Likely Tale, Lad

Author: Mike Pannett
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1855683385
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
For a young lad like Mike Pannett, growing up in the North Yorkshire countryside in the late 1960s and early '70s was a dream come true. The sun always seemed to be shining, the summer holidays lasted forever, and when you were sent to buy a fish supper for the family there was change to be had from that crumpled pound note. They really were the good old days. Given a fishing rod, a bottle of pop and a jam sandwich, a lad could wander as far as his bike would take him, and the countryside was one big adventure playground peopled by larger-than-life characters and endless opportunities for laughs and larks. Like many a boy, however, Mike learns things the hard way. He goes on a bike ride and lands up in A&E. He tries to be helpful around the home - and nearly burns the place down. And when he goes on a fishing trip it almost ends with a shipwreck.He's a likely lad, is Mike, and these are his likely tales.

A Likely Tale, Lad

Author: Mike Pannett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750543729
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
For a young Mike Pannett, growing up in North Yorkshire in the late 1960s and early '70s was a dream come true. They really were the good old days. The summer holidays lasted forever and the sun always seemed to shine. Given a fishing rod, a bottle of pop and a jam sandwich, a lad could wander as far as his bike would take him, and the countryside was one big adventure playground. Like many a boy, however, Mike learns things the hard way. A bike ride lands him in A&E and a fishing trip almost ends with a shipwreck. Mike¿s a likely lad and these are his tales.

Now Then Lad...

Author: Mike Pannett
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 184901728X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. Yorkshireman Mike Pannett has just taken up a new posting as a local bobby in rural North Yorkshire. It's quite a change from the Met, where he dealt with riots on the capital's streets and drug gangs in Battersea, and found out what it was like to stare down the wrong end of a sawn-off shotgun. Now, instead of hunting down knife-wielding muggers, he's chasing runaway bullocks, holding up the Last Night of the Proms traffic to escort a lost mole across the road and combing the countryside for the villains who stole the Colonel's balls. Mike's first year on his new patch is told in seventeen chapters which interweave his escapades on the beat month by month together with his growing knowledge of a landscape that changes with the seasons and some snapshots from his off-duty life. Here is a wonderfully entertaining celebration of North Yorkshire, its breathtaking scenery and wide variety of characters and communities.

A Likely Lad

Author: Gillian Avery
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9780370307121
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century Manchester boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future.

Jolly Lad

Author: John Doran
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1913689018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
A memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness, from broadcaster, and co-founder and editor of The Quietus website, John Doran. Jolly Lad is a memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness. It is also about the healing power of music, how memory defines us, the redemption offered by fatherhood and what it means to be working class. “This is not a 'my drink and drug hell' kind of book for several reasons—the main one being that I had, for the most part, had a really good time drinking. True, a handful of pretty appalling things have happened to me and some people that I know or used to know over the years. But I have, for the most part, left them out of this book as they are not illuminating, not edifying and in some cases concern other people who aren't here to consent to their appearance. Instead this book concentrates on what you face after the drink and the drugs have gone.” Jolly Lad is about gentrification; being diagnosed bipolar; attending Alcoholics Anonymous; living in a block of flats on a housing estate in London; the psychological damage done by psychedelic drugs; depression; DJing; factory work; friendship; growing old; hallucinations; street violence and obsessive behaviour—especially regarding music and art.

Not Bad For A Bad Lad

Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN: 184877317X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47

Book Description
A powerful and inspiring tale of redemption from the author of WAR HORSE - with a personal introduction to the story from Michael Morpurgo. "I know a good sort when I see one. That's why I've taken him on. That's why I took you on." When a young lad strays into bad behaviour and thieving, he soon finds himself in Borstal prison for young men, lonely and without hope. But when Mr Alfie, who manages the stables, asks him to care for and tame a damaged horse, both are given a second chance. Could this "bad lad"'s skill with horses help him follow his dreams?

You're Coming with Me Lad

Author: Mike Pannett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750532167
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
PC Mike Pannett returns with more tales of policing rural Yorkshire. He blends gentle humour with real-life action as he introduces the wonderful rural characters and breathtaking scenery on his local beat. It's a far cry from Mike's old job hunting down drug gangs and knife crime in Central London.

Li Lun, Lad of Courage

Author: Carolyn Treffinger
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802774687
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
Because of his fear of the sea, a young Chinese boy is sent to a distant mountain where he proves his bravery.

Our Frank: and Other Stories. Illustrated

Author: Amy Walton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description

Alice in Sunderland

Author: Bryan Talbot
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1630084042
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 333

Book Description
Sunderland! Thirteen hundred years ago it was the greatest center of learning in the whole of Christendom and the very cradle of English consciousness. In the time of Lewis Carroll it was the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. To this city that gave the world the electric light bulb, the stars and stripes, the millennium, the Liberty Ships and the greatest British dragon legend came Carroll in the years preceding his most famous book, Alice in Wonderland, and here are buried the roots of his surreal masterpiece. Enter the famous Edwardian palace of varieties, The Sunderland Empire, for a unique experience: an entertaining and epic meditation on myth, history and storytelling and decide for yourself — does Sunderland really exist?