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.
Now Then Lad...
Author: Mike Pannett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750529662
Category : Large print books
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. 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 and drug gangs, and found out what it was like to stare down the wrong end of a sawn-off shotgun. Now 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... His escapades are interwoven month by month with his growing knowledge of a landscape that changes with the seasons.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750529662
Category : Large print books
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. 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 and drug gangs, and found out what it was like to stare down the wrong end of a sawn-off shotgun. Now 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... His escapades are interwoven month by month with his growing knowledge of a landscape that changes with the seasons.
Not Bad For A Bad Lad
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN: 1848125534
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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? Includes a fascinating "Facts Behind the Story" section.
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN: 1848125534
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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? Includes a fascinating "Facts Behind the Story" section.
Memories of a Clackmannan Lad 1947 – 1958
Author: William Wood
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398479594
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A childhood experience, from the 1940s post-war infant years to the raging 1950s. My mother told me that I had actually come into the world with a bang. It happened during one very early morning in 1943 when German bombers were flying overhead, and the spent rounds of anti-aircraft bullets were clattering on the tiled roof above her. Dad also said that he could hear bombs dropping somewhere between Edinburgh and Glasgow. So, it seems that I had come into the world with a bang! A few years later, I was to enter another experience: the teenage years.
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398479594
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A childhood experience, from the 1940s post-war infant years to the raging 1950s. My mother told me that I had actually come into the world with a bang. It happened during one very early morning in 1943 when German bombers were flying overhead, and the spent rounds of anti-aircraft bullets were clattering on the tiled roof above her. Dad also said that he could hear bombs dropping somewhere between Edinburgh and Glasgow. So, it seems that I had come into the world with a bang! A few years later, I was to enter another experience: the teenage years.
Lad: A Dog
Author: Albert Payson Terhune
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
"Lad: A Dog" by Albert Payson Terhune. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
"Lad: A Dog" by Albert Payson Terhune. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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?
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?