Dancing 'Round the Handbags

Dancing 'Round the Handbags
Author: Lynne Copp
Publisher: Ecademy Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2012
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1907722645

More than a self-development book for hardworking women, this guide is a catalyst for balancing the way they work and live. It helps women create clarity about dancing to their own tunes while maintaining balance between work and life.

Life After Dark

Life After Dark
Author: Dave Haslam
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 607
Release: 2015-08-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0857207008

Nightclubs and music venues are often the source of a lifetime's music taste, best friends and vivid memories. They can define a town, a city or a generation, and breed scenes and bands that change music history. In Life After DarkDave Haslam reveals and celebrates a definitive history of significant venues and great nights out. Writing with passion and authority, he takes us from vice-ridden Victorian dance halls to acid house and beyond; through the jazz decades of luxurious ballrooms to mods in basement dives and the venues that nurtured the Beatles, the Stones, Northern Soul and the Sex Pistols; from psychedelic light shows to high street discos; from the Roxy to the Hacienda; from the Krays to the Slits; and from reggae sound systems to rave nights in Stoke. In a journey to dozens of towns and cities, taking in hundreds of unforgettable stories on the way, Haslam explores the sleaziness, the changing fashions, the moral panics and the cultural and commercial history of nightlife. He interviews clubbers and venue owners, as well as DJs and musicians; he meets one of the gangsters who nearly destroyed Manchester's nightlife and discusses Goth clubs in Leeds with David Peace.

Creative B2B Branding (No, Really)

Creative B2B Branding (No, Really)
Author: Scot McKee
Publisher: Goodfellow Publishers Ltd
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2010-03-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1906884897

B2B brand communications have changed little in the last 25 years, until now. This book combines experience, insight, anecdote, observation and example to demonstrate how businesses can dramatically improve their creative communication and the value of their brands.

Guide to Reading

Guide to Reading
Author: Paul Gallantry
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN: 1447680200

Jill Mansell Boxed Set

Jill Mansell Boxed Set
Author: Jill Mansell
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 1732
Release: 2014-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1492622540

Three beloved, poignant comedies from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jill Mansell—smart, sassy women's fiction that never disappoints! STAYING AT DAISY'S When hotel manager Daisy MacLean meets cocky sports hero Dev Tyzack, it's a no brainer—hands off. He is terribly arrogant—but also incredibly sexy. Daisy tries her best to steer clear of him, yet soon comes to realize he is the one guest she can't bear to see leave. MILLIE'S FLING Popular romance author Orla Hart decides to make her friend Millie Brady the heroine of her next novel, even though Millie doubts her boring life will inspire a steamy page-turner. But whatever excitement doesn't happen to Millie naturally, Orla is secretly determine to stir up... AN OFFER YOU CAN'T REFUSE When her boyfriend's mother offers seventeen-year-old Lola an enormous bribe to break up with Dougie, she doesn't refuse. The only way she can save her family is to take the money. Now, ten years later, a twist of fate has brought Dougie and Lola together again. Lola is hoping it's true that time heals all wounds. But how can she possibly win him back without telling him why she broke his heart in the first place? "A rip-roaring good time." —Savvy Verse & Wit (Miranda's Big Mistake) "Mansell knows her craft and delivers a finely tuned romantic comedy." —Booklist (An Offer You Can't Refuse) "Love and laugher prevail...a clever, absorbing, and very enjoyable read." —Publishers Weekly (Staying at Daisy's)

The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory

The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory
Author: Helen Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137487771

This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices. These issues are addressed through a series of case studies.

Millie's Fling

Millie's Fling
Author: Jill Mansell
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1402227892

Millie's quiet, single summer is about to get turned upside down... When her dear friend and bestselling novelist Orla Hart invites Millie to spend the summer with her in Cornwall, Millie leaps at the chance to spend the summer alone, recovering from a bad breakup. But Orla has other ideas. Envisioning Millie as the heroine of her next novel, Orla is determined that Millie should meet the man of her dreams this summer. The trouble is, Millie's taste in men doesn't match with Orla's at all. Hugh Emerson, dashing young widower, is the one who really interests her. He is also the one man Orla insists she shouldn't get involved with. With dropped wallets, rollerskating gorillagrams, the world's most flirtatious boss, and a helicopter in the back garden, It's sure to be an unforgettable summer... A fresh and fun British women's fiction and a great romantic book with plenty of humor, friendship, and some madcap fun. Fans of Meg Cabot, Sophie Kinsella, Helen Fielding and Jennifer Weiner will want to escape to Cornwall this summer to find their own romance. What reviewers are saying about Millie's Fling: "Millie's Fling is a super cute and wicked funny book and I thoroughly enjoyed myself while reading it. "—Night Owl Romance "Readers will find a CHARMING ROMP in Jill Mansell'sMillie's Fling."—BookPage "Ms. Mansell creates such likable and heartwarming characters (like Millie and Orla) that the reader can't help but root for them."—Booking Mama "Millie's Fling is a feel-good book for chick lit fans or readers looking for a light and funny novel packed with memorable characters."—Diary of an Eccentric

Manchester Memories - On Facebook

Manchester Memories - On Facebook
Author: Roy Dutton
Publisher: Infodial
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0992826527

Memories of Manchester as told through the Facebook group "Manchester Memories," now with over 10,000 members

A Preacher's Tale

A Preacher's Tale
Author: Jon Russell
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2018-02-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334056535

Many clergy receive little training in the arts of preaching and it is assumed that they will learn by gaining experience. The renowned American preacher Herbert O’Driscoll suggests that congregations do not want to be given a map showing them how to get to the coast, they want to be drenched in the spray. Narrative preaching is a means of achieving such immediacy. By dramatic story-telling, it invites listeners into enter the text imaginatively and enables them to experience sermons as transformative events. This book aims to provide not just a theoretical introduction, but a resource that uses sermons in the narrative style to reflect on how to prepare and construct them and how to deliver them effectively in the context of worship.

Nothing Like a Dame

Nothing Like a Dame
Author: Elaine C Smith
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2010-11-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1907195211

'How did I end up here?' A question Elaine C. Smith asked herself when sitting in the dressing-room of a top theatre in London's West End, about to go on stage with one of the UK's most successful plays. In Nothing Like a Dame, Elaine reflects on a 50-year journey that took her to the peak of the entertainment world. She recounts her long struggle to make it in a male-dominated, working-class society when women were supposed to just shut up and stay thin, especially in the sexist world of theatre and television, where she was told, 'Look, women just aren't funny.' Despite many highs and lows, she proceeded to forge a stellar career in show business, hosting her own TV series and becoming a household name thanks to her comic portrayal of Mary Nesbitt, the long-suffering wife in the award-winning BBC comedy Rab C. Nesbitt. Nothing Like a Dame is a heart-warming memoir: candid, outspoken, hilarious and at times deeply sad.