Billy's Log
Billy's Log

Author: Dougie Brimson

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1908400013

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Bridget Jones's Diary... for lads!For Billy Ellis, life is one series of disasters after another. His haemorrhoids have just cost him promotion, his new boss is threatening to move in next door, and on the very occasions he need a condom, he can't even buy a packet without almost getting arrested. As if that wasn't bad enough, he's suddenly woken up to the fact that he's almost thirty, still single and has the looks that give a new meaning to the word 'average'.But at the end of last year, as always, Billy read his 'Log of Life' and vowed to make things better.And this year, he succeeded. Eventually.Billy's Log reveals the frustrations of life for a single male and the never-ending battle to understand the workings of the female mind.

Billy's Log
Billy's Log

Author: Dougie Brimson

Publisher: Headline Book Pub Limited

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780747263869

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'Billy Ellis, twenty-sodding-nine, single, sad, bored and battered' is how he describes himself in his diary, Billy's Log. He is a football fan who has failed to grow up but now wants to. He tries to keep up with the lads when he goes to the match, but continues to fail: he can't hold his drink, and his secret lusts for older women are embarrassingly revealed on the terraces. Then there's the trauma of buying a porn mag, the battleground of office sexual politics, and much else besides... Dougie Brimson has written a brilliant novel that will have men everywhere wincing in recognition as their own failings and shortcomings are held up to ridicule.

Billy Showell's Botanical Painting in Watercolour
Billy Showell's Botanical Painting in Watercolour

Author: Billy Showell

Publisher: Search Press Limited

Published: 2016-03-18

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1781265186

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Billy Showell is a well-respected botanical watercolour artist, and her exceptional eye for detail and ability to re-create the form, texture, colour and patterning of a wide range of plants have earned her a formidable reputation worldwide. Her compositions are given a contemporary, sometimes playful twist, while retaining all the beauty and accuracy of traditional botanical paintings. In this inspiring and indispensable guide for botanical artists, she reveals the materials, methods and techniques she uses to attain her stunningly beautiful portraits of flowers, fruit and vegetables. There is expert guidance on tools and materials, working from life, observation, and drawing and painting techniques, as well as detailed sections on pattern, texture, and colour and colour mixing. With numerous step-by-step studies, close-up photographs and examples of Billy's exquisite paintings, this book is not only packed full of invaluable advice and information but also a visually stunning showcase for the work of this amazing artist.

Breezy Point
Breezy Point

Author: Peter James Ward Richie

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015-12-07

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1439654174

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 1919, Wilford Hamilton Fawcett, better known as "Captain Billy," published the first issue of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Filled with jokes and cartoons, the little magazine made a fortune for Fawcett. In 1921, he purchased 80 acres on the shore of Big Pelican Lake near Brainerd, Minnesota, and built a bluff-top village of cabins. The following year, as Fawcett Publications brought out True Confessions magazine, construction began on the Breezy Point Lodge. This magnificent log structure featured a ballroom, casino, billiard room, and bowling alley. After Fawcett's untimely death in 1940, the resort was closed until the end of World War II. When Breezy Point reopened, Minnesota families returned in droves. After a fire destroyed the main lodge in 1959, Breezy Point was rebuilt and reimagined by Hollywood entertainer Ginny Simms. The legendary resort has grown and changed over the years, but Fawcett's vision and adventurous spirit are still soaring above Big Pelican Lake and the piney woods of Breezy Point.

Captain Billy's Troopers
Captain Billy's Troopers

Author: William Cobb

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2015-09

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0817318763

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Along the way, readers relish his first experiences of love and success as a writer, leading to a career as a professor of writing at Alabama College (now the University of Montevallo) in 1963. From there Cobb's struggles with alcohol and depression lead to elongated years of tumbling creative output and the collapse of his marriage. The summer of 1984 found Cobb in rehab, the first step in his path to recovery. His unflinching memoir narrates both the milestones and telling details of his intense therapy and years in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). In the sober thirty years since, Cobb has published a string of critically praised novels and a prize-winning collection of short stories. The capstone of his comeback was winning the Harper Lee Award in 2007 for distinguished fiction writing. In 2000, shortly after retiring, Cobb developed NPH, which upset his sense of balance and triggered dementia symptoms and other maladies.

Billy's Story
Billy's Story

Author: Louise Allen

Publisher: Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction

Published: 2022-11-10

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1802791191

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of life in foster care. Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blackthorn comes to stay. He is one of more than 20 children taken into care from a single family, and erupts into the Allen household with a volatility that is frightening and disturbing in equal measure. It is only as Louise begins to uncover the secrets of Billy's dark past that she begins to understand what made his family 'untouchable'. 'Britain's top foster carer' The Sun 'A shining light' Emily Finch, BBC

The Birth Promise
The Birth Promise

Author: Buddy D. Taylor

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2022-09-30

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1639372768

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Birth Promise By: Buddy D. Taylor A story of family immigration from Scotland to America in 1811-1812. A group of young surveyors are summoned to work in Kentucky. Albert leaves his true love, Anne, in Scotland with hopes of finding land for them in Kentucky. ‘The Birth Promise’ is filled with love, humor, adventure, and the promise of America good and bad. The Scotsmen find a system of slavery in place, but also a trail guide, Buck McNally who fights for freedom, helping run-aways reach the north country. At the same time, Anne is waiting in Inverness Scotland, confronting the mean Tobias Wilcox. A feud begins.