The Oaken Heart

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Golden Duck UK Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781899262038
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oaken Heart written by Margery Allingham and published by Golden Duck UK Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during the 'noisy, bomb-filled winter' of 1940, Margery Allingham's 'The Oaken Heart' records the events and emotions of the Essex village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy during the war. This illustrated edition of features previously unpublished diaries, letters and photos.

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504088344
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oaken Heart written by Margery Allingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II on the home front: “Fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society or James Herriot will enjoy this unique historical account.” —Library Journal This remarkable firsthand account—from the acclaimed Golden Age mystery author—was written to let people know how the Second World War affected ordinary English country people. The Oaken Heart is Margery Allingham’s tribute to the resiliency and determination of the people of Tolleshunt D’Arcy, the Essex village where she lived and nicknamed “Auburn” in her manuscript. Allingham, already a successful mystery author in 1939, was at work on the Albert Campion novel Traitor’s Purse. The first hint of war was felt in the alarm of a radio announcer’s voice, and Allingham put down her pen as her peaceful corner of the world braced for sending its men into battle, and even possible invasion. As villagers rallied around the cause—supporting each other and their country—Allingham found herself acting as the local billeting officer and first aid organizer. She writes of the sacrifices of farmers, the mistrust of politics, the grim acceptance of rationing, the bombing of London. And through it all, the never-ending hope for peace. The Oaken Heart captures the personal and universal toll of war, far from the front lines, written by a woman whose own quest for justice jumped from the page to the streets where she lived. “Engrossing and moving.” —Kirkus Reviews “Her record of the events and people of this fraught wartime period is rendered with the skill found in the best of her fictional writing . . . remains an insight into another facet of a remarkable talent.” —Crime Time

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781567231267
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oaken Heart written by Margery Allingham and published by . This book was released on 1996-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Ipso Books
ISBN 13 : 9781912194452
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oaken Heart written by Margery Allingham and published by Ipso Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are your war aims, Mrs. Carter? To keep this soul I've got alive. To keep my spirit unenslaved. The Oaken Heart is a testament to the hope and heart that prevailed in England throughout the war: a hope for its future and for its freedom. Written by a bestselling crime novelist as a letter of sorts to her American publisher, it is a deeply personal record of a woman and her town at the dawn of the Second World War. Allingham beautifully follows life in Tolleshunt D'Arcy (codenamed 'Auburn') as the town waits with bated breath for war to break out, through the unsettling calm as war is finally declared, and as they live with the very real threat of invasion. With wit and charm, Allingham introduces Auburn, a town united, crowded around the crackling wireless, smoothly queuing for the grotesque, elephantine gas masks, opening their homes to evacuees. She recounts Auburn's preparedness - its unwavering readiness for the war to truly begin. And when it finally did, there was still the business of living to attend to. Honest and unflinching, Allingham sheds light on daily life during the war, and the drive of Auburn to remain free and to fight. From nightly air raids to concern about head lice, and from the devastation of the Blitz to finding rooms for lovers' quarrels, Allingham shows the absolute human quality of the British war effort: life goes on.

Author : Théodore Botrel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.4B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk-songs of Britanny written by Théodore Botrel and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julia Jones
Publisher : Golden Duck UK Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781899262014
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Margery Allingham written by Julia Jones and published by Golden Duck UK Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography was researched in the very room where Margery Allingham worked, and was written with the full co-operation of Margery's sister, her secretary and her housekeeper. It was first published in 1991. Since then, however, new material has becoma available, including a revalationary collection of letters and the startling truth about her husband's relationship with the writer Nancy Spain. Was there a corpse underneath the sofa? The book's new title, new introduction and afterword invite the reader to look again. The Adventures of Margery Allingham is a new edition of Margery Allingham: a Biography published by William Heinemann Ltd in 1991.

Author : Sarah Woodbury
Publisher : The Morgan-Stanwood Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oaken Door (The Lion of Wales Series Book 2) written by Sarah Woodbury and published by The Morgan-Stanwood Publishing Group. This book was released on with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The onslaught of Modred's forces may have been temporarily halted, but danger lurks around every corner for Myrddin and Nell. Not only do they face treachery on the part of their enemies, but allies--and even family too--cannot be trusted. Only by joining forces can they succeed in averting the terrible fate that threatens their king, their country, and their own lives. The Oaken Door is the second book in The Lion of Wales series. Complete series reading order: Cold my Heart, the Oaken Door, of Men and Dragons, A Long Cloud, Frost against the Hilt.

Author : Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher : Uncanny Magazine
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncanny Magazine Issue 39 written by Catherynne M. Valente and published by Uncanny Magazine. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The March/April 2021 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Catherynne M. Valente, Dominica Phetteplace, Caroline M. Yoachim, Carrie Vaughn, Rati Mehotra, and Sarah Pinsker. Reprint fiction by Alaya Dawn Johnson. Essays by Tansy Rayner Roberts, Sid Jain, Marieke Nijkamp, and Jay Edidin, poetry by Tamara Jerée, Brandon O'Brien, Terese Mason Pierre, and Ali Trotta, interviews with Caroline M. Yoachim by Tina Connolly, and Sarah Pinsker by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Paul Lewin, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas. Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Chimedum Ohaegbu and Elsa Sjunneson, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.

Author : Sarah Pinsker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984802607
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Are Satellites written by Sarah Pinsker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taut and elegant, carefully introspected and thoughtfully explored."—The New York Times From Hugo award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that divides them. Everybody's getting one. Val and Julie just want what’s best for their kids, David and Sophie. So when teenage son David comes home one day asking for a Pilot, a new brain implant to help with school, they reluctantly agree. This is the future, after all. Soon, Julie feels mounting pressure at work to get a Pilot to keep pace with her colleagues, leaving Val and Sophie part of the shrinking minority of people without the device. Before long, the implications are clear, for the family and society: get a Pilot or get left behind. With government subsidies and no downside, why would anyone refuse? And how do you stop a technology once it's everywhere? Those are the questions Sophie and her anti-Pilot movement rise up to answer, even if it puts them up against the Pilot's powerful manufacturer and pits Sophie against the people she loves most.

Author : Clarence Du Fay Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down the Year written by Clarence Du Fay Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: