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In 1973 there were approximately 150 Fire Brigades protecting the
United Kingdom - all with their own ideas on how to design and
specify fire engines. However, local government reorganisation the
following year was about to change that. This book is a unique
photographic record by distinguished fire engine photographers John
Toomey, who came especially from New York, and Andrew Henry. It
documents the amazing diversity of British post-war fire engines.
Captions and an expert commentary are provided by the highly
respected Fire Brigade author and historian Ron Henderson.
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Slipping (Paperback)
John Toomey
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R402
R333
Discovery Miles 3 330
Save R69 (17%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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When Albert Jackson, a middle-aged school teacher, catches a
glimpse of the infinite universe and his own tiny insignificance he
cannot shake himself free of regret for a life all but squandered.
In a blind and demented attempt to salvage something from his life,
he sets off, half-lucidly, on a libertine mission to reclaim life,
to live it exclusively on his terms. But the wild and sinister
crime he plots, so characterised by delusion, sets him on a path to
irreversible destruction. Incarcerated after his crime, at the once
prestigious Reil Institute, and in a bid to make spiritual and
cosmic amends, Albert Jackson employs the guile of a local
novelist, Charlie Vaughan, to tell his story. In the telling of
Albert's story, Charlie drives the narrative onward and backward,
forcing Albert to confront the horrors of his crime. When the
inadequacy of Albert's initial confession forces Charlie to search
further afield, he must cede control of the narrative to a range of
other narrators too, among them key witnesses to the events leading
up to Albert's crime and a strange third-person account composed by
Albert himself. Slipping is a darkly humorous novel about life and
love, ambition, bitter disappointment and the cost of committing
the unforgivable.
When Vic meets Lali, they stumble into a dysfunctional ten-year
relationship that leaves him in ruins and raising a child on his
own. As Vic strives to protect their daughter from the cruel truths
of his relationship with her mother, he finds himself hopelessly
submerged in Lali's seemingly inexplicable contradictions, and
their implications concerning his own inability to move on.
"Huddleston Road" is an honest, often brutal examination of the
loneliness that results from our inability to truly know the people
who share our lives--and about our need to reach out and try
nonetheless.
Stuart Byrne is a young, beautiful, single businessman who finds
his perfect life sabotaged by a growing awareness of his own
superficiality. Nauseated by his own helplessness, struck by a
creeping lethargy, Stuart tumbles through a tumultuous week of
excess, promiscuity, deception, cowardice, and regret, and in the
process manages to trade his slick perfection for a fantastic, and
darkly hilarious, catastrophe. A deadpan comedy about the rather
unfunny void in the center of many modern lives, "Sleepwalker"
explores how our trying to fill that void can be just as
destructive as ignoring it, and how the world will always let the
beautiful get away with murder.
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