The Skylarks Song

Author : Huw Lewis
Publisher : Parthian Books
ISBN 13 : 1912109875
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Hear the Skylark's Song written by Huw Lewis and published by Parthian Books. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A thoughtful and passionate memoir, moving and respectful' Tessa Hadley Huw Lewis was born in Merthyr in 1964. His father an engineer at the Hoover factory, his mother first a housewife then a nurse. He has two older sisters and a younger brother, they were all brought up in the village of Aberfan in south Wales. To Hear the Skylark's Song is a memoir about how Aberfan survived and eventually thrived after the terrible disaster of the 21st of October 1966, when Pantglas school took the full force of thousands of tons of colliery waste and a community lost a generation of children. It is a story about how people held a community together and created a space for each other to thrive. It is also a wonderfully thoughtful and insightful story of what it was like to grow up in a Valley's community in the 70s: a thriving place of people, shops, clubs, chapel concerts, coal mines, interwoven with gossip and stories and, of course, the annual bus trip to Barry Island. Aberfan found a way to carry on, and Huw vividly brings to life how the sense of community provided strength and comfort in the shadow of a lifetime-long grief. A community that continues to innovate and inspire.

Author : Stephen Moss
Publisher : Saraband
ISBN 13 : 1915089751
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skylarks with Rosie written by Stephen Moss and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling British birder, naturalist, writer and broadcaster leads us on a springtime journey of discovery through daily walks in the area surrounding his home, highlighting the joys of connecting with wildlife and our environment. As spring arrives, Stephen Moss’s Somerset garden is awash with birdsong: chiffchaffs, wrens, robins and more. Overhead, buzzards soar, ravens tumble and the season gathers pace. But this equinox is unlike any other. As the nation goes into lockdown, Stephen records the wildlife around his home, with his fox-red Labrador, Rosie, by his side. When old routines fall away, and blue skies are no longer crisscrossed by contrails, they discover the bumblebees, butterflies and birdsong on their local patch. This evocative account underlines how a global crisis changed the way we relate to the natural world, giving us hope for the future. And it puts down a marker for a new normal: when, during that brief but unforgettable spring, nature gave us comfort, hope and joy.

Author : Audrey Howard
Publisher : Fontana Press
ISBN 13 : 9780006170525
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skylark's Song written by Audrey Howard and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1992-03-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857996746
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To a Skylark written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erica James
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 1409159582
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Song of the Skylark written by Erica James and published by Orion. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A beautifully crafted and hugely uplifting tale of friendship, history and love. A real gem' HEAT magazine 'A captivating tale of love and loss' SUNDAY EXPRESS magazine 'A stunning book, brilliantly written ... THE SONG OF THE SKYLARK will totally captivate you and your emotions, impossible to put down' Kaye Thorne Lizzie has an unfortunate knack for attracting bad luck, but this time she's hit the jackpot. Losing her heart to her boss at the radio station where she works leads directly to losing her job, and with no money in the bank she's forced to swallow her pride and return home to her parents. As if that wasn't bad enough, her mother finds her work at the local care home for the elderly, and it's there that Lizzie meets Mrs Dallimore. In her nineties, Mrs Dallimore also finds herself in a situation which she's reluctantly coming to terms with. Old age has finally caught up with her, and with her life drawing to a close she gives in to the temptation to relive the past by sharing it with Lizzie. She tells Lizzie of the day when, as a young girl, and shortly before the outbreak of World War II, she left her home in America to cross the Atlantic to England where she hoped to meet her English grandparents for the first time. At best she hoped for a family reconciliation, but before long her visit turned into so much more. As Lizzie listens to Mrs Dallimore's story, she begins to realize that she's not the only person to attract bad luck, or make mistakes, and maybe things aren't so bad for her after all . . .

Author : Audrey Howard
Publisher : Arrow Books
ISBN 13 : 9780099663713
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skylark's Song written by Audrey Howard and published by Arrow Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe Taylor is born into poverty and hardship. But her beauty marks her out as someone special, and when local schoolmistress Joanna Dale adopts her, Zoe is given her chance for a new far removed from the violence and squalor of her past. Bur fate conspires against her, and she is forced back to her old home where her father's violence threatens her yet again. Her only escape is to run away to the wild and rolling moors, and it is there she meets the only man she will ever love, a man for ever out of reach. . . .

Author : Roy Hattersley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skylark's Song written by Roy Hattersley and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a 1930s mining village Enid is desperate to escape the drudgery and bullying of home. She is taking instruction from the Catholic priest before marrying a good natured collier whom she doesn't love. The discovery that the priest loves her leads to a conflict of family, church and duty.

Author : Paul Donald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408133342
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skylark written by Paul Donald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Skylark is one of Britain's most popular and inspirational birds, and in recent years it has also been one of the most newsworthy. The species' population has plummeted as a consequence of changes in farming practice, and the RSPB has launched a major research and fund-raising campaign to save the 'blithe spirit' from further decline. This book looks at all aspects of the life of the Skylark, from its biology, migratory patterns, breeding behaviour and habitat requirements, to its role in legend and folklore. It also discusses its recent rapid decline which has led to the species being placed on the top-priority 'red list' of Birds of Conservation Concern by the leading governmental and non-governmental conservation organisations in the UK. Three closely related species, Oriental and Japanese Skylarks and the enigmatic Raso Lark are also discussed.

Author : Christina Georgina Rossetti
Publisher : Dial Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780803711433
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skylark written by Christina Georgina Rossetti and published by Dial Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1991-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christina Rossetti's poem focusing on a skylark in nature is illustrated with paintings from the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Author : William KIDD (Naturalist)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kidd's song-birds ... the Skylark, the Woodlark, and the Robin Redbreast written by William KIDD (Naturalist) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: