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Author: Yvonne Maynard Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1803134283 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 235
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Set in the North of England, this story simultaneously explores the frailties and weaknesses of human nature and its capacity for compassion and forgiveness.
Author: Yvonne Maynard Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1803134283 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 235
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Set in the North of England, this story simultaneously explores the frailties and weaknesses of human nature and its capacity for compassion and forgiveness.
Author: Hilary Bonner Publisher: Canongate Books ISBN: 1786895110 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 291
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DI David Vogel is first on the scene when Melanie Cooke’s bruised and strangled body is discovered in Bristol’s red-light district. The evidence points to Melanie’s father being the killer, but Vogel’s on edge. The quick arrest is too easy, too straightforward. When two new murders are reported, Vogel’s team broaden the search: new evidence suggests that there are three different, disturbed criminals. Any one of them could have killed Melanie, but which one did? Vogel’s team inch towards the answer, never suspecting that the killer is watching them too, waiting for his moment to strike.
Author: Mary Hymers Publisher: Ink-Inc Publishing Limited ISBN: 0993444458 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 224
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"My name is Mary Hymers and I was born in the year 1927. My Mother’s maiden name was Thomasina Gilfillan; after she married my Father Norman Hymers she took his surname and became Thomasina Hymers. I have one elder brother Alexander who was the oldest of us, then my sister Barbara, then me; Mary, and the baby of the family was my brother Norman..." With these words, at the age of 74 and never having written anything longer than a letter before, Mary Hymers began to write her life. Sixteen years later, she's still writing. A Dance with Romeo is the first volume of her memoirs to be published and describes in detail her childhood and teenage years against the backdrop of the second world war. Born in Winlaton, a small village in the north-east of England, Mary Hymers describes growing up in the 1930's and the traditions, community of a close-knit community whose way of life had remained unchanged for almost a century and which, with the advent of the Second World War, was soon to disappear forever. When war was declared in 1939, Winlaton was transformed by the influx of troops who were billeted there before being shipped off to fight abroad. The transformation of the village coincides with the end of Mary's schooldays at the age of thirteen and her first job at Sinclair's tobacco factory on Newcastle's Westgate Road. As she writes “War was declared, and life really began.” For Mary, life had indeed begun. Working long shifts in the cigarette factory and out dancing every night, Mary's war is backlit by the searchlights, incendiaries and tracer fire of the overhead air battles lighting her way home. Whether she's inadvertently getting engaged to her penfriend, enduring (with an ill-grace) the steadfast devotion of Ginger Duffy - her brother's best friend, getting her sister into trouble for smoking cigarettes, holidaying in London just after the Blitz, Mary dances her way through the War and in doing so gives an honest and often funny account of daily lives of ordinarily people during that extraordinary time.
Author: Raja Ratnam Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1426913273 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 427
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The wheels of life fell off in early life. He then kept falling into holes which were not there. Why, he asks. An interesting personal story set in British Malaya, the Japanese Occupation, and post-war Australia.
Author: James Nott Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191662720 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 342
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From the mid-1920s, the dance hall occupied a pivotal place in the culture of working- and lower-middle-class communities in Britain - a place rivalled only by the cinema and eventually to eclipse even that institution in popularity. Going to the Palais examines the history of this vital social and cultural institution, exploring the dances, dancers, and dance venues that were at the heart of one of twentieth-century Britain's most significant leisure activities. Going to the Palais has several key focuses. First, it explores the expansion of the dance hall industry and the development of a 'mass audience' for dancing between 1918 and 1960. Second, the impact of these changes on individuals and communities is examined, with a particular concentration on working and lower-middle-class communities, and on young men and women. Third, the cultural impact of dancing and dance halls is explored. A key aspect of this debate is an examination of how Britain's dance culture held up against various standardizing processes (commercialization, Americanization, etc.) over the period, and whether we can see the emergence of a 'national' dance culture. Finally, the volume offers an assessment of wider reactions to dance halls and dancing in the period. Going to the Palais is concerned with the complex relationship between discourses of class, culture, gender, and national identity and how they overlap - how cultural change, itself a response to broader political, social, and economic developments, was helping to change notions of class, gender, and national identity.
Author: Steven Charleston Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers ISBN: 1506486657 Category : Indigenous peoples Languages : en Pages : 273
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From Choctaw elder Steven Charleston comes this new collection of more than two hundred prayerful meditations on the Spirit Wheel, the mystery that dwells behind and within creation. Charleston guides readers through the four hallmarks of Native spirituality - tradition, kinship, vision, and balance - to find the Spirit who loves without exception.
Author: Karen Eliot Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190622423 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 241
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When the Second World War broke out, ballet in Britain was only a few decades old. Few had imagined that it would establish roots in a nation long thought to be unresponsive to dance. Nevertheless, the war proved to be a boon for ballet dancers, choreographers and audiences, for the nation's dancers were forced to look inward to their own identity and sources of creativity. As author Karen Eliot demonstrates in this fascinating book, instead of withering during the enforced isolation of war, ballet in Britain flourished, exhibiting a surprising heterogeneity and vibrant populism that moved ballet outside its typical elitist surroundings to be seen by uninitiated, often enthusiastic audiences. Ballet was thought to help boost audience morale, to render solace to the soul-weary and to afford entertainment and diversion to those who simply craved a few hours of distraction. Government authorities came to see that ballet could serve as a tool of propaganda; the ways it functioned within the larger public discourse of propaganda and sacrifice, and how it answered a public mood of pragmatism and idealism, are also topics in this story of the development of a national ballet identity. This narrative has several key players-- dance critics, male and female dancers, producers, audiences, and choreographers. Exploring the so-called "ballet boom" during WWII, the larger story of this book is one of how art and artists thrive during conflict, and how they respond pragmatically and creatively to privation and duress.
Author: Angela Bomford Publisher: WestBowPress ISBN: 1490803912 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 316
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Author Angela Bomfords childhood in Wallasey, England, was filled with air raids, bombs, and gas masks. In A Time to Dance, Bomford recalls her adventures as a young Christian as she struggles to break into show business in 1950s England. Tragedy and comedy follow her across Europe, where she has a peek behind the Iron Curtain and adventures in Paris and Vienna. She narrates how failed romance triggers serious self-doubtuntil her walk with the Lord leads her to a deep, lifelong romance with the man she had a crush on as a young teenager. A whirlwind courtship takes her across the Atlantic Ocean to Peru, Panama, and the United States. From working as an assistant stage manager in England to acting on movie sets in Florida, this true story brings both a lump to the throat and laughter to the lips. With photos included, A Time to Dance, Bomford shares her life story, giving insight into growing up against the backdrop of World War II, working in show business, and placing her life in the hands of the Lord.
Author: Hilary French Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1789145163 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 321
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A tune-filled, light-footed people’s history of ballroom dancing, from Vernon and Irene Castle and Arthur Murray to Dancing with the Stars. In the early twentieth century, American ragtime and the Parisian Tango fueled a dancing craze in Britain. Public ballrooms—which had never been seen before—were built throughout the country, providing a glamorous setting for all classes to dance. The new styles of dance being defined and taught in the 1920s, as well as the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the 1930s, ensured that ballroom dancing continued to be the most popular pastime until the 1960s, rivaled only by the cinema. This book explores the vibrant history of Ballroom and Latin: the dances, the lavish venues, competitions, and influential instructors. It also traces the decline of competitive dancing and its resurgence in recent years with the hugely popular TV shows Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars.
Author: Yvonne Maynard
Author: Yvonne Maynard
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Author: Hilary French