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That Guy What Kill Topsy

By: Peter Wood Cotterill

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This intriguing collection of the author's stories includes the novella "I ? Rhinos" ("cos they keep on charging!"), which is about a very mixed group of people attending what is alleged to be "a marketing opportunity meeting." Short stories span locations from Zimbabwe to England. The themes range from the successes of an entrepreneurial woman, to the memories of a victim of a war-time bomb, to "The Trouble with Uncle George," as well as the title story about what happened to "That Guy What Kill Topsy." The collection features twenty-five main characters in at least seventeen different settings set during the past seventy years.

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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194948369X

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9781949483697

Rosie, Bara, Gerry & Tom

a novel

By: Peter Wood Cotterill

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Rosie, Bara, Gerry & Tom

a novel

By: Peter Wood Cotterill

Rosie, 24, daughter of a Herero mother and a Cuban soldier, is a refugee from Namibia. She lived with Tom, 42, a down-and-out sculptor, in a North London squat for some weeks when Tom runs into his old friend Gerry. Tom spent years with Gerry, 52, in Southern Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Their chance meeting triggers Tom’s decision to visit Gerry at his home in Bray-on-Thames. There Tom meets Gerry’s wife Bara, 33, who Gerry just deserted. Then Gerry meets Rosie. Bara lets Tom stay in her spare room and they become lovers. Together they start an art gallery. Bara gets elected as a local councillor and later becomes an MP. Rosie, Bara, Gerry & Tom: A novel shares the lives of this foursome from 1995 to 2016. The ramifications and consequences of their chance meetings include a fateful visit to Namibia by Rosie and Gerry; the imprisonment of Gerry for fraud; and Tom ending up homeless again, when Bara sells their home and the gallery, and goes to live in Italy with her girlfriend.

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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1946539759

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9781946539755

Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide

A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865

By: Peter E. Palmquist,Thomas R. Kailbourn

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Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide

A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865

By: Peter E. Palmquist,Thomas R. Kailbourn

This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to, but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865, comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and eastern Canada. This work is distinguished by the large number of entries, by the appealing narratives that cover both professional and private lives of the subjects, and by the painstaking documentation. It will be an essential reference work for historians, libraries, and museums, as well as for collectors of and dealers in early American photography. In addition to photographers, the book includes photographic printers, retouchers, and colorists, and manufacturers and sellers of photographic apparatus and stock. Because creators of moving panoramas and optical amusements such as dioramas and magic lantern performances often fashioned their works after photographs, the people behind those exhibitions are also discussed.

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Stanford University Press

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0804740577

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9780804740579

Trees (Collins New Naturalist Library)

By: Peter Thomas

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Trees (Collins New Naturalist Library)

By: Peter Thomas

Winner of the 2022 Marsh Book of the Year Award A long-awaited volume in the New Naturalist series examining the trees of Britain.

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HarperCollins UK

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0008304521

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9780008304522

Book's by Peter Wood Cotterill

That Guy What Kill Topsy

That Guy What Kill Topsy

Rosie, Bara, Gerry & Tom

Rosie, Bara, Gerry & Tom

Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide

Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide

Trees (Collins New Naturalist Library)

Trees (Collins New Naturalist Library)

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