The Twenty Seven Club

Author: Lucy Nichol
Publisher: Lark
ISBN: 1838374418
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
“A moving exploration of mental health, enduring music myths and why love can help us through.” Stylist Magazine It’s 1994. The music industry is mourning Kurt Cobain, Right Said Fred have re-emerged as an ‘ironic’ pop act and John Major is the country’s prime minister. Nothing is as it should be. Emma, a rock music fan from Hull, with a penchant for a flaming Drambuie and a line of coke with her best mate Dave down The Angel, is troubled. Trev, her beloved whippet, has doggy IBS, and her job ordering bathroom supplies at the local caravan company is far from challenging. So when her dad, Tel, informs her that Kurt Cobain has killed himself aged 27, Emma is consumed with anxiety. Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix…why have so many rock musicians died aged 27? And will Emma be next to join The Twenty Seven Club? The Twenty Seven Club is a nostalgic, often humorous, drug and booze-infused tale of friendship, discovery and anxiety as Emma tries, for once, to focus on life, rather than death.

Welcome to Horneytown, North Carolina, Population: 15

Author: Quentin Parker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440507392
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description
Titz. Twatt. Turda. And those are just the Ts. The world is full of wonderful, weird, and wild places. From Point Stupid and Mount Dick to Lake Cock and the River Suck, there are hundreds of towns, cities, mountains, deserts, and bodies of water around the globe that defy description and explanation--until now. In this book, the secret histories, mysteries, and peccadilloes of the world’s most laudably laughable places are revealed for the very first time (that we know of) for your reading pleasure. With sidebars that explain the etymology and origin of the place names, along with each place’s most famous residents, titillating scandals, and claims to fame, you’ll find this one-of-a-kind tell-all guide as funny as it is fascinating. Welcome to Horneytown, North Carolina, Population: 15--because no matter where you may find yourself right now, it’s good to know that there’s always somewhere worse!

The White Noise Collective

Author: Helena Oele
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504945891
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 469

Book Description
If you were told that you looked good in something; would you wear it more? What if it's a lie? How many white lies does it take to alter the course of your life, as you buy wardrobe after wardrobe of hideous rags? How many lies had her mother told her? How many untruths of this nature had caused her to believe that she was good at something? How many of these remained, shielding her from unnecessary distress and how many had served as a continual hidden embarrassment? As the cogs of society turn to ensure its tick, the residents of Rushton Institute of Rehabilitation consider consequences and the ever revolving cycle of routine. In an exploration of the human condition, we follow the residents and the institute itself on a thought provoking journey, towards the truth for the betterment of things, but whose truth? Inspector Jacob Rodgers shook his head as if trying to remove a fragment of annoyance, that irritating nudge in the mind's eye, white coats.

Write to the Point

Author: Sam Leith
Publisher: The Experiment
ISBN: 1615194622
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Good writers follow the rules. Great writers know the rules—and follow their instincts! Finding the right words, in the right order, matters—whether you’re a student embarking on an essay, a job applicant drafting your cover letter, an employee composing an email . . . even a (hopeful) lover writing a text. Do it wrong and you just might get an F, miss the interview, lose a client, or spoil your chance at a second date. Do it right, and the world is yours. In Write to the Point, accomplished author and literary critic Sam Leith kicks the age-old lists of dos and don’ts to the curb. Yes, he covers the nuts and bolts we need to be in complete command of the language: grammar, punctuation, parts of speech, and other subjects half-remembered from grade school. But more importantly, he charts a commonsense course between the “Armies of Correctness” and the “Descriptivist Irregulars.” For Leith, knowing not just the rules but also how and when to ignore them—developing an ear for what works best in context—is everything. In this master class, Leith teaches us a skill of paramount importance in this smartphone age, when we all carry a keyboard in our pockets: to write clearly and persuasively for any purpose—to write to the point.

Confessions of a Phantom Pilot

Author: Tug Wilson
Publisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
‘The Confessions of a Phantom Pilot’ is the true story of a young RAF pilot who gets his dream to fly the old dirty workhorse fighter of the Cold War. From the first flight where he thought the jet was trying to kill him, through to his final trip of leading eight aeroplanes on a front line fighter squadron, you will relive his thoughts, feelings and anxieties as he stumbles his way through each flight relying on a bit of skill and a lot of blind luck. In essence, it is a love letter to the Phantom from a star-struck boy who felt like he was way out of his depth at the beginning of their affair. You will share stories of the outrageous drinking culture that was a major part of Cold War front-line operations, and marvel at how he didn’t do himself some serious damage either in or out of the cockpit. This is how it feels to be a front-line fighter pilot – the triumphs and the disasters are all laid out here in a completely open and honest way as the author looks back with a certain sense of nostalgia and mild embarrassment. What a blast though!

Instant! German

Author: Nick Theobald
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456606530
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
Instant! German is a user-friendly phrase book full of practical, street-wise and down-to-earth phrases and words. Instant! German uses phonetics to give the reader an easy entry point into speaking everyday German - Instantly! It has everything you'd want in a phrase book, plus a large dose of humour.

Hoolifan

Author: Martin Knight
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1780573901
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 175

Book Description
Hoolifan is the story of one man, Martin King, and his experiences spanning three decades with the country's foremost soccer gang. Chelsea have always been at the cutting edge of football violence, and King himself was at the heart of the evolving Chelsea mob for some 30 years. From his first visit to a football ground in the early 1960s, he charts his development from a rattle-waving child through to a fully fledged member of the notorious Chelsea Shed in the 1970s and finally to his exploits as a key player in the most feared football gang of the 1980s and 1990s - the so-called Chelsea Headhunters. King describes the leading characters of the various eras, not just from Chelsea but from across the country. He also records every clash, ambush and act of revenge in vivid detail, as well as the camaraderie and style of this most infamous soccer gang. This is not just another book on the well-trodden subject of football hooliganism, as, unlike so many authors, Martin King makes no attempt to distance himself from the violence and leaves readers to draw their own conclusions. At times provocative, often humorous and always honest, Hoolifan places the phenomenon of football hooliganism in its true social context.

It's a Jungle Out There

Author: Amanda Marcotte
Publisher: Seal Press
ISBN: 1580052266
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
A whimsical and provocative guide to living a feminist life in spite of hostile environments, written by the creator of the Pandagon blog, counsels women on everything from Hillary Clinton and Rush Limbaugh to the foibles of Mars-versus-Venus self-help books and finding the wittiest comeback for a given situation. Original.

The Naughty Nineties

Author: Martin King
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 178057388X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 155

Book Description
Football has reinvented itself. As television money has poured into the game, the traditional working-class fans have poured out - not by choice, but by economic necessity. According to those in charge of the game the football hooligan has at last been eliminated from the landscape. But how true is this much-vaunted claim? Martin King, author of Hoolifan, brings his story up to date in The Naughty Nineties. Ironically, he finds that football hooligans now really are in the minority but they are far more dangerous and committed than ever before.

Dicks

Author: Garth Ennis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description