Just Annoying!

Just Annoying!
Author: Andy Griffiths
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2011-05-27
Genre:
ISBN: 1459622588

Is this the right book for you? Take the ANNOYING TEST and find out. 1) Do you ask `Are we there yet?' over and over on long car trips? 2) Do you like to drive people mad by copying everything they say and do? 3) Do you hog the shower and use up all the hot water? 4) Do you enjoy asking silly questions that have no real answers? 5) Do you swing on the clothesline whenever you get the chance? SCORE: One point for each 'yes' answer. 3-5 You are obviously a very annoying person. You will love this book. 1-2 You are a fairly annoying person. You will love this book. 0 You don't realise how much fun being annoying can be. You will love this book.

Born to Annoy - Book One

Born to Annoy - Book One
Author: Malc Cowle
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2011-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1447858255

Sometimes ordinary people are destined to achieve extraordinary things. They not only change their own circumstances, but improve the lot of their fellows. Then there are the others - those who are destined to get under the skin and annoy. This is the first part of the life-story of one of the latter.

A Royal Mess

A Royal Mess
Author: Tyne O'Connell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2011-10-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1599908964

Calypso Kelly has finally joined the in-crowd at her exclusive English boarding school. She also just happens to be dating Prince Freddie himself! But balancing her social life, her prince, and her parents' visit to London proves to be more than Calypso can handle. Then, Freddie does the unthinkable and breaks up with Calypso--setting in motion a school-wide plan for a royal Counter Dump. Can Calypso win Freddie back just to break his heart? All is fair in love and war . . . except, of course, if you're in love with a prince!

Brexlit

Brexlit
Author: Kristian Shaw
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-07-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350090840

Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been exploring anxieties and fractures in British society – from Euroscepticism, to immigration, to devolution, to post-truth narratives – that came to the fore in the Brexit campaign and its aftermath. Reading these tensions back into contemporary British writing, Kristian Shaw coins the term Brexlit to deliver the first in-depth study of how writers engaged with these issues before and after the referendum result. Examining the work of over a hundred British authors, including Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ali Smith, as well as popular fiction by Andrew Marr and Stanley Johnson, Brexlit explores how a new and urgent genre of post-Brexit fiction is beginning to emerge.

Hutch

Hutch
Author: Charlotte Breese
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2012-01-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1408831139

The vivid true story of one of the biggest stars in Britain during the 1920s and 30s, and the inspiration for Downton Abbey's Jack Ross Born in Grenada in 1900, Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson went to America in 1916 to study medicine, but soon escaped to Harlem where he witnessed the birth of "stride" jazz piano and began playing and singing in bars himself. Moving to France in 1923, he became the protege and lover of Cole Porter before coming to London where he was soon topping the bills in variety and on radio. Immaculate in white tie and tails, Hutch had enormous sex appeal, his velvet voice and superb piano improvisation attracting legions of fans, including the then Prince of Wales and, most famously, Edwina Mountbatten. Despite his success, Hutch was a profoundly insecure man with insatiable appetites for sex, drink, gambling and social status which precipitated his fall from fame to a squalid existence by the late 1960s.

The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters

The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters
Author: Charlotte Mosley
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 868
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0007369174

Carefree, revelatory and intimate, this selection of unpublished letters between the six legendary Mitford sisters, compiled by Diana Mitford’s daughter-in-law, is alive with wit, passion and heartbreak.

Sidetracked

Sidetracked
Author: Michael James Wilbur
Publisher: Michael James Wilbur
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2010-12-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

After the mess with the princess and the dragon, Jimmy has settled back down in his home at the Saybaro, content that the strangest parts of his life have finally passed. He's about to get a wake-up call. Wenapaj is a strange and wonderful country, and Jimmy's about to get a good look at it whether he wants to or not. Dreamer-enchanted dolls, corrupted Glyche, an all out war between magic and technology, and really REALLY big chickens are just a few of the obstacles Jimmy will face in the coming days. He won't be alone, however; joined by his mysterious and beautiful girlfriend, a silent warrior and his not-so-silent winged cat, a stoner mage of great power and questionable attention span, and a faerie with a penchant for witchcraft, Jimmy's journey continues across Vinta's smallest and strangest nation in search of truth, justice, and hamburgers.

Blue Moon

Blue Moon
Author: Mark Hodkinson
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2011-08-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1780572700

Blue Moon traces a season in the life of Manchester City. Not just any season, but 1998-99, when the once-proud club, with two League Championships and four FA Cup wins to its name - not to mention a phenomenal fan base - was forced to battle the likes of Macclesfield Town, Colchester United and Wigan Athletic in English football's third flight. Mark Hodkinson was involved in every aspect of the club through a long, stirring season, one which culminated in the euphoria of promotion: mingling with players, ex-players, directors, office staff and fans, he was constantly on the look-out for the unusual, the offbeat, the hopeful and the heartbreaking. Through it all, he remained impartial, steadfastly resisting the temptation to become a mere pawn for the club's PR operation. Originally commissioned as a series of weekly articles for The Times newspaper, Hodkinson's column soon acquired cult status among fans. Now, in Blue Moon, the author has brought these articles together and, along with a considerable number of further anecdotes, both comical and moving, provides an unprecedented insight into the passionate community that is Manchester City FC.

The Traitor Queen

The Traitor Queen
Author: Trudi Canavan
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316228966

Discover the magic of Trudi Canavan with her brand new novel in the Traitor Spy trilogy. . . Events are building to a climax in Sachaka as Lorkin returns from his exile with the Traitor rebels. The Traitor Queen has given Lorkin the huge task of brokering an alliance between his people and the Traitors. Lorkin has also had to become a feared black magician in order to harness the power of an entirely new kind of gemstone magic. This knowledge could transform the Guild of Magicians -- or make Lorkin an outcast forever. The Traitor Spy trilogy, which began with The Ambassador's Mission and The Rogue, is the new series set in the world of the international bestselling Black Magician trilogy.