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| Author | : Paul Collins |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2010-12-15 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1608196828 |
"Sixpence House is the bookworm's answer to A Year in Provence." -Boston Globe Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the creation of the author's own first book, Sixpence House becomes a heartfelt and often hilarious meditation on what books mean to us. A #1 BookSense Pick "A delightful book."-Los Angeles Times "Collins' gift is that you don't care where you end up. The journey is enough."-Readerville "The real, engaging heart of the tale is Collins' love of books and other people who love them...Collins muses on antiquarian books the way the rest of us remember lost loves."-San Francisco Chronicle "Funny, informative, somewhat chaotic and full of interesting references...there are numerous meanders into peripheral subjects, seen through the astute eyes of an Anglophile American."-Washington Post
| Author | : Paul Collins |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Press |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2003-04-03 |
| Genre | : Travel |
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"Sixpence House is an engaging meditation on what books mean to us, and how their meaning can resonate long after they have been abandoned by their public."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : William Somerset Maugham |
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| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1919 |
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| Author | : Jennifer Bell |
| Publisher | : Crown Books for Young Readers |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2017-01-31 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0553498452 |
Anyone with a Hogwarts-shaped hole in their lives can’t miss this fantasy series opener. Dive into a secret underground city below London where ordinary objects are capable of extraordinary magic! "Part Tim Burton, part J.K. Rowling! A terrific debut." —Soman Chainani, New York Times Bestselling Author of the School for Good and Evil series Welcome to a world where nothing is quite as it seems… When their grandmother Sylvie is rushed to the hospital, Ivy Sparrow and her annoying big brother Seb cannot imagine what adventure lies in store. Soon their house is ransacked by unknown intruders, and a very strange policeman turns up on the scene, determined to apprehend them . . . with a toilet brush. Ivy and Seb make their escape only to find themselves in a completely uncommon world, a secret underground city called Lundinor where ordinary objects have amazing powers. There are belts that enable the wearer to fly, yo-yos that turn into weapons, buttons with healing properties, and other enchanted objects capable of very unusual feats. But the forces of evil are closing in fast, and when Ivy and Seb learn that their family is connected to one of the greatest uncommon treasures of all time, they must race to unearth the treasure and get to the bottom of a family secret . . . before it’s too late. Debut novelist Jennifer Bell delivers a world of wonder and whimsy in the start of a richly uncommon series. "An auspicious trilogy opener." -Kirkus Reviews
| Author | : Holly Webb |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 179 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0544339282 |
Junior sleuth Maisie Hitchins, who lives in her grandmother's boarding house in Victorian London, uncovers an intriguing plot involving stolen sausages, pilfered halfpennies, and a fast-paced bicycle chase.
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| Total Pages | : 20 |
| Release | : 1816 |
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| Author | : Terry White |
| Publisher | : New Generation Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2016-09-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1787190900 |
Marcus Moon and his company, CONDES, are back to take on another job - a lucrative port design project in the remote Indian Ocean. Typically, things don't go according to plan and they unwittingly become embroiled in a dodgy enterprise involving crooked MPs and greedy government officials. As ever, the Moon nose sniffs out the rotten apple in the form of Nobby Garside - MP for Mexborough East and deputy chairman of the Department for International Development's Aid Committee - who, along with his equally shifty cohorts in the Comorantes Islands' government, attempts a fraud scam worth millions. But Nobby hasn't reckoned on Moon's ingenuity and cunning when it comes to protecting CONDES' reputation and business interests. Another riotously funny episode of greed, sex, corruption and comeuppance in the world of the irrepressible Marcus Moon.
| Author | : Tilly Wallace |
| Publisher | : Tilly Wallace |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2021-04-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
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A heart as lonely as the ocean… Hannah and Wycliff arrive at his ancestral estate in Dorset as tragedy strikes the coastal village. A young woman has lost her life to the tempestuous ocean, but only Hannah suspects the woman’s death is anything but a horrible accident. As Hannah learns more about life in the closeknit community, she discovers two other women lost their lives to the sea. Or did they? A rift grows between the young couple, as Wycliff refuses to believe another hand was responsible for the deaths. With her husband consumed by the needs of the long neglected estate, Hannah is left to her own devices and finds herself walking the same lonely path as the dead women. Can Hannah and Wycliff heal the chasm in their relationship, or will Hannah succumb to the call of the ocean…?
| Author | : Murray Sayle |
| Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 403 |
| Release | : 2018-03-12 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 1789120705 |
One of the most distinguished journalists to have taken the boat from Australia, MURRAY SAYLE had started work as a copy boy with the Bulletin while still at Sydney University, later becoming a reporter for the Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mirror. In 1952 he moved to London where he worked in Fleet Street until 1956. At that time he “decided it was time to do some serious thinking and light starving and get used to not having a job”. He went to Paris and wrote his first novel. A CROOKED SIXPENCE, first published in 1960, was the result. From 1960 to 1973 he was a war correspondent for The Times and the Sunday Times, covering Vietnam, the Middle East, Northern Ireland, India-Pakistan and Bolivia. His journalistic scoops included interviews with Che Guevara and with Kim Philby. Then he moved to the Far East, becoming Asian Editor of Newsweek before moving to Japan as a freelance. He returned to Australia in 2004.
| Author | : Maggie Turrell |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 2013-08-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1483683311 |
“Their secret was out and they were about to get the fright of their lives.” “There were police and nurses everywhere and the nurses made me swallow medicine that would make me vomit.” “My first born son had a fatal disease, and I never even knew!”
