wyszukanych pozycji: 2
Plate Pies
ISBN: 9781425944995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The author has been a sailor most of his life and, by inclination, a poet. He has written these stories in order to portray the lives of people of an age which, though only sixty odd years past, is light years away in reality. There is a strong inclination here towards irony and black humour, the tools with which these people did battle. The ethos is Northern but it is the author's hope that the tales will be recognised anywhere and that, for the older reader as well as the young, a glimpse of how it was just prior to television will provide a nostalgic journey, a pleasurable instruction and...
The author has been a sailor most of his life and, by inclination, a poet. He has written these stories in order to portray the lives of people of an ...
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The Reel of the Hanged One
ISBN: 9781622125531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1930's Malta, Robert Reardon, the son of a naval officer, discovers the grave of a Royal Marine Private, one of the last men to be hung at the yardarm of his ship. The boy grows up amid rumours and suspicions regarding the execution and vows to find the facts. Years later, Rob, now a married man, learns of an inheritance from a long deceased grandmother. Although meagre, her possessions include tantalising and shocking clues as to the truth behind the hanging. Rob and his wife Jane gradually uncover more than a century of conspiracy, cover up and governmental deceit.
In 1930's Malta, Robert Reardon, the son of a naval officer, discovers the grave of a Royal Marine Private, one of the last men to be hung at the yard...
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57,70 zł |