Memoirs of a 90s' School Boy

Author: Michael Sleggs
Publisher: Austin Macauley
ISBN: 9781528934077
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
An entertaining and irreverent read, Memoirs of a 90s' School Boy is a book that'll bring you back in time to childhood and the ups and downs of primary school days. The ridiculous situations, elaborate observations, and honest brain farts of a child who thinks he's got it sussed; will make you laugh out loud. Described by BAFTA award winning comedian, Daisy Cooper (the force behind BBC3's 'This Country') as 'the funniest thing she has ever read'. This book needs no further introduction, just get on and read it and see for yourself.

Stand Before Your God

Author: Paul Watkins
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307765660
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
In this enthralling and sometimes harrowing memoir, the acclaimed author of The Promise of Light gives us a masterly companion to such classics as Brideshead Revisited and A Separate Peace. At the age of seven, Paul Watkins was roughly transplanted from his home in Rhode Island to England's Dragon School. He was greeted by a delegation of bullies who, in time, would become his friends and whose rules would become his own. For at Dragon, and later at Eton, "there was no middle ground. You could not go here and come out not caring one way or the other. You had to stand before your God and commit." Here are the masters who paddle boys for small infractions and then offer them sweets; the seniors who pamper pretty favorites and subject all others to humiliating servitude; the deep friendships and sudden, devastating betrayals. Above all, here is the exhilaration of a boy discovering own capacities for learning and creativity, in a book that conveys with astonishing insight the pangs of growing up.

In Complete Circles

Author: Ciaran Ward
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781475046359
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
A comic and at times irreverent memoir of school life and adolescence in a Northern Irish town during the 1980s and early 1990s with accompanying rants on the absurdities of modern life, nostalgic reminiscences on the news events and popular culture of the era and the subsequent fulfillment of youthful ambitions through travelling, sometimes verging on the surreal. This book is part memoir, part travelogue. The chapters alternate between episodes from the author's school days (written in the past tense) and subsequent travel writings (incorporating the Balkans, Australia, New Zealand, Romania, Spain and Morocco) from several years later (written in the present tense) - but always with a connecting theme linking the two eras. Examples include a schoolboy fascination with horror films linking a visit to Transylvania, daily reports of the Balkan war during the author's schooldays in the early '90s linking a tour of the region 15 years later -and a childhood addiction to tangerines and dreams of trekking through the Sahara on camelback leading to a trip to Morocco.

Impossible To Believe

Author: Jack Coe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From the moment Jack Coe entered the prestigious East Coast prep school in 1968, he felt there was something odd about it. The first feeling hit him like a slap in the face. Because it was a slap in the face from the teacher whose room was across the hall from his. The headmaster had told the incoming students that some of the school's traditions may seem "strange and new." And they quickly devolved from that slap to things far worse. But to Jack Coe, it seemed impossible to get out. He narrates the things that happened to him in shocking detail. It's a story that took him years to live and more than a half-century to come to terms with.

The Girl With The Widow's Peak

Author: Ursula d’Abo
Publisher: Loose Chippings
ISBN: 1907991107
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 139

Book Description
Reflections on thought-provoking quotations to stimulate and guide those who are interested by life's challenges. Living life can be a challenge. Which path should I follow? How should I respond? What should I do? Many similar questions face us almost daily, whether it is to do with our job, our relationships or life itself. In 'Walk With The Wise' Tim Binder and Ron Owen take thought-provoking quotations and offer their own ideas to stimulate and guide those who wish to understand life's challenges. Tim and Ron are used to helping people to make decisions regarding their lives; they have been mentors and life coaches over many years. They do not dish out answers, rather they assist people to ask themselves relevant questions, perhaps see life a little differently and find the answers which are right for them.

School Boy Life and Incident (1880)

Author: Strahan & Co Publishing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781104903039
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This Boy's Life

Author: Tobias Wolff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

I.M.

Author: Isaac Mizrahi
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250074088
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
“Honest, insightful, and thoroughly entertaining...Mizrahi comes off in writing just like his onscreen persona: warm, witty, humble—and ready to dish.” —Booklist, starred review Isaac Mizrahi is sui generis: designer, cabaret performer, talk-show host, a TV celebrity. Yet ever since he shot to fame in the late 1980s, the private Isaac Mizrahi has remained under wraps. Until now. In I.M., Isaac Mizrahi offers a poignant, candid, and touching look back on his life so far. Growing up gay in a sheltered Syrian Jewish Orthodox family, Isaac had unique talents that ultimately drew him into fashion and later into celebrity circles that read like a who’s who of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Richard Avedon, Audrey Hepburn, Anna Wintour, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Meryl Streep, and Oprah Winfrey, to name only a few. In his elegant memoir, Isaac delves into his lifelong battles with weight, insomnia, and depression. He tells what it was like to be an out gay man in a homophobic age and to witness the ravaging effects of the AIDS epidemic. Brimming with intimate details and inimitable wit, Isaac's narrative reveals not just the glamour of his years, but the grit beneath the glitz. Rich with memorable stories from in and out of the spotlight, I.M. illuminates deep emotional truths.

The Enlightenment of Peregrine Du Winter

Author: Peregrine Du Winter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mother and child
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"This cartoon story book is based on the experiences and early memories of an impressionable young shoolboy named Peregrine du Winter, born with the perceptive nature of a much older soul which helps him circumnavigate many a comical social situation. The following pages explores the amusing experiences of a mother and son who led each other up their own individual garden paths."--Foreword

This Boy's Life

Author: Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780703636
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description