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Jane e Prudence

Autore: Barbara Pym

Numero di pagine: 246

Jane e Prudence: amiche di età e modi di essere differenti, una teneramente sciatta, l’altra impeccabilmente elegante. Jane e Prudence: due età e due donne molto diverse. Una è teneramente sciatta, l’altra è impeccabilmente elegante; una sposata è a un pastore, l’altra è sempre coinvolta in amori infelici. Finché Jane non si mette in testa di combinare un matrimonio per l’amica e si renderà conto che combinare matrimoni è molto, molto difficile...

Cinque giorni a Parigi

Autore: Danielle Steel

Numero di pagine: 270

The Good Daughter

Autore: Sarah Edghill

Numero di pagine: 290

How do you keep everything together when your world is falling apart? As Eve juggles her demanding job, caring for her troubled son, and managing her elderly mother’s move to a care home, her life is stretched to the breaking point. To make matters worse, her ex blames her for their son’s behaviour, and Eve is left questioning her abilities as a mother. When she discovers a long-buried family secret hidden among her mother’s belongings, everything Eve thought she knew begins to unravel. With her mother’s dementia worsening and answers slipping away, Eve must come to terms with her past—and her future . . . In this emotionally charged story from bestselling author Sarah Edghill, Eve’s journey reveals that even in the hardest times, hope and new beginnings can be found. “Sarah Edghill knows how to pinpoint what goes on in families.” —Rachel Joyce, New York Times–bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

L'enigma del sesso

Autore: Stephen Heath

Numero di pagine: 228

Ora e per sempre

Autore: Rowan Coleman

Numero di pagine: 309

Ben Church non ha mai avuto una vita fuori dall'ordinario. Abitudini semplici, giornate prevedibili e sogni mai portati a termine hanno sempre definito la sua esistenza. Ora, però, sente che deve provare a realizzare i suoi desideri prima che sia troppo tardi. Il tempo è tutto ciò che gli resta, e ogni secondo conta. Vita Ambrose, invece, pensava di avere una vita perfetta, piena di feste sfarzose, abiti eleganti e divertimento. Ma sotto questa facciata scintillante nasconde un vuoto profondo: il dolore delle perdite che ha subito le ha spezzato il cuore, lasciandola disillusa e sola. Quando i loro destini si incrociano per caso tra le affollate strade di Londra, Ben e Vita iniziano insieme un viaggio dolcissimo e intenso. Bastano pochi istanti per farli innamorare perdutamente, ma il tempo scorre, minacciando di separarli appena si sono incontrati. Riusciranno a trovare un modo per amarsi per sempre, superando le avversità e il ticchettio inesorabile del tempo?

Il club delle cattive ragazze

Autore: Sophie Hart

Numero di pagine: 397

“Non mi considero né moralista né puritana, ma il cattivo gusto è cattivo gusto” Torte di mele, brownies al cioccolato, muffin e tisane profumate... È questo il regno di Estelle, l’intraprendente proprietaria del Café Crumb. Ma gestire una piccola pasticceria non è facile: come allargare il giro di affari, spingendo nuovi clienti a varcare la soglia del delizioso caffè? Rattristata dalla chiusura della libreria accanto al suo locale, Estelle, fervida lettrice, ha un’idea: perché non provare a risollevare le sorti del Café con un book club, affiancando ai dolci qualche buona lettura? La partenza non è delle migliori. Gli iscritti al club, oltre a Estelle, sono solo quattro. Un piccolo gruppo fin troppo eterogeneo, con gusti che non potrebbero essere più diversi tra loro. Il primo libro preso in esame non scatena alcun dibattito. Estelle decide allora di giocare il tutto per tutto aggiungendo un pizzico di pepe agli incontri. La lettura successiva verterà sul bestseller del momento: una piccante storia d’amore e sesso, condita da sculacciate e frustini. Il successo è sfrenato, tanto che il book club decide di focalizzarsi solo sulla letteratura erotica. Libro...

Come i Wanderers vinsero la Coppa d'Inghilterra

Autore: James Lloyd Carr

Numero di pagine: 129

Scandita dalle cronache pubblicate sul giornale locale, questa è la storia di come una squadretta di dilettanti di un piccolo villaggio dell’entroterra inglese riesce, partita dopo partita, ad aggiudicarsi la prestigiosa Coppa d’Inghilterra. Forte delle teorie calcistiche di Mr Kossuth – un professore profugo dall’Ungheria che, avendo fatto uno studio scientifico del gioco, è convinto di aver trovato i “sette postulati” indispensabili per il successo –, della generosità di Mr Fangfoss – un magnate locale con due mogli e un odio viscerale per tutti gli aspetti della vita moderna, che volentieri foraggia il club di cui è presidente – e dell’apporto decisivo di un ex giocatore professionista caduto in depressione che esce dal suo stato catalettico e ritrova tutta la grinta perduta, questo pugno di calciatori improvvisati gioca contro squadre di ben altra levatura e, senza perdersi d’animo e in maniera del tutto inaspettata, riesce a mietere vittorie tra lo sbalordimento generale. E intorno a loro l’intera comunità si mobilita in una gara di solidarietà che dal campo si proietta nella vita di tutti i giorni, sostenendo coralmente un’impresa che viene...

Any Way You Want Me

Autore: Lucy Diamond

Numero di pagine: 417

On paper, Sadie's got it all - the partner, the children, the house. But in real life, that doesn't feel quite enough. Sadie can't help harking back to the time when she was a career woman by day and a party animal by night. And what happened to feeling like a sex kitten, anyway? The only sleepless nights she's getting now are due to the baby. Maybe a little reinvention is the answer . . . Sadie can't resist creating a fictitious online identity for herself as a hot TV producer. It's only a bit of harmless fun . . . until truth and fantasy become dangerously tangled. It isn't long before she's wondering if the exciting alter ego she has dreamed up really is the kind of person she wants to be after all . . . Wry, funny and with a wonderful twist in the tale, Lucy Diamond's debut novel Any Way You Want Me is an enchanting story of infidelity, motherhood and friends reunited.

La biblioteca dei segreti

Autore: Bella Osborne

Numero di pagine: 348

«Un libro tenero che scalda il cuore.» The Sun «Ti farà spuntare un sorriso sul viso.» Hazel Prior Tom ha solo sedici anni ma ha già imparato che la vita può essere crudele e che è più facile evitare i problemi se si riesce a passare inosservati. Ma essere invisibili è un bel problema quando si vuole far colpo sulla ragazza più carina della scuola: alla ricerca disperata di una passione comune con la bella Farah, Tom si rifugia nella piccola biblioteca del paese in cui vive. È proprio nascondendosi tra i polverosi scaffali, in compagnia di una borsa piena di romanzi d’amore, che attira l’attenzione di Maggie, una vedova settantenne che trascorre i suoi pomeriggi immersa nelle letture più disparate. L’incontro casuale tra due mondi apparentemente molto lontani, quello di un timido adolescente e di una donna il cui passato nasconde un segreto, sarà l’inizio di un’amicizia in grado di cambiare il corso delle loro vite. E, quando la minaccia della chiusura della biblioteca si farà concreta, i due uniranno le loro forze per dimostrare a tutti che quel luogo speciale è il cuore della loro comunità. Bestseller in Inghilterra Due lettori solitari. Una biblioteca ...

A Diary of The Lady

Autore: Rachel Johnson

Numero di pagine: 443

Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving The Lady, Britain's oldest women's weekly, in her hilarious diary, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor. 'The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty, tatty, disorganized and impossibly old-fashioned, set in an age of doilies and flag-waving patriotism and jam still for tea, some sunny day.' Appointed editor of The Lady - the oldest women's weekly in the world - Rachel Johnson faced the challenge of a lifetime. For a start, how do you become an editor when you've never, well, edited? How do you turn a venerable title, full of ads for walk-in baths, during the worst recession ever? And forget doubling the circulation in a year - what on earth do you wear to work when you've spent the last fifteen years at home in sweatpants? Will Rachel save The Lady - or sink it? 'Action-packed, entertaining, marvellously indiscreet. Johnson is everything you want in a diarist and has a compulsive habit of saying the wrong thing' Sunday Times 'She's a loose cannon. All she thinks of is sex. You can't get her away from a penis' Mrs Julia Budworth, co-owner, The Lady 'A total romp, wonderfully readable, unflinchingly described'...

Assurance

Autore: Michael Seed

Numero di pagine: 189

This profoundly encouraging anthology contains poetry, biblical passages, excerpts, and more sent in from contributors who selected the pieces that most inspired them in times of crisis or difficulty: from Royals Duchess of Kent and Princess Michael, to writers John Bayley, Muriel Spark and Beryl Bainbridge; politicians including Tony Blair, Hillary Clinton and Anne Widdicombe; the Dalai Lama; Kiri Te Kanawa, Joan Sutherland and many more. Royalties from the book will go to charity, and the original letters sent in as contributions were auctioned at Harrods to raise further money for charity.

Life and Narrative

Autore: Brian Schiff , A. Elizabeth Mckim , Sylvie Patron

Numero di pagine: 377

The challenge of life and literary narrative is the central and perennial mystery of how people encounter, manage, and inhabit a self and a world of their own - and others' - creations. With a nod to the eminent scholar and psychologist Jerome Bruner, Life and Narrative: The Risks and Responsibilities of Storying Experience explores the circulation of meaning between experience and the recounting of that experience to others. A variety of arguments center around the kind of relationship life and narrative share with one another. In this volume, rather than choosing to argue that this relationship is either continuous or discontinuous, editors Brian Schiff, A. Elizabeth McKim, and Sylvie Patron and their contributing authors reject the simple binary and masterfully incorporate a more nuanced approach that has more descriptive appeal and theoretical traction for readers. Exploring such diverse and fascinating topics as 'Narrative and the Law,' 'Narrative Fiction, the Short Story, and Life,' 'The Body as Biography,' and 'The Politics of Memory,' Life and Narrative features important research and perspectives from both up-and-coming researchers and prominent scholars in the field -...

Animals and War

Autore: Ryan Hediger

Numero di pagine: 284

Animals and War is the first collection of essays to study its topic. Using sociology, history, anthropology, and cultural studies, it analyzes a wide range of phenomena and exposes the often paradoxical contours of human-animal relationships.

Mason's Motoring Mayhem

Autore: Tony Mason

Numero di pagine: 319

A full, frank and hilarious account of Tony Mason's hectic life, from humble beginnings in the Lake District to stardom on television and in motorsport. His story includes his business life, TV mistakes, rallying crashes, appearances on stage and travels to many far-flung places, all packed with laughs along the way.

Eton Rogue

Autore: William Coles

Numero di pagine: 298

Eton Rogue is a hilarious and shocking story of scandal and rebellion – all set in the heart of the world’s most famous school, Eton College.

Ilkley and Around in 50 Buildings

Autore: Kim Revill

Numero di pagine: 154

Explore the rich history of Ilkley and the surrounding area in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.

Image and Power

Autore: Sarah Sceats , Gail Cunningham

Numero di pagine: 223

Image and Power is an important work of literary and cultural criticism. This collection of essays focuses on some of the major issues addressed by women's writing in the twentieth century, concerning genre, subjectivity and social and cultural expectations, issues which in the past have been regarded from an essentially male perspective. The text introduces women writers whose novels have been widely read and provides an important contribution to the debate about women in literature.

Social Texts and Context

Autore: Jonathan Potter , Peter Stringer , Margaret Wetherell

Numero di pagine: 223

First published in 1984, Social Texts and Context illustrates the ways in which familiar psychological concepts – femininity, the environment, groups, the self – are constructed in discourse. Novels by Thomas Hardy, Barbara Cartland, Doris Lessing, C. P. Snow, Charles Dickens and Robert Musil are examined, and the theoretical approaches of Roland Barthes, Rom Harre, Jonathan Culler, Henri Tajfel, Irving Janis and Paul Willis are discussed. Development in literary theory – such as semiology and deconstruction and in theories of social action – such as ethogenics and discourse analysis – make it difficult to treat literary and psychological texts as a neutral medium of communication. Instead, texts should be seen in terms of their fundamental constructive role in the organization of social life. As the authors demonstrate, contemporary life in both its personal and professional spheres is hedged around by discourse, conversations, newspaper articles, novels, scientific reports. This book will be of interest to students of literature and psychology.

Love Wars

Autore: Mary Irwin

Numero di pagine: 241

This is the first dedicated overview of the international television romantic comedy genre, Mary Irwin builds on the critical work on cinematic romantic comedy to offer a dedicated critical analysis of the romantic comedy on the small screen. Drawing on series from the 1960s to the present day, Irwin presents five themed chapters around the theme of romantic love, from searching for it and finding it to the love wars of the book's title to finding love later in life and in places you didn't expect. Chapters explore the genre's key recurrent themes: evolving attitudes to love, relationships, sex, class and money, feminism and post-feminism, changes in the nuclear family (dramatised through contrasting romantic relationships) and shifting discourses of masculinity, situating them within the specific socio-historic and cultural context in which the series are set. Throughout, Irwin underscores the centrality of women, their friendships and their personal and professional lives and experiences to the television romantic comedy genre, demonstrating that it is prominence of female characters and their interests and concerns which have most significantly affected the genre's thematic...

Why I Hate You and You Hate Me

Autore: Joseph H. Berke

Numero di pagine: 347

This book considers the experience of envy, greed, jealousy, and narcissism and how they operate between parents and children, brothers and sisters. It focuses on the object of these harmful emotions, what attracts malice to them, and how they may arouse it.

Only Remembered

Autore: Michael Morpurgo

Numero di pagine: 338

Published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this beautiful anthology collects favourite extracts, poems and images from some of the UK’s leading cultural, political and literary figures. Poems, short stories, personal letters, newspaper articles, scripts, photographs and paintings are just some of the elements of this astonishing collection, with cover and artwork by renowned illustrator, Ian Beck. Among the many contributors are Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall, Sir Andrew Motion, Miranda Hart, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Anthony Horowitz, Eoin Colfer, Antony Beevor, Emma Thompson, David Almond, Dr Rowan Williams, Richard Curtis, Joanna Lumley, Raymond Briggs, Shami Chakrabarti and Sir Tony Robinson. Royalties from the publication will be spilt between the Royal British Legion and projects for soldiers' children and families at SSAFA.

The Common Years

Autore: Jilly Cooper

Numero di pagine: 322

During the ten years she lived at the edge of Putney Common Jilly Cooper walked daily on this expanse of green. For most of the time she lived there she kept a diary, noting the effects of the changing seasons and writing about her encounters with dogs and humans. This book is a distillation of those diaries: an affectionate and enthralling portrait - warts and all - of life on Putney Common. Never has Jilly Cooper written more lyrically about flowers, trees, birds and the natural world; more tellingly about the sorrows - as well as the joys - of caring for dogs and children; or more outrageously about the gossip, illicit romances and jealousies of life in a small community.

Rediscovering Women Writers of Wartime London

Autore: Evelina Garay Collcutt

Numero di pagine: 198

This book shows the war-stricken city through the eyes of five women writers, whose novels vividly portray life in the Blitz. This new appraisal of their work brings to light the way in which they documented the Blitz in their fiction, highlighting the social changes which were taking place, especially in the lives of women, and leading to a fuller understanding of those turbulent times. The book re-evaluates the contribution of these writers to wartime literature, showing how their long-neglected novels focus on the experiences of individual women protagonists perceived in close relation to the menacing forces of war. This title will interest all those seeking to gain further knowledge of 20th-century women's writing, wartime literature, and social history as recorded in fiction.

Sous le ciel de Toscane

Autore: Kat Devereaux

Numero di pagine: 278

Une romance historique et familiale sur deux générations, qui tisse des liens entre une jeune résistante italienne pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et une jeune femme cherchant à fuir un mari violent. Un roman qui ravira les fans de Lucinda Riley. 1944. Romituzzo, Toscane. À 14 ans, Stella Infuriati est la plus jeune résistante de la ville – un secret qu'elle se garde bien de révéler à ses parents. Elle s'est engagée avec son frère Achille pour faire passer messages, armes et provisions aux partisans cachés dans les collines. Mais lorsque la paix revient enfin, en 1945, Stella s'est volatilisée. 2019. Tori MacNair, écrivaine, débarque à Florence pour fuir un mari violent et refaire sa vie dans cette ville que sa grand-mère anglaise lui a appris à aimer. Sur les conseils d'une amie, un jeune avocat, Marco, l'aide à s'installer. Mais, alors qu'elle fait des recherches sur l'histoire de son aïeule pour les besoins de son nouveau roman, Tori se trouve confrontée à de douloureux secrets du passé – dont certains concernent une très jeune fille qui a risqué sa vie pour sauver son pays... " Une histoire d'amour, de courage, et de deuxième chance. Un...

The Reality behind Barbara Pym's Excellent Women

Autore: Robin R. Joyce

Numero di pagine: 308

This book analyses Barbara Pym’s published and unpublished work through a new image, that of the troublesome woman. It details the political nature of her work, highlighting her feminist ideas which are hidden in village-like settings and revealed by troublesome women. By exploring Pym’s written work, published, and unpublished, diaries and notebooks, the book shows that this material gives credence to Hilary Pym’s interpretation of her sister as a complex person.

Shadow Work

Autore: Emily Hodgson Anderson

Numero di pagine: 131

How is it that reading and writing can at once isolate us and bring us closer to others? Blending personal narrative with literary criticism, Emily Hodgson Anderson considers what a life spent with books has taught her about loneliness and human connection. She delves into the unseen labor of women, authors, and mothers, and she argues that we can reimagine intimacy through books. Herself a book lover and writer, a teacher of literature, and a single mom, Anderson reflects on the loneliness—and the strength—that can come from living, writing, and parenting alone. Shadow Work puts writers such as Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Laurence Sterne, and Shakespeare into unexpected conversations with authors of children’s literature and contemporary fiction, among them Roald Dahl, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Zadie Smith, and Lewis Carroll. Elegantly and poignantly written, this book examines what it means to revisit longtime literary companions and how literature can help us better understand what we show and hide about ourselves.

The Bookseller

Numero di pagine: 610

Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2024

Autore: Bloomsbury Publishing

Numero di pagine: 1736

'WAYB remains an indispensable companion for anyone seriously committed to the profession of author, whether full-time or part-time; and as always it is particularly valued by those who are setting out hopefully on that vocational path.' - David Lodge Revised and updated annually, this bestselling guide includes over 3,500 industry contacts across 12 sections and 80 plus articles from writers across all forms and genres, including award-winning novelists, poets, screenwriters and bloggers. The Yearbook provides up-to-date advice, practical information and inspiration for writers at every stage of their writing and publishing journey. If you want to find a literary or illustration agent or publisher, would like to self-publish or crowdfund your creative idea then this Yearbook will help you. As well as sections on publishers and agents, newspapers and magazines, illustration and photography, theatre and screen, there is a wealth of detail on the legal and financial aspects of being a writer or illustrator. Additional articles, free advice, events information and editorial services at www.writersandartists.co.uk

The Family Tree

Autore: Carole Cadwalladr

Numero di pagine: 484

'A rare treat, delivered with aplomb' Sunday Telegraph On the day of Charles and Diana's wedding, Rebecca Monroe's mother locked herself in the bathroom and never came out. Was it because her squidgy chocolate log collapsed or because Rebecca's grandmother married her first cousin? Can we never know why we do what we do? 'This clever and moving debut examines three generations of the Monroe family and explores nature versus nurture...thoughtful and immensely entertaining' Observer

The Mammoth Book of New Comic Quotes

Autore: Geoff Tibballs

Numero di pagine: 646

With over 3,500 entries, arranged by topic, fully indexed and up-to-date for the twenty-first century, here is a bumper new collection of witticisms and wisecracks. If you're looking for a quick quip to get the crowd on your side, struggling to put the finishing touches to a wedding speech or just want to cheer yourself and your mates up, this marvellous mammoth book provides all you'll ever need. Entries range from insults, put-downs, gags and one-liners to homespun philosophy, witty proverbs, movie quotes and graffiti. Among the contributors featured are Ricky Gervais, Sir Terry Pratchett, Tina Fey, Milton Jones, Russell Brand, Bill Bryson, Armando Iannucci, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Clarkson, Larry David, Grayson Perry, Germaine Greer, Will Ferrell and many more. Never be stuck for a good line again! 'Al Gore met with Donald Trump to discuss climate change. To try to explain it in terms Trump would understand, Gore said, "The planet is getting hotter than your daughter Ivanka."' Conan O'Brien 'The only time it's cool to yell, "I have diarrhoea!" is when you're playing Scrabble.' Zach Galifianakis

Similes Dictionary

Autore: Elyse Sommer

Numero di pagine: 641

Language "Appealing As Sunlight After a Storm." A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. —Henry David Thoreau Prose consists of ... phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house. —George Orwell Whether it invokes hard work or merely a hen-house, a good simile is like a good picture—it's worth a thousand words. Packed with more than 16,000 imaginative, colorful phrases—from “abandoned as a used Kleenex” to “quiet as an eel swimming in oil”—the Similes Dictionary will help any politician, writer, or lover of language find just the right saying, be it original or banal, verbose or succinct. Your thoughts will never be "as tedious as a twice-told tale" or "dry as the Congressional Record." Choose from elegant turns of phrases “as useful as a Swiss army knife” and “varied as expressions of the human face”. Citing more than 2,000 sources—from the Bible, Socrates, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and H. L. Mencken to popular movies, music, and television shows—the Similes Dictionary covers hundreds of subjects broken into thematic categories that...

From Now Until Forever

Autore: Rowan Coleman

Numero di pagine: 323

'Beautiful' LOUISE BEECH 'Life-affirming and joyful' SARA SHERIDAN 'A time-travelling delight' EVE CHASE 'An incredible story of love and hope' KATIE FFORDE 'Gloriously romantic and deeply moving' LUCY DIAMOND 'A stunning book about what it takes to be truly alive' JULIE COHEN 'Wonderful . . . both emotional and utterly captivating' JILL MANSELL 'A book you will carry with you long after the last page' MILLY JOHNSON 'Up there alongside The Time Traveler's Wife' CAROLE MATTHEWS 'Captivating and completely unforgettable, Vita and Ben's love story made me believe the impossible might not be so far out of reach' JULIETTA HENDERSON From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Memory Book, an unforgettable, beautiful novel about what it means to live to the fullest and to love forever, for fans of The Time Traveler's Wife, Me Before You and Outlander. He's running out of time. Ben Church has never done anything extraordinary in his life - until now. Now, he needs to fulfil as many of his dreams as possible while he still can. Time is all she has. Vita Ambrose's life of parties and fabulous clothes looks wildly glamorous but in reality it has no meaning. She's seen too much, lived too ...

The Devil You Know

Autore: Louise Bagshawe

Numero di pagine: 612

Rose Fiorello has nothing. Nothing, that is, except a mane of blue-black hair, she-wolf eyes and a blistering hatred of Rothstein Realty, the ruthless New York property developer that crushed her father's business like a cockroach. She's vowed to make Rothstein's pay and when she meets Jake, the sexy, arrogant heir to the Rothstein fortune, revenge might be within reach. Poppy Allen is the perfect LA society princess: wealthy parents, a lovely home, and looks that stop traffic. But Poppy craves the thrill of rock 'n' roll. It takes star quality to reach the top and Poppy knows where her talent lies. She doesn't want to be the star, she wants to be the star-maker, wheeling and dealing her way to the top. For Daisy Markham, life at her English boarding school is unbearable. Overweight and underachieving, she's an easy target for her cruel classmates. But Daisy escapes her misery by devouring trashy bestsellers, and she's starting to think she'd be better off writing them than reading them. Three women determined to get exactly what they want, who share more than burning ambition and dreams of success. What binds them is a secret they could have never imagined.

Self Defense for Women - Tips, Techniques and Methods to Protect Yourself

Autore: Dueep J. Singh , John Davidson

Numero di pagine: 85

Self Defense for Women - Tips, Techniques and Methods to Protect Yourself Table of Contents Introduction Mental Attitude Towards Violence How to Stop from Panicking? Facing Your Attacker Rules to Protect Yourself Going Out to a Party? When You Are Walking What If You Are Being Followed? Traveling on Your Own Traveling in Your Car Relationships Going Wrong No Means No To drink Or Not to Drink; That Is the Question Learning How to Fight Back How to Protect Yourself Against Grabs Conclusion Author Bio Bonus Content Introduction Chapter 1 Does a Woman Need a Gun for Self-defense? Chapter 2 What type of gun is for me? Chapter 3 How to get started Chapter 4 The Cardinal Rules of Gun Safety Chapter 5 Parts of a Gun Chapter 6 Learning to Fire your Gun Chapter 7 Practical Shooting – the sport Chapter 8 When you are under attack Chapter 9 Additional Safety Precautions Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction Did you know that since the beginning of time, women and children have always been the focus of violence, especially brutality at the hands of their fellow beings? The cases of crimes against women and children have been a part of social life for centuries, and that is why...

Share and Share Alike

Autore: Hannah Hooton

Numero di pagine: 315

Finalist in the Washington Writers Marlene Contest 2014. Tessa thought buying a share in the dysfunctional Ta' Qali Racehorse Syndicate would be the perfect distraction from a life best forgotten. Some are willing to distract her with words of woo, while others are able to distract her with just a nonchalant look. But neither Hugh's flirtations nor Sin's disregard are diversion enough when their horse, Ta' Qali, is found deliberately injured. Someone close is responsible and Tessa finds herself questioning the innocence of everyone around her. With his nobbler still at large, the race is on to get Ta' Qali fit and on course in time to prove himself the champion Tessa's always believed him to be. But he isn't the only one up against the clock. Love is threatening to leave without her; and win, lose or draw, Tessa's in for the ride of her life...

Writers as Readers

Autore: Virago Press

Numero di pagine: 310

The perfect anthology for book lovers Writers as Readers is a celebration of forty years of the Virago Modern Classics list. Started in 1978, Virago Modern Classics is dedicated to the rediscovery and championing of women writers, challenging the often narrow definition of 'classic'. In this collection, forty of the most significant writers of the past century tell us about one of their favourite writers by introducing books from the Virago Modern Classics collection, offering a glimpse at the treasures that have been published over the past four decades: they may be great works of literature; they may be wonderful period pieces; they may reveal particular aspects of women's lives; they may be classics of comedy, storytelling, diary-writing or autobiography. Writers include: Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desai | Sophie Dahl | Clare Boylan | Paula McLain | Diana Athill | Marina Lewycka | Claire Messud | Michèle...

Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2022

Autore: Bloomsbury Publishing

Numero di pagine: 1737

The latest edition of the bestselling guide to all you need to know about how to get published, is packed full of advice, inspiration and practical information. The Writers' & Artists' Yearbook has been guiding writers and illustrators on the best way to present their work, how to navigate the world of publishing and ways to improve their chances of success, for over 110 years. It is equally relevant for writers of novels and non-fiction, poems and scripts and for those writing for children, YA and adults and covers works in print, digital and audio formats. If you want to find a literary or illustration agent or publisher, would like to self-publish or crowdfund your creative idea then this Yearbook will help you. As well as sections on publishers and agents, newspapers and magazines, illustration and photography, theatre and screen, there is a wealth of detail on the legal and financial aspects of being a writer or illustrator. New articles for 2022: Peter James Becoming a bestselling author: my writing story Femi Kayode Shelf space: a debut writer's journey to claim his place Sam Missingham Building your author brand Jonathan Myerson Audio dramatist or novelist? Ed Needham...

I Heart Politics

Autore: Phoenix Andrews

Numero di pagine: 286

' F ascinating' The Times 'A fresh, lively and energetic take on how and why politics divides us' Samira Ahmed 'As knowledgeable as it is fun' James Ball ' A must-read' Mollie Goodfellow If a week is a long time in politics, the past decade has felt like a lifetime. A series of explosive revolts has erupted around the world, redrawing the political map and amplifying the already deafening online echo chambers. Sometimes it feels like we've lost all common ground. Sometimes it feels like politics has stopped working. Sometimes it all feels too much. But what's behind the unrelenting upheaval? Is there more to it than what we're usually told about crumbling elites and a shrinking centre ground? How did everything get so polarised - so frenzied? And why does there seem to be a revolving door between high office and reality TV? Look no further than fandom - the hidden power behind many of the most surprising events in recent history... and the key to getting to grips with them. From the mass movements resulting in Brexit and Trump, culture wars and conspiracy theories, to online engagement that enriches lives and inspires positive social and political change , I Heart Politics reveals ...

Mrs Brown's Family Handbook

Autore: Brendan O'carroll

Numero di pagine: 388

Uncover hilarious and unique insights into the Brown family, in Brendan O'Carroll's first official book on his NTA winning comic creation Mrs Brown's Boys. Millions od us have wondered: how does Agnes Brown do it? Keeping her end up while seven grown-up children tear about the fecking place like the eejits don't have a home to go to. Packed with Mammy's tips for keeping a perfect family - or at least, just a family - as well as contributions from her children, neighbours and other hangers on, Mrs Brown's Family Handbook dispenses endless advice in her fecking fantastic style. You'll learn: Why every mammy's secret weapon is the tea towel The dos and don'ts of cleaning up Granddad What Dermot doesn't know about farting (not much) What Winnie knows about seks (not enough) All about the Five-Sausages-A-Day Diet (hint: contains sausages) From Maria, all about pain relief in child birth (if it's free, fecking take it) The must-have gift for any Mrs Brown fan, Mrs Brown's Family Handbook is perfect for equally large and chaotic families, or those in small families curious about what they're missing... Brendan O'Carroll is an Irish writer, producer, comedian, actor, director and author....