A Likely Tale Lad

Author : Mike Pannett
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1855683385
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Likely Tale, Lad written by Mike Pannett and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a young lad like Mike Pannett, growing up in the North Yorkshire countryside in the late 1960s and early '70s was a dream come true. The sun always seemed to be shining, the summer holidays lasted forever, and when you were sent to buy a fish supper for the family there was change to be had from that crumpled pound note. They really were the good old days. Given a fishing rod, a bottle of pop and a jam sandwich, a lad could wander as far as his bike would take him, and the countryside was one big adventure playground peopled by larger-than-life characters and endless opportunities for laughs and larks. Like many a boy, however, Mike learns things the hard way. He goes on a bike ride and lands up in A&E. He tries to be helpful around the home - and nearly burns the place down. And when he goes on a fishing trip it almost ends with a shipwreck.He's a likely lad, is Mike, and these are his likely tales.

Author : Mike Pannett
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 184901728X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now Then Lad... written by Mike Pannett and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. Yorkshireman Mike Pannett has just taken up a new posting as a local bobby in rural North Yorkshire. It's quite a change from the Met, where he dealt with riots on the capital's streets and drug gangs in Battersea, and found out what it was like to stare down the wrong end of a sawn-off shotgun. Now, instead of hunting down knife-wielding muggers, he's chasing runaway bullocks, holding up the Last Night of the Proms traffic to escort a lost mole across the road and combing the countryside for the villains who stole the Colonel's balls. Mike's first year on his new patch is told in seventeen chapters which interweave his escapades on the beat month by month together with his growing knowledge of a landscape that changes with the seasons and some snapshots from his off-duty life. Here is a wonderfully entertaining celebration of North Yorkshire, its breathtaking scenery and wide variety of characters and communities.

Author : Gillian Avery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Likely Lad written by Gillian Avery and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Doran
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1913689018
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jolly Lad written by John Doran and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness, from broadcaster, and co-founder and editor of The Quietus website, John Doran. Jolly Lad is a memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness. It is also about the healing power of music, how memory defines us, the redemption offered by fatherhood and what it means to be working class. “This is not a 'my drink and drug hell' kind of book for several reasons—the main one being that I had, for the most part, had a really good time drinking. True, a handful of pretty appalling things have happened to me and some people that I know or used to know over the years. But I have, for the most part, left them out of this book as they are not illuminating, not edifying and in some cases concern other people who aren't here to consent to their appearance. Instead this book concentrates on what you face after the drink and the drugs have gone.” Jolly Lad is about gentrification; being diagnosed bipolar; attending Alcoholics Anonymous; living in a block of flats on a housing estate in London; the psychological damage done by psychedelic drugs; depression; DJing; factory work; friendship; growing old; hallucinations; street violence and obsessive behaviour—especially regarding music and art.

Author : Gillian Avery
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780370307121
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Likely Lad written by Gillian Avery and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1986 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century Manchester boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future.

Author : Dave Itzkoff
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 1588364313
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lads written by Dave Itzkoff and published by Villard. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What I wanted after college was a job and my own apartment, but what I needed was a good comeuppance, and that’s what I got." When Dave Itzkoff graduated from Princeton in 1998–the first member of his family to earn a college degree–he expected to be rewarded with a career, and a life, that mattered. Instead, he ended up convinced that he was selling the entire institution of manhood down the river. After a series of personal and professional experiences stripped him of any lingering sense of entitlement, Itzkoff found himself working as an editor at Maxim, the pugnacious frontrunner in a new breed of men’s periodicals dubbed "lad magazines." There, he was initiated into a culture of heavily retouched girlie pictorials, dirty jokes, disingenuous sex advice, and shopping guides for expensive electronic gadgetry. And as Maxim continued its inexorable rise to become the most successful men’s magazine in modern publishing history, Itzkoff was left wondering what his work–and his life–really meant. Lads is the hilarious, heartbreaking story of Dave Itzkoff's efforts to define himself as a man while working at a magazine that was purveying a vision of young manhood–a state of perpetual adolescence–that was seductive to all but viable for none. Lads takes us deep inside one young man’s struggle with identity, responsibility, and sexuality, in an unsparingly candid account of how men really relate to one another, as fathers and sons, as employers and employees, as colleagues and friends. Lads is trenchant. Lads is perceptive. Lads is alarmingly funny. This is an unforgettable debut from a young writer of astounding talent.

Author : Mike Pannett
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848946473
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You're Coming With Me Lad written by Mike Pannett and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing rural Yorkshire is a far cry from Mike Pannett's old job hunting down drug gangs and knife crime in Central London. Settled back in his native Yorkshire, the former Metropolitan Policeman finds that life as a rural beat bobby is no picnic. After a crazed swordsman threatens to take his head off, he finds himself confronting a knife-wielding couple bent on carving each other up. When a stag night turns ugly he ends up with the groom, the best man and the bride-to-be all banged up in the cells -- and the wedding just hours away. With record-breaking floods and politicians to escort, will Mike find time woo the woman of his dreams? For fans of Gervase Phinn and James Herriot.

Author : Gillian Avery
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780671798673
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Likely Lad written by Gillian Avery and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century Manchester boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future.

Author : Albert Payson Terhune
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lad: a Dog written by Albert Payson Terhune and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the heroic and adventurous life of a thoroughbred collie that was particularly devoted to his owners.

Author : Barry Lyga
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547076347
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boy Toy written by Barry Lyga and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his follow-up to "The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl," Lyga delivers a disturbing, ripped-from-the-headlines novel about a seventh-grade boy who has a very adult relationship with his female teacher.