Little Wilson and Big God

Little Wilson and Big God
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2012-11-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1446452557

These are Anthony Burgess's candid confessions: he was seduced at the age of nine by an older woman; whilst serving in Gibraltar in World War II he was thrown into jail on VE Day for calling Franco names; he once taught a group of Nazi socialites that the English equivalent of 'heil' was 'sod' and had them crying 'Sod Hitler'. Little Wilson and Big God moves from Moss Side to Malaya recalling Burgess's time as an education officer in the tropics, his tempestuous first marriage, his struggles with Catholicism and the beginning of his prolific writing life. Wise, self-deprecating and bristling with incident, this is a first-class memoir.

Little Faith, Big God

Little Faith, Big God
Author: Debbie W Wilson
Publisher: ACU Press/Leafwood Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781684264308

God isn't looking for heroes of faith. A thriving relationship with God is not built on our perfect performance but on our trust in a gracious Savior. Hebrews 11 reveals one superhero"š€š"Jesus. Our God delights in flawed followers who trust him in the daily aspects of their lives. He designed spiritual growth to be an ongoing journey of faith and delights in who you are becoming. By exploring the lives of the people mentioned in Hebrews 11, Little Faith, Big God will inspire you to persevere in your faith through the examples of biblical men and women who failed, got up again, finished well, and were commended by God. With biblical principles to separate false hope from real faith, present-day stories to encourage you, and guiding questions to invite personal reflection, application, and discussion, Little Faith, Big God will equip you to trade your self-made superhero cape for a dynamic, grace-filled relationship with our big God.

You've Had Your Time

You've Had Your Time
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1473512395

After returning from a trip to Brunei, Anthony Burgess, initially believing he has only a year to live, begins to write - novels, film scripts, television series, articles. It is the life of a man desperate to earn a living through the written word. He finds at first that writing brings little success, and later that success, and the obligations it brings, interfere with his writing - especially of fiction. There were vast Hollywood projects destined never to be made, novels the critics snarled at, journalism that scandalised the morally scrupulous. There is the éclat of A Clockwork Orange (and the consequent calls for Burgess to comment on violent atrocities), the huge success - after a long barren period - of Earthly Powers. There is a terrifying first marriage, his description of which is both painful and funny. His second marriage - and the discovery that he has a four-year-old son - changes his life dramatically, and he and Liana escape to the Mediterranean, for an increasingly European life. With this marriage comes the triumphant rebirth of sex, creative energy and travel - to America, to Australia and all over Europe.

Little Women, Big God

Little Women, Big God
Author: Debbie W Wilson
Publisher: ACU Press/Leafwood Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780891123866

Meet the surprising women in Jesus's family tree as they journey through impossible circumstances and discover that quality of life is not determined by the size of our problems but by the size of our God.

The Real Life of Anthony Burgess

The Real Life of Anthony Burgess
Author: Andrew Biswell
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780330481717

Anthony Burgess has attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure. He is known to a wider audience as the author of A Clockwork Orange. Burgess was a man for whom chaos and creativity, fact and fiction, existed in a complex and unique balance. This biography talks about this professional writer.

Slaughterhouse 90210

Slaughterhouse 90210
Author: Maris Kreizman
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1250061121

The perfect book for anyone with a Netflix account and a library card. "Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book." - Jami Attenburg, bestselling author of The Middlesteins Slaughterhouse 90210 pairs literature's greatest lines with pop culture's best moments. In 2009, Maris Kreizman wanted to combine her fierce love for pop culture with a lifelong passion for reading, and so the blog Slaughterhouse 90210 was born. By matching poignant passages from literature with popular moments from television, film, and real life, Maris' work instantly caught the attention (and adoration) of thousands. And it's easy to see why. Slaughterhouse 90210 is subversively brilliant, finding the depth in the shallows of reality television, and the levity in Lahiri. A picture of Taylor Swift is paired with Joan Didion's quote, "Above all, she is the girl who 'feels things'. The girl ever wounded, ever young." Tony Soprano tenderly hugs his teenage son, accompanied by a line from Middlemarchabout, "The patches of hardness and tenderness [that] lie side by side in men's dispositions." The images and quotes complement and deepen one another in surprising, profound, and tender ways. With over 150 color photographs from some of popular culture's most iconic moments, Kreizman shows why comparing Walter White to Faust makes sense in our celebrity obsessed, tv crazed society.

Nothing Like the Sun

Nothing Like the Sun
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393315073

Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life.

The Wanting Seed

The Wanting Seed
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1996-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393285723

Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.

The Little Book of Anger

The Little Book of Anger
Author: Martin Wilson
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2017-03-08
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1780888295

The Little Book of Anger is a diatribe about many of the aggravating and irrational aspects of modern life, but done with much humour, a certain amount of research and a great deal of observation and some ill-suppressed exasperation.