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.

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.

Yellow Dog

Author: Martin Amis
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101910275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
A brilliant, painful, dazzling, and funny as hell novel about a family man who is attacked in a garden and suddenly becomes an anti-husband and anti-father, from "one of the greatest novelists of his generation" (TIME) “Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight.” —The Wall Street Journal When “dream husband” Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head injury, and personality change. He submits to an alien moral system—one among many to be found in these pages. We are introduced to the inverted worlds of the “yellow” journalist, Clint Smoker; the high priest of hardmen, Joseph Andrews; and the porno tycoon, Cora Susan. Meanwhile, we explore the entanglements of Henry England: his incapacitated wife, Pamela; his Chinese mistress, He Zhezun; his fifteen-year-old daughter, Victoria, the victim of a filmed “intrusion” that rivets the world—because she is the future Queen of England, and her father, Henry IX, is its King. The connections between these characters provide the pattern and drive of Yellow Dog. If, in the 21st century, the moral reality is changing, then the novel is changing too, whether it likes it or not. Yellow Dog is a model of how the novel, or more particularly the comic novel, can respond to this transformation. But Martin Amis is also concerned here with what is changeless and perhaps unchangeable. Patriarchy, and the entire edifice of masculinity; the enormous category-error of violence, arising between man and man; the tortuous alliances between men and women; and the vanished dream (probably always an illusion, but now a clear delusion) that we can protect our future and our progeny.

The Best Cocktail Hour Stories, Volume I

Author: Beverley Bryann
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1682899764
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Beverley Bryann's "The Best Cocktail Hour Stories, Vol. I" is an amusing collection of life stories revealed over a glass (or bottle) of wine. Readers are invited to share their own stories. Recent release "The Best Cocktail Hour Stories, Vol. I" from author Beverley Bryann is both fun and enlightening. This creative collection of real life short stories is a tribute to all storytellers who contribute to the time-honored tradition of sharing real life stories over a glass or bottle of wine at cocktail hour. Beverley Bryann, businesswoman, devoted raconteur, and author has released her entertaining collection of real life stories, "The Best Cocktail Hour Stories, Vol. I." This light-hearted and amusing compilation of delightful sagas about the rich and famous, and the not so rich and obscure, will bring a smile, chuckle, or raucous laugh to the reader while enjoying his (or her) favorite wine. Laugh and wonder along as the author depicts the little known thrills, fears and antics of the many interesting people met and/or discussed at upscale urban watering holes including: The British Royal Family, The Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, Howard Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Frank Sinatra, George "Baby" Gerber, Marlon Brando, Orson Wells, Superman George Reeves, Don King, DeBeer's Diamond Mafia, Gambino's Other Mafia, NFL, Mickey Mantle, Charley Finley, Gov. Edwin Edwards, Leona Helmsley, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Mae West, Errol Flynn, Albert Einstein, Blimpie's, Vidal Sassoon, Roman Polanski, Director Elia Kazan, Goodfella Henry Hill, Jacques Cousteau, Broadway Joe Namath, New England Patriots, King Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson, Aristotle Onassis, Moroccan Royal Family...and some really, really funny guys and babes. Beverley also includes the history and trivia of wine and spirits, along with cocktail or happy hour trivia, toasts and quotes. A fun read from start to finish.

The Guest House

Author: Richard Segal
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665589833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
In the paradox between achieving your goals and achieving the Impossible Dream, which is preferable? Meanwhile, given a choice, should you opt for cathartic or therapeutic? The Guest House revives old acquaintances and reviews friendships that can’t have a second life, while answering the question of whether it is ever too late to be part of your own coming of age novel. A Minsky Moment? Perhaps, but which Minsky? The Guest House examines the future through the looking glass of the past, without losing sight of the present. And I’m still convinced the inventor of the mute button deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

Filthy English

Author: Peter Silverton
Publisher: Portobello Books
ISBN: 1846274524
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
When the Sex Pistols swore live on tea-time telly in 1976, there was outrage across Britain. Headlines screamed. Christians marched. TVs were kicked in. Thirty years on, all those words are media-mainstream - bandied about with impunity on TV and in the papers. This is the story of our bad language and its three-decade journey from the fringes of decency to the working centre of a more linguistically liberal nation. Silverton takes a clear, comprehensive and witty look at swearing and the impact of its new acceptability on our language, our manners and our society. He considers how we have become more openly emotional, yet more wary about insulting others. And how it's seemingly become alright to say **** and **** but not ****** or ****. This is the story of that cultural revolution, written by one who was there at the start, proudly striking some of the first blows in the long struggle for the right to reclaim filthy English and use it.

Dicks

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

Book Description

The Best of Milligan & McCarthy

Author: Peter Milligan
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1621158276
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
One of comics' most fruitful collaborations gets its due in this deluxe collection of hard-to-find gems from Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, X-Statix) and Brendan McCarthy (Judge Dredd, The Zaucer of Zilk)! Collecting twenty years' worth of the pair's finest work from Vanguard Illustrated, Strange Days, 2000 AD, and Vertigo, this beautiful hardcover includes art that has been newly touched up by McCarthy and features original commentary by both creators. There is still nothing else like Freakwave, Paradax!, Skin, and Rogan Gosh, and this volume is both the perfect retrospective for fans and the ideal starting place for new readers!

Ghosted

Author: Jenn Ashworth
Publisher: Sceptre
ISBN: 1529336791
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE 2022 'Unnerving, absorbing . . . Laurie is a miraculous creation . . . Piercingly human and darkly funny, Ghosted is a tender, beautifully controlled account of expectations knocked off course.' Sunday Times One ordinary morning, Laurie's husband disappears, leaving behind his phone and wallet. For weeks she tells no one, carrying on her cleaning job at the university, visiting her tricky, dementia-suffering father and holing up in her high-rise flat with a bottle to hand. When she finally reports him as missing, the police are suspicious. What took her so long? Laurie can't fully explain her behaviour even to herself, or the strange presence she senses in the flat. Only when she looks back on the ensuing wreckage does she begin to understand, and see how she might repair the damage.

Going Deeper

Author: Jean-Claude Koven
Publisher: Prism House Press
ISBN: 9780972395458
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 454

Book Description
Going Deeper relates the story of a successful young attorney who realizes that his life has no meaning. In despair he and his dog, Zeus, venture out into the desert to be enveloped by a series of reality shattering experiences facilitated by a host of delightfully irreverent master teachers who appear in the form of trees, talking raccoons, rocks, and more. The reader's mind is turned inside out as, one by one, the secrets of creation are revealed. Going Deeper is an epic exploration of the deepest questions that have long fascinated mankind. Going Deeper was recently selected as The Best Metaphysical Book of 2004 by the editors of Allbooks Reviews. Here's what others are saying: "...the hottest metaphysical book of the millennium" --Linda Salvin, Host Visions AND Solutions syndicated radio. "...an extraordinary work that harvests the wisdom of many times and peoples ... Mythic and masterful, it is a work to be read and reread." --Jean Houston, Ph.D., internationally known author, anthropologist, and social visionary. "This novel should not only be in the shelf of every metaphysical enthusiast, but also in the hands of anybody who desires to enrich his/her spiritual life." --Mayra Calvani, Midwest Book Review.