Story machine gb (46 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: New. Born in New York City on the night of John Lennon's assassination Ros is now a celebrated photographer who claims to have killed reclusive writer J. D. Salinger with the help of her alter ego Marta. In the psychiatric hospital where she resides Ros talks with her therapist about art and pop culture an…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 'There have been many amazing projects to help people during the pandemic and Paperchains is one of the very best.' Queen CamillaAn anthology of 30 stories of lockdown, from people with experience of prison, homelessness, addiction, and families of people in the armed forces.When the history of the Co…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 1960. The height of the Cold War. Maths prodigy Ginny Matlock is appointed to be the first woman computer at a secretive nuclear testing facility off the East Anglian coast. She quickly finds, in this landscape of endless skies and shifting shorelines, that nothing is what it seems. What is the terrib…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Sixteen-year-old Pen Flowers is angry. She's furious about climate injustice and social inequality, her parents' separation, and her own lonely single existence. The only thing that makes life worth living is dancing. And with that she plans to change the world.But when romance arrives unexpectedly on…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 1826: Jacob Chapman stands on the beach in Lowestoft, preparing to put to sea in his own boat. Hunting herring - the silver darlings - off the east coast, just as his ancestors have done for centuries. But change is coming.Over the next century the fortunes of Jacob's family will rise and fall with th…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 'Every family has shadow people, the ones who slipped out of the story too soon, leaving a blank space where they should have been. In my father's family that person was his sister Kathleen.'So begins Heather Richardson's astonishing fragmentary celebration of her aunt, Kathleen Hutchinson, whose life…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 1826: Jacob Chapman stands on the beach in Lowestoft, preparing to put to sea in his own boat. Hunting herring - the silver darlings - off the east coast, just as his ancestors have done for centuries. But change is coming.Over the next century the fortunes of Jacob's family will rise and fall with th…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 'Who's this I hear, ringing like the tiny bell in a nut?'Strange Shape, the debut collection of Cat Woodward, is a love letter to Norwich, haunted by the spectral hellhound Black Shuck across fens and fields of history, following the rivers towards the waves of the rising tides returning to claim the…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 'Every family has shadow people, the ones who slipped out of the story too soon, leaving a blank space where they should have been. In my father's family that person was his sister Kathleen.'So begins Heather Richardson's astonishing fragmentary celebration of her aunt, Kathleen Hutchinson, whose life…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 'Who's this I hear, ringing like the tiny bell in a nut?'Strange Shape, the debut collection of Cat Woodward, is a love letter to Norwich, haunted by the spectral hellhound Black Shuck across fens and fields of history, following the rivers towards the waves of the rising tides returning to claim the…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Asked to open an exhibition of photographs by the American photographer Lee Miller, Christopher Bigsby was struck by images which stared into a particular darkness, war and the cruelties it unleashed, this from a woman who had once been a fashion model and then a lover and student of the surrealist Ma…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Welcome to Deception Island, a tiny Volcanic caldera in the Antarctic Ocean. Here the rusting remains of industrial whaling and a seabed littered with whalebones testify to mankind's greed and brutality. But the island is also an outpost of scientific exploration, witness to human attentiveness and fo…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A hurricane is about to hit New York City and Edward has (probably) just been dumped by his boyfriend. He could use a break. Bradington Bay is a journey into the heart of America. Stopping at roadside bars, diners, and even the grave of the Kentucky Colonel, he will find that - thankfully - journeys h…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A hurricane is about to hit New York City and Edward has (probably) just been dumped by his boyfriend. He could use a break. Bradington Bay is a journey into the heart of America. Stopping at roadside bars, diners, and even the grave of the Kentucky Colonel, he will find that - thankfully - journeys h…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In 1958, geophysicist A. G. Lewis travelled to the Antarctic to investigate the landscapes and skies of that vast and icy continent.Now Elizabeth Lewis Williams traces her father's journeys, from the Peninsula to Mt Erebus. They are real, imagined, and artistic journeys, exploring communication across…

Paperback. Condizione: New. On a summer's day, a tiny baby vanishes. The mystery is never solved, leaving a young mother lost in grief. Twenty-one years later, ex-police detective Dan Hennessy is struggling with his own tragic loss. When a neighbour disappears and a body turns up at the solar farm, Dan becomes desperate for answ…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 'I do not have a future, and I do not want dreams. My dreams are stories, written by a machine.And I will not think of her.'Luke Kierley has visited the writer and asked it to exorcise from him all memory of her. Now he has no idea who she was and he must try to find a way to live with a bleeding hole…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 1826: Jacob Chapman stands on the beach in Lowestoft, preparing to put to sea in his own boat. Hunting herring - the silver darlings - off the east coast, just as his ancestors have done for centuries. But change is coming.Over the next century the fortunes of Jacob's family will rise and fall with th…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 'Every family has shadow people, the ones who slipped out of the story too soon, leaving a blank space where they should have been. In my father's family that person was his sister Kathleen.'So begins Heather Richardson's astonishing fragmentary celebration of her aunt, Kathleen Hutchinson, whose life…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 'Who's this I hear, ringing like the tiny bell in a nut?'Strange Shape, the debut collection of Cat Woodward, is a love letter to Norwich, haunted by the spectral hellhound Black Shuck across fens and fields of history, following the rivers towards the waves of the rising tides returning to claim the…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A hurricane is about to hit New York City and Edward has (probably) just been dumped by his boyfriend. He could use a break. Bradington Bay is a journey into the heart of America. Stopping at roadside bars, diners, and even the grave of the Kentucky Colonel, he will find that - thankfully - journeys h…