The English Boys
The English Boys

Author: Julia Thomas

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2016-07-08

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0738750514

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Dark and Twisted Secrets Emerge in the Wake of a Deadly Wedding Daniel Richardson and his best friend, Hugh Ashley-Hunt, both rising British actors, are in love with the same woman, the free-spirited Tamsyn Burke. Daniel reluctantly steps aside when Tamsyn decides to marry Hugh, but right before the wedding ceremony, Tamsyn is murdered. Suspicion falls on the family, friends, and associates in attendance. Motivated by both Hugh's grief and his own, Daniel joins forces with Tamsyn's younger sister, Carey, to find the killer. As he digs into Tamsyn's past, Daniel unearths secrets she was hiding, and begins to discover why someone wanted her silenced forever. Praise: "An entertaining contemporary crime novel about love and revenge."—Library Journal (starred review) and Debut of the Month "A real gem...This is an excellent mystery and readers are in for quite a surprise at the end." —Suspense Magazine "[An] eminently readable debut."—Kirkus Review "A tightly sequenced tale with the many flashbacks expertly woven in."—Reviewing the Evidence

Posh Boys
Posh Boys

Author: Robert Verkaik

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1786073846

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‘The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones’s Chavs.’ –Andrew Marr, Sunday Times ‘In his fascinating, enraging polemic, Verkaik touches on one of the strangest aspects of the elite schools and their product’s domination of public life for two and a half centuries: the acquiescence of everyone else.’ –Observer In Britain today, the government, judiciary and military are all led by an elite who attended private school. Under their watch, our society has become increasingly divided and the gap between rich and poor is now greater than ever before. Is this the country we want to live in? If we care about inequality, we have to talk about public schools. Robert Verkaik issues a searing indictment of the system originally intended to educate the most underprivileged Britons, and outlines how, through meaningful reform, we can finally make society fairer for all.

Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939
Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939

Author: H. A Fairlie

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-02-09

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1137293063

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This book explores the phenomenon of the story paper, the meanings and values children took from their reading, and the responses of adults to their reading choices. It argues for the revaluing of the story paper in the inter-war years, giving the genre a pivotal role in the development of children's literature.

British Pakistani Boys, Education and the Role of Religion
British Pakistani Boys, Education and the Role of Religion

Author: Karamat Iqbal

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-03

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1351021044

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British Pakistani children are the second largest ethnic group in UK schools, yet little of their education and wider needs have been researched. British Pakistani Boys, Education and the Role of Religion seeks to rectify this, by investigating the educational achievement of British Pakistani boys and the importance of education both in the Pakistani community and in the wider religion of Islam. The book draws on research undertaken by the author in three British state secondary schools, to respond to the national policy on the education of ethnic minority children. It considers the meaning of education for Pakistanis, where religion plays an integral role, the gaps in education as well as the issue of representation - in governance and in the teaching workforce. The author concludes by discussing the possibility of responsive education better meeting the needs of Pakistani children by integrating Islamic religious education and education of the world. British Pakistani Boys, Education and the Role of Religion will be vital reading for academics and both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of Education and Sociology and specifically those studying inclusion, equality and diversity, or Asian, Muslim or Pakistani education. It would also appeal to education practitioners, policy makers and community activists.

Falling in Love with English Boys
Falling in Love with English Boys

Author: Melissa Jensen

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-12-23

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1101478047

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Sixteen-year-old Catherine Vernon has been stranded in London for the summer-no friends, no ex-boyfriend Adam the Scum (good riddance!), and absolutely nothing to do but blog about her misery to her friends back home. Desperate for something-anything-to do in London while her (s)mother's off researching boring historical things, Cat starts reading the 1815 diary of Katherine Percival her mom gives her-and finds the similarities between their lives to be oddly close. But where Katherine has the whirls of the society, the parties and the gossip over who is engaged to who, Cat's only got some really excellent English chocolate. Then she meets William Percival-the uber-hot descendant of Katherine-and things start looking up . . .

British Bad Boys
British Bad Boys

Author: Nancy Warren

Publisher: Kensington Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0758221401

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"What woman isn't a sucker for a sexy hunk with a hot English accent and a very large.estate? Fall in lust with three British Bad Boys who like it shaken and stirred, and who know exactly how to give a woman the royal treatment, in bed and out. George and the Dragon Lady George Hartley is high on the list of England's most eligible bachelors: he's young, single, gorgeous-and, as the 19th Earl of Ponsford, lives in a castle. Granted, the castle has seen better days . . . but nights with the Earl are what LA TV producer Maxine Larraby keeps thinking about . . . Nights Round Arthur's Table Seattle thriller author Meg Stanton desperately needs a quiet place to work. Stag Cottage in the English countryside is perfect . . . until she meets local pub owner Arthur Denby. He's as dark and brooding as one of her imaginary villains, and Meg always falls for her villains. But there's nothing imaginary about the things Arthur does to her after last call . . . Union Jack Former head chef and current love cynic Rachel Larraby can't believe she got dragged across the pond for a catering job. Weddings-ugh, she's had enough personal experience, thanks. And though recurring best man Jack Flynt is quite smashing, she can keep it to just a steamy fling. Until this very bad bloke starts looking at her with those forever eyes . . ."

Anna and the French Kiss
Anna and the French Kiss

Author: Stephanie Perkins

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1409579956

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Anna had everything figured out – she was about to start senior year with her best friend, she had a great weekend job and her huge work crush looked as if it might finally be going somewhere... Until her dad decides to send her 4383 miles away to Paris. On her own. But despite not speaking a word of French, Anna finds herself making new friends, including Étienne St. Clair, the smart, beautiful boy from the floor above. But he's taken – and Anna might be too. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with the French kiss she's been waiting for?

Midshipmen and Quarterdeck Boys in the British Navy, 1771-1831
Midshipmen and Quarterdeck Boys in the British Navy, 1771-1831

Author: S. A. Cavell

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1843837196

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A fascinating study of midshipmen and other "young gentlemen", outlining their social background, career paths and what life was like for them. Officer recruits - "young gentlemen" - entered the Royal Navy with dreams of fame, fortune and glory, but many found promotion difficult, with a large number unable to progress beyond lieutenant. Recent scholarship has argued thatduring the wars of 1793-1815 there was greater social diversity among naval officers, with promotion increasingly related to professional competence. This book, based on extensive original research, examines the social backgroundof around 4,000 "young gentlemen" a term which includes midshipmen and various other categories, including captains' servants, volunteers and masters' mates. It concludes that in fact high birth became an increasingly important factor in the selection of officer candidates, and that as the Admiralty grip on the appointment and management of officer aspirants increased, especially after 1815, aristocratic presence in the ranks of young officers increased significantly as a result of deliberate Admiralty policy. The book also discusses the assertion that the increase in elite sons led to a dramatic increase in cases of indiscipline and insubordination, concluding that although therewas a marked increase in courts martial for insubordination during and after the French Wars there is no evidence that such cases related more to the elites than to young aspirants in general". The book includes many case study examples of midshipmen and other "young gentlemen", illustrating what life was like for them and how they themselves viewed their situation. S.A. CAVELL is a graduate of the Queensland University of Technology and Louisiana State University and completed her doctorate at the University of Exeter.

British Identity in World War I
British Identity in World War I

Author: Mary K. Laurents

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-12-10

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1793617430

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This book analyzes the development of the Lost Generation narrative following the First World War. The author examines narratives that illustrate the fracture of upper-class identity, including well-known examples of the Lost Generation—Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Vera Brittain—as well as other less typical cases—George Mallory and JRR Tolkien—to demonstrate the effects of the First World War on British society, culture, and politics.