Notting Hell

Author : Rachel Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416554130
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notting Hell written by Rachel Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EVERY CITY HAS A NOTTING HELL . . . "A spot of extramarital nookie with a close neighbor is one thing. We're all grown-ups here. But selling a rare-to-the-market mid-Victorian house -- not merely a house but our children's ancestral family home -- on a communal garden, the sort of house that a banker would trample over his own grandmother to spend his bonus on -- is another thing entirely. It's wrong." Meet Mimi. Mimi may "have it all" -- the house, the children, the part-time vanity job, the skinny jeans, the feng shui guru -- but life chez Fleming is not as cushy as she'd like (husband Ralph prefers the trout stream to the fast lane). And when Mimi meets Si, the new billionaire on the block, at a sushi party, she soon faces a choice of keeping up or keeping it real. Then there's her best friend Clare, neat-freak garden designer, deep in biopanic about her childlessness with eco-architect husband, Gideon. Clare monitors all illicit activity in the private West London compound, from light adultery to heavy construction, and she is watching Mimi. . . . Notting Hell is a wickedly funny and oh-so-recognizable comedy of manners, filleting life on a communal garden in London. So take your irreplaceable numbered key and enter Lonsdale Gardens, the world of wealthy one-upmanship, where the old-fashioned laws of love still rule among the stainless steel kitchen appliances, cashmere throws, and compassionately produced cups of latte. INCLUDES "Notting Hill for Beginners," a witty guide to the must-haves and must knows of Notting Hill

Author : Rachel Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416532072
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notting Hell written by Rachel Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mimi struggles with raised levels of having it all in the face of her husband's laid-back personal life and a billionaire newcomer, while Clare frets about her childless state and the private misdemeanors of her friends and neighbors.

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher : United Holdings Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Napoleon of Notting Hill written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by United Holdings Group. This book was released on 1912 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Vague
Publisher : Bread and Circuses Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625172028
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting it Straight in Notting Hill Gate written by Tom Vague and published by Bread and Circuses Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 43AD, and the building of the (no doubt very straight) Roman Great West Road to Silchester, to 2009, another bout of Carnival Riots and David Cameron getting his bike nicked outside Tescos on the Grove, (retrieved with the help of a friendly / non-class conscious Rasta), long time Portobello Road resident and local historian/psychogeographer Tom Vague takes us on a breathless romp through the peoples history of W10, taking in Roman Coffins on Ladbroke Grove and Civil War skirmishes in Holland Park, Russian occultists at 77 Elgin Crescent, Tory anarchist GK Chesterton and his Napoleon of Notting Hill, Thomas Hardy compering poetry nights at 84 Holland Park Avenue with Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound, the pre WW1 Vorticist art HQ on Campden Hill Road ,WW2 bombs on Ladbroke Grove, Halliday Christie moving to 10 Rillington Place, teenage teddy boys rampaging at the Prince of Wales Cinema on Harrow Road, Max Mosely painting fascist Union Movement graffiti around Notting Hill in 1956, Peter Rachman renting properties to the ‘blacks and Irish’ before ruthlessly exploiting them all and ratcheting up local tensions, the infamous race riots of 1959, future Home Secretary Alan Johnsons’ original mod band the Area playing the Pavillion pub on North Pole Road in 1965, Pink Floyd at the Free School, All Saints Church, 1966, Performance, Powis Square 1969, Mick Farrens’ proto-punk Deviants at 56 Chesterton Road in 1970, Strummer, Jones and Simenon’s Clash on the Westway, in the Elgin, at the carnival riots....

Author : Rachel Johnson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241969204
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fresh Hell written by Rachel Johnson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I just loved it. Lethally funny and so clever.' - Jilly Cooper I ADORED it. It's the most fun I've had with a book in a long time, and I love how she writes - so many dazzling sentences and phrases.' - Marian Keyes Debt, double-basements, dastardly bankers...and DIVORCE? 'Hell is other people' and journalist Mimi Fleming is fast realizing on her return to Notting Hill that there is no greater hell than the W11 neighbours with whom she shares an exclusive communal garden. Since she's been away, all her friends have become - impossibly - even richer, thinner, and YOUNGER. They're busy not just turning back the clock but also their homes into palatial iceberg houses - with basement swimming pools. But Mimi's troubles are just beginning. There's the compromising and risky mission she'd undertaking to re-launch her so-called journalism career (plus an embarrassing case of mistaken identity thanks to Google). Then there's her children who will only communicate via WhatsApp . And worst of all, Mimi's fallen for someone, and it's certainly not her husband Ralph. Ralph and Mimi have already been to Notting Hell and back. But is this the end or the beginning of something new?

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1598566660
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Napoleon of Notting Hill written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. K. Chesterton is already a staple in the Hendrickson list with "Orthodoxy" and "Heretics" in the Hendrickson Christian Classics series. Known primarily for his non-fiction, he also wrote fiction, and "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" and "The Man Who was Thursday" are among his best known and most loved novels. "The Napoleon of Notting Hill," his first novel, tells the story of residents of a London suburb who take up arms and declare their independence from England. Line drawings are included throughout. "The Man Who was Thursday," his most famous novel, tells the story of a policeman who becomes unwittingly--and unwillingly--caught up in a resistance group that is infiltrating a secret organization of anarchists.

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Napoleon of Notting Hill: Illustrated Edition written by G. K. Chesterton and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this political satire, set in the future, Kings of England are selected randomly. The dreary succession of randomly selected Kings of England is broken up when Auberon Quin, who cares for nothing but a good joke, is chosen. To amuse himself, he institutes elaborate costumes for the provosts of the districts of London. All are bored by the King's antics except for one earnest young man who takes the cry for regional pride seriously – Adam Wayne, the eponymous Napoleon of Notting Hill.

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Napoleon of Notting Hill written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gilbert K. Chesterton
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Napoleon Of Notting Hill By Gilbert K. Chesterton written by Gilbert K. Chesterton and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a London of the future, the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy have worn the human spirit down to the point where it can barely stand. When a pint-sized clerk named Auberon Quinn is randomly selected as head of state, he decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement. One man, Adam Wayne, takes the new order of things seriously, organizing a Notting Hill army to fight invaders from other neighborhoods. At first his project baffles everyone, but eventually his dedication proves infectious, with delightful results. First published in 1904, The Napoleon of Notting Hill was Chesterton's first novel. It has been called the best first novel by any author in the twentieth century.

Author : Rosie Curtis
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008353549
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Met in December written by Rosie Curtis and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to fall head over heels. The perfect book for fans of Josie Silver, This Time Next Year, and anyone who ever fell in love with the wrong person... ‘Gorgeously festive and romantic’ Rosie Walsh, bestselling author of The Man Who Didn’t Call