Village Rumours

Author: Rebecca Shaw
Publisher: Charnwood
ISBN: 9781444827835
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
While clearing out the rectory's loft, Reverend Peter Harris makes an unsettling discovery, and a dark secret is exposed that soon sets tongues wagging in the village of Turnham Malpas... Having received a letter from the sons she hasn't heard from in fifteen years, local gossip Greta Jones is delighted at the prospect of seeing them after all this time - despite her husband's misgivings... Meanwhile, Fran Charter-Plackett has a difficult decision to make. Her parents would like to see her settled with kind and reliable Alex Harris. But when Chris Templeton, the man Fran once lost her heart to, returns to the village, it seems he is all set to steal her affections once more. Is Chris really a changed man? And will Fran finally go with her heart, or her head?

Rumours

Author: Freya North
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007326726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387

Book Description
Everybody’s talking – but what’s really going on?

Village gossip

Author: Rebecca Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407213415
Category : Turnham Malpas (England : Imaginary place)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Village News

Author: Tom Fort
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471151115
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
‘An entertaining book, written with Fort’s characteristic conversational style… A real pleasure to read’ – BBC Countryfile ‘A wide-ranging, intelligent and bracingly enjoyable book’ – The Literary Review ‘Meticulously researched and seasoned with wry humour, this is a perceptive and richly rewarding read’ – Mail on Sunday We have lived in villages a long time. The village was the first model for communal living. Towns came much later, then cities. Later still came suburbs, neighbourhoods, townships, communes, kibbutzes. But the village has endured. Across England, modernity creeps up to the boundaries of many, breaking the connection the village has with the land. With others, they can be as quiet as the graveyard as their housing is bought up by city ‘weekenders’, or commuters. The ideal chocolate box image many holidaying to our Sceptred Isle have in their minds eye may be true in some cases, but across the country the heartbeat of the real English village is still beating strongly – if you can find it. To this mission our intrepid historian and travel writer Tom Fort willingly gets on his trusty bicycle and covers the length and breadth of England to discover the essence of village life. His journeys will travel over six thousand years of communal existence for the peoples that eventually became the English. Littered between the historical analysis, are personal memories from Tom of the village life he remembers and enjoys today in rural Oxfordshire.

Disruption

Author: Mary Withall
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1788039483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
The year is 1843 and after the Disruption in the Church of Scotland James Bantrie finds himself dismissed from his comfortable life, like many dissident clergy members, and obliged to seek employment elsewhere. James and his family move to a small parish on the island of Orchy off the Argyll coast where the inhabitants are engaged in quarrying slate rock. Alexander Beaton, a young doctor, has returned home to Eisdalsa expecting to inherit his father’s medical practice only to find his elder brother has already secured not only the practice but also the hand of Alexander’s childhood sweetheart. With his aspirations for both marriage and career thwarted, Alexander responds to an advertisement for settlers in the newly established colony of Otago in the South Island of New Zealand. Appointed ship’s surgeon for the voyage he is surprised to find James Bantrie and family, together with the recently widowed Jessie Dundas and her son Tommy, amongst the passengers. The voyage is not without incident and the Otago settlement in the new town of Dunedin is far from ready to receive further settlers. Many trials await the newcomers before they can truly call themselves citizens of their new homeland.

Sanctuary

Author: T M Goble
Publisher: The Creative Peak
ISBN: 1910236713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
In the gripping sixth instalment of the Alexandra Thriller Series, "Sanctuary," Alexandra's fragile mental stability hangs in the balance as she yearns to leave the shadows of violence behind. But as she embarks on a new chapter of her life, she is haunted by the relentless spectre of her turbulent past. As Alexandra grapples with the demons that have long plagued her, she has made a life-altering decision to accept a marriage proposal. Yet, doubts and apprehensions cast a shadow over her newfound happiness. Is it genuine love that she feels, or is this commitment merely another form of escapism from the haunting memories of her past? Amidst her inner turmoil, a figure from her past, someone she had never fully trusted, takes up residence in the same tranquil village where she seeks refuge. The unsettling presence of this enigmatic individual threatens the peace and sanctuary Alexandra has desperately sought. Haunted by her old aggressive ways, Alexandra is faced with a wrenching choice: Can she truly leave behind the violence that has defined her life for so long? The past refuses to let go, and as her inner and outer worlds collide, she must grapple with her own nature and confront the stark reality of her existence. In "Sanctuary," Alexandra's journey for inner peace and redemption takes centre stage as she navigates a treacherous path fraught with uncertainty, betrayal, and the constant allure of her past. Will she find the strength to break free from the cycle of violence that has bound her, or will the darkness that lurks within her soul continue to cast its long shadow over her life? Join Alexandra as she seeks refuge in the sanctuary she so desperately craves, only to find that her inner demons may be the greatest threat of all. "Sanctuary" is a haunting and emotionally charged thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat as Alexandra Drummond confronts her deepest fears and grapples with the complex web of her own desires.

The Deadly Honey

Author: Eugene Kongnyuy
Publisher: Eugene Kongnyuy
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 173

Book Description
Inspired, Reverend Father Michael through a praiseworthy sermon warns his congregation of an imminent deadly scourge from God against sexual promiscuity. Kila, a young and beautiful village girl from a Christian family in the North West of Cameroon, observes the forewarning meticulously even when she is physically and mentally tormented because of her moral rectitude in a coastal town far away from her parents. However, many people ignore the warning and indulge in the pleasures of unprecedented dissolute promiscuity. Living in a rotten society, Kila falls in love and gets married to a businessman called Tumi. Meanwhile a historic deadly plague insiduously invades the land of Nso and the neighbouring tribes. What is the cause of the plague? Who will survive the plague? Will the forewarning of Father Michael come true? Will Kila find things easy in her marriage home? Will she be a victim of the plague?

Hunting Game

Author: Louisa Lombard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
The first ethnographic and historical study of raiding in the Central African Republic. By treating raiding as a political mode, this fascinating study investigates forceful acquisition, revealing the evolution of raiding skills, examples of encounters and its consequences over the last 150 years.

Making Rumours

Author: Ken Caillat
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1118282361
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Inside the making of one of the biggest-selling albums of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for thirty-one weeks and won the Album of the Year Grammy. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the twenty-fifth greatest album of all time and the hit TV series Glee devoted an entire episode to songs from Rumours, introducing it to a new generation. Now, for the first time, Ken Caillat, the album's co-producer, tells the full story of what really went into making Rumours—from the endless partying and relationship dramas to the creative struggles to write and record "You Make Loving Fun," "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way," "The Chain," and other timeless tracks. Tells the fascinating, behind-the-music story of the making of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, written by the producer who saw it all happen Filled with new and surprising details, such as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's screaming match while recording "You Make Loving Fun," how the band coped with the pressures of increasing success, how the master tape nearly disintegrated, and the incredible attention paid to even the tiniest elements of songs, from Lindsey playing a chair to Mick breaking glass Includes eighty black-and-white photographs

These Hills Called Home

Author: Temsula Ao
Publisher: Zubaan
ISBN: 9788189013714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
More Than Half A Century Of Bloodshed Has Marked The History Of The Naga People Who Live In The Troubled Northeastern Region Of India. Their Struggle For An Independent Nagaland And Their Continuing Search For Identity Provides The Backdrop For The Stories That Make Up This Unusual Collection. Describing How Ordinary People Cope With Violence, How They Negotiate Power And Force, How They Seek And Find Safe Spaces And Enjoyment In The Midst Of Terror, The Author Details A Way Of Life Under Threat From The Forces Of Modernization And War. No One The Young, The Old, The Ordinary Housewife, The Willing Partner, The Militant Who Takes To The Gun, And The Young Woman Who Sings Even As She Is Being Raped Is Untouched By The Violence. Theirs Are The Stories That Form The Subtext Of The Struggles That Lie At The Internal Faultlines Of The Indian Nation-State. These Are Stories That Speak Movingly Of Home, Country, Nation, Nationality, Identity, And Direct The Reader To The Urgency Of The Issues That Lie At Their Heart.