Scottish Girls About Town

Author : Jenny Colgan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743498607
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Girls About Town written by Jenny Colgan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-02-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Clanswomen... International bestselling authors Jenny Colgan, Isla Dewar, and Muriel Gray lead off this dazzling collection of stories by popular and rising Scottish women authors. A sometimes wild, sometimes poignant romp through the lives of Scotswomen, Scottish Girls About Town revels in the universal hilarity and strife of being a girl! They're looking for something moor. In Jenny Colgan's "The Fringes," a hapless heroine heads to the Edinburgh "Fringe" -- a massive theatrical and musical festival -- for a night of her own disastrous drama. Isla Dewar offers up "In the Garden of Mrs. Pink," one woman's look back at her girlhood and the life lessons she learned from an eccentric neighbor. In Muriel Gray's "School-Gate Mums," a single mother with killer instincts settles the score with one of the mothers at her son's school. Whether they're racing their flatmates in a weight-loss contest, reconnecting with long-lost friends, or grappling with the men in their lives, these daughters of Scotland prove that no one can top their audacious spirit and Highland charm.

Author : Ulverscroft Large Print Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843950752
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Girls about Town written by Ulverscroft Large Print Books and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a scintillating collection of stories from some of Scotland's best-loved women writers, who have joined forces with up-and-coming new stars...A high-powered businesswoman metes a devastating revenge on her cheating husband. A bored housewife contacts an old schoolfriend - with unexpected results. Two flabby flatmates race each other in a hilarious weight-loss contest. And a night at the Edinburgh Fringe goes disastrously wrong for Jenny Colgan's hapless heroine...These brand-new stories prove - if proof were needed - that Scottish girls are not to be messed with.

Author : Simon & Schuster, Limited
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780743253055
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Girls about Town Header written by Simon & Schuster, Limited and published by . This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jennifer Weiner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416507310
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Girls about Town written by Jennifer Weiner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen favorite American women authors contribute to this scintillating collection of short stories. Red-hot authors include Jennifer Weiner, Lauren Weisberger, and Adriana Trigiani. Proceeds benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Barnardo's, the largest children's charity in Britain.

Author : Maeve Binchy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743457460
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Girls About Town written by Maeve Binchy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from popular Irish women authors.

Author : Harry Cook
Publisher : Black & White Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1785303058
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fin & Rye & Fireflies written by Harry Cook and published by Black & White Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH TEENAGE BOOK PRIZE 2022 Fin Whittle is sixteen and he likes guys. A fact which seems to be complicating his life. One minute Fin's kissing the godlike Jesse; the next he s been cruelly outed. His family's response? To up sticks in search of a 'fresh start'. A fresh start won't change the truth of who Fin is. Obviously. But it does introduce him to the best squad in town: kick-ass Poppy, her on-off girlfriend June and the super cute, super irresistible Rye. Fin soon has a serious crush. And Rye might just feel the same way. But Fin's parents aren't happy. If their son won't change his 'lifestyle', they ll force him onto the straight and narrow . . . by way of 'conversion therapy'. An outrageous plan is needed to face down the haters and to give Fin and Rye (and their fireflies) a chance at the happy-ever-after their story deserves . . . From moonlit meet-ups to vintage diners, pride parades to a passion for old vinyl, Fin & Rye & Fireflies is a gloriously upbeat tale of being true to yourself no matter what. 'A big-hearted queer romance' - Abdi Nazemian, author of Like a Love Story 'Charming. Sweet. Engaging. Important. Characters you will fall in love with and an author you will as well.' - Greg Howard, author of The Whispers 'All the Love, Simon feelings and then some. As cute and queer as it can get.' - Kai Spellmeier, YA Blogger

Author : Sarah Perry
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 178283821X
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essex Girls written by Sarah Perry and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Not all Essex girls are party girls. They can be sages, martyrs, leaders. In her neat and provocative little book, Sarah Perry celebrates their courage and vivacity.' Hilary Mantel A defence and celebration of the Essex Girl by the best-selling author of The Essex Serpent Essex Girls are disreputable, disrespectful and disobedient. They speak out of turn, too loudly and too often, in an accent irritating to the ruling classes. Their bodies are hyper-sexualised and irredeemably vulgar. They are given to intricate and voluble squabbling. They do not apologise for any of this. And why should they? In this exhilarating feminist defence of the Essex girl, Sarah Perry re-examines her relationship with her much maligned home county. She summons its most unquiet spirits, from Protestant martyr Rose Allin to the indomitable Abolitionist Anne Knight, sitting them alongside Audre Lorde, Kim Kardashian and Harriet Martineau, and showing us that the Essex girl is not bound by geography. She is a type, representing a very particular kind of female agency, and a very particular kind of disdain: she contains a multitude of women, and it is time to celebrate them.

Author : Juliet Shields
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009003054
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Juliet Shields and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the neglected tradition of Scottish women's writing to readers who may already be familiar with English Victorian realism or the historical romances of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, this book corrects male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel by demonstrating how women appropriated the masculine genre of romance.

Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748626395
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender in Scottish History Since 1700 written by Lynn Abrams and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish history is undergoing a renaissance. Everyone agrees that an understanding of our nation's history is integral to our experience of its present and the shaping of the future. But the story of Scotland's past is being told with little reference to gendered identities. Not only are women largely missing from these grand narratives, but men's experience has tended to be sublimated in intellectual, political and economic agendas. Neither femininities nor masculinities have been given much of a place in Scotland's past or in the process of nation-making. Gender in Scottish History offers a new perspective on Scotland's past since around 1700, viewing some of the main themes with a gendered perspective. It starts from the assumption that gender is integral to our understanding of the ways in which societies in the past were organised and that national histories have a tendency to be gender blind. Each chapter engages with one key theme from Scottish historiography, asking what happens when women are added to the story and how the story changes when the meanings of gendered understandings and assumptions are probed. Addressing politics, culture, religion, science, education, work, the family and identity, Gender in Scottish History proposes an alternative reading of the Scottish past which is both inclusive and recognisable.

Author : C.J. Tosh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743491505
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bite written by C.J. Tosh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GO ON. DO IT. BITE OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW. It's Sam Leighton's job as a celebrity journalist to get the scoop on Hollywood's top celebs. But when rumors fly that she cozied up too close to an Oscar-winning Australian, she finds herself looking for a new job -- and a new life. Enter Tom Sanders, one of her closest friends and the life-style editor at a business magazine. To console Sam, he invites her out for dirty martinis, and they fantasize about the magazine they'd start if they could. It would be smart and sexy. It would be all about the ways you can have fun in the world. Then it dawns on Sam: Maybe they could. NOW SWALLOW. Sam and Tom take the message of their new magazine -- it's called Bite -- to heart. They rent cool offices. They test-drive story ideas. They hire a staff of friends old and new. And before the first issue comes out, the new staffers do all the other things young people do. They pickle their livers and obsess over unattainable loves. They dish about celebrities and bicker among themselves. And ultimately they learn one big lesson: Life is short, so take a big bite. Hilarious and witty, Bite offers a delicious behind-the-scenes taste of life at an upstart glossy where everyone's just trying to grab a little piece of the good life!