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Author : Ian Bradley
Release : 2006-12-18
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Daily Telegraph Book of Carols by : Ian Bradley
Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Book of Carols written by Ian Bradley. This book was released on 2006-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of over 100 Carols ranging from the traditional to the less well known.
Author : Carol Drinkwater
Release : 2022-10-11
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 713/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Olive Season by : Carol Drinkwater
Download or read book The Olive Season written by Carol Drinkwater. This book was released on 2022-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lovely balance of memoir, travelogue and olive-growing how-to . . . Some of her adventures are quite funny.” —Publishers Weekly In this memoir, the author of The Olive Farm returns to the ten-acre property for which she and her fiancé scraped together their savings to buy—just back from their wedding on a tiny Polynesian island, loaded down with luggage and a large hand-painted didgeridoo. As Carol and Michel settle in as husband and wife, they experience the glamor of southern France at dinner parties in the company of aristocrats and at the world-renowned Cannes film festival, as well as the dirt-caked, sun-baked life of farmers—especially after their gardener heads to Algiers to arrange his youngest son’s wedding. For Carol, though, what matters most is that her longtime dream of motherhood finally promises to come true—and over the course of The Olive Season, she shares the story of her hopes and fears as she anticipates another kind of growth and nurturing. Alternately entertaining and emotionally poignant, this memoir is a rich portrait of love, longing, and the constant uncertainties of the cycle of life.
Author : Nicholas Orme
Release : 2021-01-01
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 507/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Going to Church in Medieval England by : Nicholas Orme
Download or read book Going to Church in Medieval England written by Nicholas Orme. This book was released on 2021-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. In this comprehensive study, Nicholas Orme shows how they came into existence, who staffed them, and how their buildings were used. He explains who went to church, who did not attend, how people behaved there, and how they--not merely the clergy--affected how worship was staged. The book provides an accessible account of what happened in the daily and weekly services, and how churches marked the seasons of Christmas, Lent, Easter, and summer. It describes how they celebrated the great events of life: birth, coming of age, and marriage, and gave comfort in sickness and death. A final chapter covers the English Reformation in the sixteenth century and shows how, alongside its changes, much that went on in parish churches remained as before.
Author : Ian Bradley
Release : 2006-09-14
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 699/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Daily Telegraph Book of Hymns by : Ian Bradley
Download or read book Daily Telegraph Book of Hymns written by Ian Bradley. This book was released on 2006-09-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the full original texts of 150 of the best loved hymns in the English language. Each is accompanied by a fascinating commentary, giving biographical details of the author (such as the Calvinist creator of Rock of Ages who once calculated that the average human sins 2,522,880,000 times); notes on the circumstances in which the hymn was written; and variant versions. Each hymn is prefaced by an urbanely written and agreeably subjective commentary with a wealth of anecdotes and a few ribald parodies. This charming book should also be required reading for all those responsible for choosing hymns in church. Ian Bradley writes with wit, elegance and charm and is quite exceptionally knowledgeable about his subject.
Author : Jane Dowson
Release : 2016-05-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 630/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Carol Ann Duffy by : Jane Dowson
Download or read book Carol Ann Duffy written by Jane Dowson. This book was released on 2016-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only monograph to consider the entire thirty-year career, publications, and influence of Britain's first female poet laureate. It outlines her impact on trends in contemporary poetry and establishes what we mean by ‘Duffyesque’ concerns and techniques. Discussions of her writing and activities prove how she has championed the relevance of poetry to all areas of contemporary culture and to the life of every human being. Individual chapters discuss the lyrics of ‘love, loss, and longing’; the socially motivated poems about the 1980s; the female-centred volumes and poems; the relationship between poetry and public life; and poetry and childhood and written for children. The book should whet the appetite of readers who know little of Duffy’s work to find out more, while providing students and scholars with an in-depth analysis of the poems in their contexts. It draws on a wide range of critical works and includes an extensive list of further reading.
