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Stop the Clocks

Thoughts on What I Leave Behind

By: Joan Bakewell

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Stop the Clocks

Thoughts on What I Leave Behind

By: Joan Bakewell

Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has been a teacher, copywriter, studio manager, broadcaster, journalist, the government's Voice of Older People and chair of the theatre company Shared Experience. She has written four radio plays, two novels and an autobiography - The Centre of The Bed. Now in her 80s, she is still broadcasting. Though it may look as though she is now part of the establishment - a Dame, President of Birkbeck College, a Member of the House of Lords as Baroness Bakewell of Stockport - she's anything but and remains outspoken and courageous. In Stop the Clocks, she muses on all she has lived through, how the world has changed and considers the things and values she will be leaving behind. Stop the Clocks is a book of musings, a look back at what she was given by her family, at the times in which she grew up - ranging from the minutiae of life such as the knowledge of how to darn and how to make a bed properly with hospital corners, to the bigger lessons of politics, of lovers, of betrayal. She talks of the present, of her family, of friends and literature - and talks too of what she will leave behind. This is a thoughtful, moving and spirited book as only could be expected from this extraordinary woman.

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0349006105

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The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography

By: Joan Bakewell

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The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography

By: Joan Bakewell

Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer 'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking chunks out of the Berlin Wall when it fell...draped in the kaftan of Sixties sophistication.' Independent on Sunday Joan Bakewell's life and times spans the Blitz in Manchester, Cambridge during the glittering era of Michael Frayn, Peter Hall, Jonathan Miller et al, London at its most exciting in the swinging sixties and the world of the media and the arts from the 60s to the present. As she reflects on the choices she has made and the influences that shaped her, she confronts painful childhood memories of her mother's behaviour and describes both her affair with Harold Pinter and her two marriages with remarkable honesty. Throughout she uses her own experience to explore the extraordinary change in women's roles during her lifetime. This is no ordinary celebrity autobiography but a memoir that is beautifully written, frank and absorbing, which draws a thought-provoking portrait of Britain in the last 70 years. Dame Joan Bakewell was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship in 2019.

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1529362180

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The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography

By: Joan Bakewell

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A Portrait of Joan

The Autobiography of Joan Crawford

By: Joan Crawford

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A Portrait of Joan

The Autobiography of Joan Crawford

By: Joan Crawford

One of Hollywood’s greatest stars recalls her fabulous life: at nine, scrubbing floors in a Kansas City school; at twenty, motion picture stardom and marriage to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; in 1945, the Academy Award for her sensational comeback-triumph in Mildred Pierce; and today, a glamorous “double life” as Hollywood star and corporation executive. Richly illustrated with photographs throughout.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787208915

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Rural Economy of England

By: Joan Thirsk

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Rural Economy of England

By: Joan Thirsk

No one has done more to emphasise the significance of the land in early modern England that Joan Thirsk, whose writings are both an important contribution to its history and point the way for future research. The subjects of this collection include the origin and nature of the common fields, Tudor enclosures, the Commonwealth confiscation of Royalist land and its subsequent return after the Restoration, inheritance customs, and the role of industries in the rural economy, among them stocking knitting.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0826445241

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Please Help Me

By: Joan Davy

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Please Help Me

By: Joan Davy

When I was 4 I remember walking on paving stones: avoiding the cracks, living in the moment with a nice clear mind. Grandma looked after me while my mother worked. When I was 7 life changed when my mother married someone she hardly knew. I am taken to hell to live with them. I believe in hell. It was at Number 34. There was no grown-up to stop the deluge of abuse. A blanket is thrown over my mind and I hide under it. Worry and anxiety have seeped into my soul and there they stay. At sixteen I think I have been clever to get pregnant so I can marry and get away but I am trapped. I worry about what is happening with my half-sisters. At twenty my mind is not coping and I urgently need someone to help me but there is still no one to turn to. Thats the day a visitor enters my kitchen and lets me see something beyond my wildest imagination. Can I tell you about it? Every word is true. Through my future life struggles I am told I can contact the visitor for help anytime. And I do. Often.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483622215

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Ici Repose: A Guide to St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, Square 3, Deluxe Edition

By: Karen Joan Kohoutek

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Ici Repose: A Guide to St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, Square 3, Deluxe Edition

By: Karen Joan Kohoutek

The Deluxe Edition of Ici Repose is a full-color, comprehensive visual guide to the tombs in New Orleans' historic, predominantly African-American St. Louis Cemetery #2, Square 3. This includes society and organization tombs (religious orders among them), and missing tombs. Each row within the cemetery is prefaced with a "you are here" map, which allows you to walk down the row, finding the names associated with each tomb, based on publicly available information which has been correlated and cross-referenced. Within the rows, there is a photo of each tomb, along with its tombstone inscriptions and historical and biographical notations. There are also translations of French inscriptions; a list of tombs that can be identified as the work of a particular stone cutter; a section on the Square's wall vaults; and discussion of the discrepancies that have cropped up between the different sources.

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Lulu.com

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0578198797

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9780578198798

Gorgeous Beasts

Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective

By: Joan B. Landes,Paula Young Lee,Paul Youngquist

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Gorgeous Beasts

Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective

By: Joan B. Landes,Paula Young Lee,Paul Youngquist

A collection of essays examining the place of animals in history and culture and their influence on life and art, from the Renaissance to the present"--Provided by publisher.

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Penn State Press

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0271054018

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9780271054018

The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

By: Joan M. Marter

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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

By: Joan M. Marter

Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195335791

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Cider Beans, Wild Greens, and Dandelion Jelly

Recipes from Southern Appalachia

By: Joan E. Aller

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Cider Beans, Wild Greens, and Dandelion Jelly

Recipes from Southern Appalachia

By: Joan E. Aller

Down-home and delicious recipes from southern Appalachia, plus photos and tidbits on the region’s history and culture. There are many cookbooks about Southern cooking, but precious few celebrate the southern Appalachian food that has sustained mountain folk past and present. Thankfully, we now have Joan E. Aller’s Cider Beans, Wild Greens, and Dandelion Jelly. Featuring more than 150 recipes for down-home, soul-satisfying dishes, this is more than just a cookbook. Complete with passages on the history, places, and people of southern Appalachia, along with lush full-color photography of the food and scenery of the southern Appalachian Mountains, Cider Beans, Wild Greens, and Dandelion Jelly serves as both a cookbook and a guided tour of the local lore, traditions, and culture of this uniquely American region. “For all foodies and lovers of hearty food that feeds both body and soul, Joan Aller unearths a mother lode of southern Appalachian sustenance.” —Appalachian News

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1449400183

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A Companion to Clare of Assisi

Life, Writings, and Spirituality

By: Joan Mueller

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A Companion to Clare of Assisi

Life, Writings, and Spirituality

By: Joan Mueller

Clare of Assisi: Life, Writings and Spirituality examines Clare not merely as an obedient footnote to the friars, but as a Franciscan founder in her own right who kept primitive Franciscan ideals alive into the middle of the thirteenth century and transposed them into a woman’s key. Bringing together the best of international research, the text examines Clare’s importance within the early Franciscan milieu and her contribution to the thirteenth-century women's movement. It studies the radicalism of Clare's Franciscan choice, her life within the Monastery of San Damiano, her politicking with Agnes of Prague for the "privilege of poverty," and her uniqueness among other women in Gregory IX's Damianite ordo. Following this historical study are critical translations and literary analyses of Clare's four letters to Agnes of Prague as well as a new translation and commentary on Clare’s Forma Vitae.

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BRILL

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900419343X

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Ici Repose: A Guide to St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, Square 3

By: Karen Joan Kohoutek

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Ici Repose: A Guide to St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, Square 3

By: Karen Joan Kohoutek

Ici Repose is a comprehensive visual guide to the tombs in New Orleans' historic, predominantly African-American St. Louis Cemetery #2, Square 3. This includes society and organization tombs (religious orders among them), and missing tombs. Each row within the cemetery is prefaced with a "you are here" map, which allows you to walk down the row, finding the names associated with each tomb, based on publicly available information which has been correlated and cross-referenced. Within the rows, there is a photo of each tomb, along with its tombstone inscriptions and historical and biographical notations. There are also translations of French inscriptions; a list of tombs that can be identified as the work of a particular stone cutter; a section on the Square's wall vaults; and discussion of the discrepancies that have cropped up between the different sources.

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0578196948

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Behind the Shoulder Pads

Tales I Tell My Friends

By: Joan Collins

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Behind the Shoulder Pads

Tales I Tell My Friends

By: Joan Collins

“I’ve had many amazing adventures in my life. Some stories, though, I have only ever shared with my friends.… Until now!” Dame Joan Collins has always believed that one should retain some mystery in life and hide a knowing smile behind one’s shoulder pads. In her new book, she returns in dazzling form to share her most memorable moments from her eclectic and vibrant life—in and out of the limelight. Behind the Shoulder Pads will take you on a spectacular journey from her early years as a young star in Hollywood to stamping her stilettos in Dynasty; from the glittering heights of Saint-Tropez to the busy Oscars seasons in LA over the years. Joan writes movingly about her adventures with and grief for her sister, Jackie, delves deeper into the ups and downs of love and relationships, and discusses her happiness with husband Percy. Filled with a cast of household names and Hollywood icons, Behind the Shoulder Pads is a spectacularly entertaining tour de force bound to delight and shock in equal measures. Hilarious, intimate, and completely spellbinding, Joan invites you into her life like never before, sharing the stories she only tells her closest friends.

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Simon and Schuster

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9798888451632

The Girl from Paris

By: Joan Aiken

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The Girl from Paris

By: Joan Aiken

To save her family, she will need to go back to the place she once longed to escape...her home Ellen Paget's desire to break convention and spread her wings led her to a position as a governess in Paris—and family tragedy and scandal led her back to London. Benedict Masham has long carried a torch for Ellen and her return has reignited his passion. Now he vows to express his love for her through unwavering help and support during this difficult time. To keep her family safe, Ellen must uses all her ingenuity and daring to solve the mysteries of the past and present, and in the meantime she finds romance in a place she least expects it—in Benedict's awaiting arms. The Paget Family Saga: The Smile of the Stranger (Book 1) The Weeping Ash (Book 2) The Girl from Paris (Book 3)

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1492641340

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9781492641346

Conceptual Foundations - E-Book

The Bridge to Professional Nursing Practice

By: Elizabeth E. Friberg,Joan L. Creasia

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The Bridge to Professional Nursing Practice

By: Elizabeth E. Friberg,Joan L. Creasia

Conceptual Foundations: The Bridge to Professional Nursing Practice, 5th Edition provides the background you need to succeed in your role as a professional nurse. It discusses the concepts that define the nursing profession, covering everything from the history of nursing to current challenges in the profession. Expert educators Joan L. Creasia, PhD, RN, and Elizabeth E. Friberg, MSN, RN, bring together the best minds of nursing for an in-depth look at the profession's major theories, practices, and principles. Vignettes, each written by a practicing nurse, open each chapter with a specific scenario and application of professional behaviors. Critical Thinking Exercises at the end of each chapter help you to use and apply what you've learned. Objectives at the beginning of each chapter provide a framework for study. Key points at the end of each chapter help you focus on important information. New Patient Safety chapter prepares you for expanded nursing responsibility for patient safety, adherence to regulatory requirements of the Joint Commission, and the implementation of best practices to create health care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered. New Genetics and Genomics in Professional Nursing chapter defines the nurse's role in family history assessment and genetic testing, explains how genetic testing is used in clinical practice, and identifies ethical issues related to this emerging practice.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323266207

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Every Inch a Lady

A Murder of the Fifties

By: Joan Fleming

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Every Inch a Lady

A Murder of the Fifties

By: Joan Fleming

The murder of young York Cragg, stabbed like a pin-cushion until the stuffing comes out, is the first of two violent killings. His twenty-four-year-old wife Easter, every inch a lady, refuses to move out of the house where he is found quite dead, and riddled with knife wounds. Meanwhile, her father-in-law, Jason Cragg, and an enigmatic new friend, Nathaniel Sapperton, try to unmask the killer. Clue number one is a photograph of an actress found in Cragg's dresser drawer ...

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Orion

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1471902447

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9781471902444

Managing the Secondary School

By: Mrs Joan Dean,Joan Dean

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Managing the Secondary School

By: Mrs Joan Dean,Joan Dean

This new edition of Managing the Secondary School brings up to date the consideration of the talks and skills of the headtecher which was a feature of the first edition. The book deals with all aspects of the headteachers' role including marketing the school and managing the budget. It also deals in some detail with the problems of managing change and with the role of governors and parents in today's schools. Throughout the book, Joan Dean considers the implications of the Education Reform Act and the National Cucciculum. Managing the Secondary School is essential reading for practising and aspiring headteachers of secondary schools. It will also appeal to school governors, to advisers, inspectors and consultants working with secondary schools and to those concerned with the appraisal and training of headteachers.

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Routledge

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1134882173

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9781134882175

English Peasant Farming

The Agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to Recent Times

By: Joan Thirsk

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English Peasant Farming

The Agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to Recent Times

By: Joan Thirsk

English society until the mid-eighteenth century was a predominantly rural and a peasant society. Yet we know surprisingly little about peasant life. This volume originally published in 1957, presents the agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to recent times.

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1136582029

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A Social History of Medicine

Health, Healing and Disease in England, 1750-1950

By: Joan Lane

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A Social History of Medicine

Health, Healing and Disease in England, 1750-1950

By: Joan Lane

A Social History of Medicine traces the development of medical practice from the Industrial Revolution right through to the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of source material, it charts the changing relationship between patients and practitioners over this period, exploring the impact made by institutional care, government intervention and scientific discovery. The study illuminates the extent to which medical assistance really was available to patients over the period, by focusing on provincial areas and using local sources. It introduces a variety of contemporary medical practitioners, some of them hitherto unknown and with fascinating intricate details of their work. The text offers an extensive thematic survey, including coverage of: * institutions such as hospitals, dispensaries, asylums and prisons * midwifery and nursing * infections and how changes in science have affected disease control * contraception, war, and the NHS.

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1135119201

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Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology E-Book

By: Daniel M. Albert,Joan W. Miller,Dimitri T. Azar,Barbara A. Blodi

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Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology E-Book

By: Daniel M. Albert,Joan W. Miller,Dimitri T. Azar,Barbara A. Blodi

Inside the 3rd edition of this esteemed masterwork, hundreds of the most distinguished authorities from around the world provide today's best answers to every question that arises in your practice. They deliver in-depth guidance on new diagnostic approaches, operative technique, and treatment option, as well as cogent explanations of every new scientific concept and its clinical importance. With its new streamlined, more user-friendly, full-color format, this 3rd edition makes reference much faster, easier, and more versatile. More than ever, it's the source you need to efficiently and confidently overcome any clinical challenge you may face. Comprehensive, authoritative, and richly illustrated coverage of every scientific and clinical principle in ophthalmology ensures that you will always be able to find the guidance you need to diagnose and manage your patients' ocular problems and meet today's standards of care. Updates include completely new sections on "Refractive Surgery" and "Ethics and Professionalism"... an updated and expanded "Geneitcs" section... an updated "Retina" section featuring OCT imaging and new drug therapies for macular degeneration... and many other important new developments that affect your patient care. A streamlined format and a new, more user-friendly full-color design - with many at-a-glance summary tables, algorithms, boxes, diagrams, and thousands of phenomenal color illustrations - allows you to locate the assistance you need more rapidly than ever.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437721117

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9781437721119

Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches

Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century

By: Joan Cameron Bristol

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Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches

Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century

By: Joan Cameron Bristol

New information from Inquisition documents shows how African slaves in Mexico adapted to the constraints of the Church and the Spanish crown in order to survive in their communities.

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UNM Press

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0826337996

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9780826337993

The Glass Industry in South Boston

By: Joan E. Kaiser

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The Glass Industry in South Boston

By: Joan E. Kaiser

A history of and collectors' guide to nineteenth-century glass manufacturing in South Boston

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UPNE

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1584658045

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Kiss and Part

Short Stories

By: Salley Vickers ,Joan Bakewell ,Marina Warner ,Jo Baker,Elizabeth Speller ,Maggie Gee ,Maria McCann ,Jill Dawson,Catherine Fox,Lucy Durneen

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Kiss and Part

Short Stories

By: Salley Vickers ,Joan Bakewell ,Marina Warner ,Jo Baker,Elizabeth Speller ,Maggie Gee ,Maria McCann ,Jill Dawson,Catherine Fox,Lucy Durneen

What does it mean to 'kiss and part'? This collection of previously unpublished short stories from a stellar list of contemporary women novelists is a literary celebration of the spirit of place. Each contributor shares one thing in common - they have all stayed at a small cottage in the village of Clifford Chambers near Stratford-upon-Avon, courtesy of a trust set up to provide women writers with ‘a room of one’s own’, as Virginia Woolf put it. Clifford Chambers was the home of the Jacobean poet Michael Drayton, who incorporated the phrase ‘Kiss and part’ into a sonnet. Each of the ten short stories in this collection takes this as its theme and the result is wonderfully eclectic mix of storytelling of the highest quality. All royalties go the Hosking Houses Trust to further encourage women’s writing. Contents List Preface ‘Kiss and Part’ by Michael Drayton Introduction by Margaret Drabble Buck Moon Marina Warner ‘A Merrie Meeting’ Salley Vickers The Incumbent Elizabeth Speller ‘Colossal Wreck’ Maria McCann The Visitation Maggie Gee And the River Flows On Joan Bakewell The Creature Jill Dawson The Turn Catherine Fox The Fabric of Things Jo Baker ‘Place of Dreams’ Lucy Durneen The Writers Afterword by Sarah Hosking Acknowledgements of Photographs

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Canterbury Press

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1786221926

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The Centre of the Bed

By: Joan Bakewell

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The Centre of the Bed

By: Joan Bakewell

The story of Joan Bakewell's life and times spans the Blitz in Manchester, Cambridge during the glittering era of Michael Frayn, Peter Hall, Jonathan Miller et al, London at its most exciting in the swinging sixties and the world of the media and the arts from the 60s to the present. As she reflects on the choices she has made and the influences that shaped her, she confronts painful childhood memories of her mother's behaviour and describes both her affair with Harold Pinter and her two marriages with remarkable honesty. Throughout she uses her own experience to explore the extraordinary change in women's roles during her lifetime. This is no ordinary celebrity autobiography but a memoir that is beautifully written, frank and absorbing, which draws a thought-provoking portrait of Britain in the last 70 years.

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0340823119

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The View from Here

Life at Seventy

By: Joan Bakewell

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The View from Here

Life at Seventy

By: Joan Bakewell

Joan Bakewell presents an account of life at 70 and beyond. This work includes all of life, including the taboos of old age, - work, family, love, sex, body and death.

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1405648376

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A Masculine Ending

By: Joan Smith

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A Masculine Ending

By: Joan Smith

Loretta Lawson, a feminist professor visiting Paris to deliver a paper on the oppressive nature of masculine grammatical forms, stumbles across the murder of an Oxford don. But when the body disappears, she returns to England without alerting the French police, but is resolved to solve the mystery from across the Channel. The BBC adaptation of A Masculine Ending, starring Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton, premiered in 1992. 'I love Loretta' - P.D. James 'Ms. Smith is a literate writer who, in this accomplished novel, manages both to educate and to entertain, which is no mean achievement.' - The New York Times

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A&C Black

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1448207851

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