The Curfew

Author : Jayne Cowie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593336786

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Curfew by Jayne Cowie Pdf

Think The Handmaid's Tale but with the women in charge, set in a world where all men are electronically tagged and placed under strict curfew, and the murder investigation threatening to undo it all. Imagine a near-future Britain in which women dominate workplaces, public spaces, and government. Where the gender pay gap no longer exists and motherhood opens doors instead of closing them. Where women are no longer afraid to walk home alone, to cross a dark parking lot, or to catch the last train. Where all men are electronically tagged and not allowed out after 7 p.m. But the curfew hasn’t made life easy for all women. Sarah is a single mother who happily rebuilt her life after her husband, Greg, was sent to prison for breaking curfew. Now he’s about to be released, and Sarah isn’t expecting a happy reunion, given that she’s the reason he was sent there. Her teenage daughter, Cass, hates living in a world that restricts boys like her best friend, Billy. Billy would never hurt anyone, and she’s determined to prove it. Somehow. Helen is a teacher at the local school. Secretly desperate for a baby, she’s applied for a cohab certificate with her boyfriend, Tom, and is terrified that they won’t get it. The last thing she wants is to have a baby on her own. These women don’t know it yet, but one of them is about to be violently murdered. Evidence will suggest that she died late at night and that she knew her attacker. It couldn’t have been a man because a CURFEW tag is a solid alibi. Isn’t it?

Author : Jesse Ball
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307739858

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The Curfew by Jesse Ball Pdf

William and Molly lead a life of small pleasures, riddles at the kitchen table, and games of string and orange peels. All around them a city rages with war. When the uprising began, William’s wife was taken, leaving him alone with their young daughter. They keep their heads down and try to remain unnoticed as police patrol the streets, enforcing a curfew and arresting citizens. But when an old friend seeks William out, claiming to know what happened to his wife, William must risk everything. He ventures out after dark, and young Molly is left to play, reconstructing his dangerous voyage, his past, and their future. An astounding portrait of fierce love within a world of random violence, The Curfew is a mesmerizing feat of literary imagination.

Author : José Donoso
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802133819

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Curfew by José Donoso Pdf

Curfew takes place during one twenty-four hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed away, and various factions are rallying to turn the event to their advantage: for Pinochet's junta, it represents a chance to assert political authority, while for the intellectuals who had basked in the Nerudas' light, it is an opportunity to grab the spoils of the estate. Against this backdrop of complex, often conflicting motivations, Donoso weaves a portrait of a society struggling to fashion a daily existence for itself, and of an intelligentsia vainly attempting to salvage the remnants of glory days long gone by. But Curfew is also a story of the tragic love between Judit Torre, an upper-middle-class radical who wants to escape her bitter past; and Mañntilde;ungo Vera, a native son returning after a successful career as a European pop singer. In the zone between documentary-like realism and grotesque absurdity, Joséeacute; Donoso evokes the suffocating atmosphere of a country under dictatorship, and its quietly devastating effect on the actions of those who live there.

Author : John Tobin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : UCAL:B3278545

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The Curfew by John Tobin Pdf

Author : Jagdish Prasad Singh
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : India
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Author : John Tobin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590984121

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The curfew: a play by John Tobin Pdf

Author : John Tobin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019614562

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The Curfew ... The Fourth Edition by John Tobin Pdf

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857896896

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Curfew by Phil Rickman Pdf

Every night for 400 years, a curfew bell has tolled from the church tower of Crybbe—superstitious ritual or sole defense against an ancient evil? In Crybbe, only strangers walk at twilight . . . For 400 years, the curfew bell has tolled nightly from the church tower of the small country town, Crybbe's only defense against the evil rising unbidden in its haunted streets. Radio reporter Fay Morrison came to Crybbe because she had no choice. Millionaire music tycoon Max Goff came because there was nothing left to conquer, except the power of the spirit. But he knew nothing of the town's legacy of dark magic—and nobody felt like telling him.

Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781608465835

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A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird Pdf

A Little Piece Of Ground will help young readers understand more about one of the worst conflicts afflicting our world today. Written by Elizabeth Laird, one of Great Britain’s best-known young adult authors, A Little Piece Of Ground explores the human cost of the occupation of Palestinian lands through the eyes of a young boy. Twelve-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. In response to a Palestinian suicide bombing, the Israeli military subjects the West Bank town to a virtual siege. Meanwhile, Karim, trapped at home with his teenage brother and fearful parents, longs to play football with his friends. When the curfew ends, he and his friend discover an unused patch of ground that’s the perfect site for a football pitch. Nearby, an old car hidden intact under bulldozed building makes a brilliant den. But in this city there’s constant danger, even for schoolboys. And when Israeli soldiers find Karim outside during the next curfew, it seems impossible that he will survive. This powerful book fills a substantial gap in existing young adult literature on the Middle East. With 23,000 copies already sold in the United Kingdom and Canada, this book is sure to find a wide audience among young adult readers in the United States.

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Random House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448138531

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Stars Of The New Curfew by Ben Okri Pdf

To enter the world of Ben Okri's stories is to surrender to a new reality. Set in the chaotic streets of Lagos and the jungle heart of Nigeria, all the laws of cause and effect, fact and fiction, are suspended. It is a world where the lives of the powerless veer terrifyingly close to nightmare. In rich, lyrical, almost hallucinatory prose Ben Okri guides us through the fabulous and the mundane, the serene and the randomly violent. The unrelenting Nigerian heat and the implacable darkness of the black-out and the military curfew are the backdrops for his characters each finding their own ways to survive. We witness their dogged resistance to impotence, their unquenchable humour and their insistence on the possibility of love in the face of terror. Written with the lucid clarity and logic of dream, Stars of the New Curfew is a book of visionary imagination.

Author : Rose Hartwick Thorpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : American poetry
ISBN : NYPL:33433074961404

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"Curfew Must Not Ring To-night" by Rose Hartwick Thorpe Pdf

Author : T.M. Logan
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785767685

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The Holiday by T.M. Logan Pdf

The gripping Sunday Times bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club breakout thriller. Now a major TV drama on NETFLIX starring Jill Halfpenny Take a holiday you won't forget . . . Seven days. Three families. One killer. It was supposed to be the perfect holiday, dreamed up by Kate as the ideal way to turn 40: four best friends and their husbands and children in a luxurious villa under the blazing sunshine of Provence. But there is trouble in paradise. Kate suspects that her husband is having an affair, and that the other woman is one of her best friends. One of these women is willing to sacrifice years of friendship and destroy her family. But which one? As Kate closes in on the truth in the stifling Mediterranean heat, she realises too late that the stakes are far higher than she ever imagined. Because someone in the villa is prepared to kill to keep their secret hidden. Praise for THE HOLIDAY 'Makes you think twice about going on holiday with friends' B A Paris Perfectly plotted and riveting with an exceptional ending' Diane Jeffrey 'Perfect summer reading' S R Masters 'Another blistering page-turner' Chris Whitaker **DON'T MISS T.M. LOGAN'S INCREDIBLE NEW THRILLER THE MOTHER - OUT NOW!**

Author : Tim Stafford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 1642597597

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The Patron Saint of Making Curfew by Tim Stafford Pdf

Tim Stafford's work lives in the buffer zone between Chicago and the American Dream -- far from the suburbs with white picket fences and country clubs but still too far to be of the city proper. Like a carefully curated mixtape, Stafford's work navigates the side streets and highways in between, linking those worlds in an effort to create his own.

Author : Andrew Walsh
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752493008

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From Hope to Hatred by Andrew Walsh Pdf

The Falls Curfew of 3-5 July 1970 is considered by many to be the turning point in Catholic-Army relations throughout Northern Ireland and Belfast in particular, and ultimately led to Catholic alienation from the state. The curfew was intended to dispel the violence, it lasted 36 hours during which 4 people were killed, at least 75 were wounded (including 15 soldiers) and 337 people were arrested. Allegations of army brutality towards Catholics and destruction of property have also popularised this belief. However, the seeds of Catholic mistrust were sown decades before. The partition of Ireland in 1922, the subsequent Unionist domination of government and the ignorance of the British government towards the province, ensured that it was only a matter of time that the initial welcome for the army in 1969 faded. This is the story of the Falls Curfew, its causes, and the subsequent polarisation of a community under siege. It is a story many wish could be forgotten, but its legacy still lives on.

Author : Stephen Vincent Benet
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519338449

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The Curfew Tolls by Stephen Vincent Benet Pdf

. . . My friend the major's malady approaches its term-the last few days find him fearfully enfeebled. He knows that the end draws nigh; indeed he speaks of it often, with remarkable calmness. I had thought it might turn his mind toward religion, but while he has accepted the ministrations of his Church, I fear it is without the sincere repentance of a Christian. When the priest had left him, yesterday, he summoned me, remarking, "Well, all that is over with," rather more in the tone of a man who has just reserved a place in a coach than one who will shortly stand before his Maker. "It does no harm," he said, reflectively. "And, after all, it might be true. Why not?" and he chuckled in a way that repelled me. Then he asked me to read to him-not the Bible, as I had expected, but some verses of the poet Gray. He listened attentively, and when I came to the passage, "Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed," and its successor, "Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest," he asked me to repeat them. When I had done so, he said, "Yes, yes. That is true, very true. I did not think so in boyhood-I thought genius must force its own way. But your poet is right about it."