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Author : Peter Kerr
Publisher : Lyons Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585748662
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book Snowball Oranges written by Peter Kerr and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scottish family embarks on a tragicomic adventure growing oranges amidst the eccentric characters of sun-drenched Majorca.
Author : Milan Djordjević
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691205965
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Oranges and Snow written by Milan Djordjević and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Charles Simic introduces and translates one of Serbia’s most important contemporary poets Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has done more than anyone since Czeslaw Milosz to introduce English-language readers to the greatest modern Slavic poets. In Oranges and Snow, Simic continues this work with his translations of one of today's finest Serbian poets, Milan Djordjević. An encounter between two poets and two languages, this bilingual edition—the first selection of Djordjevic's work to appear in English—features Simic's translations and the Serbian originals on facing pages. Simic, a native Serbian speaker, has selected some forty-five of Djordjević's best poems and provides an introduction in which he discusses the poet's work, as well as the challenges of translation. Djordjević, who was born in Belgrade in 1954, is a poet who gives equal weight to imagination and reality. This book ranges across his entire career to date. His earliest poems can deal with something as commonplace as a bulb of garlic, a potato, or an overcoat fallen on the floor. Later poems, often dreamlike and surreal, recount his travels in Germany, France, and England. His recent poems are more autobiographical and realistic and reflect a personal tragedy. Confined to his house after being hit and nearly killed by a car while crossing a Belgrade street in 2007, the poet writes of his humble surroundings, the cats that come to his door, the birds he sees through his window, and the copies of one of his own books that he once burnt to keep warm. Whatever their subject, Djordjević's poems are beautiful, original, and always lyrical.
Author : Peter Kerr
Publisher : Summersdale Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781849530255
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book Snowball Oranges written by Peter Kerr and published by Summersdale Pub Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a Scotsman and his family lived the dream, making their vacation home permanent?and how the local neighbors helped them endure that "dream" I could hardly believe my eyes. A cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our sunny paradise into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and snowball oranges. When the Kerr family leaves Scotland to grow oranges in a secluded valley on the island of Mallorca they are surprised to be greeted by the same freezing weather they left behind. They realize that their new orange farm is a bit of a lemon. Laughter, finds Peter Kerr, is the best medicine when faced with a local dish of rats and the live-chicken-down-a-chimney technique of household maintenance. But their Mallorcan neighbors help them adapt to their new life in this hilarious and revealing memoir, full of life and color, set against the breathtaking beauty of the Mediterranean.
Author : Allan Mallinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846320859
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Download or read book Snowball Oranges written by Allan Mallinson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the stuff of dreams. A Scottish family gives up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of Mallorca. But dreams, as everyone knows, have a nasty habit of not turning out quite as intended. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and experiences, and it isn't long before they realise that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners. However, laughter is the best medicine and a colourful set of Mallorcan neighbours restores the family's faith in human nature and help them adapt to a new and unexpectedly testing life in this deceptively simple idyll of rural Spain...
Author : Peter Kerr
Publisher : Summersdale Publishers LTD
ISBN 13 : 0857654098
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book From Paella to Porridge written by Peter Kerr and published by Summersdale Publishers LTD. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kerr family say goodbye to their orange farm in Mallorca, and put it up for sale after three years of hard work. The Mallorcan experience comes to an end with a farewell fiesta for neighbours and friends, full of comic shenanigans but tinged with sadness. But now begins the return-to-Scotland adventure, and what a cultural shock is in store. Welcomed back by family, the Kerrs make plans to start a deer farm on a remote hillside, the beginning of a period of challenges and change, of buying and restoring houses in the lovely Scottish countryside. Meanwhile, Peter explores Scotland with fresh eyes, visiting such places as the 'Biarritz of the North' where Robert Louis Stevenson used to holiday, and giving us an insider's view of the world-famous Edinburgh Military Tattoo. There's never a dull moment in the Kerr household.
Author : Lynne Hackles
Publisher : How To Books
ISBN 13 : 1848036493
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Writing From Life written by Lynne Hackles and published by How To Books. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will show you how your own personal experiences can provide you with an endless supply of ideas for your writing - whether fiction or non-fiction. You will learn how to write about what you know - and you certainly know a lot. The good news is that the older you are, and the older you get, the more experiences you have had - so you'll always have something to write about. The author, Lynne Hackles, will show you how to make your own 'Raking up your past' file - using memories, lists, diaries, newspapers, smells, family trees, etc. Plus how to turn your own anecdotes, recounted to friends and family, into useful prose; and how to fashion the passed-down history of your ancestors into a family saga. With this book you'll also learn how to: * Sell a snippet of conversation * Make money by sharing secrets * Take your boss and your best friend and come up with a new character * Sell one event in your life to several different markets * Impart knowledge you didn't think you had to people who didn't know they needed it * Use the emotions, traumas, joys and experiences of your own life to make your writing stronger and more saleable With this book you'll never run out of ideas, and writer's block will be a thing of the past.
Author : Alice Leccese Powers
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030749117X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book Spain in Mind written by Alice Leccese Powers and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spellbinding literary travel guide gathers poetry, nonfiction, and fiction about Spain by forty English and American writers. Here are letters and memoirs from Lord Byron, Edith Wharton, and Henry James; a poem about Picasso by E. E. Cummings; and a comic tale by Anthony Trollope in which two Englishmen mistake a Spanish duke for a bullfighter. W. H. Auden, George Orwell, and Langston Hughes record their experiences in the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway takes on bullfighting, Richard Wright is beguiled by gypsy flamenco dancers, and Calvin Trillin pursues an obsession with Spanish peppers. From Chris Stewart’s memoir of his rural retreat in Driving Over Lemons to Barbara Kingsolver’s idyllic portrait of the Canary Islands in “Where the Map Stopped,” the glimpses of another world in Spain in Mind will enchant you. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : Stewart Ferris
Publisher : Summersdale
ISBN 13 : 1783721790
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book How to Get Published written by Stewart Ferris and published by Summersdale. This book was released on 2004-06-06 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a book in them, they say. Having gone through the process of extracting a masterpiece from your head what happens next? In most cases the book will end up in a desk drawer as a pile of papers or inside a computer. But that's not what you want, is it? You wrote it to get published. You want to see your name in print, to go into bookshops and see your book on the shelves. You want to feel that moment of pride when you see someone on the bus reading your book. The concept that a good book will always find a publisher is outdated and over-simplistic. The truth is that most writers remain unpublished because they pay attention only to the quality of their writing. Publishers are business people. Their job is to make money from selling books. They know that high quality writing alone isn't always enough to make a profitable book, so when choosing which manuscripts to sign up for publication they think about many more elements than just the words on the page. After 15 years in the book industry, Stewart Ferris has identified all of the crucial factors that publishers consider besides good writing. How to Get Published reveals for the first time these inside secrets and provides tactics that any writer can use to create the perfect conditions for their own 'lucky break' to happen. *Why books get accepted *How publishing works *How to find a publisher *What to put in a submission *How to write a sizzling synopsis *10 ways to leapfrog other submissions *Sending multiple submissions *Easily avoidable reasons why books get rejected *16 crucial factors that publishers consider when deciding what to publish *And much more! Stewart Ferris has published 500 books, rejected 10,000 submissions, and is the author of more than 20 books.
Author : Lois Ehlert
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152162757
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Snowballs written by Lois Ehlert and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pull on your mittens and head outside with Lois Ehlert for a snowball day Grab some snow and start rolling. With a few found objects, like buttons and fabric and seeds, and a little imagination, you can create a whole family out of snow. "Ehlert uses collages of cut paper and vibrant, textured objects to dazzling effect in her tribute to building a snowman--and snowgirl and snowcat. Her inventive designs extend the reader's perspective and tweak the limits of the picture-book format."--Publishers Weekly
Author : Peter Kerr
Publisher : Summersdale Publishers LTD
ISBN 13 : 1848399480
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Manana Manana written by Peter Kerr and published by Summersdale Publishers LTD. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having battled and succumbed to the manana pace of rural Mallorca, spring sees Peter Kerr and his family relaxing into a supposedly simpler way of life, growing oranges on their little farm, Ca's Mayoral. However, even after the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of their initiation, Spain has not yet finished with them. Embarrassing subtleties of the language, brushes with the local police, the unfortunate outcome of a drinking session; surprises are aplenty to test the resolve, stamina, and, perhaps more importantly, the sense of humor of this venturesome emigre family. Their eccentric and colorful new friends are always on hand to help out—for better or worse—and add spice to this account of tranquilo life.
