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Running from the Spills
Running From the Spills is set in the South Manchester suburbs in the mid 1960s at the time of the Brady/Hindley murder trial, the infamous ‘Moors Murders’. The plot centres around the main character, a 12-year-old boy called Michael who narrates a year of his life – a year when his father leaves, his mother becomes ill and he comes to rely more and more on his older brother’s secondhand stories and his own adventures with his small gang in a rapidly changing landscape. The outside world influences directly and indirectly on the storyline, not least in the impact that the disappearance of the victims and their eventual discovery buried on the moors has on the community. These events ...
The Man from Snowy River
The Man from Snowy River is a collection of poems by Australian bush poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas.
Happy Dispatches
"Happy Dispatches" is based on Banjo Patterson's war experiences as a war reporter. This book is a collection of articles written around the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is an intriguing account of the difficulties he faced. How he became a British Army Remount Officer during the Boer War. The book contains Sir Alfred Milner - Winston Churchill - Lord Roberts, French, Haig, and Others - Lord Derby - A Dutch Consul - General Chaffee - "Chinese" Morrison - An Unknown Celebrity - Marie Lloyd - Phil May - Rudyard Kipling - Captain Glossop - Lady Dudley - Captain Towse, V.C. - "Hell-Fire Jack" - Lord Allenby - Lord Allenby (Continued).
Collected Poetry
Collected Poetry by Andrew Barton Paterson sheds light on the 20th-century political situation in Australia with a lyrical tone and fitting homage to the country. Excerpt: "And wherefore have they come, this warlike band, That o'er the ocean many a weary day Have tossed; and now beside Suakim's Bay, With faces stern and resolute, do stand, Waking the desert's echoes with the drum— Men of Australia, wherefore have ye come?"
Shiny Happy Hair
Covering everything from basic haircare to styling, colouring, getting the right haircut, eating for healthy hair and of course, how to make your hair make you look younger, this title is also full of fascinating information on the psychology of hair.
The Shearer's Colt
"The Shearer's Colt" is a horseracing novel. It tells the tale of upper-class Londoner Hilton Fitzroy who is attempting to establish himself in Queensland, a frontier state. He gets hired as Red Fred's "seckitary," a shearer who struck it rich in the gold mines and now needs help spending his millions. Hilton Fitzroy is described as someone with a " violent temper and his stubborn refusal to bear himself lowly and reverently towards anybody, all marked him out as a throw-back to some (possibly royal) ancestor who had helped himself to everything in sight in the dim and distant past." Will Fitzroy squander the shearer's money on gambling or invest it?
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses
"The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses" by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson. 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.
