Writing, Research & Publishing Guides
epub |eng | 2011-12-14 | Author:Mary Morris [Morris, Mary]

Without water the desert is nothing but a grave, and is useless either as a dwelling-place or even as a high-road for the living. If the traveller’s food is poor ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-28 | Author:Jan Morris [Jan Morris]

There is a café at the opulent suburb of Double Bay (‘Double Pay’ to the wags) which Sydneysiders from Central Europe frequent. I like to go there too, to observe ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-20 | Author:David Yeadon [Yeadon, David]

Turning north from the remnants of Housesteads Fort, I could see little else but angular blocks of Sitka spruce massed along the ridges like legions. I had reached the southern ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-25 | Author:Becky Wicks [Wicks, Becky]

30/10 Horsing around … When I was fourteen I landed my first job earning £1.50 an hour in the local Spalding chippie. My shifts were Saturdays and Thursday nights after ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:Stewart, Chris [Chris Stewart]

The whole broad bean business had particular relevance that year, as Manolo, for some reason known only to himself, had sown about half an acre of habas, and we had ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 28,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:H.L. Mencken [Mencken, H.L.]

The Boon of Culture From the American Mercury, Sept., 1931, pp. 36–48 EVERY American college president, it appears, is in duty bound to write and utter at least one book ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 28,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Daniel Hernandez [Hernandez, Daniel]

10 | Negotiating Saints Absorbing the beat at a sonidero in Tepito. (Photo by Livia Radwanski.) It is an overcast Sunday afternoon in the bleak D.F. suburb of Tultitlán, where ...
( Category: Sociology August 28,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-07-13 | Author:Bella Frances

CHAPTER NINE NIGHT’S DARK CLOAK lay heavy all around. Frankie woke with a start, for a moment lost, with no dawn-edged window, no lamplit carpet to guide her vision. She ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Blum

When Hewitt got in to work early on the morning of October 11, he spotted fellow early riser Diane Sawyer and burst into her office. “Let’s buy CBS News,” he ...
( Category: Television August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Karen Marie Moning [Moning, Karen Marie]

TWENTY-TWO “Your mind’s in disturbia, it’s like the darkness is light” The most scared I get is the most alive I ever feel. I should collapse into a puddle of ...
( Category: Fantasy August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-04-04 | Author:Peter Altenberg [Altenberg, Peter]

Elevator The elevator is still a great mystery to me. I am not so dumb as to spoil the thrill of the blessings of modern culture by allowing myself to ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 28,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Michael Cart [Cart, Michael]

The Alex Awards Speaking of adult books for young adults brings us to YALSA’s Alex Awards, a list of the ten best adult books for young adults that has been ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 28,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Elspeth Huxley [Huxley, Elspeth]

Meja Mwangi Incident in the Park. From An Anthology of East African Short Stories, ed. Valerie Kibera. 1987 Foreigners who know Kenya tend to like it. Compared to most of ...
( Category: Africa August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robert Hutton

* Periodically, someone steals a JCB, or a milk float. Reporters are positively encouraged to describe the ensuing pursuits as ‘low-speed chases’. * Theologically, of course, there are no innocent ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Tim Bradford [Tim Bradford ]

Bit (goldfish) Named after one of the famous Playschool goldfish, Bit died a few days after being won at a fair when I was five. I think the bowl had ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 28,2017 )