Runaway

Runaway
Author: Peter May
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2016-02-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1623657911
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"MAY IS GOING FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH... A WONDERFUL EXHIBITION OF JUST HOW GOOD MAY CAN BE." --The Daily Mail "Five of us had run away that fateful night just over a month before. Only three of us would be going home. And nothing, nothing would ever be the same again." Glasgow, 1965. Headstrong teenager Jack Mackay has just one destination on his mind--London--and successfully convinces his four friends, and fellow bandmates, to join him in abandoning their homes to pursue a goal of musical stardom. Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay, heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life. London, 2015. A man lies dead in a one-room flat. His killer looks on, remorseless. What started with five teenagers following a dream five decades before has been transformed over the intervening decades into a waking nightmare that might just consume them all.

Glasgow and its Clubs

Glasgow and its Clubs
Author: John Strang
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2023-10-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3375166540
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

That Time of Year

That Time of Year
Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1951627709
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With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”

Notes from a Small Island

Notes from a Small Island
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015-06-02
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0062417436
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Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie’s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey.

Delphi Complete Works of Ellen Glasgow (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Ellen Glasgow (Illustrated)
Author: Ellen Glasgow
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 5825
Release: 2022-11-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 180170080X
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The winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1942, Ellen Glasgow published 19 novels to critical acclaim, establishing a new form of Southern fiction. Offering realistic depictions of life in her native Virginia, her narratives avoided the nostalgia, sentimentality and idealistic escapism that characterised Southern literature after Reconstruction. With an assured and increasingly ironic treatment, Glasgow’s novels examined the decay of the Southern aristocracy and the trauma of the encroachment of modern industrial civilization, with compelling results. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Glasgow’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Glasgow’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All 19 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories, only available in this collection * Glasgow’s critical essays, digitised here for the first time * Includes Glasgow’s autobiography – discover her literary life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels The Descendant (1897) Phases of an Inferior Planet (1898) The Voice of the People (1900) The Battle-Ground (1902) The Deliverance (1904) The Wheel of Life (1906) The Ancient Law (1908) The Romance of a Plain Man (1909) The Miller of Old Church (1911) Virginia (1913) Life and Gabriella (1916) The Builders (1919) One Man in His Time (1922) Barren Ground (1925) The Romantic Comedians (1926) They Stooped to Folly (1929) The Sheltered Life (1932) Vein of Iron (1935) In This Our Life (1941) The Shorter Fiction The Shadowy Third and Other Stories (1923) Miscellaneous Short Stories The Non-Fiction A Certain Measure (1943) The Autobiography The Woman within (1954) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Delphi Collected Works of Ellen Glasgow (Illustrated)

Delphi Collected Works of Ellen Glasgow (Illustrated)
Author: Ellen Glasgow
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 4399
Release: 2022-11-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1801700818
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The winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1942, Ellen Glasgow published 19 novels to critical acclaim, establishing a new form of Southern fiction. Offering realistic depictions of life in her native Virginia, her narratives avoided the nostalgia, sentimentality and idealistic escapism that characterised Southern literature after Reconstruction. With an assured and increasingly ironic treatment, Glasgow’s novels examined the decay of the Southern aristocracy and the trauma of the encroachment of modern industrial civilization, with compelling results. This eBook presents Glasgow’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Glasgow’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All 15 novels in the US public domain, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * The complete published short stories, only available in this collection * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, four later novels, a non-fiction book and the autobiography cannot appear in this edition. When new texts become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Novels The Descendant (1897) Phases of an Inferior Planet (1898) The Voice of the People (1900) The Battle-Ground (1902) The Deliverance (1904) The Wheel of Life (1906) The Ancient Law (1908) The Romance of a Plain Man (1909) The Miller of Old Church (1911) Virginia (1913) Life and Gabriella (1916) The Builders (1919) One Man in His Time (1922) Barren Ground (1925) The Romantic Comedians (1926) The Shorter Fiction The Shadowy Third and Other Stories (1923) Miscellaneous Short Stories Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks