Author: Lydia Howard SigourneyPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands
Author: Lydia Howard SigourneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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This Green and Pleasant Land
Author: Ayisha MalikPublisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN: 1785767534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS 'Tender, challenging and as warm as it was razor-sharp' Beth O'Leary 'If you've read Joanna Cannon I think you'll love this' Simon Savidge 'A sublimely witty and touching story' Jonathan Coe The standout new novel by acclaimed author Ayisha Malik - perfect for fans of David Nicholls and Candice Carty-Williams. In the sleepy village of Babel's End, trouble is brewing. Bilal Hasham is having a mid-life crisis. His mother has just died, and he finds peace lying in a grave he's dug in the garden. His elderly Auntie Rukhsana has come to live with him, and forged an unlikely friendship with village busybody, Shelley Hawking. His wife Mariam is distant and distracted, and his stepson Haaris is spending more time with his real father. Bilal's mother's dying wish was to build a mosque in Babel's End, but when Shelley gets wind of this scheme, she unleashes the forces of hell. Will Bilal's mosque project bring his family and his beloved village together again, or drive them apart? Warm, wise and laugh-out-loud funny, This Green and Pleasant Land is a life-affirming look at love, faith and the meaning of home.
Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands
Author: afterwards SIGOURNEY HUNTLEY (Lydia Howard)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Scenes in My Native Land
Author: Lydia Howard SigourneyPublisher:
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Category : Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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A Green and Pleasant Land
Author: Ursula BuchanPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448108918
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
SHORTLISTED FOR INSPIRATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2014 GARDEN MEDIA GUILD AWARDS. The wonderfully evocative story of how Britain’s World War Two gardeners – with great ingenuity, invincible good humour and extraordinary fortitude – dug for victory on home turf. A Green and Pleasant Land tells the intriguing and inspiring story of how Britain's wartime government encouraged and cajoled its citizens to grow their own fruit and vegetables. As the Second World War began in earnest and a whole nation listened to wireless broadcasts, dug holes for Anderson shelters, counted their coupons and made do and mended, so too were they instructed to ‘Dig for Victory’. Ordinary people, as well as gardening experts, rose to the challenge: gardens, scrubland, allotments and even public parks were soon helping to feed a nation deprived of fresh produce. As Ursula Buchan reveals, this practical contribution to the Home Front was tackled with thrifty ingenuity, grumbling humour and extraordinary fortitude. The simple act of turning over soil and tending new plants became important psychologically for a population under constant threat of bombing and even invasion. Gardening reminded people that their country and its more innocent and insular pursuits were worth fighting for. Gardening in wartime Britain was a part of the fight for freedom.
Christian Examiner and Theological Review
Author: Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...
Author: John Clark RidpathPublisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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The North American Review
Author: Jared SparksPublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
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