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Portobello Voices

By: Blanche Girouard

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Portobello Market has been going since 1860. It boasts the largest antiques street market in the world, is a source of inspiration for fashion designers, song writers and film directors, receives over a million visitors a year... and is at risk. In Portobello Voices, Blanche Girouard introduces us to the intoxicating mix of characters that make the market buzz - from the antique dealer to rubbish collector, sausage seller to fur coat vendor, Afghan battery seller to public school entrepreneur. Listening to their stories, learn how to spot a fake, store a fur and make a tin pan; find out what lies behind an obsession with collecting, a passion for buttons and the gusset in boxer shorts and hear how experiences of loss, abandonment and estrangement lead to a life as a market trader. Read the book, rediscover the market and become part of the solution to preserving the wonder that is Portobello.

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0752499599

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Portobello Voices

By: Blanche Girouard

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Portobello Voices

By: Blanche Girouard

Portobello Market has been going since 1860. It boasts the largest antiques street market in the world, is a source of inspiration for fashion designers, song writers and film directors, receives over a million visitors a year ...and is at risk. In Portobello Voices, Blanche Girouard introduces us to the intoxicating mix of characters that make the market buzz - from the antique dealer to rubbish collector, sausage seller to fur coat vendor, Afghan battery seller to public school entrepreneur. Listening to their stories, learn how to spot a fake, store a fur and make a tin pan; find out what lies behind an obsession with collecting, a passion for buttons and the gusset in boxer shorts and hear how experiences of loss, abandonment and estrangement lead to a life as a market trader.Read the book, rediscover the market and become part of the solution to preserving the wonder that is Portobello.

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The Story of Keth

By: Blanche Girouard

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The Story of Keth

By: Blanche Girouard

The Celtic Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced many fascinating works. Amongst the strangest was this unique mythic novel, first published in 1928. Keth is an immortal being, sojourning for a time down in our mortal world to alleviate her boredom. She casts a shadow of consternation wherever she goes, and her beauty has the capacity to enslave men. In rural Ireland she meets Cleran, a saint known for his love of the humble people, and a giver of invaluable help and spiritual succour to them. He is overwhelmed by Keth, and leaves his good works in order to be with her. She is coldly satisfied with his adoration. In what amounts to a fabular progress, Keth and Cleran tour the countryside, meeting the people, causing disturbance and fascination wherever they go, and keeping to the lonely roads and places for periods by themselves. Cleran never seems quite able to find a sense of peace, with regret and unease colouring his world, but he feels held fast. Keth has an immortal's minimal interest in the finer questions of mortal life. Why should she let go of her lover-saint just because the people need him? Until the tension proves too much, she will not make any move... The Story of Keth reads like poetry, with emotion and looming colour foregrounded in lyrical and moody swathes. It is an experience like no other in literature, and earned Blanche Girouard huge praise. This edition includes a biographical introduction by the author's son, Dr Mark Girouard, specially written for this edition.

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