Rocking Horse Road

Author : Carl Nixon
Publisher : CulturBooks
ISBN 13 : 3944818032
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rocking Horse Road written by Carl Nixon and published by CulturBooks. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »Rocking Horse Road« stand 4 Monate auf der KrimiZEIT-Bestenliste. Am Strand einer schmalen Landzunge vor Christchurch wird 1980 die Leiche der 17jährigen Lucy Asher gefunden. In der Mitte dieser schmalen Landzunge vor Christchurch verläuft die Rocking Horse Road. Lucys Eltern haben ein Milchgeschäft an dieser Straße, und Lucy arbeitete oft dort, angeschwärmt von einer Gruppe 15jähriger Jungen. Lucy wurde erwürgt. Für die Jungen ist damit ihre Kindheit zu einem traumatischen Ende gekommen. Die Suche nach dem Mörder schweißt sie zusammen. Im Jahr nach dem Mord, 1981, touren die Springboks, das südafrikanische Rugby-Team, durch das Land. Protest gegen das Apartheidsregime erhebt sich. Es kommt zu gewalttätigen Zusammenstößen zwischen Demonstranten und der Polizei, zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte des Landes. Die Jungen sind Rugby-Fans und erleben das Geschehen hautnah mit: »Wir hatten das Gefühl, dass da vor unseren Augen etwas sehr Wichtiges zerbrach. Wir konnten es nicht benennen, es war etwas, das uns zuvor selbstverständlich gewesen war und das, wie wir instinktiv wussten, niemals würde repariert werden können.« Das Buch stand 4 Monate auf der KrimiZEIT-Bestenliste. »Carl Nixon ist mit der spröden Poesie von ›Rocking Horse Road‹ ein atmosphärisch dichtes Debut gelungen, eine intensive Milieustudie und ein Roman über das Ende der Kindheit. Stefan Weidle hat den Text sorgfältig ins Deutsche übertragen.« Deutschlandradio Kultur

Author : Carl Nixon
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1869790936
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rocking Horse Road written by Carl Nixon and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much more than a murder mystery, this powerful novel is about coming of age and loss of innocence. The body of a teenage girl is found on the beach in the days leading up to Christmas, 1980. It’s an event that makes a huge impact on all those who live along Rocking Horse Road, which runs through the Spit, a long ‘finger of bone-dry sand’ between the ocean and the estuary. It’s an event that for one hot summer brings together a group of fifteen-year-old boys and then keeps them linked for the rest of their lives. Evolving from Nixon’s celebrated short story, this compelling novel shows New Zealand turning upon itself during the 1981 Springbok Tour. It examines how early events can influence the rest of our lives, and probes ideas of community, collective memory and story-telling.

Author : Carl Nixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783835375123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rocking Horse Road written by Carl Nixon and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Ansley
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 177553054X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gods And Little Fishes written by Bruce Ansley and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartfelt, hilarious and warm-hearted memoir of New Zealand in the 1960s. When you walk along the pier under the huge blue sky and with clean surf on either side, you can easily think that New Brighton is the loveliest place in the world. This was once New Zealand’s most bustling township, however it became a parable of New Zealand when the revolution of the eighties and nineties derailed it. New Brighton’s youth grew up in happy anarchy beside its great, glorious beach. In Gods and Little Fishes, Bruce Ansley gives us immediate entry into one such rich, well-lived boyhood and family life. He both captures the freedoms of a childhood many would envy now, and offers a perceptive adult sensibility charged with a partisan view. Not only a marvellous memoir, this is also a superb portrait of a seaside town set in the second half of last century. New Brighton’s playing fields, the pier, the Cubs and Scouts, the main street shops, even the easterly, are given as much character as the township’s old identities. The nuances of family life, the complexities of a marriage, the entanglements of small town relationships, and the very culture of the place are all conveyed with love and humour, as well as a sharp sense of what has been lost. The sound and brilliance of the sea, the wind, the women, the shadow of a generation of men who went to war: all are described with a poetic clarity and dancing wit that will make you long to have lived the author’s boyhood alongside him.

Author : Margaret Chu
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426973616
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Penny written by Margaret Chu and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We take life for granted sometimes. What if our lives took a turn for the worse.....would you be prepared for it. Could you handle the outcome? Kathy Draper and her husband Walt wanted to make life better for their two boys by buying a house in the country but they weren't prepared for what was going to happen in the days to come. Life in the country was a dream come true but that dream was shattered and she found herself fighting for her life and the life of others as she was trying to return to them from a trip to the city collecting supplies for their weekend. What she found along her journey terrified her but what terrified her more was learning that she could fight! Especially once learning the secret to surviving the zombie onslaught, of a very special little girl......Penny.

Author : Larry David Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313067872
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and the Torch Song Tradition written by Larry David Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The torch song has long been a vehicle for expression—perhaps American song's most sheerly visceral one. Two artists in particular have built upon this tradition to express their own unique outlooks on their lives and the world around them. Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello, and the Torch Song Tradition combines biographical material, artist commentary, critical interpretation, and selected exemplars of the writers' work to reveal the power of authorship and the creative drive necessary to negotiate an artistic vision in the complicated mechanisms of the commercial music industry. Author Larry David Smith, as in his Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and American Song, considers the complicated intersection of biography, creative philosophy, artistic imperative, and stylistic tendencies in the work of both Joni Mitchell and Elvis Costello—two songwriters with seemingly nothing in common, one famously confessional and one famously confrontational. Yet, as Smith shows so incisively, they are two personalities that prove fascinatingly complementary. Mitchell and Costello both yielded bodies of work that are cohesive, coherent, and rich in meaning. Both have made historic contributions to the singer-songwriter model, two rebellious respones to the creative and commercial compromises associated with their chosen field, and two distinct thematic responses to the torch song tradition. Smith examines these responses, offering a unique and invaluable exploration of the craft of two of the last century's most towering musical figures.

Author : Paul Cassidy
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803138505
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Got Beethoven written by Paul Cassidy and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plenty of teenagers dream about becoming a rock star but how many 10yr olds dream about becoming a world-beating string quartet, and then go ahead and do it? Following on from Paul Cassidy's popular prequel, "Get Beethoven", Got Beethoven is a brutally honest and relentlessly entertaining account of what it’s like to be in a band.

Author : Lari Don
Publisher : Floris Books
ISBN 13 : 0863158951
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rocking Horse War written by Lari Don and published by Floris Books. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One sunny morning the triplets disappear, leaving only a few mysterious clues behind: an open upstairs window, three missing rocking horses and some strangely shaped marks on the lawn outside. Could they be hoofprints? Used to their silly pranks, older sister Pearl sets out to find them. At the garden gate she encounters Thomas, the snooty grandson of a local earl, who warns her that the moors aren't safe today. But who is he to boss Pearl around? As she searches for the triplets and tries to outwit Thomas, Pearl's journey through the rugged Scottish hills unfolds into an incredible and perilous adventure. Pearl strives to outwit living, breathing rocking horses and several powerful land magicians, who turn the very rocks of the mountains against her. But can she trust the mysterious Thomas? And can she save her brother and sisters from the unknown fate that lies ahead? A tale of dark magic and destiny set in the 1920s Scottish Highlands.

Author : Carl Nixon
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1775534367
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Signs written by Carl Nixon and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world full of signs, but can you trust what they say? A clever and touching short story about fathers and sons and reading what we signify to each other. Guilt pushes Rob into accompanying his elderly father on a long road trip. But when a phone call disrupts their journey, who is looking after whom?

Author : Carl Nixon
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1761047132
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Waters written by Carl Nixon and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Family. Forty Years. The Waters kids ― practical, athlete Mark; the physically beautiful dreamer Davey; and the baby of the family, Samantha ― have had to face more than their fair share of challenges. 1979 was the year their father sold up the farm and invested all the family’s money in a doomed property development next to the ocean in Christchurch. Is that when 'everything started going wrong', as Mark believes? Will their bond survive the passage of time or will the three siblings succumb to their parents’ legacy of failure? Can the past be overcome . . . and forgiven?