Hello Friend We Missed You

Author : Richard Owain Roberts
Publisher : Parthian
ISBN 13 : 9781914595240
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hello Friend We Missed You written by Richard Owain Roberts and published by Parthian. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HELLO FRIEND WE MISSED YOU is a deeply poignant and bleakly comic debut novel about loneliness, the 'violent revenge thriller' category on Netflix, solipsism, rural gentrification, Jack Black, and learning to exist in the least excruciating way possible. Its story of depression and death on the small Welsh island of Môn, of people armed with every social media completely failing to communicate, is far, far funnier than it has any right to be. It's also, ultimately, extremely moving. An incredible debut novel from a truly unique prose stylist.

Author : Rebecca Cobb
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1529008506
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hello Friend! written by Rebecca Cobb and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated, wittily observed picture book about kindness, empathy and friendship from the award-winning Rebecca Cobb. Hello Friend! tells the story of one big-hearted and enthusiastic little girl who is insistent on making friends with a certain little boy. And why wouldn't he want to be friends with her? She's very good at sharing – even if it's a sandwich that he doesn't like. And she's certain that playing outside is their favourite thing to do, even if he is not so sure. But while he doesn't seem keen on many of the things that she loves to do, there is one thing he's very keen on after all . . . being friends. Also available from Rebecca Cobb: Lunchtime, Aunt Amelia and The Something.

Author : M. J. Hyland
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802197663
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Is How written by M. J. Hyland and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Man Booker–shortlisted author of Carry Me Down comes “an unflinching, absorbing, morally complex portrait” of a man in search of himself (The New York Times). Patrick Oxtoby is a perpetual outsider who has always longed to find his place in the world. So when he’s faced with yet another disappointment after his fiancé breaks off their engagement, Patrick moves to a remote seaside village to escape. But in spite of his hopes for a new and better life, Patrick still finds himself struggling to fit in. He can’t shake the feeling that his new friends are conspiring against him, further fracturing his already fragile personality and prompting him to take a course of action that permanently alters his life. This Is How is a psychologically probing and deeply moving account of a man at odds with the world, and whose conflict with that unyielding reality leads to his own downfall. It is a masterpiece of inner tension that is “bleak yet moving, mercilessly dispassionate yet shot through with kindness and wit . . . a profound achievement” (The Guardian).

Author : Lucy Cruickshanks
Publisher : Heron Books
ISBN 13 : 1782063439
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trader of Saigon written by Lucy Cruickshanks and published by Heron Books. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the chaos and corruption of 1980s' Vietnam, three seemingly unconnected lives are brought together by greed, fear and hope. As a US Army deserter, Alexander is a man without country; trapped in a life he no longer controls and embroiled in the dark business of trading women. His latest victim is Hanh, a rural girl who moved to Hanoi to escape inevitable poverty and who sees Alexander's arrival as the answer to her prayers. Neither of them has ever met Phuc - a Vietnamese businessman who backed the wrong side in the war and is now unable to pay his financial and political debts to the Party. But his struggles are about to change both their lives. From a society torn apart by war comes a tale of redemption and salvation; a thrilling saga and an explosive debut novel.

Author : Heidi McKinnon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534410333
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Just Ate My Friend written by Heidi McKinnon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Klassen’s I Want My Hat Back meets Lucy Ruth Cummins’s A Hungry Lion in this hilarious, deadpan story about a creature looking for a new friend after eating his last one. A little creature is looking for a new friend, but he’s not having any luck. Why is he looking for a new friend? Because he ate his old one. Heidi McKinnon delivers a hilariously macabre story with colorful illustrations and a satisfying, dry wit.

Author : Benjamin Myers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152661118X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pig Iron written by Benjamin Myers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZEAn unflinching portrait of contemporary Traveller culture by the award-winning author of The Gallows PoleJohn-John wants to escape his past. But the legacy of brutality left by his boxer father, King of the Gypsies, Mac Wisdom, overshadows his life. His new job as an ice cream man should offer freedom, but instead pulls him into the dark recesses of a northern town where his family name is mud. When he attempts to trade prejudice and parole officers for the solace of the rural landscape, Mac's bloody downfall threatens John-John's very survival.

Author : Cori Doerrfeld
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525554238
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goodbye, Friend! Hello, Friend! written by Cori Doerrfeld and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of The Rabbit Listened comes a gentle story about the difficulty of change . . . and the wonder that new beginnings can bring. Change and transitions are hard, but Goodbye, Friend! Hello, Friend! demonstrates how, when one experience ends, it opens the door for another to begin. It follows two best friends as they say goodbye to snowmen, and hello to stomping in puddles. They say goodbye to long walks, butterflies, and the sun...and hello to long evening talks, fireflies, and the stars. But the hardest goodbye of all comes when one of the friends has to move away. Feeling alone isn't easy, and sometimes new beginnings take time. But even the hardest days come to an end, and you never know what tomorrow will bring.

Author : Deborah Andrews
Publisher : Cargo Publishing
ISBN 13 : 191044989X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking the Lights written by Deborah Andrews and published by Cargo Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Runner-up in Guardian Not the Booker Prize 2016 A feminist Withnail and I. Recently graduated, young actor Maddie lives the slacker life in mid-90s Glasgow with deadbeat boyfriend Mike. Estranged from her mother due to a violent step-dad, most of the young couple's meagre resources go on drink and drugs. Maddie and some friends harbour hopes of putting on their own production of The Tempest. As she moves from one low-paid jobbing acting role to another, and from the abusive relationship with Mike to talented artist Alex, can Maddie confront the past and find a way of living in the present? Walking the Lights perfectly evokes 90s Britain and those living on the margins, whilst others prosper. This is a compelling study of one young woman learning the life of an actor, as she explores how to live life, negotiaging the self-destructive temptations of young adulthood. 'Oh my, I love this first novel from Deborah Andrews. A story of quiet devastation, of a life half-lived, of lies told and truths uncovered. I laughed and cried in equal measures, I couldn't stop reading, yet dreaded it ending. Honest, beautiful and visceral, Andrews's prose catches your breath and snags the air around you. I can't recommend it enough.' Kate Dickie, actor 'Walking the Lights is an intensely affecting emotional journey. Searching for release in all the wrong places, Maddie's descent into terrifying darkness is as heart-breaking as her struggle back towards the light is ultimately, radiantly life-affirming.' Vicki Jarrett, author of Nothing is Heavy and The Way Out 'A beautifully and precisely rendered tale of a young woman coming to terms with her past. This finely crafted debut novel is a compelling read, both bleak and uplifting at the same time - quite an achievement.' Pippa Goldschmidt, author of The Falling Sky and The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space 'An intoxicating debut about the lives we reach for and the mistakes that floor us. Bubbly, beautifully precarious, authentic and heartfelt, Deborah Andrews' writing glitters with empathy.' Helen Sedgwick, author of The Comet Seekers

Author : Sara Gethin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909983625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not Thomas written by Sara Gethin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomos lives with his mother, and sometimes her boyfriend. He longs to return to another place, a place he thinks of as home, and the people who lived with him there. And for Cwtch, who he had to leave behind, too. He knows that there are some things he cannot talk about - except to Cwtch - and then, just before Christmas, the difficult things come to a head. There are men outside who want to come in, and his mum has said not to answer the door. From behind his chair, Tomos waits, trying to make himself small and quiet. He doesn't think it's Santa Claus this time. When the men break in, Tomos's world is turned on its head and the adults around him must fight to make it right again.

Author : Taro Gomi
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811848497
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mis Amigos written by Taro Gomi and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-03-16 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilingual version of the popular picture book and board book, My Friends/Mis Amigos is a charming and vibrantly illustrated story that reveals that knowledge often comes from the most unlikely places."The prevailing mood is one of continuous celebration." -Publishers WeeklyAges 3-7