Now Then Lad

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 : Mike Pannett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750529662
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now Then Lad... written by Mike Pannett and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. 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 and drug gangs, and found out what it was like to stare down the wrong end of a sawn-off shotgun. Now 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... His escapades are interwoven month by month with his growing knowledge of a landscape that changes with the seasons.

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 : Bryan Talbot
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1630084042
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alice in Sunderland written by Bryan Talbot and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunderland! Thirteen hundred years ago it was the greatest center of learning in the whole of Christendom and the very cradle of English consciousness. In the time of Lewis Carroll it was the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. To this city that gave the world the electric light bulb, the stars and stripes, the millennium, the Liberty Ships and the greatest British dragon legend came Carroll in the years preceding his most famous book, Alice in Wonderland, and here are buried the roots of his surreal masterpiece. Enter the famous Edwardian palace of varieties, The Sunderland Empire, for a unique experience: an entertaining and epic meditation on myth, history and storytelling and decide for yourself — does Sunderland really exist?

Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 184877317X
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not Bad For A Bad Lad written by Michael Morpurgo and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and inspiring tale of redemption from the author of WAR HORSE - with a personal introduction to the story from Michael Morpurgo. "I know a good sort when I see one. That's why I've taken him on. That's why I took you on." When a young lad strays into bad behaviour and thieving, he soon finds himself in Borstal prison for young men, lonely and without hope. But when Mr Alfie, who manages the stables, asks him to care for and tame a damaged horse, both are given a second chance. Could this "bad lad"'s skill with horses help him follow his dreams?

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 : Moby
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571339425
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Then It Fell Apart written by Moby and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Featured in The Times' 'Best Books of the Year So Far' 2019*'Somehow this chronicle of a long, dark night of the soul also involves funny stories involving Trump, Putin, and a truly baffling array of degenerates.' Stephen Colbert***What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty?What do you do when it all starts to fall apart? The second volume of Moby's extraordinary life story is a journey into the dark heart of fame and the demons that lurk just beneath the bling and bluster of the celebrity lifestyle. In summer 1999, Moby released the album that defined the millennium, PLAY. Like generation-defining albums before it, PLAY was ubiquitous, and catapulted Moby to superstardom. Suddenly he was hanging out with David Bowie and Lou Reed, Christina Ricci and Madonna, taking ecstasy for breakfast (most days), drinking litres of vodka (every day), and sleeping with super models (infrequently). It was a diet that couldn't last. And then it fell apart. The second volume of Moby's memoir is a classic about the banality of fame. It is shocking, riotously entertaining, extreme, and unforgiving. It is unedifying, but you can never tear your eyes away from the page.

Author : LeRoy Lad Panek
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786481382
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the American Detective Story written by LeRoy Lad Panek and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, dime novels and other sensationalist publications satisfied the public's hunger for a yarn. Things changed as the century waned, and eventually the detective was reborn as a figure of American literature. In part these changes were due to a combination of social conditions, including the rise and decline of the police as an institution; the parallel development of private detectives; the birth of the crusading newspaper reporter; and the beginnings of forensic science. Influential, too, was the new role model offered by a wildly popular British import named Sherlock Holmes. Focusing on the late 19th century and early 20th, this volume covers the formative years of American detective fiction. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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.