The Englishman

The Englishman PDF Author: David Gilman
Publisher: Raglan
ISBN: 9781838931391
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
'The pulse-pounding pace just never lets up' PETER MAY, bestsellling author of LOCKDOWN. Penal Colony No. 74, AKA White Eagle, lies some 600 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg in Russia's Sverdlovskaya Oblast. Imprisoning the country's most brutal criminals, it is a winter-ravaged hellholeof deathand retribution. And that's exactly why the Englishmanis there. Six years ago, Raglan was a soldier in the French Foreign Legionengaged in a hard-fought war on the desert border of Mali and Algeria. Amid black ops teams and competing intelligence agencies, his strike squad was compromised and Raglan himself severely injured. His war was over, but the deadly aftermathof that day has echoed around the world ever since: the assassinationof four Moscow CID officers; kidnap and murderon the suburban streets of West London; the fatalcompromise of a long-running MI6 operation. Raglan can't avoid the shockwaves. This is personal. It is up to him to finish it - and it ends in Russia's most notorious penal colony. But how do you break into a high security prison in the middle of nowhere? More importantly, how do you get out?

The Englishman & the Eel

The Englishman & the Eel PDF Author: Stuart Freedman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911306207
Category : Diners (Restaurants)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Englishman and the Eel is a journey into that most London of institutions, the Eel, Pie and Mash shop. Today, these simple spaces hold within them the memories of a rich, largely undocumented cultural heritage of generations of working-class Londoners in a city whose only constant is change. Often elaborately decorated with ornate Victorian tiling, many sold live eels in metal trays that faced out onto the street to the fascination (and sometimes horror) of passersby. Inside, warmth and comfort. Steam. Tea. Laughter. Families.

The Englishman's Boy

The Englishman's Boy PDF Author: Guy Vanderhaeghe
Publisher: Emblem Editions
ISBN: 1551995700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
The Englishman’s Boy brilliantly links together Hollywood in the 1920s with one of the bloodiest, most brutal events of the nineteenth-century Canadian West – the Cypress Hills Massacre. Vanderhaeghe’s rendering of the stark, dramatic beauty of the western landscape and of Hollywood in its most extravagant era – with its visionaries, celebrities, and dreamers – provides vivid background for scenes of action, adventure, and intrigue. Richly textured, evocative of time and place, this is an unforgettable novel about power, greed, and the pull of dreams that has at its centre the haunting story of a young drifter – “the Englishman’s boy” – whose fate, ultimately, is a tragic one.

God's Englishman

God's Englishman PDF Author: Christopher Hill
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 147461406X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
The classic, bestselling biography of one of the most controversial figures in British history from 'One of the finest historians of the age' The Times Literary Supplement From Fenland farmer and humble backbencher to stalwart of the good old cause and the New Model Army, Oliver Cromwell became the key figure of the Commonwealth, and ultimately Lord Protector. In this fascinating and insightful biography, Christopher Hill reveals Cromwell's life from his beginnings in Huntingdonshire to his brutal end. Hill brings all his considerable knowledge of the period to bear on the relationships God's Englishman had with God and England, giving an unprecedented insight vital to understanding Cromwell.

One Fat Englishman

One Fat Englishman PDF Author: Kingsley Amis
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590176898
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
The hero of One Fat Englishman, a literary publisher and lapsed Catholic escaped from the pages of Graham Greene to the campus of Budweiser College in provincial Pennsylvania, is philandering, drunken, bigoted, and very very fat, not to mention in a state of continuous spluttering rage against everything, not least his own overgrown self. In America, Roger Micheldene must deal with not so obliging suburban housewives, aspiring Jewish novelists who as good as clean his clock, stray deer, bad cigars, children who beat him at Scrabble (“It was no wonder that people were horrible when they started life as children”), and America itself, while making ever-more desperate and humiliating overtures to Helen, a Scandinavian ice queen. If only Roger would dare to show some real feeling of his own. This comic masterpiece—about the 1950s crashing drunkenly into the consumerist 1960s and a final scion of a disintegrating Old World empire encountering its upstart New World offspring—is one of Kingsley Amis’s greatest and most caustic performances.

The Englishman's Chair

The Englishman's Chair PDF Author: John Gloag
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000776050
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 451

Book Description
Originally published in 1964, The Englishman’s Chair is a history of English chairs, written as a continuous story from the 15th to the 20th Century and because of the revealing powers inherent in chair-making and design, it is also an unconventional footnote to English social history. The changes in taste, and fashion, the increase of skill, the introduction of new materials and the long battle between dignity and comfort are discussed, as is the impact that modern industrial designers have had on chair design.

The Englishman's Daughter

The Englishman's Daughter PDF Author: Ben Macintyre
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374129851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
This romance flourished under the very eyes of German occupiers, resulted in the birth of a child, and eventually tore a community apart."--BOOK JACKET.

The englishman's house

The englishman's house PDF Author: C. J. Richardson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382135655
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514

Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
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