Voyage Round My Father, Paperback - John Mortimer

Reducere. John Mortimer's autobiographical play is the affectionate portrait of a son's relationship with his father. Growing up in the shadow of the brillia...

Reducere. In 1790, Xavier de Maistre was sentenced to forty-two days under house arrest for his participation in a duel. Bored and frustrated, but unwilling ...

Tells the story of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father's world: men defined by drink they could take and the pain...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John a. GottiForeword by: Peter LanceFor four decades the name Gotti has been synonymous with organized crime in the minds ...

DescriptionVivaldo Bonfim was a bored book-keeper whose main escape from the tedium of his work was provided by novels. In the office, he tended to...

Reducere. This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition to his engagemen...

Publisher: OrionAuthor(s): Lily DunnPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 214 x 22Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti ...

An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young ma...

Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy - the story of the little boy I never was.

Reducere. "My intention was to 'peek' at I Wish My Father, but I couldn't put it down, and after the last poem, I started again from page one and read to the...

Juanita Kirton's poetry collection is compelling, delivering a story of opposing forces of love and betrayal. The poems are brave and courageous an...

Reducere. In John Wayne: My Father, Aissa Wayne delves into her father's childhood, his film career, and his life off the screen. The result is an affecting ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Lodima PressAuthor(s): Brett WestonIllustration(s): 10 b/w photosNumber of pages: 36Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 372 x 268 x 14Cove...

Reducere. Before the advent of today's technology, with the many varieties of communication and navigation available via iPads, iPhones, and streaming inform...

Lessons Learned from my Father is an inspiring book that shares what Angela has learned through different experiences in her life. With honesty and...

DescriptionThis is an epic story of a young man's perseverance to find his biological father in his ongoing quest toward adulthood which outlines t...

Is your heart longing for a thrilling, life-awakening adventure with God? One morning I was sitting on my comfy chair, the one where I often meet w...

Choosing the title of this collection was an easy decision for Donald. He has written poems for weddings, birthdays, funerals, and other occasions....

DescriptionOn Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her hel...

With a new foreword After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Fr...

This book, "A voyage round the world, . in his britannic majesty's sloop, resolution, commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4, a...

Reducere. This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition to his engagemen...

DescriptionA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR " A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and dec...

Reducere. Recounts Woodes Rogers wildly audacious 1708-1711 circumnavigation around the world in search of Spanish ships to seize as booty and treasure.

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. About the Book: This little work is a book about family history. It is also the story of a near-tragic love affair.However, at its heart, it is an ...

Reducere. An old man in shackles, at the behest of fellow prisoners, recounts the story of a man who helped change the Modern Western World.The path from ado...

A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier with an Introduction by Sir Albert Gray. William Dampier, baptised 5 September 1651; died March 171...

A memorial to one of the greatest coaches in college football history written by the man who knew him better than anyone: his oldest son and coachi...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Telling My Father, James Crews explores familial bonds, memory, and grief through a beautifully written collection of poems. This Cow...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

When Carys Cragg was eleven, her father was brutally murdered during a home invasion. Twenty years later, she decides to contact his murderer in pr...

Publisher: Out-Spoken PressAuthor(s): Joe Carrick-VartyPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 139 x 214 x 5Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera f...

Sins of the Father tells of Shaneda Daly's horrific abuse for over a decade by her own father, and how she managed to take back the power he had ta...

It's high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is ...

Features twenty classic tales of Horace Rumpole in which he battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent Sou...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): John MortimerNumber of pages: 160Collection: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 128 x ...

Reducere. "In my more than half a century of studying the issues of the assassination, I have heard many stories and have never been as impressed as I am wit...

One of the lessons I learned from seeking the origins of my family is to understand the role of education in raising a family's standard of living ...

"In my more than half a century of studying the issues of the assassination, I have heard many stories and have never been as impressed as I am wit...

Horace Rumpole - cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients - often speaks of the great murder trial whi...

One part Lonely Planet, one part tell-all family memoir, this is the definitive and hilarious guide on how to survive your family holiday, by Jack ...

One part Lonely Planet, one part tell-all family memoir, this is the definitive and hilarious guide on how to survive your family holiday, by Jack ...

From the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who - like Elizabeth and Victori...

Reducere. DescriptionReproduction of the original: A Cruising Voyage round the World by Woodes Rogers