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Them Feltwell Boys
David G. Bailey
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R832
Discovery Miles 8 320
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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"If women are so much trouble, Ray, why do you always want more
than one?" Parallel narratives of a schoolboy’s developing first
love affair and his career and marriage unravelling 25 years later
eventually converge at a school reunion. Ray Roden is a Fenland
schoolboy in trouble with teachers and friends as well as women
after his boys’ grammar merges with the girls’ high. He has
already met Tina: that girl would give me some of the best moments
of my life. And the worst. Ray Roden is an insurance executive
travelling the Caribbean in trouble with his job, his wife (one of
them Roper girls), his children – and still women: "this last ten
days I’ve been kicked out of their beds by my wife, my girlfriend
and a … another one." And then there is Hurricane Martin,
‘storm of the century’, heading straight for his home in Puerto
Rico. Alongside humorous scenes in Ray’s unenlightened
development from schoolboy clumsiness to mid-life crisis
mismanagement are grimmer adult ones including adultery, alcohol
abuse, physical and sexual assault. Will he emerge from his school
reunion with more than one, one, ‘the one’ or no woman at all?
Visit www.davidgbailey.com and author Facebook page at bit.ly/D-G-B
They were beauties all right, them Roper girls - but sometimes even
four aces don't make a winning hand. In an unsettled household in
the 1950s, how will the sisters come up from their shipwrecked
childhood? Facing issues including domestic and sexual abuse,
physical and mental illness, they struggle to offer their own
children a better legacy. Follow them over sixty years to see if
all the siblings make it safely to shore. Angela: Whatever rumours
you may have heard, I never knew Dad say my third sister Karen
wasn't his. Janet: She had promised that on her sixteenth birthday
she would finally let him go all the way. Lucy: I think Jan was
away at a Guides' camp when I got run over. Karen: Don't think I'll
be rambling on like Ange ... I wouldn't want to leave you only her
version, talk about unreliable memoirs. Visit www.davidgbailey.com
and author facebook page at bit.ly/D-G-B
He will take seventeen to the match - how many will he bring back?
In Cibola football is a matter of life and death. Sir Tristram must
reunite his Blood City teammates - Knights, Pirates and Westerners
- to win the prestigious Seskie tournament against their oldest
rivals. Behind the match is a bigger power play, a king's mission
to bring down his greatest rival by persuasion, trickery or force.
Needing a squad of soldiers as well as footballers, Sir Tristram
must also find a place on tour and in his heart for the teenage
child he has not addressed by name since infancy...
The Balmat Mining District in southern St. Lawrence County, New
York, is a former mining site known among collectors for its highly
prized minerals. For more than 100 years, it was one of the world's
most important sources of talc and zinc. Because most of the zinc
ore was crushed underground and brought to the surface for
separation, only mineral specimens brought out by miners and
geologists have survived. Outstanding specimens from both the talc
and zinc mines, preserved in only a few collections, are featured
in this book-many for the first time. Some of the fine specimens
included are hexagonite, manganocummingtonite, groutite, calcite,
sphalerite, and magnetite. With more than 200 photographs, this
book is the first comprehensive description of the history,
geology, and mineralogy of this important mining district.
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