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Author: Jane Duffus Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445632462 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 207
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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Yeovil Cinemas has changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Bob Osborn Publisher: A-Z ISBN: 9781445675060 Category : Yeovil (England) Languages : en Pages : 96
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The Somerset town of Yeovil may no longer be a thriving hub of glove manufacturing, but examine its past a little deeper and you will find an exciting history dating back centuries. From its early Roman connections to its expansion as a major centre of glove making in the 1800s and the later growth of its aircraft and defence industries, the town has always played an important role in the local area and county.Local author Bob Osborn takes the reader on a fascinating A-Z tour of the town's history, exploring its streets and alleyweys and telling stories of the buildings, places and residents along the way. Fully illustrated with photographs from the past and present, A-Z of Yeovil will appeal to residents and visitors alike.
Author: Philip Hensher Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 1429967196 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 597
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A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011 One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books 2011 Far from London's crime and pollution, Hanmouth's wealthier residents live in picturesque, heavily mortgaged cottages in the center of a town packed with artisanal cheese shops and antiques stores. They're reminded of the town's less desirable outskirts—with their grim, flimsy housing stock and chain stores—only when their neighbors have the presumption to claim also to live in Hanmouth. When an eight-year-old girl from the outer area goes missing, England's eyes suddenly turn toward the sleepy town with a curiosity as piercing and unblinking as the closed-circuit security cameras that line Hanmouth's idyllic streets. But somehow these cameras have missed the abduction of the girl, whose name is China. Is her blank-eyed hairdresser mother hiding her as part of a moneymaking hoax? Has she been abducted by one of the lurking perverts the townspeople imagine the cameras are protecting them from? Perhaps more cameras are needed? As it turns out, more than one resident of Hanmouth has a secret hidden behind closed doors. There's Sam and Harry, the cheesemonger and aristocrat who lead the county's gay orgies. The quiet husband of postcolonial theorist Miranda (everyone agrees she's marvelous) keeps a male lover, while their daughter disembowels dolls she's named Child Pornography and Slightly Jewish. Moral crusader John Calvin's Neighborhood Watch has an unusual reason for holding its meetings in secret. And, of course, somewhere out there is the house where little China is hidden. With the dark hilarity and unflinching honesty of a modern-day Middlemarch, King of the Badgers demolishes the already fragile privacy of Hanmouth's inhabitants. These characters, exquisitely drawn and rawly human, proclaim Philip Hensher's status as an extraordinary chronicler of the domestic, and one of the world's most dazzling and ambitious novelists.
Author: Harriet Evans Publisher: Grand Central Publishing ISBN: 1538722186 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 470
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"It's a funny old house. They have this ceremony every summer . . . There's an old chapel, in the grounds of the house. It's half-derelict. The Hunters keep bees in there. Every year, on the same day, the family processes to the chapel. They open the combs, taste the honey. Take it back to the house. Half for them -" my father winced, as though he had bitten down on a sore tooth. "And half for us." Catherine, a successful barrister, vanishes from a train station on the eve of her anniversary. Is it because she saw a figure - someone she believed long dead? Or was it a shadow cast by her troubled, fractured mind? The answer lies buried in the past. It lies in the events of the hot, seismic summer of 1989, at Vanes - a mysterious West Country manor house - where a young girl, Jane Lestrange, arrives to stay with the gilded, grand Hunter family, and where a devastating tragedy will unfold. Over the summer, as an ancient family ritual looms closer, Janey falls for each member of the family in turn. She and Kitty, the eldest daughter of the house, will forge a bond that decades later, is still shaping the present . . . 'We need the bees to survive, and they need us to survive. Once you understand that, you understand the history of Vanes, you understand our family.'
Author: Bob Osborn
Author: Bob Osborn
Author: Bob Osborn
Author: Bob Osborn
Author: Bob Osborn
Author: Jane Duffus
Author: Jack William Sweet
Author: Bob Osborn
Author: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Author: Philip Hensher
Author: Harriet Evans