Who Was Angela Zendalic

Author : Mary Cavanagh
Publisher : Thames River Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783082483

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Who Was Angela Zendalic by Mary Cavanagh Pdf

Who Was Angela Zendalic? is set in Oxford, in the locality of Jericho and the world of University academia, encompassing the past and the present. A deeply moving and sensitive story told with skill, humour, and a mirror to profoundly changing times. In 1954, Peggy, a respectable war widow and librarian, gives birth out of wedlock to Angela, a ‘coloured’ baby, and due to the discrimination of society, and her own deep shame, must give up the baby for adoption. Angela is adopted by a loving and well-meaning white couple, and as she grows up must come to terms with racial prejudice, the confusion surrounding her circumstances, and of falling in love with a man fifteen years her senior. Sarah, Angela’s own daughter, grows up to be a feisty, liberated single parent who, on the death of her father, discovers her mother was a stranger called Angela Zendalic. Thus, she must confront her shock in order to search for her.

Author : Mary Cavanagh
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781785075476

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Calling all Authors by Mary Cavanagh Pdf

Calling All Authors Everything the author of fiction and non-fiction needs to know about the road to publication, understanding the book industry, and how to sell that book! Over the last five years, due to the advent of self-publishing and media marketing, publication is actually easier, but it's infinitely more difficult to get a mainstream contract. Thus, whatever method you aim for, you must have immaculate manuscript presentation, sound knowledge of the book industry, and dogged determination to make sales. Mary Cavanagh, a successful novelist and short story writer, has had first-hand experience of all publishing methods, the jungle of the book industry, and the many successful methods of making sales. In Calling All Authors she aims to demystify all the necessary processes in a concise, lively, and highly readable way, with some very useful contributions from a wide range of other successful authors. 'A fantastic book . . . a wealth of information and some brilliant advice for book types everywhere' The Big Green Bookshop, London N22 6BG 'An invaluable resource of information for all authors, even those who are, as yet, unpublished' Deborah Lawrenson, author

Author : Mary Cavanagh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123245628

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The Crowded Bed by Mary Cavanagh Pdf

Joe Fortune, a Jewish GP, has been married to Anna, his Aryan beauty, for 20 years, in a relationship that is sustained with great passion and happiness. But in the shadows of their lives, dark secrets are hidden.

Author : Deborah Lawrenson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062049711

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The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson Pdf

“A whirlwind love affair, a wife who dies under mysterious circumstances, and a string of murder—and ghosts!—all set in a crumbling countryside estate in Provence. This haunting tale is everything you could want in a Gothic mystery that doesn’t also include a heroine named Jane Eyre.” — Redbook Set in the lush countryside of Provence, Deborah Lawrenson’s The Lantern is an atmospheric modern gothic tale of love, suspicion, and murder, in the tradition of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. Drawn to a confident and artistic wealthy older man she barely knows, bookish Eve recklessly embarks on a whirlwind affair that soon offers a new life and a new home—Les Genévriers, a charming yet decaying hamlet nestled amid the fragrant lavender fields of Provence. But with autumn’s arrival the days begin to cool—and so, too, does Dom. Though Eve knows he bears the emotional scars of a failed marriage—which he refuses to talk about—his silence arouses suspicion and uncertainty. And, like its owner, Les Genévriers is also changing. Bright, warm rooms have turned cold and uninviting; shadows now fall unexpectedly; and Eve senses a presence moving through the garden. Is it a ghost from the past—or a manifestation of her current troubles with Dom? Can she trust Dom—or could her life truly be in danger? An evocative tale of romantic and psychological suspense, The Lantern masterfully melds past and present, secrets and lies, appearances and disappearances—along with our age-old fear of the dark.

Author : Mary Cavanagh
Publisher : Thames River Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783080007

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The Priest, His Lady and the Drowned Child by Mary Cavanagh Pdf

For twenty years, Father Ewan McEwan, a Roman Catholic priest, has enjoyed a passionate long-term relationship with Lady Marina Proudfoot, an older woman of great beauty and refinement, whose two-year-old daughter and husband were tragically drowned in a boating accident. But when Marina unexpectedly dies, the emotional fallout affects not just Ewan, but Marina's son, Timothy, his lover, Roger, and Roger's wife, Sally. Now Ewan must survive not only his profound grief but also the secret revelations she leaves behind.

Author : Oxford Writer's Group
Publisher : WritersPrintShop
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781904623243

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The Bodleian Murders & Other Oxford Stories by Oxford Writer's Group Pdf

The Bodleian Murders is the third collection of short stories, all based around the university city of Oxford. These stories once again cover the range of emotional topics that are skilfully woven into the local landscape from murders motivated by ambition to romance and the countryside.

Author : Andromeda Romano-Lax
Publisher : HMH
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547416182

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The Spanish Bow by Andromeda Romano-Lax Pdf

A “riveting historical page-turner” about a cellist caught up in the tumult and passions of early twentieth-century Spain (Booklist). A Library Journal Best Book of the Year I was almost born Happy . . . So begins The Spanish Bow and the remarkable history of Feliu Delargo, who just misses being “Feliz” by a misunderstanding at his birth—which he barely survives. The bequest of a cello bow sets Feliu on the course of becoming a musician, an unlikely destiny given his beginnings in a dusty village in Catalonia. When he is compelled to flee to anarchist Barcelona, his education in music, life, and politics begins. But it isn’t until he arrives at the court of the embattled monarchy in Madrid that passion enters the composition, thanks to Aviva, a virtuoso violinist with a haunted past. As Feliu embarks on affairs, friendships, and rivalries, forces propelling the world toward a catastrophic crescendo sweep Feliu along in their wake—in this haunting fugue of music, politics, and passion set against a half century of Spanish history, from the tail end of the nineteenth century through the Spanish Civil War and World War II, by the acclaimed author of Behave and Plum Rains. “Expertly woven throughout the book are cameo appearances by Pablo Picasso, Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, Bertolt Brecht, and others, but it is the fictional Feliu, Justo, and Aviva who will keep you mesmerized to the last page.” —The Christian Science Monitor “An impressive and richly atmospheric debut.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : John McGahern
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804153195

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By the Lake by John McGahern Pdf

With this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces its natural rhythms and the inner lives of its people. Here are the Ruttledges, who have forsaken the glitter of London to raise sheep and cattle, gentle Jamesie Murphy, whose appetite for gossip both charms and intimidates his neighbors, handsome John Quinn, perennially on the look-out for a new wife, and the town’s richest man, a gruff, self-made magnate known as “the Shah.” Following his characters through the course of a year, through lambing and haying seasons, market days and family visits, McGahern lays bare their passions and regrets, their uneasy relationship with the modern world, their ancient intimacy with death.

Author : Jane Gordon-Cumming
Publisher : Accent Press Ltd
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910939321

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A Proper Family Christmas by Jane Gordon-Cumming Pdf

'Wickedly funny . . . a delight' Katie Fforde William intends to spend Christmas alone with his cat. But with so many empty rooms at the grand Haseley House, William has no excuse when his large and eccentric family invite themselves to stay. As Christmas Day approaches, William's son, daughter and sister arrive, bringing with them partners, children, nannies, friends and hidden agendas ... Surely with a house so large, William and Scratch can keep to themselves. But a quiet Christmas is not to be. Soon William is caught up in his family's dramatic rivalries, and he uncovers some dubious intentions. He knows it wouldn't be Christmas without a bit of mayhem, but this particular family Christmas is going to change everybody's lives . . .

Author : Gina Claye
Publisher : Writersprintshop
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1904623441

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Don't Let Them Tell You How to Grieve by Gina Claye Pdf

Author : Linora Lawrence,Chris Blount,Jane Gordon-Cumming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 190462314X

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The Lost College & Other Oxford Stories by Linora Lawrence,Chris Blount,Jane Gordon-Cumming Pdf

This is Volume Two from the Oxford Writers' Group following the success of Volume One 'Sixpenny Debt' (190462345X). These short stories are full of entertaining ideas written with humour, satire, science fiction, history, romance and even a dash of spookery. With a foreword by Colin Dexter.

Author : Sylvia Vetta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Oxford (England)
ISBN : 1780185200

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Oxford Castaways by Sylvia Vetta Pdf

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759528239

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All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve Pdf

"A marriage is always two intersecting stories." This realization comes perhaps too late to the husband of Etna Bliss-a man whose obsession with his young wife begins at the moment of their first meeting, as he helps Etna and her companions escape from a fire in a hotel restaurant, and culminates in a marriage doomed by secrets and betrayal. Written with the intelligence and grace that are the hallmarks of Anita Shreve's bestselling novels, this gripping tale of desire, jealousy, and loss is peopled by unforgettable characters as real as the emotions that bring them together.