The Bannerman Shortlist

Author : Colin Batrouney
Publisher : Clouds of Magellan
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780645732863

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The Bannerman Shortlist by Colin Batrouney Pdf

The Bannerman Shortlist has been announced. Six authors. Six stories. And Gideon Bannerman is missing. ‘Colin Batrouney’s new novel is unexpected and alluring. Balancing out satire which hits home with feelings which run deep is something only truly accomplished writers can achieve – and he does.’ - DAVID HARE ‘A wicked invention that is very, very funny.’ - DAVID MARR ‘Batrouney’s new novel is an exquisite joy, one of the most pleasurable books I have read in ages. The joy is in the elegance and assurance of the writing, in the sophistication and wit of the satire, and in the richly imagined characters and narrative. What a pure delight! I wanted to stay within its pages for the longest time.’ - CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS ‘The Bannerman Shortlist is a beauty. It’s clever, original and compelling. It’s the best contemporary novel I’ve read for quite some time.’ - ANDREA GOLDSMITH

Author : Neil Daglish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317845591

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Education Policy Making in England and Wales by Neil Daglish Pdf

The lack of educational provision for the majority towards the and of the 19th century attracted the attention of education policy-makers who wished to remedy the situation. This overview draws on unpublished sources to describe and analyse the crucible years for 20th-century English education.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Delegated legislation
ISBN : MINN:31951P007698801

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Florida Administrative Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Denise Mina
Publisher : McArthur & Co
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Policewomen
ISBN : 9781770870178

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Still Midnight by Denise Mina Pdf

It's the case that could make DS Alex Morrow's career, it would make any cop salivate. A home invaded in the dead of night, deep in the heart of the cosy suburbs; a hard-working, god-fearing family at the heart of it and a vulnerable old man taken hostage. It's a high profile, black-and-white case and it shouldn't be hard to solve.The attackers were slovenly. The two strangers who forced their way into the warm comfortable home demanded millions the family didn't have and shouted for a man nobody had heard of. It had to be a mistake, and a bad one at that -- after all, Morrow knows that if there's one thing more volatile than a dangerous man with a gun it's two stupid men with guns.But Alex Morrow can't be depended on and the bosses know it. Scattering fury like buckshot, she insults the people she should curry favour with and finds comfort only in the thought of delivering a couple of wide-armed slaps to her superior's smug face. Working this case is tearing her apart and as it unravels, Morrow finds that the only people she can bear to see are the very ones she's been running from for twenty years.As the dark undercurrents start to wash away the family's story, the truth of her own shame and unspeakable grief explode into the case in ways no-one could imagine.

Author : Ashley Sievwright
Publisher : Clouds of Magellan
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742980737

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The Shallow End by Ashley Sievwright Pdf

It was one of the most perfect days, only just warm enough, an ever so slight breeze I could see in the hairs on my arm and in the flutter of the flags across each end of the pool but couldn't feel. It must have been the exact temperature of my blood.' On a cloudless afternoon, a man dives into a crowded swimming pool and disappears. Is it murder, a staged disappearance or alien abduction? 'The Shallow End' - a steady freestyle commentary on sex, celebrity and suntanning. The Shallow End was shortlisted in the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Author : Gordon Thompson
Publisher : Clouds of Magellan
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780645193541

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Scheherazade and the Amber Necklace by Gordon Thompson Pdf

'While her younger sister was gifted in telling tales, Scheherazade couldn't tell a story to save her life...' Scheherazade and the Amber Necklace is a bold reimagining of the classic Tales of the Arabian Nights, with flying carpets, despotic rulers, secret assassins, and powerful djinns. When her sister is forced to marry the king, and her father imprisoned, Scheherazade must make a desperate journey to the Zagros Mountains to find a story that might save all their lives.

Author : Lindsay Galvin
Publisher : Chicken House (english)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1913696405

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My Friend the Octopus by Lindsay Galvin Pdf

Twelve-year-old Vinnie Fyfe works in the tea-shop at Brighton aquarium, and waits for her milliner mother to return from Paris. The arrival of a giant octopus changes her life for ever as a gripping mystery begins to unfold .

Author : Henry von Doussa
Publisher : Clouds of Magellan Pub.
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0645353116

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The Park Bench by Henry von Doussa Pdf

A reflective novel about cruising public toilets in Melbourne.

Author : Ross Murdoch Martin
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0853239347

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The Lancashire Giant by Ross Murdoch Martin Pdf

The Lancashire Giant tells the story of a nine-year-old cotton weaver who went on to carve out two extraordinary careers for himself. In the first, David Shackleton became a truly dominating presence in the Edwardian trade union movement, was the third MP to be elected under the banner of the Labor party, and played a critical role in the infancy of the party. His second career, begun at Winston Churchill’s prompting in 1910, took him to the summit of the British civil service and to active participation in the deliberations of Lloyd George’s War Cabinet. Prominent union officials have frequently become government ministers, but none has repeated Shackleton’s achievement in becoming the permanent secretary of a ministry. "This distinctive career is presented and analysed in meticulous detail by Ross Martin... The result is a thorough and rounded portrait strengthened by some suggestive analysis of Shackleton as a private individual."—Labor History "An accessible, detailed, analytic and sympathetic study."—English Historical Review

Author : Marilyn Heward Mills
Publisher : Virago
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748131464

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Cloth Girl by Marilyn Heward Mills Pdf

Matilda Quartey is fourteen years old when sophisticated black Gold Coast lawyer, Robert Bannerman, sets eyes on her and resolves to take her as his second wife. For Julie, his first wife, this is a colossal slap in the face; for Matilda it is an abrupt - and cruel - end to childhood. Entwined with their story - by turns funny and heartbreaking - is that of Alan Turton, new ADC to the Governor and his dissatisfied wife, Audrey, a hard-drinking accident waiting to happen, who is appalled by her new life. Marilyn Heward Mills's Africa is a cauldron of contradictions: fatalistic but brimming with optimism; outwardly Christian, yet profoundly superstitious and reliant on fetish priests; poverty-stricken, but rich in pride and family values; vibrant with colour yet darkened by violence; exhausting, yet exhilarating. For Matilda it is her passionately loved homeland; for Audrey it is a prison. For the men it is a land of opportunity, where careers can be made and broken, fortunes lost and won. And for all of them the events of these ten years will shape and define their lives forever.

Author : Bernadette Brennan
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781761062933

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Leaping into Waterfalls by Bernadette Brennan Pdf

Leaping into Waterfalls explores the rich, tumultuous life of Gillian Mears, one of Australia's most significant writers of the last forty years. WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD Gillian Mears appeared to many to be a shy woman from Grafton, but her lived and imaginative lives were rich with adventure, risk and often transgressive passion. In her award-winning and acclaimed novels and short stories, Mears wrote fearlessly of the dark undercurrents of country and family life, always probing the depths and complexity of human desire. Mears' sensuality and sexuality were the driving forces of her life and writing. As an adult, she was plagued by ill health yet remained steadfast in her quest to be independent and free; while recovering from open-heart surgery, she traversed the country alone in a de-commissioned ambulance. By her mid-forties, multiple sclerosis had confined her to a wheelchair. Undaunted, she continued to write and publish until her death five years later in 2016. Mears amassed an extensive collection of diaries, letters, manuscripts, photographs, recordings and ephemera, and deposited it with the Mitchell Library. She was a prolific correspondent with significant figures of the cultural landscape-Gerald Murnane, David Malouf, Tim Winton, Elizabeth Jolley, Helen Garner, Drusilla Modjeska, Kate Grenville and Marr Grounds. This meticulous and moving biography reads Mears' life and work within that broader cultural community to celebrate her truly extraordinary achievements and adventures.

Author : Guy James Whitworth
Publisher : Clouds of Magellan Pub.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0987403796

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Enough of Your Nonsense by Guy James Whitworth Pdf

Artwork and stories about queerness, the Sydney art scene, and England in the 80s and 90s

Author : Malcolm Archibald
Publisher : Next Chapter
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798890080363

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The Bay of Deceptive Mist by Malcolm Archibald Pdf

Robert "Rab" Munro's only refuge is the sea. Aboard the Dundee clipper Grissel Jaffray, Munro's sailor life of brawls and brothels is a familiar chaos, until a mysterious card inscribed with religious verses and a strange castaway challenge everything he knows. As the Grissel Jaffray sails through storms both literal and spiritual, the card's cryptic changes hint at a divine test. Munro believes that Death awaits him on land. Soon, he faces the Seven Deadly Sins personified among the crew - and in himself. With each choice, the veil between superstition and truth grows thinner. A story of survival and faith, Malcolm Archibald's THE BAY OF DECEPTIVE MIST is an allegorical adventure set on the high seas.

Author : Robert Lee
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781835537336

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Birkenhead Park by Robert Lee Pdf

When it was officially opened on Easter Monday, 5th April 1847, Birkenhead park became the first municipally funded park in Britain. It was a pioneer in the development of urban public parks, designed for use by everyone, irrespective of social class, ethnicity or age. In terms of town planning, it demonstrated the importance of including green infrastructure in urban development as a vital contribution to public health and wellbeing. Paxton’s design for the park was heralded as ‘a masterpiece of human creative genius’ : it served as a vehicle for the global transmission of the English landscape school and led to the creation of numerous public parks everywhere, most famously Central Park, New York, incorporating of many of Paxton’s design features. This book addresses a long-standing gap in the Park’s historiography. Regarded as ‘one of the greatest wonders of the age’, it is an important contribution to nineteenth-century landscape history with a local focus, but of international significance. But it seeks to interpret the Park’s development until 1914 within a political and cultural context, drawing on economic and social history, as a means of explaining why it was not until the late-nineteenth century that it finally became a focal point for recreation and public health.

Author : James Bannerman
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781292012698

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Business Genius by James Bannerman Pdf

You can be a Business Genius. And the good news is that it isn't that hard. In fact, Business Genius! makes it fun. Inside this book are the secrets to more inner genius at work. They’ll help you spot opportunities, pole-vault problems, get creative and surprise others by turning the ordinary into the extraordinary and the impossible into possible. Through an array of highly original and powerful psychological techniques, you’ll soon start to improve: – Yourself: boost your focus, confidence, resilience and time-management skills – Your business: drive, grow and hone your competitive advantage, innovation and collaboration – Your impact: develop your influence, creativity, negotiation and leadership skills Blast through the blocks that hold you back and discover the clever, cunning tips and strategies that everyone from Disney to Danone and Ferrari to Faberge are using. Then turn theory into action, sharpen your skills and take your Business Genius thinking to an amazing new level. 'If you have an idea and want to make it happen, this is the book for you.' Ray Keene OBE, The Times 'This concentrated book of power inducts the ambitious entrepreneur into the secrets of how to do it yourself.' Tony Buzan, creator of Mind Maps 'Full of anecdotes, case studies and memorable quotes that makes it like no other self-help and business book.' Adrian Furnham, professor of psychology