Author: Barbara Trapido
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620408813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a dissenting liberal family. Big sister Lisa is strong and sensible, while Dinah is weedy and arty. At school, the sadistic Mrs Vaughan-Jones is providing instruction in mental arithmetic and racial prejudice. And then there's the puzzle of lunch break. "Would you rather have a native girl or a koelie to make your sandwiches?" a first-year classmate asks. But Dinah doesn't know the answer, because it's her dad who makes her sandwiches. As the apparatus of repression rolls on, Dinah finds her own way. As we follow her journey through childhood and adolescence, we enter into one of the darker passages of twentieth-century history.
Frankie & Stankie
Author: Barbara Trapido
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620408813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a dissenting liberal family. Big sister Lisa is strong and sensible, while Dinah is weedy and arty. At school, the sadistic Mrs Vaughan-Jones is providing instruction in mental arithmetic and racial prejudice. And then there's the puzzle of lunch break. "Would you rather have a native girl or a koelie to make your sandwiches?" a first-year classmate asks. But Dinah doesn't know the answer, because it's her dad who makes her sandwiches. As the apparatus of repression rolls on, Dinah finds her own way. As we follow her journey through childhood and adolescence, we enter into one of the darker passages of twentieth-century history.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620408813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a dissenting liberal family. Big sister Lisa is strong and sensible, while Dinah is weedy and arty. At school, the sadistic Mrs Vaughan-Jones is providing instruction in mental arithmetic and racial prejudice. And then there's the puzzle of lunch break. "Would you rather have a native girl or a koelie to make your sandwiches?" a first-year classmate asks. But Dinah doesn't know the answer, because it's her dad who makes her sandwiches. As the apparatus of repression rolls on, Dinah finds her own way. As we follow her journey through childhood and adolescence, we enter into one of the darker passages of twentieth-century history.
Sex and Stravinsky
Author: Barbara Trapido
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620408805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren't easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband with Stravinsky-glasses and twelve-year-old daughter. Zoe reads girls' ballet books and longs for lessons; a thing denied her until a chance encounter on a school French exchange. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Africa, Hattie, Josh's first love, now writes girls' ballet books when she can carve out time when she isn't caring for her husband and her crosspatch daughter. From far and wide, they are all drawn together: a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem. Elizabeth Gilbert on Barbara Trapido: "Why did it take me so long to discover the singular joys of Barbara Trapido's novels? Why, for so many years, had I missed these witty, soulful, heartbreaking, expansive, brilliant tales? I have become a literary evangelist on her behalf. On account of my badgering, all my friends now love her, too. I won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love with) this fabulous author." --Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620408805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren't easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband with Stravinsky-glasses and twelve-year-old daughter. Zoe reads girls' ballet books and longs for lessons; a thing denied her until a chance encounter on a school French exchange. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Africa, Hattie, Josh's first love, now writes girls' ballet books when she can carve out time when she isn't caring for her husband and her crosspatch daughter. From far and wide, they are all drawn together: a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem. Elizabeth Gilbert on Barbara Trapido: "Why did it take me so long to discover the singular joys of Barbara Trapido's novels? Why, for so many years, had I missed these witty, soulful, heartbreaking, expansive, brilliant tales? I have become a literary evangelist on her behalf. On account of my badgering, all my friends now love her, too. I won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love with) this fabulous author." --Elizabeth Gilbert
Temples of Delight
Author: Barbara Trapido
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620408716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
"First published by Michael Joseph 1990"--Title page verso.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620408716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
"First published by Michael Joseph 1990"--Title page verso.
Frankie and Stankie
Author: Barbara Trapido
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0747599599
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A coming of age novel set in 1950s South Africa, by the author of Brother of the More Famous Jack.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0747599599
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A coming of age novel set in 1950s South Africa, by the author of Brother of the More Famous Jack.
The Travelling Hornplayer
Author: Barbara Trapido
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620408791
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Stunning and difficult, Stella Goldman is programmed for maximum nuisance capacity, but when she discovers both her father's affair and her boyfriend's infidelity on the same day, she flees into the arms of kindly Pen, who speaks as though he's stepped out of Brief Encounter. Meanwhile, her friend Ellen struggles to come to terms with the death of her sister, Lydia, whose ghost haunts not only her and her father Roland, but the beloved Goldmans (from Brother of the More Famous Jack), too. Along with eccentric professors, wicked monks, and the titular travelling hornplayer, their lives collide in a breathtaking finale.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620408791
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Stunning and difficult, Stella Goldman is programmed for maximum nuisance capacity, but when she discovers both her father's affair and her boyfriend's infidelity on the same day, she flees into the arms of kindly Pen, who speaks as though he's stepped out of Brief Encounter. Meanwhile, her friend Ellen struggles to come to terms with the death of her sister, Lydia, whose ghost haunts not only her and her father Roland, but the beloved Goldmans (from Brother of the More Famous Jack), too. Along with eccentric professors, wicked monks, and the titular travelling hornplayer, their lives collide in a breathtaking finale.
The Trouble with Alice
Author: Olivia Glazebrook
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147671875X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Originally published: London: Short Books, 2011.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147671875X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Originally published: London: Short Books, 2011.
Brother of the More Famous Jack
Author: Barbara Trapido
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747599580
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the centre of Professor Jacob Goldman's rambling home and his large eccentric family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife Jane gives birth to her sixth child, Katherine meets the volatile, stroppy Jonathan and his older, more beautiful brother Roger, who wins her heart. First love quickly leads to heartbreak and sends her fleeing to Rome but, ten years on, she returns to find the Goldmans again. A little wiser and a lot more grown-up, Katherine faces her future. Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's highly acclaimed and much loved debut; a book that redefined the coming-of-age novel.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747599580
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the centre of Professor Jacob Goldman's rambling home and his large eccentric family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife Jane gives birth to her sixth child, Katherine meets the volatile, stroppy Jonathan and his older, more beautiful brother Roger, who wins her heart. First love quickly leads to heartbreak and sends her fleeing to Rome but, ten years on, she returns to find the Goldmans again. A little wiser and a lot more grown-up, Katherine faces her future. Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's highly acclaimed and much loved debut; a book that redefined the coming-of-age novel.
The Other Side of Silence
Author: André Brink
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780156029643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A young German woman escapes her tortured childhood by moving to South-West Africa. In Africa she is confronted with the drunken excesses of visiting soldiers. She recruits other victimized women and natives to take revenge on the German oppressors.
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780156029643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A young German woman escapes her tortured childhood by moving to South-West Africa. In Africa she is confronted with the drunken excesses of visiting soldiers. She recruits other victimized women and natives to take revenge on the German oppressors.
The Gas Turbine Handbook
Author: Tony Giampaolo
Publisher: The Fairmont Press, Inc.
ISBN: 0881734136
Category : Gas-turbines
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The second edition of a bestseller, this comprehensive reference provides the fundamental information required to understand both the operation and proper application of all types of gas turbines. The completely updated second edition adds a new section on use of inlet cooling for power augmentation and NOx control. It explores the full spectrum of gas turbines hardware, typical application scenarios, and operating parameters, controls, inlet treatments, inspection, trouble-shooting, and more. The author discusses strategies that can help readers avoid problems before they occur and provides tips that enable diagnosis of problems in their early stages and analysis of failures to prevent their recurrence.
Publisher: The Fairmont Press, Inc.
ISBN: 0881734136
Category : Gas-turbines
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The second edition of a bestseller, this comprehensive reference provides the fundamental information required to understand both the operation and proper application of all types of gas turbines. The completely updated second edition adds a new section on use of inlet cooling for power augmentation and NOx control. It explores the full spectrum of gas turbines hardware, typical application scenarios, and operating parameters, controls, inlet treatments, inspection, trouble-shooting, and more. The author discusses strategies that can help readers avoid problems before they occur and provides tips that enable diagnosis of problems in their early stages and analysis of failures to prevent their recurrence.
The House at Midnight
Author: Lucie Whitehouse
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140880638X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
An atmospheric, menacing tale of secrets and suspense, set in a seemingly idyllic Cotswolds manor house 'Deliciously sinister' Daily Mail 'Murder and mayhem will keep you turning the pages long past midnight. If you liked The Secret History, you'll love this' Harper's Bazaar 'Gripping and tense, with an atmosphere which holds you in thrall' Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black From the beginning, the house changed everything... Lucas. Joanna. Martha. Michael. Danny. Rachel. Best friends since college, they are brought together at beautiful Stoneborough Manor when Lucas inherits it following the suicide of his beloved uncle. But over the course of a hot, decadent summer, what begins as an idyllic retreat from the pressures of adult life is transformed into a place where secrets are revealed, sexual tensions escalate and friendships and sanity unravel – beyond repair.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140880638X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
An atmospheric, menacing tale of secrets and suspense, set in a seemingly idyllic Cotswolds manor house 'Deliciously sinister' Daily Mail 'Murder and mayhem will keep you turning the pages long past midnight. If you liked The Secret History, you'll love this' Harper's Bazaar 'Gripping and tense, with an atmosphere which holds you in thrall' Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black From the beginning, the house changed everything... Lucas. Joanna. Martha. Michael. Danny. Rachel. Best friends since college, they are brought together at beautiful Stoneborough Manor when Lucas inherits it following the suicide of his beloved uncle. But over the course of a hot, decadent summer, what begins as an idyllic retreat from the pressures of adult life is transformed into a place where secrets are revealed, sexual tensions escalate and friendships and sanity unravel – beyond repair.