Temples of Delight
Author: Barbara Trapido
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-04-14
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1620408716
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"First published by Michael Joseph 1990"--Title page verso.
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Temples of Delight
Author: John Martin Robinson
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSex and Stravinsky
Author: Barbara Trapido
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2023-09-12
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 1620408805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren't easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband with Stravinsky-glasses and twelve-year-old daughter. Zoe reads girls' ballet books and longs for lessons; a thing denied her until a chance encounter on a school French exchange. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Africa, Hattie, Josh's first love, now writes girls' ballet books when she can carve out time when she isn't caring for her husband and her crosspatch daughter. From far and wide, they are all drawn together: a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem. Elizabeth Gilbert on Barbara Trapido: "Why did it take me so long to discover the singular joys of Barbara Trapido's novels? Why, for so many years, had I missed these witty, soulful, heartbreaking, expansive, brilliant tales? I have become a literary evangelist on her behalf. On account of my badgering, all my friends now love her, too. I won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love with) this fabulous author." --Elizabeth Gilbert
The Travelling Hornplayer
Author: Barbara Trapido
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2016-08-09
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1620408791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStunning and difficult, Stella Goldman is programmed for maximum nuisance capacity, but when she discovers both her father's affair and her boyfriend's infidelity on the same day, she flees into the arms of kindly Pen, who speaks as though he's stepped out of Brief Encounter. Meanwhile, her friend Ellen struggles to come to terms with the death of her sister, Lydia, whose ghost haunts not only her and her father Roland, but the beloved Goldmans (from Brother of the More Famous Jack), too. Along with eccentric professors, wicked monks, and the titular travelling hornplayer, their lives collide in a breathtaking finale.
The Temple Dancer
Author: John Speed
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-07-24
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780312325497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn seventeenth-century India, Maya, a high-priced dancer who has been bought for one of the most powerful men in Bijapur, faces dangerous obstacles in her caravan journey across the Mogul Empire to her new master.
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-05-01
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0731814908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt's 1895, and after the death of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's being followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls - and their foray into the spiritual world - lead to?
Our Home in Myanmar
Author: Jessica Mudditt
Publisher: Jessica Mudditt
Published: 2021-05-08
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0648914232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMyanmar – shrouded in mystery, misunderstood and isolated for half a century. After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012 – just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a high-risk atmosphere; a life riddled with chaos and confusion as much as it is with wonder and excitement. Jessica joins a small team of old-hand expat editors at The Myanmar Times, whose Burmese editor is still languishing in prison. Whether she is covering a speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, getting dangerously close to cobras, directing cover shoots with Burmese models, or scaling Bagan’s thousand-year-old temples, Jessica is entranced and challenged by a country undergoing rapid change. But as the historic elections of 2015 draw near, it becomes evident that the road to democracy is full of twists, turns and false starts. The couple is blindsided when a rise in militant Buddhism takes a personal turn and challenges their belief that they have found a home in Myanmar.
Frankie & Stankie
Author: Barbara Trapido
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2017-03-21
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1620408813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a dissenting liberal family. Big sister Lisa is strong and sensible, while Dinah is weedy and arty. At school, the sadistic Mrs Vaughan-Jones is providing instruction in mental arithmetic and racial prejudice. And then there's the puzzle of lunch break. "Would you rather have a native girl or a koelie to make your sandwiches?" a first-year classmate asks. But Dinah doesn't know the answer, because it's her dad who makes her sandwiches. As the apparatus of repression rolls on, Dinah finds her own way. As we follow her journey through childhood and adolescence, we enter into one of the darker passages of twentieth-century history.
Sheer Delight
Author: Doramay Keasbey
Publisher: Stellar Publishing House, Incorporated
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780962346835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBellman & Black
Author: Diane Setterfield
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 147671195X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKilling a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.
