Keep Calm & Carry On was a WWII government poster discovered in a dusty box nine years ago. Though it never saw the light ...

Keep Calm & Carry On was a WWII government poster discovered in a dusty box nine years ago. Though it never saw the light ...

Originally published in 1936, before Orwell achieved fame, Keep the Aspidistra Flying takes Money as its theme. Gordon Comstock gives up a good job in an advertising agency to become part-time bookshop assistant at a meagre wage, thereby gaining leisure for writing. However, after some modest success in the world of letters he eventually slides into the abyss, to be rescu by the faithful Rosemary. Ironically, Gordon's voyage of discovery leads him back to commercial security, marriage, & the unexpected pleasures of domesticity. But above all he learns of the courage of keeping up appearances despite hardships. The symbol of this is the potted aspidistras: the ugly, stubborn, organic emblem of social & biological survival. This new edition restores most of the material censored on first publication due to fears of action for libel, defamation & obscenity Of particular interest are the previously suppressed advertising slogans of the 1930s &, in light of the censorship he experienced, Orwell's ironic choice of surname for Gordon: Comstock. ...

Whether you suffer from aches, pains & creaky joints, or you simply feel old beyond your years, Keep Your Joints Young will ...

John Hendrie, Barnsley's ex-manager, on Lars Leese: ' Lars Leese is a shambles. He's a loser who never achieved anything.' Dave Hill, in the Guardian, on The Keeper of Dreams: ' Leese's outsider story takes us
- to the true heartbeat of our national game' At the age of 28, German goalkeeper Lars Leese was catapulted from a minor league football field somewhere near Cologne to a small industrial town in the north of Engl&. Something of a culture shock, certainly, but nothing compared to finding himself in goal for Barnsley playing the mighty Liverpool at Anfield in front of over 45, 000 spectators. Plucked from obscurity & playing in one of the most important leagues in the world, Leese experienced in real life what thousands of boys
- & men
- can only dream of: stepping out of the crowd & onto a Premiership pitch. Lars Leese's foray into the wild world of professional football lasted only three years, but his journey from computer software salesman to Premiership goalie is a remarkable story. Here, Ronald Reng traces his stratospheric rise & equally alarming descent: the resulting narrative is an indispensable antidote to the traditional footballing briography & a unique
- & at times shocking
- outsider's view of English life. Not since you last read the back pages of the News of the World will you have seen such an accurate picture of life as a Premiership footballer.' Remarkable- Provides an extraordinary snap-shot of English behaviour in a professional football dressing-room & in a Yorkshire town.' Henry Winter, Daily Telegraph




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In Keeper of Genesis, Robert Bauval & Graham Hancock present a tour de force of historical & scientific detective ...

Alex is always being left on the bench
- in fact, he's sure he's only in the team at all because his dad helps out at his team's
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Orwell wrote to his anarchist friend, George Woodcock in December 1942 arguing that 'by working inside an institution like the BBC one can perhaps deodorise it to some extent'. & he concluded, 'I consider I have kept our little corner of it fairly clean'. In addition to the magazine programme, ' Voice', Orwell continued to develop what would now be called an 'open university': broadcasts by distinguished speakers on texts set for Bombay & Calcutta university degrees. He enlisted such speakers as E. M. Forster, T. S Eliot & Joseph Needham & the broadcasts were backed up by [publications printed in India for university students. Classical & Indian music programmes were broadcast; there was regular film critism & an innovative practical theatre series, ' Let's Act it Ourselves'. Some of Orwell's scripts, such as that for his ' Imaginary Interview with Jonathan Swift', pose difficult textual problems & these are fully examined & annotated. The script of Eileen Blair's broadcast for the series, ' In Your Kitchen' has been included. Orwell still found time to write a number of reviews, contribute to Partisan Review, & write essays on Hardy, Henry Miller, & Yeats. ...

Orwell wrote to his anarchist friend, George Woodcock in December 1942 arguing that 'by working inside an institution like the BBC one can perhaps deodorise it to some extent', & he concluded, 'I consider I have kept our little corner of it fairly clean'. In addition to the magazine programme, ' Voice', Orwell continued to develop what would now be called an 'open university': broadcasts by distinguished speakers on texts set for Bombay & Calcutta university degrees. He enlisted such speakers as E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot & Joseph Needham & the broadcasts were backed up by publications printed in India for university students. Classical & Indian music programmes were broadcast; there was regular film criticism & an innovative practical theatre series, ' Let's Act it Ourselves'. Some of Orwell's scripts, such as that for his ' Imaginary Interview with Jonathan Swift', pose difficult textual problems & these are fully examined & annotated. The script of Eileen Blair's broadcast for the series, ' In Your Kitchen' has been included. Orwell still found time to write a number of reviews, contribute to Partisan Review, & write essays on Hardy, Henry Miller, & Yeats. ...

It was his hideout, but now he did not feel safe at all.

The birds had suddenly gone quiet, & the boy was certain

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