A comic, thoughtful examination of viral culture through the lens of a technologically out-of-touch, middle-aged protagonist Casts a wide satirical net on an era where social media can amplify a gaffe into a full-on scandal in a matter of minutes Highlights the way social media can steer conversations for good and for ill Similar to classics of the “absent-minded professor” narrative, with nods to Evelyn Waugh, Kingsley Amis, and Mordecai Richler Author's previous book, Sad Peninsula was...
The Writers Afterlife is the story of Tom Chillo, a 44-year-old writer on the verge of fame, who suddenly dies of a stroke and finds himself transported to a place where all writers are sent after they die. After mingling with “The Eternals” — including Shakespeare, Wilde, Keats, and Tolstoy — he discovers that his true peers in this new world are all haunted by the same regret: they never achieved the fame they felt they deserved during their lifetime....
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat. ‘I like work. I find it interesting… I can sit and look at it for hours.’ With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends – and Montmorency the dog – decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a cold, wet morning. This...
Initially intended to be a serious travel guide, Three Men in a Boat is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the river Thames. Three men, complaining of “overwork” agree to go on a boating holiday together. After a rocky start involving the bribing of a railway driver, the three men (and a dog) cast off for adventure. Amusing anecdotes of camping and cooking mishaps are interspersed with descriptions of landmarks, pubs, and villages along the way. Hugely successful, the book...
Все хотят вернуться в детство и делают это с помощью просмотра старых фильмов и передач, тисканья забытых игрушек и вороха воспоминаний, оставшихся в фотоальбомах. Но Иван, смог вернуться туда по-настоящему. Веселая путевка в прошлое отправила его в далекий 1992 год, где он смог по-новому взглянуть на свое прошлое и историю родной страны. Сладость жвачки ностальгии по-прежнему сильна и вы тоже можете ее вкусить.
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“Hang on to your hats, it’s a joy”, Jane Gardam, author of Old Filth Playful, intelligent fiction from acclaimed novelist to icon Woolf: “Wickedly smart, funny and fearless, plus that rarest of all things, genuinely surprising” Patrick Ness<br> A welcome treat for Virginia Woolf fans and for new readers: engaging, fun and easy to read, set in New York, London and Istanbul. Praise for Maggie Gee<br> ‘A wise and beautiful book about what it feels like to be alive.’ Zadie...