Under The Rug Marriage Living Talk About Two Psychotic Cracks Tenement Light House of Que's Penny Voodoo Doll ...

The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon & Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman From Make Good Art the speech that went viral to pieces on artists & legends including Terry Pratchett & Lou Reed the collection offers a glimpse into the head & heart of one of the most acclaimed writers of our time' If this book came to you during a despairing night by dawn you would believe in ideas & hope & humans again' Caitlin Moran' Literature does not occur in a vacuum It cannot be a monologue It has to be a conversation' This collection will draw you in to exchanges on making good art & Syrian refugees the power of a single word & playing the kazoo with Stephen King writing about books comics & the imagination of friends being sad at the Oscars & telling lies for a living Here Neil Gaiman opens our minds to the people he admires & the things he believes might just mean something
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A collection of speeches articles essays & introductions from Sunday Times bestselling author commentator & craftsman Neil Gaiman 544 pages Gaiman Neil ...

A lively diary chronicling the ups & downs of running a grocery shop in a Yorkshire town during the rationing years of the Second World War Kathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister & brother-in-law run a grocery shop in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury From July 1941 to July 1946 she kept a diary for the Mass-Observation project recording the thoughts & concerns of the people who used the shop What makes Kathleen's account such a vivid & compelling read is the immediacy of her writing People were pulling together on the surface (' Bert has painted the V-sign on the shop door' she writes) but there are plenty of tensions underneath The shortage of food & the extreme difficulty of obtaining it is a constant thread which dominates conversation in the town more so even than the danger of bombardment & the war itself Sometimes events take a comic turn A lack of onions provokes outrage among her customers & Kathleen writes 'I believe they think we have secret onion orgies at night & use them all up' The Brooke Bond tea rep complains that tea need not be rationed at all if supply ships were not filled with 'useless goods' such as Corn Flakes & there is a long-running saga about the non-arrival of Smedley's peas Among the chorus of voices she brings us Kathleen herself shines through as a strong & engaging woman who refuses to give in to doubts or misery & who maintains her keen sense of humour even under the most trying conditions A vibrant addition to our records of the Second World War the power of her diary lies in its juxtaposition of the everyday & the extraordinary the homely & the universal small town life & the wartime upheavals of a nation ...

1 Comin’ Down 2 Superstar Tradesman 3 Same Jeans 4 Don’t Tell Me 5 Skag Trendy 6 The Don 7 Face For The Radio 8 Wasted Little DJs 9 Gran’s For Tea 10 Dance Into The Night 11 Claudia 12 Street Lights 13 Wasteland 14 Typical Time ...

Read all about it! Get your special edition copy of the Viking Express today! Like a Viking warrior's muscles it is bulging with news & features including headline news religious news farming news food & drink fashion highlights arts & entertainment property handy hints & even items for sale In here you will find everything you need to know about what's been going on in Britain with the Vikings around Written & designed in a newspaper style the Viking Express covers the KS2 History Curriculum in a fun & inventive way ...

60s B-Movie romp based very loosely on the tale of Bodicea queen of the native Britons In the year 60 AD Queen Salina (Carita) ruler in the absence of her late father King Priam (Wilfred Lawson) enters into a power-sharing agreement with Justinian (Don Murray) a fair & just Roman ruler This displeases the hardliner factions in both the Druid & Roman camps Worse is yet to come as the fair & tender Salina & the cultured rugged Justinian begin to share each other&s straw cots
- incensing all concerned & leading to the prospect of a marriage that whilst offering lasting peace in the meantime threatens to tear the country apart Plotting conniving & treachery naturally ensue
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Thoroughly updated & with a new foreword' The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure For 300 years from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships & left traces that are still part of life today' Far from being just 'wild barbaric axe-wielding pirates' the Vikings created complex social institutions oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia & made a major impact on European history through trade travel & far-flung consolidation This encyclopedic study brings together the latest research on Viking art burial customs class divisions jewellery kingship poetry & family life The result is a rich & compelling picture of an extraordinary civilisation ...

Visit the vicious Vikings & find out how these fearsome warriors lived! Learn about Viking loot & terrorizing raids Discover the Viking gods & the mysteries of their afterlife Read amazing Viking stories find out about deadly blood feuds & learn what would happen to you if you became a Viking slave as you hunt down the secrets of the dead! ...

The Vikings hold a particular place in the history of the West both symbolically & in the significant impact they had on Northern Europe Magnus Magnusson's indispensable study of this great period presents a rounded & fascinating picture of a people who in modern eyes would seem to embody striking contradictions They were undoubtedly pillagers raiders & terrifying warriors but they were also great pioneers artists & traders
- a dynamic people whose skill & daring in their exploration of the world has left an indelible impression a thousand years on
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