A Chelsea Concerto
Author: Frances Faviell
Publisher:
Published: 2016-10-03
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781911413776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA memoir of the London Blitz, first published in 1959.
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The Dancing Bear
Author: Frances Faviell
Publisher:
Published: 2016-10-03
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781911413790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA memoir of life in Berlin, just after WW2.
The Secret of Annexe 3
Author: Colin Dexter
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2008-09-04
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0330468820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Secret of Annexe 3 is the seventh novel in the Oxford-set detective series from Colin Dexter. As portrayed by John Thaw in ITV's Inspector Morse. Morse sought to hide his disappointment. So many people in the Haworth Hotel that fateful evening had been wearing some sort of disguise – a change of dress, a change of make-up, a change of partner, a change of attitude, a change of life almost; and the man who had died had been the most consummate artist of them all . . . Chief Inspector Morse seldom allowed himself to be caught up in New Year celebrations. So the murder inquiry in the festive hotel had a certain appeal – it was a crime worthy of the season. With the corpse still in fancy dress – albeit bloodsoaked – and hardly a single guest at the Hadworth hotel having checked in under their real name, Morse is faced with his toughest mystery yet. The Secret of Annexe 3 is followed by the eighth Inspector Morse book, The Wench is Dead.
The Fish Can Sing
Author: Halldor Laxness
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-02-19
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0307386058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most beloved novels from the Nobel Prize winner—"a beacon in twentieth-century literature" (Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author of Dear Life). A poignant coming-of-age tale marked with the peculiar Icelandic blend of light irony and dark humor. • With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. The orphan Alfgrimur has spent an idyllic childhood sheltered in the simple turf cottage of a generous and eccentric elderly couple. Alfgrimur dreams only of becoming a fisherman like his adoptive grandfather, until he meets Iceland's biggest celebrity. The opera singer Gardar Holm’s international fame is a source of tremendous pride to tiny, insecure Iceland, though no one there has ever heard him sing. A mysterious man who mostly avoids his homeland and repeatedly fails to perform for his adoring countrymen, Gardar takes a particular interest in Alfgrimur’s budding musical talent and urges him to seek out the world beyond the one he knows and loves. But as Alfgrimur discovers that Gardar is not what he seems, he begins to confront the challenge of finding his own path without turning his back on where he came from.
A House on the Rhine
Author: Frances Faviell
Publisher:
Published: 2016-10-03
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781911413813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel set in post-WW2 Germany, first published in 1955.
One of Ours
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2022-01-04
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClaude Wheeler is a young man who was born after the American frontier has vanished. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, Wheeler is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise.Thus, devoid of parental and spousal love, Wheeler finds a new purpose to his life in France, a faraway country that only existed for him in maps before the First World War. Will Wheeler ever succeed in his new goal? The novel is inspired from real-life events and also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.
The Rector's Daughter
Author: F. M. Mayor
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
Published: 2021-11-10T14:54:00Z
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1774644312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The House Opposite
Author: BARBARA. NOBLE
Publisher:
Published: 2019-08-05
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781913054298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt was curious that the aerial bombardment of London, which had ennobled so much that was normally sordid, should only debase a love affair between two people who had managed for three years to overcome the threat to their relations implicit in all such. To die together would be simple. It would not be so simple to be dug out still alive from the same collapsed building. Elizabeth Simpson is a secretary having an affair with her married boss. Her father is an air raid warden and her terrified mother takes her courage from concealed bottles of rum. Owen Cathcart, their neurotic teenage neighbour, slips out during night raids to watch the fireworks and collect souvenirs of shrapnel. And Bob Craven, a soldier Elizabeth uses as cover for her illicit romance, plans his taxi rides to see the most dramatic bomb damage. In this riveting drama of life during the Blitz, the extraordinary immediacy and vivid, intimate detail stem directly from the first-hand experiences of Barbara Noble, who lived and worked in London throughout the war. The result is a unique social document and an unforgettable reading experience. 'The most satisfying picture yet of what life was like in London during those hectic months.' Times of India
Night Music
Author: Harrison Gradwell Slater
Publisher: NAL
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780451209726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis dazzling debut novel is about a down-on-his-luck scholar who acquires what may or may not be the diary of a young Mozart, and is thrust into a decadent European world--where passion and intrigue build to a crescendo of murder.
Braving the New World, 1619-1784
Author: Don Nardo
Publisher: Facts On File
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780791022597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBraving the New World, 1619-1784: from the arrival of the enslaved Africans to the end of the American Revolution.
