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Author : Sandy Balfour
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Describes the author's travels through Nairobi, Cairo, Moscow, and England, in an insider's account of the world of cryptic crossword puzzles and crossword tournaments while providing clues to a riddle hidden in the book.
Author : Sandy Balfour
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1782394796
A little gem of a memoir... The book adds up to more than a sum of its parts and lingers in the memory long after the final page. -- Sunday Telegraph Half a million people a day do it in the Telegraph. The Times claims almost as many, and the Guardian 300,000. Most people remember their first time, and everyone has a favourite. You can do it in bed, standing up, or on a train. You can do it alone, with a loved one or in groups. The Queen does it in the bath. It is not illegal, immoral or fattening. In fact it tops the Home Office list of approved entertainments for prison inmates. Crosswords are a very British obsession. Crosswords are a very British obsession. Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose is a personal reminiscence and a guide to solving crossword puzzles. But it is much, much more than a 'how-to' book. Each chapter is starts with a clue, and uses anecdote, history and autobiography to solve it, in the process describing something of what it means to love England. In the process, we encounter The Best Crossword Clue Ever, The Most Beautiful Clue in the World 'Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose' and the eccentric personalities behind such legendary compilers as the Guardian's Araucaria and The Times'Ximenes.
Author : Sandy Balfour
Publisher :
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 32,98 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Crossword puzzles
ISBN : 9781845056575
This work is a personal reminiscence and a guide to solving crossword puzzles. Each chapter starts with a clue and uses anecdote, history and autobiography to solve it, in the process describing something of what it means to love England.
Author : Grace Livingston Hill
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1607428563
One rose changes a young woman’s solitary life forever. After setting out on her own, Marion Warren is overcome with drab routine. Her solution: buy a season ticket to the symphony. But to Marion’s surprise, each night she finds a mysterious crimson rose—and no sign of who left it. Then wealthy Jefferson Lyman whisks into Marion’s already up-turned world, bringing with him socialite Isabel Cresson. Jefferson sets out to win Marion’s heart…but Isabel’s dangerous envy may thwart his chances altogether.
Author : Lauren Willig
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101211903
Now in paperback?a novel that ?handily fulfills its promise of intrigue and romance.?(Publishers Weekly) Determined to secure another London season without assistance from her new brother-in-law, Mary Alsworthy accepts a secret assignment from Lord Vaughn on behalf of the Pink Carnation. She must infiltrate the ranks of the dreaded French spy, the Black Tulip, before he and his master can stage their planned invasion of England. Every spy has a weakness and for the Black Tulip that weakness is beautiful black-haired women?his ?petals? of the Tulip. A natural at the art of seduction, Mary easily catches the attention of the French spy, but Lord Vaughn never anticipated that his own heart would be caught as well. Fighting their growing attraction, impediments from their past, and, of course, the French, Mary and Vaughn find themselves lost in a treacherous garden of lies. And as our modern-day heroine, Eloise Kelly, digs deeper into England?s Napoleonic-era espionage, she becomes even more entwined with Colin Selwick, the descendant of her spy subjects.
Author : Michel Faber
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 46,1 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1847678939
Yearning to escape her life of prostitution in 1870s London, Sugar finds her fate entangled in the complicated family life of patron William, an egotistical perfume magnate.
Author : R Malone
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 2009-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448966257
The last few years have not been kind to Rose. She has lost her husband and is currently residing with an abusive boyfriend. Furthermore, an enigmatic but very handsome man is stalking her. Ultimately, she finds that he is a supernatural being from heaven; or perhaps he has emerged from the depths of hell. Regardless, from his pointed teeth to his blood-kissed lips, Stefan is indeed a vampire, a creature Rose once thought only existed in folklore. He has emerged from the sinister darkness and come to claim her as his own. Stefan Hansen has seen the very worst of mankind. Before his transitioning, he had endured the horrors of World War II and the violent loss of his Jewish love. Thinking that the past was dead, he could not have been more wrong. And an apparition from his past was scheming to prove it with destructive intentions.
Author : Rose Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 15,8 MB
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 132948620X
When her kingdom is suddenly attacked by a neighboring country, 17-year-old assassin - and heir to the throne - Aerietta Elony is betrayed by her companions and captured by Evrallon, the kingdom laying waste to her own. Aerietta is tasked with hunting down one of her former companions for reasons unknown to her. Should she succeed, she will be granted freedom. Should she fail, the king will have her head to boast at gatherings. But Aerietta has a bigger secret to keep than just her parentage - her abilities. Because Aerietta isn't just any assassin princess ... she is something straight out of legend. To find her erstwhile confederate and make it back alive, she will have to fool the ever-watchful, enigmatic Swordmaster that's been saddled with her, which proves to be more difficult than Aerietta could ever imagine. Deception abounds, danger is just as prevalent, all truth is veiled in shadows, but the only thing she fears is herself. The Queen of Crimson accepts.
Author : Katharine McMahon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101016353
The #1 international bestseller about love, war and betrayal from the author of The Alchemist's Daughter In 1854, adventurous Rosa Barr travels to the Crimean battlefield with Florence Nightingale's nursing corps. For Mariella Lingwood, Rosa's cousin, the war is contained within the letters she receives from her fiancé, Henry, a celebrated surgeon who also has volunteered to work in the shadow of the guns. When Henry falls ill, Mariella impulsively takes an epic journey to the ravaged landscape of the Crimea and the tragic city of Sebastopol. What she finds there, as her world beings to crumble, is that she has much to learn about secrecy, faithfulness, and love...
Author : Dhonielle Clayton
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1484780345
Camille must save Orleans in this high-stakes sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller.