell casts a fresh eye on the wartime era, painting a vivid picture of what life was really like for Britain's refugees.
Download or read book Rake s Progress written by Rachel Johnson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The true story of how Rachel Johnson - born into one of Britain's most famous political families - tries and fails to get elected in the 2019 hard-fought effort to stop Brexit, running against her older brother, Boris, and what she learns in the process about politics, ambition, family, marriage, and winning and losing"--
Download or read book Poet Close s Chronicles of Westmorland a Record of the Days We Live in written by John Close and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Can we live better 7 classic utopias written by Plato and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Can we live better? 7 classic utopias” is a collection of the most famous classical works on the topic of an ideal society. For thousands of years human beings have dreamt of perfect worlds, worlds free of conflict, hunger and unhappiness. But can these worlds ever exist in reality? Many thinkers and authors have sought an answer to this question. Utopia is a perfect paradise that doesn’t exist, but which we all dream of anyway. Author Thomas More actually created the noun in one of his books to describe an imaginary island where all systems—political, social, and legal—are perfect and operate harmoniously. The collection includes works by Plato, Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Francis Bacon, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Samuel Butler. Contents: Plato - The Republic Thomas More - Utopia Tommaso Campanella - The City of The Sun Frances Bacon - The New Atlantis Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards: from 2000 to 1887 William Morris - News from Nowhere Samuel Butler - Erewhon
Download or read book Deadly Triplets written by Adrienne Kennedy and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrienne Kennedy's plays, which have been said to have transformed the landscape of Black American theatre in the past two decades, are highly experimental. Infused with colliding images of torment and tranquility, violence and peace, horror and beauty, her surrealistic dramas open a window into her life. Her characters are a condensed expression of a theatrical mind that aims to integrate autobiographical, political and aesthetic images into a personal narrative. This book is an extension of Kennedy's plays. It consists of two separate, yet linked, entities, The "Theatre Mystery" (fiction) and "Theatre Journal" (non-fiction) exist as mirror images of one another. Each presents layer upon layer of images rather than progressive action to develop their story, an interior monologue that sees the character as author coming to terms with the life of the author as character.
Download or read book The Cornhill Magazine written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Primrose Hill written by Martin Sheppard and published by Carnegie Pub.. This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of an iconic London landmark
Download or read book On Top Of Everything written by Sarah-Kate Lynch and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afternoon tea has never been so much fun! A bittersweet novel about life, living and the importance of cupcakes. Rotten things happen in threes in Florence’s family, so when she’s fired by her best friend and left by her husband in the space of a single afternoon, she knows there is yet more trouble brewing. And when her son Monty returns from his gap year Down Under it’s only too clear what, or who, that trouble is. Then the plan to turn her crumbling home into a tea room hits a snag, the macramé at her sister’s house starts to seriously unravel, and why is her doctor leaving so many messages? Enter Will, a mysterious handyman with a secret stash of chocolate truffles, and soon life – with all its hiccups – is just her cup of tea.
Download or read book Journey from the North written by Storm Jameson and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the 20th century's finest memoirs of literary and political life, with an introduction by Vivian Gornick, who referred to the book as “literary gold” “Stops you in your tracks. I would like to persuade everyone to read it” — Sunday Times A compulsively readable, beautifully written account of a fascinating twentieth-century woman and life. This candid, affecting portrait of a woman who loathed domesticity explores how she sought to balance a literary career with political commitment. Towards the end of her life, the writer Storm Jameson began her memoir by asking, “can I make sense of my life?” This question propelled her through an extraordinary reckoning with how she had lived: her early years in Whitby, shadowed by her tempestuous, dissatisfied mother; an early, unhappy marriage and repeated flights from settled domesticity; a tenaciously pursued literary career, always dogged by a lack of money; and her lifelong political activism, including as the first female president of English PEN, helping refugees escape Nazi Germany. In a richly ironic, conversational voice, Jameson tells also of the great figures she knew and events she witnessed: encounters with H.G. Wells and Rose Macaulay, travels in Europe as fascism was rising and a 1945 trip to recently liberated Warsaw. Throughout, she casts an unsparing eye on her own motivations and psychology, providing a rigorously candid and lively portrait of her life and times.
