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| Author | : Carol Rivers |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 423 |
| Release | : 2013-04-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1849835209 |
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A heart-warming and nostalgic family saga set at the heart of wartime London, from the bestselling author of A Wartime Christmas. Perfect for fans of Sheila Newberry and Rosie Goodwin 'Surely one of the best saga writers of her time' – Rosie Clarke WILL SHE KEEP HIM SAFE FROM WAR, AGAINST ALL ODDS? 7th September, 1940. The Isle of Dogs, heart of London's docklands, suffers the first terrible night of a nine-month Blitz. But for Connie Marsh, the discovery of an orphaned baby boy amongst the rubble brings a glimmer of hope to a time of darkness and suffering. But Connie's happiness is not to last. Having fallen in love with Vic Campion, the man who helped her rescue baby Lucky, she despairs when he is called up to serve in the Navy, knowing she might never see him again. And when a sinister figure emerges, claiming to be Lucky's grandfather, Connie is terrified she will lose the child, too. Will she to a dashing GI for comfort during her time of need? Or will she stay true to Vic, the man she really loves . . . Praise for CAROL RIVERS: 'A gripping page turner' - LEAH FLEMING 'Brings the East End to life - family loyalties, warring characters and broken dreams. Superb' - ELIZABETH GILL Previously published with the title Connie of Kettle Street
| Author | : Carol Rivers |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 467 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Docklands (London, England) |
| ISBN | : |
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In September 1940 the Isle of Dogs suffers the first terrible night of a nine-month Blitz. Amidst the death and destruction young Connie Marsh finds an orphaned baby boy in the rubble. She also finds love with handsome Vic Champion, the man who helped her rescue the child they've named Lucky, but when his call-up papers arrive Vic leaves for the navy. She's in danger of losing Lucky too, when a sinister figure emerges, claiming to be the boy's grandfather. Will she turn for comfort to dashing GI Clint Hershey, or will she stay true to Vic, the man she really loves?
| Author | : Carol Rivers |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 415 |
| Release | : 2017-10-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1471154874 |
Download Molly's Christmas Orphans Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
From the Sunday Times and ebook bestselling author of A Wartime Christmas comes a gritty and nostlagic family saga about love, loss and keeping family together. 'Surely one of the best saga writers of her time' – Rosie Clarke 1940. Molly Swift, at 27, has already suffered the tragic loss of her two-year-old daughter Emily, to the flu outbreak of 1935. Now she waits for news of her shopkeeper husband Ted, who volunteered for the British Expeditionary Forces at the outbreak of war. Molly is intent on running the general store with the help of her retired father, Bill Keen and ex-proprietor of the business. But after the building is hit during a bombing raid and Bill is severly injured, Molly faces difficult times. Alone in the hospital corridor as Bill is treated, Molly tries to keep positive. But the Blitz is well underway and she is forced to take shelter in the hospital’s basement. It’s here, as the bombs fall around docklands, that Molly meets Andy Miller and his two young children, Evie and Mark. An unlikely friendship begins as Molly offers the homeless group safe lodgings for the following night, and soon their lives are entwined, bringing unexpected joy and heartache for them all. Praise for CAROL RIVERS: 'A gripping page turner' - LEAH FLEMING 'Brings the East End to life - family loyalties, warring characters and broken dreams. Superb' - ELIZABETH GILL
| Author | : Edward P. Rich |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2002-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1401062741 |
Download The House of Eliott: the Anxious Years Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
To his lifelong regret, Miles Bannister loses out when Evangeline Eliott the girl he loves marries his art school classmate Daniel Page. Miles's millionaire father retaliates by making his son a director of The House of Eliott. From part-time illustrator, Miles and his father now became the new reality in the House. To please his father Miles proceeds to become both an engineer and a ruthless rags' tycoon. Evie and Daniel leave for Paris and the bursary Daniel was awarded. Both come to espouse the liberal causes of the early thirties. As Miles flirts with the Nazis dressing their wives in clothes Evie designed, the Page's throw themselves into the international effort to save the Spanish Republic. Mr. Rich's novel closes the story of The House of Eliott. Both up until the war and after, like a film noir, it is based on the real history of the nineteen thirties and the slow postwar recovery. Beatrice, her husband Jack, Evie and Daniel, Lord Alexander Montford, Penelope Maddox, Madge and Tilly, girls in the workroom, all play roles. They create one of the most endearing fashion houses in modern fiction as it survives The Anxious Years.'
| Author | : William Matthews |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2015-06-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 131742560X |
Download Cockney Past and Present Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Although Cockney can be considered to be one of the most important non-standard forms of English, there had been little to no scholarly attention on the dialect prior to William Matthews’s 1938 volume Cockney Past and Present. Matthews traced the course of the speech of London from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century by gathering information from many sources including plays, novels, music-hall songs, the comments of critics and the speech and recollections of living Cockneys. This book will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
| Author | : VARIOUS |
| Publisher | : BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2023-06-16 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Download 500 OF THE BEST COCKNEY WAR STORIES Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
To dig out the character of a General even from the plans of his General Staff is difficult; how much more difficult to dig out the adventures of Number 1000 Private Thomas Atkins from those of the other 999 who went “like one man” with him over the top? In the side-shows there was more scope for the individual and in the Victorian wars much more scope. To show the sort of thing I mean I am going to put down here for the first time an old story, almost forgotten now, in the hopes that it may interest by its contrast to barrages and barbed wire. Although only an old-fashioned affair of half a dozen bullets and three or four dead men it was a great event to me as it led to my first meeting with the great little Bobs of Kandahar...FROM THE BOOKS.
| Author | : Derek Houghton |
| Publisher | : Austin Macauley Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2023-11-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1398440396 |
Download There was Once a Street in Bethnal Green Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Derek Houghton was born and bred in London’s East End, Bethnal Green, when horses and carts were just as predominant on its streets as motorised vehicles. It was at a time when National Health was not even a dream, or any kind of benefit existed, the only benefit available was by taking the “Means Test” (Dole Money) that most East Enders were too proud to take. Poverty was never any stranger to their doors, unemployment was rife, and the pawnshops did a roaring trade. People then could walk the streets in safety, the streets were the children’s playgrounds, where they played unhindered. As hard as times were, neighbours showed great compassion in helping each other. Each street was like a village, where everybody knew everyone else. World War II was to bring about an even stronger bond with each other. Above all, it was the love of a street – “Our Street.”
| Author | : Tim Woods |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 538 |
| Release | : 2008-02-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1134709900 |
Download Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Taking in novelists from all over the globe, from the beginning of the century to the present day, this is the most comprehensive survey of the leading lights of twentieth century fiction. Superb breadth of coverage and over 800 entries by an international team of contributors ensures that this fascinating and wide-ranging work of reference will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in modern fiction. Authors included range from Joseph Conrad to Albert Camus and Franz Kafka to Chinua Achebe. Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists gives a superb insight into the richness and diversity of the twentieth century novel.
| Author | : Garrett Stewart |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2022-11-29 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0814349102 |
Download Streisand Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A blend of film reading with vocal analysis in appreciation of Barbra Streisand’s unmatched contribution to lyric drama on screen. At every stage of her career, Barbra Streisand's genius finds its fullest measure in screen song, first in Emmy-winning TV specials, then in Hollywood blockbusters from Funny Girl to Funny Lady. She goes on, as emerging auteur, to direct her own "musical concepts" in A Star Is Born—before reconceiving the big-screen musical altogether in the writing as well as directing of her own starring role in Yentl ("A Film with Music"). In this intensive reading of the "actress-who-sings," Garrett Stewart notes the gender and ethnic stereotypes that Streisand shattered as the first openly Jewish superstar, while concentrating not just on the cultural difference she made but on the internal differentials of her unholy vocal gift—whose kinetic volatility shapes a kind of cinematic terrain all its own. Down through her filmed return to the concert stage, Stewart elicits the sinuous phonetic text of Streisand's on-screen musical delivery in a keenly attentive mode of audition that puts into fresh perspective the indelible aura of her stardom.
| Author | : Jay Atkinson |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2012-04-24 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1429990619 |
Download Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
If all sports are really about war, then rugby is a heart-thumping epic of bayonet charges and hand-to-hand fighting. In Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man, bestselling author Jay Atkinson describes his thirty-five year odyssey in the sport-from his rough and rowdy days at the University of Florida, through the intrigue of various foreign tours, club championships, and all star selections, up to his current stint with the freewheeling Vandals Rugby Club out of Los Angeles. Jay has played in more than 500 matches, for which he's suffered three broken ribs, a detached retina, a fractured cheekbone and orbital bone, four deadened teeth, and a dislocated ankle. Written in the style of Siegried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Atkinson's book explains why it was all worth it--the sum total of his violent adventures, and the valuable insights he has gained from them.
