Tamara Drewe

Author : Posy Simmonds
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780547154121
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tamara Drewe written by Posy Simmonds and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamara Drew is loosely inspired by a 19th century novel -- Far From the Madding Crowd. Set in a writers' retreat, it is a thrilling tale of jealousy and desire.

Author : Richard Warren Field
Publisher : Strider Nolan Media
ISBN 13 : 193204521X
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swords of Faith written by Richard Warren Field and published by Strider Nolan Media. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic novel steeped in action, intrigue, and romance. July 1187: the forces of the Muslim sultan known as Saladin have defeated the army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, allowing Saladin to achieve his lifelong ambition of recapturing the Holy City for Islam. This sets the stage for the Third Crusade: the confrontation between Saladin and the legendary Christian warrior, Richard the Lionheart. Both men believe they are destined by God to lead their holy armies to complete victory. Richard, a legendary warrior with a keen military mind, finds his vow to retake Jerusalem complicated by infighting over succession to the British throne, a rivalry with the French king, and a choice between two potential queens. Meanwhile, Saladin struggles to keep his fractious forces together while remaining true to the noblest principles of Islam. These events are also portrayed through the eyes of two common men: Pierre of Botron is a Christian knight who is captured on the battlefield and subjected to the indignity of slavery. Rashid of Yenbo is a Muslim trader who finds prosperity in Saladin's triumphs. The relationship between Rashid and Pierre offers the possibility that people of good will can overcome polarizing conflicts. As events build toward the Battle of Jaffa, one of the most well-known conflicts of the Crusades, the fates of the characters depend on the choices they make between the compassionate and fanatical aspects of their faiths. The Swords of Faith offers an eye-opening comparison and contrast of the tenets of Christianity and Islam, insights that reverberate into the present day.

Author : Posy Simmonds
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409029050
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cassandra Darke written by Posy Simmonds and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***WINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2020*** 'Simmonds is a copper-bottomed genius... she is as brilliant a writer as Britain has' Jenny Colgan, Mail Online Cassandra Darke is an art dealer, mean, selfish, solitary by nature, living in Chelsea in a house worth £7 million. She has become a social pariah, but doesn't much care. Between one Christmas and the next, she has sullied the reputation of a West End gallery and has acquired a conviction for fraud, a suspended sentence and a bank balance drained by lawsuits. On the scale of villainy, fraud seems to Cassandra a rather paltry offence - her own crime involving 'no violence, no weapon, no dead body'. But in Cassandra's basement, her young ex-lodger, Nicki, has left a surprise, something which implies at least violence and probably a body . . . Something which forces Cassandra out of her rich enclave and onto the streets. Not those local streets paved with gold and lit with festive glitter, but grimmer, darker places, where she must make the choice between self-sacrifice and running for her life.

Author : Posy Simmonds
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0224061143
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gemma Bovery written by Posy Simmonds and published by Random House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posy Simmonds' extraordinary reworking of Madame Bovary as a graphic novel Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bete-noire of his ex-wife. Gemma's sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy, where the charms of French country living soon wear off. Is it a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a name rather like Flaubert's notorious heroine? Is it by chance that, like Madame Bovary, Gemma is bored, adulterous, and a bad credit risk? Is she inevitably doomed? These questions consume Gemma's neighbor, the intellectual baker, Joubert. Denying voyeurism, but nevertheless noting every change in the fit of her jeans, every addition to Gemma's wardrobe, her love-bites and lovers, Joubert, with the help of the heroine's diaries, follows her path towards ruin. Adultery and its consequences. Disappointment and deception. The English in France. Fat and slim. Then and now. Many familiar ingredients of the novel are given new life in Gemma Bovery's unique graphic form. Like Posy Simmond's legendary cartoon strips featuring the Weber family, Gemma Bovery was published in weekly parts in the Guardian.

Author : Posy Simmonds
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448129419
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs Weber's Omnibus written by Posy Simmonds and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1977 Posy Simmonds, an unknown young illustrator, started drawing a weekly comic strip for the Guardian. It began as a silly parody of girls' adventure stories, making satirical comments about contemporary life. The strip soon focused on three 1950s school friends in their later middle-class and nearly middle-aged lives: Wendy Weber, a former nurse married to polytechnic sociology lecturer George with a large brood of children; Jo Heep, married to whisky salesman Edmund with two rebellious teenagers; and Trish Wright, married to philandering advertising executive Stanhope and with a young baby. The strip, which was latterly untitled and usually known just as 'Posy', ran until the late 1980s. Collected here for the first time are the complete strips. Although celebrated for pinpointing the concerns of Guardian readers in the 1980s and their constant struggle to remain true to the ideals of the 1960s, they are in fact remarkably undated. They show one of Britain's favourite cartoonists, celebrated for Literary Life and Tamara Drewe, maturing into genius.

Author : Posy Simmonds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783441051
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baker Cat written by Posy Simmonds and published by . This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful tale of triumph over adversity, a hilarious must-read for parents as well as children All day long the baker's cat toils in the bakery and all night he is expected to catch the mice that run riot in the storeroom. If he doesn't catch any mice, the beastly baker tells him, he won't get any food. Too exhausted to chase after the cheery rodents, the baker's cat becomes thin and sad and weepy, until the mice take pity on him and together they concoct a clever plan.

Author : Posy Simmonds
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0224072692
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Life written by Posy Simmonds and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of approximately fifty 'Literary Life' cartoons which were serialised weekly every Saturday in the Guardian's Review section from November 2002 until December 2004, and two short stories, 'Murder at Matabele Mansions' and 'Cinderella'. Posy Simmonds examines the pretensions of the literary world with her customary flair for light, witty satire and social observation. Women writers suffer 'Rustic Block' after moving to the countryside, type their sexual fantasies into their laptop, and (in 'Enemies of Promise') juggle the dilemmas of feminism and motherhood. Male authors are shown suffering the ego-perils of coming into contact with the public at book signings, and complain about reviewers and 'media hoops'. Jealousies and rivalries emerge out of reading groups; struggling small booksellers have to deal with recalcitrant customers or sales reps pushing the latest celebrity book. Simmonds' penchant for literary pastiche and parody is given full rein, as in 'Murder at Matebele Mansions'. And she wickedly suggests a family's fixed smiles as a young girl explains the plot of her Harry Potter book ... Funny, insightful and beautifully drawn, Literary Life will delight fans of Gemma Bovery.

Author : Duncan Minshull
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008414122
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories written by Duncan Minshull and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you?

Author : Mike Dawson
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 : 9780224081931
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freddie and Me written by Mike Dawson and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This graphic memoir tells of Mike Dawson's lifelong obsession with Freddie Mercury and Queen. Told alternately from Mike's childhood, teenage and adult perspectives, it explores the way in which music changes and shapes our lives, and the way in which random memories can both prop up and undermine the stories we tell ourselves.

Author : Sibylle Baumbach
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030325989
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Approaches to the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel written by Sibylle Baumbach and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the complex ways in which the novel offers a vibrant arena for critically engaging with our contemporary world and scrutinises the genre's political, ethical, and aesthetic value. Far-reaching cultural, political, and technological changes during the past two decades have created new contexts for the novel, which have yet to be accounted for in literary studies. Addressing the need for fresh transdisciplinary approaches that explore these developments, the book focuses on the multifaceted responses of the novel to key global challenges, including migration and cosmopolitanism, posthumanism and ecosickness, human and animal rights, affect and biopolitics, human cognition and anxieties of inattention, and the transculturality of terror. By doing so, it testifies to the ongoing cultural relevance of the genre. Lastly, it examines a range of 21st-century Anglophone novels to encourage new critical discourses in literary studies.