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For half of her lifetime, Hope lived in and around the village of Withypool on the southern side of the Moor. In the late 1960s, at a time of great personal unhappiness, she sought increasing solace in her friends, neighbours and the landscape around her. Finding her daily business restricted to Withypool and its environs, she set about writing a tribute to the place. She recounts a time before mobile phones and the internet had come to dominate daily life, when communication was a gossip over a half-open stable door and wireless meant the radio. She takes the reader around the village, along the river and out again around the parish boundaries, describing people, local events, farms and the changing landscape.
Hope Bourne, doyenne of Exmoor writers, was fascinated by the history of herhome, its landscape and its people. She published much on the subject, but themost substantial work was A Little History of Exmoor, published in 1968 andnever reprinted.Although not a professional historian, in that book Hope traced - in her customarilyevocative and eminently readable prose - the key developments in Exmoor'slong heritage: the Celtic and Saxon colonisation; the Norman development of theRoyal Forest; the disafforestation and acquisition by the Knight family of a vasttract of the Moor in the nineteenth century; and the advent of the National Parkin the twentieth century. The text was accompanied by a selection of HopeBourne's fine drawings, which further brought to life the key themes of her story.In this entirely re-set version of the book, new generations can now experienceHope's unique interpretation of Exmoor's history, which was tempered andinformed by her direct experience of living the sort of existence that would havebeen familiar to Exmoor dwellers many centuries before.
For more than five decades Hope L. Bourne lived in wild and isolated places on Exmoor, walking many miles to explore its remote fastnesses and making notes and sketches of its wildlife and landscapes. This journal of her impressions, seen through a countrywoman's eye and recorded with a poet's ear, is enhanced by her evocative line drawings of the Exmoor scene.
Hope Bourne has been described as one of the finest writers about the British countryside in the 20th century. Her work published in her lifetime invariably included some supporting line drawings and full-colour works for the covers. This text gives the opportunity to view Hope Bourne and her achievements through the media of her paintbox and her pencil.
Apparently I'm boring. A nobody. But that's all about to change. Because I am starting a project. Here. Now. For myself. And if you want to come along for the ride then you're very welcome. Bree is by no means popular. Most of the time, she hates her life, her school, her never-there parents. So she writes. But when Bree is told she needs to stop shutting the world out and start living a life worth writing about, The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting is born. A manifesto that will change everything... ...but the question is, at what cost?
A man struggles to survive after the US infrastructure collapses and martial law engulfs the streets of America.
From her remote Exmoor home, Hope Bourne saw the moor at all seasons for nearly 60 years until her death in 2010. With a true countryman's eye, 'Living on Exmoor' chronicles the cycle of the year, telling of the fragility of rural life and an environment which is both unique and continually evolving.
The machines brought society to its knees. Now, the last remaining humans fight for survival--and to take back what's theirs. Junior, a robotics expert, tinkers quietly underground. With dozens of machine kills under his belt, he knows the enemy inside and out. Alpha0verride, a reclusive black hat hacker, uses the skills acquired over a life of shady activity to outwit the hyper-intelligent machines swarming in on her. Brick, a special forces operator and one of the few Pentagon survivors, fights his inner demons to embark on the most important mission of his life. Together they are humanity's last, best hope--if they can only find each other in time. From the Author First, I brought you the...
In this debut African-American romance, Wall Street wizard Melody Mason hides from her fast-paced career in rural Tennessee. Her former classmate Grant Price wants Melody to work for his family's Boston investment firm. As Grant attempts to lure her away, they both may have to reevaluate their views on life--not to mention love. Original.
Finding your voice. Speaking the truth. Falling in love. All the biggest drama happens in high school... Mean Girls meets To All The Boys I've Loved Before in this hugely relatable high-school takedown from the queen of UKYA. Paige is used to staying quiet in the face of lies. Like how popular girl Grace is a such an amazing person (lie). How Laura steals people's boyfriends (lie). How her own family are so perfect (lie). Now Grace and friends have picked their "best" high-school moments for Paige to put in the all-important Yearbook. And they're not just lies. They're poison. But Paige has finally had enough. And as she starts to find love through the pages of a book, she finds her voice too. Now she is going to rewrite her story - and the Yearbook is the perfect place to do it. Paige Vickers: Most likely to...bring down the mean girls