The Walled Orchard

Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748113514

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'Read THE WALLED ORCHARD so you can tell your descendants, 'I was there when the historical novel started holding its head up with the rest of literature''. - WASHINGTON POST 'This book is a hilarious yet well-researached historical novel.' - HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW The hero is Eupolis, weary, cynical and believing only in comedy. The heroine is Athens, at the height of her schizophrenic glory. A startling mixture of comedy and tragedy, THE WALLED ORCHARD is the poignant, charming story of their turbulent relationship. With unforgettable characters and a powerful and moving story, THE WALLED ORCHARD is a wonderful evocation of life in Ancient Greece in the fifth century BC. Books by Tom Holt: Walled Orchard Series Goatsong The Walled Orchard J.W. Wells & Co. Series The Portable Door In Your Dreams Earth, Air, Fire and Custard You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps The Better Mousetrap May Contain Traces of Magic Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages YouSpace Series Doughnut When It's A Jar The Outsorcerer's Apprentice The Good, the Bad and the Smug Novels Expecting Someone Taller Who's Afraid of Beowulf Flying Dutch Ye Gods! Overtime Here Comes the Sun Grailblazers Faust Among Equals Odds and Gods Djinn Rummy My Hero Paint your Dragon Open Sesame Wish you Were Here Alexander at World's End Only Human Snow White and the Seven Samurai Olympiad Valhalla Nothing But Blue Skies Falling Sideways Little People Song for Nero Meadowland Barking Blonde Bombshell The Management Style of the Supreme Beings An Orc on the Wild Side

Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : 0751521388

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The hero is Eupolis, weary, cynical and believing only in comedy. The heroine is Athens, at the height of her schizophrenic glory. A startling mixture of comedy and tragedy, THE WALLED ORCHARD is the poignant, charming story of their turbulent relationship. THE WALLED ORCHARD is a masterpiece of historical fiction from Tom Holt, best-selling author of over twenty comic fantasy novels. For information on this and other Orbit titles visit the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk

Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Time Warner Books UK
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : 0349114528

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The hero is Eupolis, weary, cynical and believing only in comedy. The heroine is Athens, at the height of her schizophrenic glory. A startling mixture of comedy and tragedy, THE WALLED ORCHARD is the poignant, charming story of their turbulent relationship. With unforgettable characters and a powerful and moving story, THE WALLED ORCHARD is a wonderful evocation of life in Ancient Greece in the fifth century BC. For information on this and other Orbit titles visit the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk

Author : Nadifa Mohamed
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374709921

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The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed Pdf

From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists comes The Orchard of Lost Souls, a stunning novel illuminating Somalia's tragic civil war. It is 1987 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds, but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. Nine-year-old Deqo has left the vast refugee camp where she was born, lured to the city by the promise of her first pair of shoes. Kawsar, a solitary widow, is trapped in her little house with its garden clawed from the desert, confined to her bed after a savage beating in the local police station. Filsan, a young female soldier, has moved from Mogadishu to suppress the rebellion growing in the north. As the country is unraveled by a civil war that will shock the world, the fates of these three women are twisted irrevocably together. Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa and was exiled before the outbreak of war. In The Orchard of Lost Souls, she returns to Hargeisa in her imagination. Intimate, frank, brimming with beauty and fierce love, this novel is an unforgettable account of ordinary lives lived in extraordinary times.

Author : Raymond Blanc
Publisher : Headline Home
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781472267573

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The Lost Orchard by Raymond Blanc Pdf

Now with added material about the gardens at Le Manoir. 'Blanc set about the most thorough apple-tasting and cooking project I have heard of . . . [The Lost Orchard] condenses the highlights, his love letters to the forgotten apple breeds.' The Times 'I began to dream about an orchard filled with thousands of fruit trees... Today we have an orchard with over 150 ancient varieties of apple. Each one has its heritage in a village or a county that used to thrive on that particular variety. They tell the story not only of what we have lost in Britain but also what we could regain.' Over the past eleven years, Raymond Blanc has planted an orchard of 2,500 trees in the grounds of his hotel-restaurant in Oxfordshire. Yielding about 30 tonnes of fruit for his kitchen each year, it is full of ancient and forgotten varieties of British apples and pears, along with walnut trees, quince, medlars, apricots, nectarines, peaches, plums, damsons and cherries. A further 600 heritage fruit trees have been added from Raymond's home region of Franche-Comté in France. The Lost Orchard is a love letter to each of these varieties, complete with beautiful black and white drawings, photographs of Belmond Le Manoir and fascinating information and anecdotes about each fruit, along with recipes and stories.

Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748113583

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Alexander at the World's End by Tom Holt Pdf

When his father dies, and he is reduced at a stroke from prosperity to penury, Euxenus decides to leave Athens and seek his fortune elsewhere. As a philosopher and intellectual of some note, he has no difficulty getting a job as tutor to a young prince in the wealthy but utterly provincial court of King Philip of Macedon. The young prince is called Alexander, and the rest is history. Or is it? Alexander conquered Greece, Egypt and the Persian Empire in the course of eight years, amassing a huge army along the way, and leaving behind him the foundations of countless new cities named after him. He proclaimed himself a deity, and died at the age of 33. In ALEXANDER AT THE WORLD'S END, Tom Holt tells the story of two remarkable men, one of whom conquered empires and one of whom struggled to overcome the drainage problems of a small village. It is a story of two men whose paths crossed only briefly, but whose encounter changed both their lives for ever. And it is a story which throws an extraordinary new light on the man who became Alexander the Great.

Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316233330

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Earth, Air, Fire and Custard by Tom Holt Pdf

A novel set in the magical offices of The Portable Door, now a majorly fantastical film starring Christoph Waltz, Sam Neill, and Miranda Otto. “Tom Holt may be the most imaginative satirist to land on our shores since Douglas Adams.” — Christopher Moore, New York Times bestselling author J.W. Wells seemed to be a respectable establishment, but the company now paying Paul Carpenter's salary is, in fact, a deeply sinister organization with a mighty peculiar management team. Paul thought he was getting the hang of it – particularly when he fell head over heels for his strangely alluring colleague, Sophie – but death is never far away when you work at J.W. Wells. Our love-struck hero is about to discover that custard is definitely in the eye of the beholder. And that it really stings. The J.W. Wells & Co. Series: The Portable Door In Your Dreams Earth, Air, Fire and Custard You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps The Better Mousetrap May Contain Traces of Magic Other titles from Tom Holt: Doughnut When It's A Jar The Outsorcerer's Apprentice The Good, the Bad and the Smug The Management Style of the Supreme Beings An Orc on the Wild Side Holt Writing as K. J. Parker: Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City How To Rule An Empire and Get Away With It A Practical Guide to Conquering the World

Author : Leslie Geddes-Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Gardening
ISBN : WISC:89099244527

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The Walled Garden by Leslie Geddes-Brown Pdf

It traces the history of the phenomenon from the gardens of Ancient Greece and Rome and medieval depictions of the hortus conclusus ('enclosed garden') to avant-garde designs by today's leading practitioners. Thematic chapters cover such subjects as formal enclosures, walled herb gardens and those by well-known modern designers. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction followed by four or five beautifully illustrated features on specific gardens.

Author : Nomi Eve
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375713996

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The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve Pdf

In the bestselling tradition of The Red Tent, The Family Orchard is a spellbinding novel of one unforgettable family, the orchard they've tended for generations, and a love story that transcends the ages. Nomi Eve's lavishly imagined account begins in Palestine in 1837, with the tale of the irrepressible family matriach, Esther, who was lured by the smell of baking bread into an affair with the local baker. Esther passes on her passionate nature to her son, Eliezer, whose love for the forbidden Golda threatened to tear the family apart. And to her granddaughter, Avra the thief, a tiny wisp of a girl who thumbed her nose at her elders by swiping precious stones from the local bazaar-and grew to marry a man she met at the scene of a crime. At once epic and intimate, The Family Orchard is a rich historical tapestry of passion and tradition from a storyteller of beguiling power.

Author : Anne Heseltine,Michael Heseltine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781784979720

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Thenford by Anne Heseltine,Michael Heseltine Pdf

This book is the story of one garden and one family, over a 40-year time period. In their own words, Michael and Anne Heseltine describe the ups and downs of how they set about transforming and expanding a wild, overgrown and often dilapidated woodland into the magnificent garden they have today. Today, the garden at Thenford has an arboretum which contains more than 3,500 different species of trees and shrubs, including rare plants which were wild-collected by well known plantsmen including Roy Lancaster OBE, Allen Coombes, Keith Rushforth and Chris Chadwell. It is also well-known for its sculpture garden, which has an eclectic collection of work ranging from a white marble Tazza fountain to an enormous statue of Lenin. Beautifully illustrated with both professional photographs and private family images, this personal story of the creation of an extraordinary garden will delight horticultural experts and novices alike.

Author : Susan Wiggs
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780778318330

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The Apple Orchard by Susan Wiggs Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs brings readers into the lush abundance of Sonoma County, in a story of sisters, friendship and the invisible bonds of history that are woven like a spell around us. Tess Delaney loves illuminating history; returning stolen treasures to their rightful owners and filling the spaces in people's hearts with stories of their family legacies. But Tess's own history is filled with gaps: a father she never met, and a mother who spent more time traveling than with her daughter. Then the enigmatic Dominic Rossi arrives on her San Francisco doorstep with the news that the grandfather she's never met is in a coma and that she's destined to inherit half of a hundred-acre apple orchard estate called Bella Vista. The rest is willed to Isabel Johansen, the half sister she never knew she had. Isabel is everything Tess isn't, but against the rich landscape of Bella Vista, with Isabel and Dominic by her side, Tess begins to discover a world where family comes first and the roots of history run deep.

Author : Henry George Keene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : India
ISBN : UCAL:$B296628

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History of India from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Henry George Keene Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Horticulture
ISBN : UCAL:C2617223

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The Gardeners' Chronicle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vincent Edward Gadrix
Publisher : FictionMetro
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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At Orchard's Edge by Vincent Edward Gadrix Pdf

It's 1870 in Pennsylvania's Oil Creek Valley, the birthplace of America's petroleum industry. Jonathan Dawes and his company, Paragon Oil, caused a well explosion that destroyed a loving family and their farm. Seeking redemption, Jonathan descends into a world of wealth, greed, and violence to rescue Cassie Owen, one of the unconventional Owen sisters who despise the oil business. Letty Owen believes a greed-driven madman abducted her sister because she discovered a legal means to prevent drilling on their land. Land that could produce millions in petroleum. The authorities doubt Letty’s story because of the sisters’ eccentric reputations and offer no help. Jonathan’s best friend, Cooper, is a newspaper reporter who challenges Letty’s sanity. He only helps Jonathan to protect him and to debunk her delusions. Jonathan, Letty and Cooper follow clues that reveal others may have known about Cassie’s mysterious plan, but all of them die under uncertain circumstances. They struggle to name Cassie’s abductor, but because of the trail of death the man leaves behind, they know he will kill anyone who attempts to rescue her. Jonathan must decide if he’s willing to lose everything, including his life, to save Cassie and her family’s orchard from the new world he helped create. A world consumed by oil fever.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWNS71

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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. 1871 by William Shakespeare Pdf