Daft Wee Stories

Daft Wee Stories
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 368
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781473517899
ISBN-13 : 1473517893
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Daft Wee Stories by : Limmy

DAFT WEE STORIES is Limmy’s first book. It is a collection of stories. There are short stories. There are longer stories. There are stupid stories. There are thoughtful stories. There are upside-down stories. There are normal-way-up stories. There are weird stories. There are less weird stories. There are really weird stories. There is nothing else like it. Have a read.

That’s Your Lot

That’s Your Lot
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 9780008172626
ISBN-13 : 0008172625
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis That’s Your Lot by : Limmy

This is Limmy’s second book. It’s a whole load of new, odd, and hilariously grim short stories.

Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography

Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 191
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780008294687
ISBN-13 : 0008294682
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography by : Limmy

The hysterical, shocking and incredibly intimate memoir from one of the most original and unique comedians alive today.

Tall Tales and Wee Stories

Tall Tales and Wee Stories
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Publisher : Two Roads
Total Pages : 295
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781529361353
ISBN-13 : 1529361354
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Tall Tales and Wee Stories by : Billy Connolly

80TH BIRTHDAY EDITION - NOW WITH 10 NEW TALL TALES! THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you'd expect' Sunday Times In December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinary career. When he first started out in the late sixties, Billy played the banjo in the folk clubs of Scotland. Between songs, he would improvise a bit, telling anecdotes from the Clyde shipyard where he'd worked. In the process, he made all kinds of discoveries about what audiences found funny, from his own brilliant mimes to the power of speaking irreverently about politics or explicitly about sex. He began to understand the craft of great storytelling. Soon the songs became shorter and the monologues longer, and Billy quickly became recognised as one of the most exciting comedians of his generation. Tall Tales and Wee Stories brings together the very best of Billy's storytelling for the first time and includes his most famous routines including, The Last Supper, Jojoba Shampoo, Incontinence Pants and Shouting at Wildebeest. With an introduction and original illustrations by Billy throughout, it is an inspirational, energetic and riotously funny read, and a fitting celebration of our greatest ever comedian.

Fitba Daft

Fitba Daft
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 482
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780595496129
ISBN-13 : 0595496121
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Fitba Daft by : James Meikle

Fitba (football, soccer) is truly the world's game. It evokes the deepest emotions in the millions who play and watch it in almost every corner and culture around our globe. So where does this passion come from? Some of it is certainly inherent in genes, especially in respect of playing ability. However millions who have never played at any serious level are amongst the most fanatical of all. Like most addictions it is something formed by steady consumption over a prolonged period. Alcohol, nicotine and cocaine have much more obvious routes to our bloodstream but I firmly believe that soccer can get there too. It can ultimately provide such an overwhelming sensation of joy that the brain craves repetition of that euphoria, even if it may have to wait thirty years or more between very brief highs. Here's a true life story which provides a detailed insight into the environment and twists of fate which contrive to addict one Scottish boy and sustain that addiction even when he moves to America. They have soccer in America? Oh yeah, more than you can imagine.

Benny

Benny
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 210
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781780573472
ISBN-13 : 1780573472
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Benny by : John Burrowes

'Before Benny, nobody from the Gorbals became World Champion of anything...' Benny Lynch was Scotland's first World Boxing Champion and the most talked-about British sportsman of his generation. In fact, many consider him to be the finest fighter the country has ever produced. Benny is the amazing account of how Lynch battled his way above and beyond the 'fifty-shilling men' of his home town of Glasgow to become the champion of Scotland, Britain, Europe and the world, earning a reputation as one of the greatest pugilists of all time. But this absorbing biography also details how his career sadly came to a premature halt because of Lynch's alcoholism, which destroyed his health and led to him being abandoned by his countless followers. It took his tragic death at the age of only 33 to restore the fallen idol to legendary status again. The gritty reality of the daily grind of life in the Depression-era Gorbals is captured vividly in this remarkable story of the rise and tragic fall of a fighting legend.

Thomasina

Thomasina
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 353
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781681372334
ISBN-13 : 1681372339
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Thomasina by : Paul Gallico

By the author of the classic The Snow Goose, a heartbreaking story about a young girl and her most unusual cat, who has magical powers that save her owner's life. Seven-year-old Mary adores her ginger cat, Thomasina, and is crushed when Thomasina falls sick, and Mary’s father, a grim, inflexible man who is the town vet, decrees that the only thing to be done is to put Thomasina down. Mary refuses to speak to her father, and then she herself contracts a life-threatening disease. In the meantime, however, Thomasina has been rescued—by the mysterious Lori, the Red Witch of the glen. Thomasina is now Tabitha, the descendant of an Egyptian goddess, and she is coming back to seek revenge! Thomasina, like Jenny of The Abandoned, Gallico’s other great feline heroine (Jenny is Thomasina’s great-aunt), tells her own story in her own way, witty, charming, divine, and sometimes as sharp as an unsheathed claw. Thomasina is a cat for the ages. Thomasina is a sheer delight.

An Irish Country Love Story

An Irish Country Love Story
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Publisher : Forge Books
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9781466889200
ISBN-13 : 1466889209
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis An Irish Country Love Story by : Patrick Taylor

An Irish Country Love Story is the eleventh heartwarming installment in New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Patrick Taylor's beloved Irish Country series. It’s the winter of 1967 and snow is on the ground in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, but the chilly weather can’t stop love from warming hearts all over the county. Not just the love between a man and woman, as with young doctor, Barry Laverty, and his fiancee Sue Nolan, who are making plans to start a new life together, but also the love of an ailing pensioner for a faithful dog that's gone missing, the love of the local gentry for the great estate they are on verge of losing, or Doctor Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly’s deep and abiding love for his long-time home and practice. For decades, ever since the war, Number One Main Street, Ballybucklebo, has housed O’Reilly and his practice. In recent years, it has also opened its doors to O’Reilly’s wife, Barry Laverty, and a new addition to the practice, Doctor Nonie Stevens, a sultry and occasionally prickly young woman who may not be fitting in as well as she should. It is to Number One that patients young and old come when they need a doctor’s care, for everything from the measles to a rare and baffling blood disease. An unexpected turn of events threatens to drive O’Reilly from his home for good, unless the entire village can rally behind their doctor and prove that love really can conquer all. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Hunger

Hunger
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 308
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781448136216
ISBN-13 : 1448136210
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Hunger by : Melvin Burgess

When Beth wakes up one morning covered in dirt, she puts it down to an extreme case of sleep-walking. But when reports of a desecrated grave start to circulate, her night-time wanderings take on a sinister air. Soon the city is being plagued by strange sightings and sudden disappearances. Beth knows that something is changing within her. Something that's filling her with an urgent, desperate hunger that demands to be satisfied – at any cost ...

First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts

First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts
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Publisher : Floris Books
Total Pages : 226
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780863158520
ISBN-13 : 0863158528
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts by : Lari Don

Helen has absolutely no interest in becoming a vet like her mother. So she isn't best pleased when asked to help an injured horse. Only this horse isn't entirely normal . . . and nor are his friends. Without warning, Helen is thrust into an extraordinary world full of magical rituals, fantastical creatures and a dangerous, powerful beast known as the Master, who would destroy it all. Everything hinges on finding the lost Book of Wisdom before the Winter Solstice. Can Helen work out the riddles and help her new friends to make amends for a foolish prank? This is a wonderful mixture of fable and fiction, woven together into an exciting race through Scotland's diverse landscapes, accompanied by an array of creatures from mythology and folklore.