Search Results: Authors starting with P from DASHbooks

In good condition - dust jacket has fading on spine - has slight yellowing to pages - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The 'birthday biography' of Sir Donald Bradman, based on his lifetime collection of personal material and on interviews with the great batsman.On 27 August 1983 it became seventy-five years since 'The Don' was born into a farming family at Yeo Yeo, New South Wales. The biography is proudly presented as a commemorative tribute to the world's most famous batsman.The book was conceived when Sir Donald consented to make his personal records - including letters, documents, photographs and scrapbooks dating back to his earliest days - available to the publishers as the basis of a new biography. He also granted interviews to the author and checked the entire text of the book.Michael Page gives a fully rounded portrait of Sir Donald's life and career, from the days when he was a youthful country cricketer, through the years when he… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Northern Ireland, 1963. This is the story of a time muffled and made claustrophobic by unprecedented snow falls, and of a community caught in the slow dance of this frozen land. Suddenly shaken free for the normal patterns of their lives by the extremity of the weather, the people find their intimate desires thrown into sharp relief, as they experience love, death and finally murder.In a house with windows flung defiantly wide, a wife dies before her husband can make his confession. Her coffin is pulled to the church on a sledge by Peter, a young man engulfed by his first feelings of love for an older, unattainable woman. Elsewhere, an old woman searches desperately for a wedding dress in her dream of love. When the electricity fails, a lonely headmaster is forced to close his school and in shadowy candlelight he is tempted into indiscretion. Meanwhile, in the very heart of… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When World War II is declared, wealthy banker Henry Granville moves his family away from the dangers of bomb-torn London to Hartley Hall in Surrey. But even away from the city, life at home remains turbulent.Eldest daughter, Rosie, lives nearby with her two children, but her marriage is far from happy, and the temptations that come with her husband's absence lead to regret and heartache. Juliet, on the other hand, faces the greatest tragedy a woman can experience, without the support of the only man she ever loved, Daniel Lawrence.Desparate to forget her past, Juliet becomes a Red Cross nurse, braving the carnage of the Blitz. Fifteen-year-old Louise gets fatefully involved with East End refugee Jack, while Amanda and little Charlotte strive to help with food rationing by keeping stock. Only their mother, Liza, seems unable to lose her regrets at the loss of their privileged… Read More

In very good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Running away from the mainland was supposed to make their lives better. But for Isla and her brother, their mother's sadness and the cold, damp greyness of Hobart's stone streets seeps into everything.Then, one morning, Isla sees a red ship. That colour lights her day. And when a sailor from the ship befriends her mother, he shares his stories with them all - of Antarctica, his home in Denmark and life on board. Like the snow - white petrels that survive in the harshest coldest place, this lonely girl at the bottom of the world will learn that it is possible to go anywhere, be anything. But she will also find out that it is just as easy to lose it all. For Isla, two long summers will change everything.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The author of The Wyndham Case returns with another mystery featuring Imogen Quy -school nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge--about an unfinished biography, three scholars who died mysteriously, another who is missing, and a peculiar quilt pattern.

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A memoir of Stuart Patterson.

In very good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The honeymoon - no other holiday inspires so much anticipation, or has such potential for blissful happiness, or for disappointment.Using extracts from fiction and from real-life diaries and letters, Honeymoons takes you on a rollercoaster of an emotional journey into the heart of human longing, to examine what it is we are seeking, and what we expect, when we embark on marriage. There are real journeys to Pisa and Rome, through Switzerland and India and to the dales and moors of Yorkshire. We hear about the consummations of royal weddings; and about the dire consequences of marriages of convenience and those entered into with calculation. We journey in time from the very public wedding night of a seventeenth century couple, to the honeymoon of Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic in Sri Lanka.The road is littered with pleasures great and small, not to mention surprises,… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In Astoria, Queens, the lively ethnic neighbourhood just across the river from Manhattan, a house is being haunted by the ghost of a nine-year-old girl in riding clothes. More than two decades before, she'd been abducted from stables in Brooklyn. Now it's up to Jack to uncover the truth of her story and liberate the pretty blond spirit. Perhaps the answer is in the odd little store called the Shurio Coppe? Ah, but that would be telling. Jack does things no human being should be able to do, but we watch, in horrified fascination, as the forces of evil seem about to triumph and fill the world with eternal darkness. And then - but you must read the book.

In good condition - has markings from use - large book - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Matthew Flinders Anglican College Music Department project. Spirited Feasts is a wonderful cookbook.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Peachment's imagined Caravaggio, while still a child, overhears his parents discussing one of his sketches, and realizes he has a talent which sets him apart from the world. He leaves family and home for ever to map out a solitary traveller's life.Caravaggio became a revolutionary of his time, a rebellious and dangerous man to know, a man governed by his genius, his indiscriminate sexual appetite and his murderous rage. He was sought far and wide in the late-Renaissance world for his art. And there was a price on his head for at least one murder.This is Caravaggio's confession, told in humorous, blasphemous, often brutal prose, which cleverly beguiles the reader into understanding the art that was so celebrated and the life that caused so much outrage.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.From the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books, the first in a new series introducing Seymour of Special Branch and set in the British embassies and consulates of Europe in the early 1900s.Trieste in 1906 is one of the greatest seaports in the world, the Austrian Empire's main outlet to the Mediterranean and beyond. But various nationalist movements are threatening to pull the place apart. The heavy-handed militarist regime has trouble keeping a lid on it, the secret police are everywhere, and now the British consul has gone walkabout. Was this the result of some liaison, which it's best not to enquire into too closely? Or could he have fallen foul of the secret police, or the even more secret revolutionaries? And does it matter?Well, yes it does. Britain has commercial interests in the port and there have been rumours of too close a relationship between the consul and… Read More

Large print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Matthew Pearl's enthralling novel reopens one of literary history's greatest mysteries...Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens' untimely death reaches Fields & Osgood, his struggling American publisher, partner James Osgood sends his trusted clerk Daniel Sand to await the arrival of Dickens' unfinished novel. When Daniel's body is discovered by the docks and the manuscript is nowhere to be found, Osgood must embark on a transatlantic quest to unearth the novel that will save his venerable business and reveal Daniel's killer.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When an important, politically sensitive painting is kidnapped in Rome, Flavia di Stefano, acting head of the Italian Art Theft Squad, is told to get if back at all costs - without causing any embarrassment to the country and without paying the ransom. Put in an impossible position, she turns for help to her old mentor General Taddeo Bottando, who casts a wholly unexpected light on the crime.In the meantime, her husband, English art historian Jonathan Argyll, embarks on an investigation of his own. As a gift to Bottando, he decides to establish the provenance of a small Renaissance painting, a Immaculate Conception, currently hanging on the wall of the general's apartment.

Large print - ex library - has markings from use - in good condition - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout."Sara! You must come out! You're wanted downstairs right away," Lucie hissed through the keyhole of the locked bedroom door. "Stepmama is furious and Father has sent word that he's coming home early from the Exchange. She says he's in a rage over what you've done!"Thus begins the bittersweet story of beautiful, headstrong Sara Leighton. As with her predecessors, happiness does not come painlessly to this newest bride of Montclair. Her unusual beauty and her independent spirit place her on a collision course with romance, frustration, disappointment, and finally, true love.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Some (Aboriginals) were curious going out to meet the new arrivals, taking advantages of new foods like flour, hunting the ponderous cow and the artless sheep.Gold turned the world upside down, stripping cities and populating creeksides.The 1950's may look like...a suburban idyll, of men and motor mowers, and women busy tidying a world they played a significant part in making, (but it) grew out of uncertainity as much as hope.

In very good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.We'd lost the war, of course, like all other recent wars, which was regrettable, since we never really lost our battles; we just picked the wrong allies.Prepare to discover a fascinating country; a land buffeted for centuries by power-struggles and revolts, lorded over by Turks, carved up by its neighbours, and submitted into the Soviet Union. Yet also a land of proud and resilient people, of crawfish hunters and bagpipe makers, shepherds and gypsies, in which daily life goes on. So meet the teenager who swims by night across a border river to steal a kiss from his girlfriend, the ageing man who finds a cache of love letters his wife has kept for sixty years, and the post-Communist girl, avowed thief with a heart of gold.Here are Miroslav Penkov's beguiling, surprising and moving visions of his home country, Bulgaria: stories of people who mourn the way things were and… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In the green depths of spring, morning breaks on a woman splayed in a bed of flowers - her eyes wide, her neck broken.Her death is a mystery; so is the woman herself. But as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team peer into the dark corners of the victim's past, they explore a secret that rots at the very heart of their community - a secret that will implicate someone they've trusted for years. And as Gamache knows too well, in the flickering shadows of death, the truth may be just a trick of the light.

Large Print - in good condition - ex library - has markings due to use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In just four short months, lucky-in-love Annelise will be a mother. But before she hits the delivery room, she has one last thing to take care of: hooking up her single girlfriends with a pair of sexy brothers on a special weeklong getaway. Lishelle and Claudia are more than happy with their no-strings-attached flings. But then why is Lishelle still so bothered about her ex-boyfriend getting married? And why is Claudia still holding out for the ideal man? Then tragedy strikes forcing the friends to rethink what's truly important.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Release tightness from your body, refresh your mind and harmonise your spirit.Simply Yoga provides step by step guidance for beginners. Yolanda demonstrates 20 simple postures in a balanced sequence. She explains how to breathe in harmony with each movement. Each posture flows into the next, allowing time for resting between stretching. Simply Yoga includes the Sun Salutation and an introduction to meditation.Free yourself from the stress of daily life. Begin the journey towards health, peace and harmony.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In a small town on the edge of the Caspian Sea, Edmond Lazarian and his best friend Tahereh pass their days playing together, drifting between delights of beachcombing and the joys of the sherbet shop. Although Edmond is Armenian and Tahereh is the Muslim daughter of the school's janitor, they remain blissfully unaware of the disquiet that ripples the surface calm of their close-knit community. Yet years later, when Edmond's daughter chooses a Muslim to marry, tensions inevitably build. Unable to keep side-stepping the prejudices around him, Edmond is finally forced to make a choice, and one that will haunt him for years to come.