Mr Mac And Me

Author : Esther Freud
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408857197
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr Mac and Me written by Esther Freud and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1914, and Thomas Maggs, the son of the local publican, lives with his parents and sister in a village on the Suffolk coast. He is the youngest child, and the only son surviving. Life is quiet - shaped by the seasons, fishing and farming, the summer visitors, and the girls who come down from the Highlands every year to gut and pack the herring. Then one day a mysterious Scotsman arrives. To Thomas he looks for all the world like a detective, in his black cape and hat of felted wool, and the way he puffs on his pipe as if he's Sherlock Holmes. Mac is what the locals call him when they whisper about him in the Inn. And whisper they do, for he sets off on his walks at unlikely hours, and stops to examine the humblest flowers. He is seen on the beach, staring out across the waves as if he's searching for clues. But Mac isn't a detective, he's the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and together with his red haired artist wife, they soon become a source of fascination and wonder to Thomas Yet just as Thomas and Mac's friendship begins to blossom, war with Germany is declared. The summer guests flee and are replaced by regiments of soldiers on their way to Belgium, and as the brutality of war weighs increasingly heavily on this coastal community, they become more suspicious of Mac and his curious behaviour... In this tender and compelling story of an unlikely friendship, Esther Freud paints a vivid portrait of a home front community during the First World War, and of a man who was one of the most brilliant and misunderstood artists of his generation. It is her most beautiful and masterful work.

Author : Esther Freud
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063211025
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hideous Kinky written by Esther Freud and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut novel from the author of Summer at Gaglow, called "a near-seamless meshing of family feeling, history and imagination" by the New York Times Book Review Escaping gray London in 1972, a beautiful, determined mother takes her daughters, aged 5 and 7, to Morocco in search of adventure, a better life, and maybe love. Hideous Kinky follows two little English girls -- the five-year-old narrator and Bea, her seven-year-old sister -- as they struggle to establish some semblance of normal life on a trip to Morocco with their hippie mother, Julia. Once in Marrakech, Julia immerses herself in Sufism and her quest for personal fulfillment, while her daughters rebel -- the older by trying to recreate her English life, the younger by turning her hopes for a father on a most unlikely candidate. Shocking and wonderful, Hideous Kinky is at once melancholy and hopeful. A remarkable debut novel from one of England's finest young writers, Hideous Kinky was inspired by the author's own experiences as a child. Esther Freud, daughter of the artist Lucian Freud and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, lived in Marrakech for one and a half years with her older sister Bella and her mother. Hideous Kinky is now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet ("Titanic," "Sense and Sensibility").

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Publisher : Super Weirdos
ISBN 13 : 9780473485160
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Super Weirdos: and the Battle of Bash written by and published by Super Weirdos. This book was released on 2020-04-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever seen someone that looked so weird they might be an alien? You may have been right... In this hilariously weird adventure, Norm, a regular kid, finds out there are aliens living among us. Incredible, powerful, annoying aliens, led by his neighbour, Mac. Throughout his journey, Norm learns the first of many alien secrets and his life is never the same again. This book reveals secrets to the universe in ways that no one could have expected.

Author : Esther Freud
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408827123
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Falls written by Esther Freud and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mesmerising coming-of-age tale set in sun-drenched Tuscany, from the author of Hideous Kinky and I Couldn't Love You More 'A vividly rendered portrait of a young girl's journey towards self discovery and maturity' Daily Mail 'Love Falls captures the delicious uncertainty and electrifying beginnings of first love' Glamour It is July, three months after Lara's seventeenth birthday, and a week before Charles and Diana's Royal Wedding. When Lara's father, a man she barely knows, invites her to accompany him on holiday, she finds herself far away from the fumes of London's Holloway Road in the sun-scorched hillsides of Tuscany. There she meets the Willoughby family, rife with illicit alliances and vendettas. The more embroiled Lara becomes with them, and with the carelessly beautiful Kip, the more consumed she is with doubt, curiosity and dread. And so begins her intoxicating, troubled journey into self discovery and across the very fine line between childhood and what lies beyond ...

Author : David Shannon
Publisher : WW Norton
ISBN 13 : 1324003456
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Nogginbody Gets a Hammer written by David Shannon and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved picture book creator David Shannon introduces a new character in a satisfyingly silly and subversive take on a familiar parable. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Meet Mr. Nogginbody. Armed with his new hammer he fixes his floor then the wall and the picture on the wall and the shower and the stop sign at the end of the street. . . What else will Mr. Nogginbody “fix”? Celebrated author David Shannon’s comically misguided new character gets carried away by success, and kids will laugh out loud at the consequences.

Author : David Sparks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118043758
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mac at Work written by David Sparks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridge the gap between using a Mac at home and at the office Now that you love your Mac at home, you want to use one at the office without missing a beat of productivity or professionalism. This unique guide shows you how. You’ll find best Mac business practices for handling word processing, spreadsheet and presentation creation, task and project management, and graphics. The book also explores topics such as hardware maintenance, how to synchronize with multiple computers, data backup, and communication with Windows networks. Covers the nuts and bolts of using a Mac at work, including synchronizing with multiple computers, backing up data, and communicating with Windows networks Goes beyond simple coverage of Microsoft Office or iWork to show you how to professionally create and interact with typical office systems and documents Provides best software and best practices for creating and using spreadsheets, word processing documents, and slide presentations on a Mac Gives you helpful guidelines and suggestions that can be lacking in an office where the IT department is focused primarily on PCs Find out the best ways to use your Mac in the office and get more productive than ever!

Author : Jacqueline Winspear
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062220527
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Care and Management of Lies written by Jacqueline Winspear and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world. By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained—by Thea’s passionate embrace of women’s suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea’s brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea’s gift to Kezia is a book on household management—a veiled criticism of the bride’s prosaic life to come. Yet when Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield, the farm becomes Kezia’s responsibility. Each must find a way to endure the ensuing cataclysm and turmoil. As Tom marches to the front lines, and Kezia battles to keep her ordered life from unraveling, they hide their despair in letters and cards filled with stories woven to bring comfort. Even Tom’s fellow soldiers in the trenches enter and find solace in the dream world of Kezia’s mouth-watering, albeit imaginary meals. But will well-intended lies and self-deception be of use when they come face to face with the enemy? Published to coincide with the centennial of the Great War, The Care and Management of Lies paints a poignant picture of love and friendship strained by the pain of separation and the brutal chaos of battle. Ultimately, it raises profound questions about conflict, belief, and love that echo in our own time.

Author : Esther Freud
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747594473
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peerless Flats written by Esther Freud and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Hideous Kinky, Peerless Flats confirms Freud as one of the best writers about childhood we have

Author : Esther Freud
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063057190
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Couldn't Love You More written by Esther Freud and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past It’s London, 1960, and Aoife Kelly—once the sparkling object of young men’s affections—runs pubs with her brusque, barking husband, Cash. Their courtship began in wartime London, before they returned to Ireland with their daughters in tow. One of these daughters—fiery, independent-minded Rosaleen—moves back to London, where she meets and begins an affair with the famous sculptor Felix Lehmann, a German-Jewish refugee artist over twice her tender eighteen years. When Rosaleen finds herself pregnant with Felix’s child, she is evicted from her flat, dismissed from her job, and desperate to hide the secret from her family. Where, and to whom, can she turn? Meanwhile, Kate, another generation down, lives in present-day London with her young daughter and husband, an unsuccessful musician and destructive alcoholic. Adopted and floundering to find a sense of herself in the midst of her unhappy marriage, Kate sets out to track down her birth mother, a search that leads her to a Magdalene Laundry in Ireland and the harrowing history that it holds. Stirring and nostalgic at moments, visceral and propulsive at others, I Couldn’t Love You More is a tender, candid portrait of love, sex, motherhood, and the enduring ties of family. It is impossible not to fall under the spell of this tale of mothers and daughters, wives and muses, secrets and outright lies.

Author : Pete Hautman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689819145
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Was written by Pete Hautman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his dying grandfather tries to strangle him, Jack Lund discovers a door that leads him fifty years into the past and involves him in events that determine his own future.